Agenda des activités

Since the launch in 2008 of Digital and Sound Emergences, a program to support art school student projects, Transcultures has developed close ties with the IDM (Image in the middle) section of the school. of the visual arts of Mons (now Arts2), and its responsible professor Jean-François Octave…

Thomas Israël (artiste numérique, plasticien, performer bruxellois) est le lauréat d’un appel à projet lancé cet été 2020 par la Maison de la Marionnette et Transcultures pour la création d’une oeuvre originale croisant arts numériques, scéniques et de la marionnette…

Around Philippe Franck gathered for ‘Lumen #5’, several creators and researchers (including Nathalie Stefanov – art critic, exhibition curator, teacher at the ” ESA Nord-Pas-de-Calais and associate researcher in the laboratory of the Center d’Etude des Arts Contemporains – University of Lille and Jérôme Decocq- member of the Labau..

Transcultures, which in 2008 initiated the Digital and Sound Emergences support program in partnership with art schools in Wallonia-Brussels and France, and the Maison de la Marionnette join forces to support and promote digital, intermedia and / or sound projects by students from the Eurometropolis…

This public presentation celebrates the official release of the book “When technology meets puppetry” directed by Françoise Flabat and Philippe Franck…

The art of puppetry is an art of interdisciplinarity, borrowing, transforming and combining endlessly tradition and modernity, creating new and original theatrical forms, influencing other art forms. Lumen aims to be an opening for the sector of the puppetry arts towards digital arts and their diversified practices…

Thomas Israël (Be)  is the laureat of a call for projects launched this Summer 2020 by the Maison de la Marionnette and Transcultures for the creation of an original work combining digital, scenic and puppet arts…

The ‘alter label’ Transonic presents the audio catalogue of the 16th edition of the international festival of sound arts City Sonic, passing through various Belgian cities: Louvain-la-Neuve, Braine L’Alleud, Brussels, Wavre. These 25 pieces by international artists (Leo Kupper, Iancu Dumitrescu, Ana-Maria Avram Maja Jantar, Charo Calvo…

“Triptyque Prototype” is an enigma with an exploded temporality which allows cross and associative readings. Its protagonist is in tension between the doll or the android and the woman of flesh-and-blood.

Transcultures et son alter label Transonic soutiennent le projet Travel without moving initié en période de confinement par l’artiste sonore belge Ludovic Medery. Celui-ci sera décliné en plusieurs épisodes mensuels…

Fiction territoriale ‘Fiction territoriale’ (Territorial fiction) is a research and exhibition project proposed by espace p () tentiel (curatorial and prospective platform founded by Raya Lindberg and Nadège Derderian offering an aesthetic reflection motivated by the social and environmental field, through changes of spaces and areas…

‘Hypogée’ is the result of a collaboration between the Belgian visual sound artist Maxime Van Roy and Thibault Madeline, musician, student of the Conservatory of Mons in acousmatic option. This installation consists of raising the floor of a room in the Losseau house (a jewel of the art nouveau…

An invitation to set in motion in the soundscape and observe the urban and rural environment, a journey where ears and eyes open to create a new look at the context and stroll along parallax. walk, participants are invited to capture and capture sounds and images…

Hosted for a final part of a residency at Lizières (Centre of cultures and resources initiated by the multidisciplinary artist Ramuntcho Matta near Paris), after a successful first part in June 2020, the duet Isa Belle + Paradise Now collaborates with the composer and sound designer Stephan Dunkelman…

A tireless Belgian sound and multimedia explorer, Alain Wergifosse is preparing an album to be released on the indie label Transonic (produced by Transcultures). This will be part of the new “Traces” series with live moments and projects carried out in events associated with Transcultures or its partners…

Following the call for projects #NoLA – No Lockdown Art launched by Transcultures and the European Pepinieres of Creation in the first days of confinement, some 125 applications were selected by the selection from more than 400 proposals received on the Facebook group Transcultures/Pépinières…

Produced via connected exchanges during the lockdown of Spring 2020 (due to Covid-19) by the Pastoral duet, Lockdown Drift captures the expectation, the floating sensation but also the domestic reverie, the imaginary transfiguration and a form of sweet melancholy…

As part of NoLA – No Lockdown Art 2020, the “Common Ground Project”, initiated and coordinated by the artist Kika Nicolela during confinement, proposes the creation of a growing database, with the collaboration of…

AGORA-OFF became AGORA-ON, a place dedicated to all creators permanently or temporarily confined (in remand centers, prisons, internment, immigration or refugee camps, in administrative detention center in medium or long-stay…

Transcultures and the European Pepinieres of Creation are pleased to be associated with the project initiated at the start of the lockdown by their accomplice Gilles Malatray who invites to develop forms of “Hearing Points”…

Dans le cadre du projet Correspondances confinées, Transcultures et les Pépinières européennes de Création ont demandé à plusieurs auteurs de différents pays d’écrire pendant le confinement leurs impressions poétiques…

Transcultures begins a new partnership with Lizières (Centre of culture and ressources) and the European Pepinieres of Creation for a series of artistic residencies in sound arts. For this first Residence hosted by Lizieres…

LAMAPHI (Lamaφ) is a multifaceted group, bringing together artists from various horizons and various disciplines, which was born at LAMAB at the end of 2019 under the impulse of the Belgian musician JJ Duerinckx…

With ‘Digital Icons’, Transcultures, at the invitation of Central, is offering an exhibition in the museum exhibition spaces around mutations and translations of the various signs-images, data-images, networks-images which proliferate in…

In the framework of the participative project No Lockdown Art (NoLA), Transcultures and The European Pepinieres of Creation have commissioned  several authors/artists from different countries to write their poetic impressions…

A special command from Transcultures to Dj Snooba to punctuate the end of confinement with travelers, swaying and poetic mixes (and participation of surprise guests). Listen online or on Radio Panik and its radio partners…

Every year, percussionists and drummers from all around the world offer you different ways to tap, scrub, creak, rattle and other sounds of the art of percussion.

The Common Ground Project proposes a creation of a growing database, with the collaboration of artists around the world, sharing video, sound and/or text based pieces. The main immediate goal is to collect a large and varied snapshot of…

The European Pepinieres of Creation, in partenership with Transcultures, are launching a call for online artistic projects or initiatives carried out during this confinement period due to Covid19 in order to give them additional visibility…

Two intense evenings celebrated the 20th birthday of Productions Rhizome in Quebec City and Montreal, which were a new phase in the hybrid E-critures project initiated by Rhizome and Transcultures & organized annually alternately…

This new video-poem by Tamara Laï whose images were filmed in various places and countries (Belgium, China, Scotland, Italy, Netherlands) was finalized in residency at home in Liège in the lockdown period…

The compulsory confinement due to the pandemic forces us, beyond the postponements-cancellations of the activities previously planned, to reorganize ourselves and to rethink even further our modes of creation-production…

The project is a unique video collaboration between artists from around the world, inspired by the surrealist method of “exquisite corpse”…

Transcultures and its alter label Transonic support the ‘Travel without moving project’ initiated during the lockdown period by Belgian sound artist Ludovic Medery. This will be available in several episodes monthly…

Transcultures and the European Pepinieres of Creation are pleased to be associated with the project initiated at the start of the lockdown by their accomplice Gilles Malatray who invites to develop forms of “Hearing Points” …

Dans le cadre du projet Interreg transfrontalier C2L3PLAY – Cross Border Living Labs, est lancé un appel à projets destiné aux designers, artistes, entrepreneurs, petites et moyennes entreprises, particuliers, désireux de…

With ‘Digital Icons’, Transcultures, at the invitation of Central, is offering an exhibition in the museum exhibition spaces around mutations and translations of the various signs-images, data-images, networks-images which proliferate in…

A sound is born, moves through the air and eventually disappears. In this period of time, it is the place of the man that interests us: transmitter? receiver? communicateur? poetic and/or political relay? We advance a…

At the suggestion of Transcultures, Césaré presents in the FARaway festival, an exhibition by the Brazilian visual artist Kika Nicolela, with three works offer variations on the idea of exchange and sharing…

Under the direction of their teachers Jean-Bernard Libert and Jean-Marc Vanoevelen, 8 students of visual and graphic communication from the Visual Arts School of Mons Arts2 participate in a workshop in connection with…

This first workshop of the series Emergences digital and sound of 2020, a partnership between Transcultures and the school of visual arts of Mons Arts2 initiated for several years, is coordinated by digital/audio/intermedia artists…

Upstream the City Sonic 2019 ‘Winter sessions, an exhibition and events will take place at Martin’s Agora City Resort of Louvain-la-Neuve: plastic art creations, visuals and performances with a sonic dimension or evoking sound.

With the sculpture/installation August 30, 1991, Tokyo, Pierre Larauza offers a life-size reconstruction of this prodigious movement while inviting the public to measure themselves by jumping in a real sandbox…

Transcultures, Interdisciplinary Centre for Digital and Sound Cultures, is launching a call for projects for the exhibition of the 16th edition of the City Sonic International Festival of Sound Arts which will take place…

The next 02 Septembre, the new BABY YOU CAN WRITE MY TRACK contest-based platform is officially launching its marketplace for filmmakers and creatives who are looking for exclusive and custom music for their projects…

Architect by training and multimedia fiddler, Valkiri (Lille) focuses his research on a hybridization between the technologies of yesterday and the ones of today. From any type of media -old or young- he develops devices designed…

The inconstancy of summer is the pretext for an evening dedicated to the outdoor performance of instant musical dramaticules. The garden in which it will take place is not reduced to a place of welcome, it also means to be a…

Transcultures in complicity with the Visual Arts School of Mons Arts2 launched a decade ago, the program ‘Digital and Sound Emergences’, which offer two workshops in the year to art students & young intermedia talents…

Since the launch in 2008 of Digital and Sound Emergences, a program to support art school student projects, Transcultures has developed close ties with the IDM (Image in the middle) section of the school. of the visual arts of Mons (now Arts2), and its responsible professor Jean-François Octave…

Thomas Israël (artiste numérique, plasticien, performer bruxellois) est le lauréat d’un appel à projet lancé cet été 2020 par la Maison de la Marionnette et Transcultures pour la création d’une oeuvre originale croisant arts numériques, scéniques et de la marionnette…

AGORA-OFF became AGORA-ON, a place dedicated to all creators permanently or temporarily confined (in remand centers, prisons, internment, immigration or refugee camps, in administrative detention center in medium or long-stay…

With ‘Digital Icons’, Transcultures, at the invitation of Central, is offering an exhibition in the museum exhibition spaces around mutations and translations of the various signs-images, data-images, networks-images which proliferate in…

Every year, percussionists and drummers from all around the world offer you different ways to tap, scrub, creak, rattle and other sounds of the art of percussion.

With ‘Digital Icons’, Transcultures, at the invitation of Central, is offering an exhibition in the museum exhibition spaces around mutations and translations of the various signs-images, data-images, networks-images which proliferate in…

A sound is born, moves through the air and eventually disappears. In this period of time, it is the place of the man that interests us: transmitter? receiver? communicateur? poetic and/or political relay? We advance a…

Upstream the City Sonic 2019 ‘Winter sessions, an exhibition and events will take place at Martin’s Agora City Resort of Louvain-la-Neuve: plastic art creations, visuals and performances with a sonic dimension or evoking sound.

With the sculpture/installation August 30, 1991, Tokyo, Pierre Larauza offers a life-size reconstruction of this prodigious movement while inviting the public to measure themselves by jumping in a real sandbox…

Transcultures, Interdisciplinary Centre for Digital and Sound Cultures, is launching a call for projects for the exhibition of the 16th edition of the City Sonic International Festival of Sound Arts which will take place…

For its twelfth edition to be held this summer, the biennale of contemporary art and heritage ARTour has chosen the theme ‘From one time to another’ From La Louvière to Soignies (Belgium), works are created for the occasion or integrated in a new context to invite dialogue between past…

Featuring sonic works in progress by Maxime Van Roy, Edouard Paulet, Cédric Norbert, Thalia Beauclair, Arthur Colson, Jessica Manica, Florian Van de Wyer … in the gallery spaces and a dozen of short compositions in the auditorium…

As part of the pluridisciplinal manifestation “Reste la lumière” coordonated by Lettres en voix, Transcultures partners with this association and it’s Québec partner Rhizome Productions and Bibliotheca Wittockiana to offer…

Since 2016 and for two academic years, students from the ULB and the Saint-Luc Brussels School of Arts have come together around a common project: the creation of digital visualizations of environmental controversies…

Transcultures is pleased to develop its partnership with Césaré, the national centre of musical creation and the festival La Magnifique Avant-Garde festival in Reims with a selection of installations…

Transcultures and the European Pepinieres of Creation propose for the festival Videoformes 2019, an audio-video selection that emphasizes the link between the sound and visual dimension put here on an equal footing, but also the…

In the framework of Pépinières européennes pour jeunes artistes*, Transcultures, Interdisciplinary centre for digital and sound cultures, together with the City of Charleroi, with the support of the Ministry of Culture and the…

Le lieu moderne invites the Transonic label for a special evening around the new album L’échappée belle of the post electro pop duo Pastoral, which poses a look both surreal and poetic on the imaginary and resort areas of Wallonia…

On the occasion of the release of the first album of the French/Belgian duet Pastoral entitled ‘L’échappée belle” on the Belgian Transonic indie label, this special evening offers a electro/post pop Pastoral concert and an exhibition of photographic/poetic diptychs of the series ‘L’échappée belle’ for which the…

The Studio Gémellaire (GLMR – Twin Studio) was born from the merger of two sound creation workshops: that of the Visual Arts School of Mons ARTS2 (Belgium) and that of the Art School Tourcoing in France…

In the framework of ‘The Architects of peace’ event, the Mundaneum (Mons) wishes to tell the sotory of two founding “laboratories for peace”. The first, the Peace Palace in The Hague, striving for peace through international law…

After the second workshop sound art led by Raymond Delepierre and Philippe Franck at Simultan, the ‘Seconday Sonic Space’ installation will be presented to the public as part of the ‘Beyond the obvious’ annual event organised…

From November 1st to November 11th, Villers Abbey and Numeric’Arts will present the first digital art exhibition “Digital Contemplation” at the heart of the site.

In September, the “Google of paper” invites you to celebrate its 20 years of cultural bubbling during a festival under the sign of unusual archives and heritage. In the framework of Digit’As Fabrica will be shown several…

The Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), in partnership with BOZAR and in collaboration with the ULB and VUB research centres and Transcultures, is proud to present the exhibition, ‘The Art of Difference’, a scientific…

On the occasion of the year Louvain 2017-2018 dedicated to the digital worlds, Transcultures proposed the French artist Nicolas Maigret and the international working group DISNOVATION.ORG for a residence and a seminar at the Catholic University of Louvain-La-Neuve.

RHIZOmatics is an evolving in situ project that offers new features to each presentation, to meet specific needs, or to offer artists/projects that use new creative possibilities…

In the framework of Pépinières européennes pour jeunes artistes MAP programme, Transcultures, is launching a call for a 12 weeks creative residency in order to develop a new media art project…

With his ongoing ‘Uninvisible lab’, Alexis Choplain (Brussels) continues his experimental research on the management and translation of the electrical signal. Composed of about fifteen analog devices, this laboratory device…

For the first time, students from the ULB and Saint-Luc Brussels School of Arts met around a common project: the creation of a digital visualization of environmental controversies…

Space Debris is proud to present a series of exhibitions in the new year with the support of Orjin Maslak, in hopes to bring forward the young talents with a fresh, dynamic approach by creating a new space for their voices…

Constantly evolving according to its place of diffusion, the visual and sound installation ‘Lighthouses’ convenes at the same time technical and scientific universe, and poetry of the ephemeral and the movement…

Conceived by Rhizome (a Quebec organization defending living literature in connection with other contemporary disciplines) and Transcultures (Center for Digital and Sound Cultures-Charleroi), the Ecritures project intends – since 2014- to call, alternately between the Federation Wallonia-Brussels and Quebec, the poetic language and literary in all its forms.

GFX Error happens when video card starts malfunctioning and becomes unable to project the image. But does a broken image represent a fault or it’s a new reality all together?

The exhibition ‘The art of Secret’ completes the Mundaneum from 23 November 2017 the public exhibition ‘Top Secret! A world to decipher! ‘, which plunges the visitor into the world of secret codes and cryptology…

After a first presentation at the City Sonic 2017 Festival in Charleroi, Alexis Choplain proposes at the PASS (park of scientific adventures) a new version of this research wich highlights the action of sound on matter…

Departing from her own experience as an immigrant and her emotional connections with some artists and their works, the Brazilian independent artist and curator Kika Nicolela draws parallels and proposes dialogues…

The collective AToN (Art2.Network) offers a dive in the GIF format through several connected installations that will let you discover several thousand GIFS present on the Web…

The taste for secrecy lies between science and art, between the love of transgression and the culture of hacking. Since the revelations of Wikileaks, cryptography has emerged as a democratic stake for confidence in our…

Around Philippe Franck gathered for ‘Lumen #5’, several creators and researchers (including Nathalie Stefanov – art critic, exhibition curator, teacher at the ” ESA Nord-Pas-de-Calais and associate researcher in the laboratory of the Center d’Etude des Arts Contemporains – University of Lille and Jérôme Decocq- member of the Labau..

This public presentation celebrates the official release of the book “When technology meets puppetry” directed by Françoise Flabat and Philippe Franck…

Under the direction of their teachers Jean-Bernard Libert and Jean-Marc Vanoevelen, 8 students of visual and graphic communication from the Visual Arts School of Mons Arts2 participate in a workshop in connection with…

This first workshop of the series Emergences digital and sound of 2020, a partnership between Transcultures and the school of visual arts of Mons Arts2 initiated for several years, is coordinated by digital/audio/intermedia artists…

Transcultures in complicity with the Visual Arts School of Mons Arts2 launched a decade ago, the program ‘Digital and Sound Emergences’, which offer two workshops in the year to art students & young intermedia talents…

This round table is an opportunity to question the need for collective narrative invention. The communication networks that are ubiquitous in our lives are not collective imaginary spaces…

On the occasion of the presentation of the poetic and digital installation ‘Choeur(s)’ he initiated and his workshop of initiation to digital writing in connection with literature at the invitation of Myriam Watthee-Delmotte…

After various names such as ‘electronic poetry’ or ‘cyber poetry’, it seems that the term ‘digital poetry’ is used to designate this current that has existed since 1983. This period also corresponds to the dissemination to the general…

Simon Dumas (Quebec) writes poetry, creates literary performances and sometimes performs himself. He has published several books of poetry whose La chute fut lente, interminable puis terminée at Editions La Peuplade, which…

This introductory lecture by Jacques Urbanska (with a background of comedian and theatre director and more recently intermedia artist and digital arts projects manager at Transcultures) will allow participants to grasp the idea…

Starting from a historical reminder of the experiences of various pioneers who integrated the electronic & media technologies – since the 50’s technologies – to their poetic creative process to take the language out of the page…

As part of the pluridisciplinal manifestation “Reste la lumière” coordonated by Lettres en voix, Transcultures partners with this association and it’s Québec partner Rhizome Productions and Bibliotheca Wittockiana to offer…

Rather than passively endorse the hasty conclusion that digital technology has revolutionized photography, this intervention intends to question, beyond any technicist ideology, the real changes brought by the transition from film…

For its fifth edition, hosted by the Mons Mundaneum and organized as part of the cross-border project C2L3PLAY – Cross Border Living Labs, Vice Versa highlights the achievements and research of this living lab of the cross…

A stimulating and inventive reality, the presence of sound in contemporary art has been affirmed, without discontinuity since the 2000s, in current artistic practices. However, its history is old and, above all, it engages many…

Transcultures in complicity with the Visual Arts School of Mons Arts2 launched a decade ago, the program ‘Digital and Sound Emergences’, which offer two workshops in the year to art students & young intermedia talents who can…

Within his module of research in sound art at the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts de Bruxelles, Philippe Franck is inviting the Belgian sound and intermedia artist Alain Wergifosse for a workshop with Belgian and European visual…

In the series of lectures ‘Digital augmented territories’ launched by Transcultures and the Architecture and Urbanism Faculty of the University of Mons, Franck Soudan will propose an illustrated intervention related to…

This meeting offers an introduction to the most singular and diverse artistic approaches and audio researches, inviting participants to make their curiosity audible and their listening active. Several artists from different backgrounds…

In the context of “Mon Père ce Robot ?”, Jacques Urbanska will lead a round table discussion about arts/science intersections, with Philippe Boisnard, Eric Minh Cuong Castaing, Lorena Jouven, Thomas Peyruse…

In 1996, Omega, a member of Cult of the Dead Cow, an American group of famous hackers and mass media “Do it yourself,” proposed the portmanteau word ‘hacktivism’ to describe computer hacking for political purposes…

At the invitation of Levente Kosma, director of the Simultan Festival, Raymond Delepierre and Philippe Franck propose -at Simultan’s office- a second workshop for young Romanian sound and multimedia artists…

At the invitation of Levente Kosma, director of the Simultan Festival, Raymond Delepierre and Philippe Franck propose as part of Timisoara, European Capital of Culture in 2021, a workshop for young Romanian sound and…

On the occasion of the year Louvain 2017-2018 dedicated to the digital worlds, Transcultures proposed the French artist Nicolas Maigret and the international working group DISNOVATION.ORG for a residence and a seminar at the Catholic University of Louvain-La-Neuve.

Bitcoin farms, datacenters, automated greenhouses, test cities for autonomous cars … DISNOVATION.org, artists in residence at UCL, two days of reflection around physical sites classified by digital revolutions.

On the occasion of Transnumeriques#6, Transcultures inaugurates the series, Thinking Digital Cultures, in partnership with UCL Culture and Point Culture. Creators, curators, organizers, philosophers and thinkers are invited to…

The experience of the spectator in space and time is one of the major challenges of video art since the 1960s. Emblematic closed circuit devices, systems where the capture, production and perception of images are…

Since the beginning of the 1980s, Alain Wergifosse (Barcelona-Liège) has been amplifying objects, manipulating sounds and feedback electronically and composing interactive experimental videos & devices…

As part of the Reims Scène d’Europe Festival, the creation music platform Région Grand Est is organizing a symposium / meeting on the subject of musical creation in the show in Europe.

This first workshop of the series Emergences digital and sound of 2018 is coordinated by digital / audio / intermedia artists (Valérie Sandor (aka Valkiri) and Stephane Kozik…

In the continuation of the jointly organised exhibition in autumn 2017, Argos and ISELP – two Brussels-based institutions linked to the two main Belgian linguistic communities – join forces to further their reflexions…

As part of a new sound arts research module at the Academy of Fine Arts in Brussels, coordinated by Philippe Franck, twenty students from different backgrounds produce collective or solo sonic installations or…

Conceived by Rhizome (a Quebec organization defending living literature in connection with other contemporary disciplines) and Transcultures (Center for Digital and Sound Cultures-Charleroi), the Ecritures project intends – since 2014- to call, alternately between the Federation Wallonia-Brussels and Quebec, the poetic language and literary in all its forms.

With new digital technologies, traditional forms of writing and reading are changing. in parallel, new forms of expression, writing and sensory experiences appear…

Initiated by Transcultures in 2014 in collaboration with the Numediart Research Institute (University of Mons), Vice Versa intends to give a particular visibility and to provoke a critical and public reflection on so-called…

Initiated by the Council of the 7th Art in close collaboration with the Louvain-La-Neuve Cinéscope, Festival Numériscope offers, for three consecutive evenings, activities, screenings and conferences around the theme “digital…

Organised in the framework of the media arts festival Simultan, this meeting aims to gather various European practitioners and professionals active in the fields of sound, visual arts, performance arts, and digital cultures in general.

This panel will examine how human aesthetics as we acknowledge it today, experiences a shift with the development of software, robotics and artificial intelligence…