Agenda des activités

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…

For the last ‘Sunday at home’ of the year, all the weekly workshops and artists in residence at Maison de la Création (Brussels), open their doors to the public to present their creations.

‘Tunnel Hearing’ is a live performance and video piece by Alexandra Dementieva et Maurice Charles JJ in which sound and image produce each other reciprocally, both in a metaphorical and very literal sense…

Marc Parazon (alias such) presents the sound installation ‘A tape end’ supported by Transcultures, a contextual environment realized from magnetic tapes passing through several recorders also playing on…

The ‘Drone Day ‘is an annual international event dedicated to the drone sound taking place all over the world bringing together researchers of the sensation of sound released from melody and rhythm creating a different sensorial…

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…

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, the sound massage uses Tibetan bowls metals producing a variety…

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…

Premiered at Le Botanique in 1999 at Gerard Malanga: Objectif Pop show, Exploding mirrors (intialy produced by Transcultures) is a visual poem that combines footages starring Gerard Malanga together with found footages…

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…

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…

For its latest issue of the season, Le Lieu Moderne presents, in an intimate and friendly setting, Walloon musician/singer Jérôme Mardaga’s new project (better known as Jéronimo, to whom we owe some goog pop songs), now turned…

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…

Christophe Bailleau will read, with a musical background, some texts extracted from his first and recent poetic book ‘Firebird’ (released with a new online album by Transonic on the occasion of a residence in the framework…

« Les Ateliers de l’Universel », in partnership with “European Pepinieres de Creation”, is launching an international call for projects aimed for contemporary visual artists and focusing on the concept of the “Universal”…

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…

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…

Louis-Robert Bouchard and Frank Soudan are continuing the second phase of their digital arts residency VICE VERSA from February 15 to April 13, 2019 in Quebec City. The first part took place in Belgium from November…

Quebec dancers / choreographers Manon Oligny and Maryline Daoust join forces with sound artists Philippe Franck and Isa Belle to create a performance starting from the blue color, poetically associating movement and sound…

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 the second time, Transcultures is a partner of the International Meetings of Digital Arts of Abidjan who work to develop digital cultures in Côte d’Ivoire in collaboration with several European and international partners…

Since 2014, the City of Colomiers has been involved in an urban renewal project in the Fenassiers district, a change for which it wants to support the inhabitants: by 2020, the social, urban and cultural identity of the first…

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…

Within the framework of the Interreg cross-border project C2L3PLAY – Cross Border Living Labs, a call for economic, artistic, and technological projects is launched. This call aims at projects by designers, artists, entrepreneurs…

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…

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…

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…

This audio-video-poetic triptych was born from a literary commission (by Transcultures as part of the International City Sonic Sound Art Festival) to author / performer Charles Pennequin, around the notion of show from…

In the spirit of the “acoustic naps’, Unda (Ariane Chesaux and Isa Belle) proposes, at the invitation of the Transonic label, a surrounding and re-harmonizing performance, an intimate collective experience combining…

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…

With the multiform project L’échappée belle – an interdisciplinary collaboration begun in 2007, resumed in 2016 and completed in 2017 – Pastoral explore under a surreal, animist and poetic look, the imaginaries and living spaces of a provincial Wallonia tinted with…

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…

For the Belgian Week of Sound and following a Transcultures residency, Alain Wergifosse presents a new sound and visual installation in the series of his ‘Resonant Spaces’. This tireless explorer of the limits of the audible and…

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…

As part of their mobility program, the Creative European Pepinieres and Est-Nord-Est Centre are launching a call for applications for artist residencies in Saint-Jean-Port-Joli, Quebec. For its 2019 programming, ENE welcomes two…

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…

‘Firebird’ is the result of an interdisciplinary writing residency conducted in Autumn 2018, between Paris (France) and Charleroi (Belgium), within the framework of the European Pepinieres of Creation…

Longtime transatlantic accomplices, Transcultures (Be) and Rhizome (Qc) are offering a new edition of ‘E-critures hybrides’. This bilateral event associates creation and reflexion by giving a new visibility to those poetic-intermedia…

To prepare his new sound and visual installation in his series Espaces Résonnants, Alain Wergifosse will be working with a series of mikes and sensors strategically placed in a more or less restricted area…

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…

For it’s fourth event, Le Lieu Moderne, in partnership with the alter label Transonic, invites for it’s fourth edition Paradise Now who’ll be presenting his new album Migrations (commissioned for an exhibition of Ivorian visual artist…

Within the framework of the Pépinières Européennes de Création, the Quebec multidisciplinary media artist Louis-Robert Bouchard and the French creator/designer/searcher Franck Soudan are starting, at Project(ion) Room…

For this 2018 edition, Ars Musica explores these pathways that have transformed musical art over time. From violin making to unhinging spatialization, from unexpected environments to intoxicating potentialities…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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 …