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  • 16-10-2014 – Trans Demo, from the research to digital creation – Vice Versa 1.0 – Quinzaine Numérique 2014

    09/10/2014

    Closing the event “Vice versa, 1.0”, ‘TransDemo’ invites artists and researchers to present their ongoing digital projects in a friendly atmosphere, to the public, students and professionals interested to innovation. Transcultures and numediart propose an afternoon of presentations (moderators: Thierry Dutoit for numediart & Philippe Franck for Transcultures): Nicolas d’Alessandro (numediart researcher and musician) on his recent projects combining mobile devices

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  • 14-10-2014 – Les Oracles Liquidation finale + Percées – Québec

    07/10/2014

    Oracles built two bridges between writers, choreographers, audio and multimedia artists. A diptych evening the first part, ‘Liquidation totale (tout doit disparaître) (Total Clearance -everything must go)’ as a creative laboratory, brings together the novelist and essayist Martine Delvaux and choreographer Manon Oligny. The second, ‘The Oracles: Percées’ result of the encounter between the poet Catrine Godin, choreographer Karine Ledoyen,

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  • Open call artist residency, Park in progress #13, Paris-Montreuil

    01/10/2014

    Park in progress est un programme de mobilité européen itinérant /// Park in progress is a European nomadic mobility program…

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  • 07-10-2014 – Paysages sonores – Installations Espace(s) Son(s) Hainaut(s) + performances

    01/10/2014

    Result of collaboration between Art Zoyd (music creation center), le phénix (Valenciennes), le manège.mons, Transcultures in the framework of the platform for innovative music Espace(s) Son(s) Hainaut(s), Electronic landscapes is an evening dedicated to the creative diversity of the electro sounds today. Electronic live performance, interactive installation, dj set… around the show “Il se trouve que les oreilles n’ont pas

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  • 05-10-2014 – Park in progress#11 – Nuit européenne de la jeune création – Chypre

    27/09/2014

    Organised by the the ARTos Cultural and Research Foundation, a contemporary arts and science centre dedicated to research, creativity and innovation the Cyprus edition of Park in progress will take place in the “Nicosia Municipal Gardens” that surround the Parliament and the Municipal Theatre, very near the Buffer zone, where more than 20 artists from Cyprus and from all over

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  • 04-10-2014 – Twist de Arnaud Eeckhout + Vivian Barigand @ La Nuit Blanche Bxl 2014

    26/09/2014

    Welcome to the 4th dimension with this illusionist installation premiered at Festival City Sonic in Mons in 2012. We should have thought of this: aluminium foil on a grand scale, here demonstrating its powerful hypnotic properties, both visual and aural. The foil itself, which twists and undulates, interacts with the space and the bodies of the viewers; suggests wind, rain,

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  • 03-10-2014 – Digital video creation – Projections + presentations/talk (Gabriel Soucheyre + Nathan Karczmar)

    25/09/2014

    As part of the ‘Digital Emergences’ lectures/workshops cycle and manifestation “Vice Versa 1.0 /Quinzaine numérique @ Mons”, Transcultures and Arts² invite Gabriel Soucheyre (director of Vidéoformes) and Nathan Karczmar (initiator of Videocollectifs) to present their projects and initiatives. Vidéoformes, festival of video art and digital cultures initiated in Clermont-Ferrand (France) in 1986 and directed by Gabriel Soucheyre supports with Transcultures

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  • 27-09-2014 – Opening Vice Versa 1.0 – from research to digital creation – Quinzaine numérique @ Mons

    20/09/2014

    ‘Vice Versa1.0’ celebrates and questions the fertile intersections between applied research and digital creation. With this polymorphic manifestation which is part of the Quinzaine numéique (Digital Fortnight) of the Federation Wallonia-Brussels (and the one organised in Mons on the theme “to programme or to be programmed”), Transcultures in co-production with the manège.mons proposes a selection of works by innovative artists

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  • 25-09-2014 – Partage d’écoute #2 – Sébastien Biset – Cosmopoetics (ces arts sonores astropoétiques)

    18/09/2014

    Launched during the previous edition of the City Sonic festival, these shared listening sessions are meetings with professionals from the music world (musicians, critics, artists, curators…) who spend about an hour sharing their passion for music as well as sound art practices and commenting on chosen excerpts. For this second “Partage d’écoute” (“shared listening session”) at City Sonic 2014, Sébastien

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  • 24-09-2014 – C2M1 performance – Magali Desbazeille + Siegfried Canto

    17/09/2014

    ‘C2M1’ is a “media performance” exploring written and coded communication, from the invention of writing to mobile phone texting by way of printing technologies. The question raised by ‘C2M1’ is the following: what is the direct influence of new technologies on language? In order to provide an answer, ‘C2M1’ is conceived around the presence of a screen as well as

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  • 18-09-2014 – Pierre Beloüin Partages d’écoute + launch of Optical Sound revue #2

    12/09/2014

    Launched during the previous edition of the City Sonic festival, these shared listening sessions are meetings with professionals from the music world (musicians, critics, artists, curators…) who spend about an hour sharing their passion for music as well as sound art practices and commenting on chosen excerpts. For this first City Sonic 2014 “Partage d’écoute” (“shared listening session”) Pierre Beloüin

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  • 17-09-2014 – Sonic Kids Void – Buid your own speaker

    10/09/2014

    La maison haut-parleur (“The speaker house”) is a workshop given by sound and visual artists Arnaud Eeckhout+Mauro Vitturini (under the name of Void) in the context of which children learn to build their own sound speakers with everyday objects: plastic bottles, hairbrushes, cardboard boxes, sheets of paper or tree branches will become vibrating membranes which amplify sounds and modify the

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  • 14-09-2014 – Sonic Garden Party – Baudouin de Jaer + Maurice Charles JJ + Quasi una fantasia

    07/09/2014

    Three intimate concerts in private gardens of the Mons Belfry historical district (rue des compagnons). First composer Baudouin De Jaer proposes a solo violin performance based on pieces inspired by Swiss art brut visionary Adolphe Wölfli (1864-1930), upon whom he based his 2011 Sub Rosa a beautiful release ‘The heavenly ladder’.Maurice Charles JJ a.k.a. Jean-Jacques Duerinckx is a musician mostly

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  • 11-09-2014 – Opening – City Sonic, International Sound Art Festival 2014

    02/09/2014

    Happy City Sonic & Park in progress@Mons 2014 ! On a peacefull September 11th City Sonic#12 will be lauched with the European Night for Young Creation, which also opens the tenth edition of the European nomadic project Park in progress. Before that great event, we’ll start the guided visit of the City Sonic itinerary on the site of the Arbalestriers

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  • 18 > 25-07-2014 – Percées project – Simon Dumas + Thomas Israël + Paradise Now

    11/07/2014

    After initially working in Quebec Productions Rhizome in May, Simon Dumas (artistic director of Rhizome), Thomas Israël (digital artist-filmmaker-artist) and Paradise Now (sound designer) develop interaction between image and sound performance breakthroughs a poetry project (text: Catrine Godin)-dance (choreography: Karine Ledoyen), his video will be premiered in October in ‘Quebec en toute lettre’ then in Mons2015. Production : Productions Rhizome,

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