Agenda des activités

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…

For the third time, Eastern Belgium at night presents, in partnership with Transcultures and the Transonic indie label, ‘Solstices’, an adventurous and convivial audio evening dedicated to the longest day of the year…

Born in the meeting between an Ivorian visual artist Jacobleu and a French-Belgian sound artist Philippe Franck (aka Paradise Now), this dozen impressionistic, electronic, organic soundscapes composed especially…

On the occasion of its 10th edition, international Biennial, is taking over the entire city of Enghien-les-Bains and is highlighting an essential and universal theme: « Human Future» « How to think and imagine Human being in…

This year, Brussels joins, for the first time, Drone Day International. Indeed, this event of May 26th dedicated to the drone sound takes place all over the world bringing together researchers of the sensation of sound released…

Transcultures is pleased to be associated with the launch of the dynamic project L.E.A.S.E., which brings together actors from different and complementary backgrounds intends to stimulate innovation…

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 Saturday, April 21st, Eastern Belgium at night will proceed to the opening of their new establishment, Imprimerie, located on the edge of the river Vesdre (Liège). A duly mandated bailiff will signify an occupation of the premises…

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…

Practiced by shamans in Tibet before Buddhism, recently rediscovered in the West for therapeutic purposes and reinvented, in the form of performance, by Isa Belle with the complicity of Paradise Now, the sound massage…

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…

About the latest installment of the writer and publisher Eric Golden Hello Golden Hello recently published by Jou and whose performance version (for which his readings were accompanied by live music of Christian Vialard and…

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.

Transcultures is happy to participate in the second edition of the Adbidjan International Digital Arts Festival hosted mainly by the French Institute of Cote d’Ivoire featuring artists and experts from America, Europe and Africa…

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…

This anthology is the second monograph devoted to the artist Pierre Beloüin and his project Optical Sound (label, publishing house, review) initiated in 1997. Over more than 200 pages, it includes, over a period of 20 years…

This eighth City Sonic compilation (the second after that of 2009-10-11 on the Transonic ‘alter label’) features a selection of sound pieces (installations, performances, concerts…) presented at the last three editions of the International Festival of sound arts in Mons…

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…

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…

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…

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.

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…

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 succesful premiere at Théâtre La Balsamine in Brussels in September 2017 preceded by residencies in Quebec and Brussels, the performance ‘Les oracles’ is a two-part interdisciplinary project resulting from a Belgian-Quebec…

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…

With the sounds, vibrations, words and images, tactile and sensory experiences, rediscover the streets and squares of Louvain-La Neuve with your smartphone…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Transonic and its alter label Transonic proposes a poetic cinematic mix by Paradise Now followed during a friendly brunch followed by Eric Therer (Ordinaire, & Stuff) and Vincent Tholomé (The John Cage Experiences)…

In the framework of the Vice Versa – digital arts residencies project, Paolo Almario and Mathieu Zurstrassen have started a second period of collaborative work after their first residency hosted by La Chambre Blanche (Québec)…

This seventh book by Editions Rhizome, co-produced by Transcultures, is part of the Belgian-Quebec interdisciplinary performance project ‘Les Oracles’ aimed at building bridges between writers and choreographers…

Alain Wergifosse, creator of interactive audio-visual abstractions and of ultra-processed feedback, worked in the 90’s in Barcelona who has shared the stage or studio over the last three decades with Obmuz, Macromassa…

Enghien-les-Bains (France) was elected as the organizing city for the 11th Annual Meeting of UNESCO’s Network of Creative Cities, which will take place from June 30 to July 2, 2017 with the participation of 116 cities…

The catalog of the eleventh edition of ARTour’s biennale of contemporary art and heritage is distinguished by the quality of its carefully-designed edition under the supervision of the editorial team of the Royal Museum…

In “Champs Magnétiques”, Claire Williams offers a sensitive and poetic look at the materials that constitutes our current electronic devices and circuits derived from minerals, and at their electronic activity…

This new OMFI event (One Moment Free Improv) organized by Maurice Charles JJ and Matthieu Safatly in the intimate Brussels art space Sterput, features Julian Edwardes (The Netherlands) master of modular synths…

Solstices’ offers all over the night concerts, readings, performances, poetic interventions … in the pretty village of Fortin. No stage on one side and spectators on the other but a friendly meeting between indie artists…

Paolo Almario, a Quebec artist of Colombian origin and Mathieu Zurstrassen (Brussels), joined around the notion of homeostasis. Strolling through the streets of Quebec, visiting the various exhibitions, they intend to feed…

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.

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…

In “Champs Magnétiques”, Claire Williams offers a sensitive and poetic look at the materials that constitutes our current electronic devices and circuits derived from minerals, and at their electronic activity…

Paolo Almario, a Quebec artist of Colombian origin and Mathieu Zurstrassen (Brussels), joined around the notion of homeostasis. Strolling through the streets of Quebec, visiting the various exhibitions, they intend to feed…

Claire Williams, young Brussels based artist working on textiles and new technologies, was selected for a first digital art creation residency proposed by Le Vecteur et Transcultures.

The ‘Rhombo’ project takes place over the years 2014-15-16-17 in several appointments at the school of visual arts Mons ARTS2 and Villa Arson in partnership with Transcultures, co-initiator of this exchange…

Transcultures, is launching a call for projects for the 14th edition of its City Sonic – International Festival of Sound Arts, to be held in the city of Charleroi (Belgium) from 7 to 17 September 2017…

An explanation fluctuates according to a place, a context, a person… From this idea, this sound installation evolves and transforms according to the event. In this case, the piece explains and supports the exhibition…

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…

For the new edition of the festival Ars Musica titled “The country of rising sound” Transcultures presents an exhibition of digital and sound installations called “Sonic Rising Sun” highlighting various inspirations from Japan…

For the end of their residency at Transcultures , Spanish visual/digital artist Alba G Corral and the Polish composer Dariusz Makaruk have been developed in Mons their audio-visual performance Dimension N project…

80+ belgian & international participants – 8 places (exhibitions & events) – 12 audio urbain days in Mons & 3 special events in Bruxelles – 10 events (concerts, performances, conferences, guided tours…) – 3 workshop & ateliers Sonic Kids

Coordinated by multi-media artist JulienPoidevin and Arnaud Eeckhout, this workshop “Digital and sound Emergences” hosts artists/students of Arts2 (Mons) and Saint-Luc (Brussels)…

Invited by the BAM, Fine Arts Museum in Mons to offer a selection of digital works echoing the ‘First videographers, Terry Fox / Bill Viola’ shown at the Fine Arts Museum, Transcultures presents The Pirate Cinema de Nicolas Maigret…

In partnership with the Festival Nuits du Beau Tas, Transcultures offers 2 evenings of multimedia creation where sound research intimately interacts with digital and visual media.

In the framework of Pépinières européennes pour jeunes artistes’ MAP programme, Transcultures is launching a call for a 3-month creative residency in Mons. Deadline 29.05.2016…

This is the 3rd edition of that iconoclastic music festival with a lot of new places in Brussels this year! Music but also dance and wrestling (catch) in La Raffinerie du Plan K…

The ‘Portraits audacieux’ (Bold portraits), hybrid digital files, both sounds and images materialize at Residence 87 in the form of 55 singles, engraved and printed 2 sides,vinyls had been the subject of an exhibition at City Sonic 2015…

Transnumériques has closed on December 12th 2015 along Mons, European Capital of Culture,, but their good waves are still with us. This fifth edition of this festival of digital cultures featured more than 60 artists in the Digital Emergences exhibition

Stéphane Kozik, Mons multimedia, visual and sound artist , presents his installation (in collaboration with Arnaud Eeckhout), ‘Digital Breakfast’ (recently presented at the Digital Art Festival of Taipei…

The first Art/Communication/Technologies seminars organized by Natan Karczmar were held in 1993 and 1994 at the European University of Research at the Ministry of Research in Paris and since in or in between various cities…

Philippe Baudelot (semiotician, curator and consultant in digital arts) presents the lasted developments of immersive and implicative arts…

Operating like a full-scale laboratory, Peter M Friess explores in BEAUTIFUL_TOUCH (3rd iteration) the human systems and perception structures with emphasis on aspects of self-referentiality and co-existence…

The first Art/Communication/Technologies seminars organized by Natan Karczmar were held in 1993 and 1994 at the European University of Research at the Ministry of Research in Paris and since in or in between various cities…

How can an in situ process-based methodology be part of a questioning of the act distributed network (agency) between human and non-human?

In the framework of Mons2015, European Capital of Culture, Transnumeriques (transdigital) 2015 is focusing on digital new talents (emergences).

The Digital Art Festival Taipei will host sound and digital artists from Wallonia-Brussels Federation supported City Sonic and proposed by Transcultures…

As part of la Quinzaine des arts du futur (Maison Folie Beaulieu) and Renaissance (Lille3000), Jacques Urbanska (curator for Transcultures) presents ‘phAUTOmaton’, a work by French media artist/developper Philippe Boisnard…

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…

In “Champs Magnétiques”, Claire Williams offers a sensitive and poetic look at the materials that constitutes our current electronic devices and circuits derived from minerals, and at their electronic activity…

The Brussels event Smart City for Culture event provides an overview of the digital evolution in the creation, dissemination and participation in art and culture. Are you part of the culture today? …

Claire Williams, young Brussels based artist working on textiles and new technologies, was selected for a first digital art creation residency proposed by Le Vecteur et Transcultures.

The ‘Rhombo’ project takes place over the years 2014-15-16-17 in several appointments at the school of visual arts Mons ARTS2 and Villa Arson in partnership with Transcultures, co-initiator of this exchange…

Media art, tech art, web art, digital art, time based media art…What, why and where to? This panel will examine the recent developments of technology in contemporary art and highlight its importance in relation to a …

In partnership with SciTec2 and Fablab in Mons, Transcultures is participating in the third year of the Polytech Mons engineering science discovery stages…

Thanks to the recent publication of the “Theory of the Kamikaze” and “Acceleration!” at the Presses Universitaires de France, Transcultures and the Mundaneum invite the Belgian philosopher/editor Laurent de Sutter…

For a long time now artists and philosophers have been walking through the city and the countryside, making it a true way of being, thinking and creating. The 70s and 80s saw the birth of “soundwalks”…

Founded in 1997 and based in Brussels, LAb mainly creates interactive artworks, audiovisual performances and scenographies, for which it develops its own software and interfaces…

Trained in the visual arts at the Beaux Arts in Paris, Romain Tardy, quickly abandoned this classical learning by moving from a two-dimensional approach of the image to the creation of site specific installations in volume…

On 25 November 2016, Transcultures organized the Vice Versa 3.0 – Digital Horizons forum at the RTBF – Médiarives (Liège) as part of the Season of Digital Cultures, in partnership with Vidéographies…

To close the meetings held for 4 years in Mons, via Transcultures, between the residents of the Carrosse (foster home for people with a mental disability) and the Portuguese sound/interdisciplinary artist Margarida Guia…

This workshop Emergences proposes to art students to develop an original creation – installation or performance – using digital tools, they are supervised by experienced artists and the team of Transcultures…

Since 2010, numerous collaborations between artists and researchers have emerged, creating significant advances in the activities of these two communities. The event FOOR – Open Forum Works & Researches…

For this third session of Rhombo, exchange of residence of creation digital arts (around light) co-initiated by Transcultures, Arts2 and ENSA Nice-Villa Arson, are gathered in Mons 16 students of the visual art school Arts2…

Artist Judith Guez study illusions in mixed reality. Ideas of Asher has found its place in her Lab’surd interactive installation (laboratorie of sur-virtuality studying) where a viewer is supposed to do strange manipulations with balls.

The Culture Meet-up meeting allow cultural professionals to decompartemenlize artistic disciplines, the so-called scholarly cultures and called popular, private and public sectors and business culture – to create emulation and to create a network that truly reflects the culture as a whole.

The Contemporary Art Center of Luxembourg launches their “ephemeral digital labs” where Stéphane Kozik introduces participants to the playful inventiveness of its “Digital Breakfast” while Damien Pairon…

For the end of their residency at Transcultures , Spanish visual/digital artist Alba G Corral and the Polish composer Dariusz Makaruk have been developed in Mons their audio-visual performance Dimension N project…

Coordinated by multi-media artist JulienPoidevin and Arnaud Eeckhout, this workshop “Digital and sound Emergences” hosts artists/students of Arts2 (Mons) and Saint-Luc (Brussels)…

What are the forms of transdisciplinary writings using primarily the digital technologies? What devices do they use? What types of areas do they explore? How do they resonate with societal changes? …

Ondes de choc : The Scam and the Mundaneum invite you to discover the Night of Radio @ Mundaneum, the “Google of paper” in Mons! …

As part of the week of creativity ‘Make Wallonia’ proposed by the Hubs of Wallonia, Transcultures offers at FabLab Mons a workshop to discover the 3D Printer uses…

Philippe Franck presents the hybrid artistic approach of Transcultures and discuss with him the last statements of the digital and intermedia creation that escapes the traditional marked trails.