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  • 16 & 17-07-2014 – “Web Art” an introduction by Jacques Urbanska (workshop)

    10/07/2014

    Since the birth of the Internet, many creators have taken this medium to explore the limits, divert or redefine its purpose. Creating animated images that buzz that mobile applications and multiple online and offline works… Through a playful workshop exploration and experimentation, media artist Jacques Urbanska (arts-numeriques.info) will present a panel of web art works and original tools that provide

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  • 07 > 11-07-2014 – Béranger Grimbert + Charlotte Van Kemmel (residency)

    04/07/2014

    Bérenger Grimbert, French electronic musician develops with actress Charlotte Van Kemmel Belgian a new audio-sensory performance. On the site of the former slaughterhouses at the Frigo (Fridge) where Transcultures is located, these young artists to develop their work shifted universe to achieve a multidisciplinary performance that carries us into crazy worlds, somewhere between meditation and a physical experience. spinarsoon.com

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  • 03 > 07-2014 – t.r.a.n.s.i.t.s.c.a.p.e – Chambre(s) d’hôtel – Bruxelles

    01/07/2014

    ‘Chambre(s) d’Hôtel’ (Hotel rooms) created by the dance interdisciplinary company t.r.a.n.s.i.t.s.c.a.p.e (initiated by Pierre Larauza and Emmanuelle Vincent) is an urban installation combining a performance and a radio interview. A single architectural object, a hybrid and technoid caravan, combines a piece of fiction and a reality. This travelling hybrid device is experienced as a transit location loaded with possibilities. Experimental

    Transcultures

  • 30-06 > 04-07-2014 – Emergences Sonores

    28/06/2014

    Under the coordination of Stéphane Kozik (sound artist and multimedia), three students (Wilson Rose, Christopher Fernandez, Vivian Barigand) of The Visual Arts School of Mons Arts2 were selected to participate in a workshop “Sonic Emergences ” preparatory to the presentation of their new sound installations in the next edition of the City Sonic festival in September. Production : le manège.mons,

    Transcultures

  • 20-06 > 31-08-2014 – Julien Poidevin – Géosonic mix – Charleroi

    15/06/2014

    In this context, the site specific and geolocative project ‘Géosonic mix’ of French artist Julien Poidevin offers an intimate and sonic immersion. From sounds recorded in the city, quotes of authors and sound clips, “Géosoni mix@La Louvière” invites us to a unique experience somewhere else between our presence in the city and an imaginary trip. Equipped with a GPS and

    Transcultures

  • 17 + 18-06-2014 – Bains numériques#8 – Professional meetings

    08/06/2014

    Transcultures (Philippe Franck, Jacques Urbanska) with Mons 2015, European Capital of Culture (Mauro Del Borrello, general manager of le manège.mons and Mons2015, Pascal Keiser, artistic director for digital programme and director of TechnocITé) and the City of Mons (Joelle Kakompole, deputy mayor in charge of culture) are invited by the Arts Centre of Enghien-les-Bains to participate to the professional encounters organised in the framework of Festival Bains numériques.

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  • 08-06-2014 – A pentacostal evening Aki Onda + Antoine Chessex + films

    01/06/2014

    For another Monday Pentecost night, Eastern Belgium at night in complicity with Transcultures invites Antoine Chessex, a fascinating Swiss saxophonist (who has worked with many adventurous artists such as Maja Ratkje Jerome Noetinger, Kasper T. Toeplitz, Lasse Marhaug …)

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  • 01>08-06-2014 – Werner Moron + Philippe Franck : Ours bipolaires @ Saline Royale

    30/05/2014

    Artist in residency at the Saline Royale (Arc-et-Senans/France), “City of utopias”, in the framework of the Odyssey program (an initiative of the association of the Centres des Rencontres), Werner Moron (Beglian multidisciplinary artist, founder of Paracommandarts) has invited Philippe Franck

    Transcultures

  • Call for proposals – MAP artists-in-residence at Transcultures – autumn-winter 2014

    22/05/2014

    In the framework of the MAP programme, Transcultures, Interdisciplinary Center for Digital and Sound Cultures in association with the City of Mons and with the support of the Ministry of Culture of the Federation Wallonia-Brussels, launches a call for two artistic and creation residencies…

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  • 14-05-2014 – Sonic Kids – Gauthier Keyaerts – La bouclothèque

    07/05/2014

    During this workshop, Gauthier Keyaerts shows to the children how to record various sounds, cut them out and then integrate them into an interactive device. This fun tool (based on a friendly interface) will (re) create different soundscapes like walk in the woods, sounds of the sea or of the city… a friendly interface playing with the movements of the

    Transcultures

  • Call – Park in Progress / City Sonic 2014

    02/05/2014

    About Parkinprogress Park in Progress is a nomadic mobility program initiated by the European Pépinières for young artists, supported by the European Commission (Culture programme) and  gathering together young artists and professionals from the creative and cultural world, who work on the different steps of creation, production, diffusion of a project in which transdisciplinary experience is developed. Parkinprogress moves around

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  • 06-05-14 – (Big) Data art @ Big Data Week Wallonia

    01/05/2014

    For this « Big Data Week Wallonia » coordonated by Mundaneum, in Mons, Jacques Urbanska (arts-numeriques.info, Transcultures) and Wolf Kuehr (project managerMons2015 – respublica) provide an introduction to the (Big ) Data Art through various examples of works followed by a video conference with artist Manuel Lima. Designer, author, lecturer and researcher based in New York, Manuel Lima is a

    Transcultures

  • 07-05-2014 – ReWICs 2014 – Talk Jacques Urbanska – Underground 2.0…

    30/04/2014

     Charleroi > La Géode > 10:40 Underground 2.0… les nouvelles cultures numériques alternatives, talk by artist/Web curator Jacques Urbanska provides a first introduction to Net Art hacktivist illustrated by numerous examples of works connected or from the Web culture, using networks as a raw material for the creation and activism. If the term Net Art even now includes a whole

    Transcultures

  • 07 + 21 + 28-05-2014 – Atelier Nomades Numériques – Field Recording

    30/04/2014

    Field recording and digital sound editing – Initiation Mons > Gentianes > 14:00 – 16:00 Led by musicians and sound artists Arnaud Eeckhout and Emilien Baudelot, this workshop provides young people of the Gentianes (host structure and educational assistance in the region of Mons Borinage) a thorough introduction to the techniques of field recording and sound editing with digital technologies.

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  • Call – Biennale Watch This Space 2015

    14/04/2014

    Watch This Space is a biennial organized by the 50° nord Network around emerging artists. It takes place in the Nord-Pas de Calais region and the cross-border territory (Southern England and Belgium) and consists in coordinated projects and solo exhibitions that members of the Network set up with artists from the euroregional territory. The 8th edition will be held over

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