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  • 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.

    Transcultures

  • 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

    Transcultures

  • 16>17-04-2014 – Workshop Nomades Numériques : Net Art overview – Jacques Urbanska

    10/04/2014

    Gifs, mème Internet, Neenart, glitch, art(s) & network(s)… Quiévrain > Maison des Jeunes The “digital nomads” workshops are part of the European project nomade initiated by the manège.mons, le phénix (Valenciennes) and the Manège of Maubeuge. They offer in the region of Mons Borinage, workshops introducing beginners and curious to various creative digital practices .Since the birth of the Internet

    Transcultures

  • 9>10-04-04-2014 – Workshop Sound Boxes – Derek Holzer

    01/04/2014

     Liège > L’An Vert > 9:30 – 18:00 This workshop (organised by Stephan Ink under the auspices of d’Une Certaine Gaieté) allows you to create your own electro-acoustic instruments, will be led by Derek Holzer (Berlin), performer /instrument inventor that makes its own instruments. Each participant will create his own sound box consisting of a small amp, a speaker and

    Transcultures

  • 02-04-2014 – Livescape – Concert performance – Braine-l’Alleud

    30/03/2014

    Braine-l’Alleud > Académie de Musique > 20:30 Livescape brings together the nature, machine and human dimensions in a unique performance, audio and visual which is above all sensory experience, immersing the viewer in total immersion in the near universe of science fiction movies. This young Mons collective invited to many international festivals, explores in his live lab, possible connections between

    Transcultures

  • 02-04-2014 – Talk – Todor Todoroff : Reintroduce the gesture in electroacoustic music

    29/03/2014

     Braine-l’Alleud > École des Arts > 19:00 Todor Todoroff (Belgian composer-engineer and teacher, longtime collaborator of choreographer Michèle Noiret) marks in his music a special interest in multiphony, exploring the space of sound and testing new methods of sound transformation. Along with acousmatic music, he developed virtual instruments for gestural control of electroacoustic music for concerts. “Combining motion capture and

    Transcultures

  • 01 + 15.04.2014 – workshop – Margarida Guia : Fields of voice

    28/03/2014

     Saint Symphorien > Le Carosse > last workshop Sound artist, performer and poet, Margarida Guia (Portugal) will give a series of introductions and vocal exercises to the residents of Le Carosse (an institute for mental disabled persons near Mons). In the framework of Espace(s) Son(s) Hainaut(s) / FEDER Interreg IV France-Wallonie-Vlaanderen Avenue G. Maigret 39 7030 Saint Symphorien – only

    Transcultures

  • Numediart, when research & technology make an interest in cultures by Jacques Urbanska

    28/03/2014

    In this favourable context, a small group of teachers and researchers from the UMONS1 decided, in 2005, to launch a vast research program. Thierry Dutoit, instigator and now project director, explains: “Open to culture, we foresaw the importance of collaboration between…

    Transcultures

  • 26-03-2014 – Talk – Philippe Franck : Nomadic connected devices, places and audio streams … listening the drift

    20/03/2014

    MONS > FACULTÉ D’ARCHITECTURE ET D’URBANISME > 12:30 We will comment on ambulatory works (pioneer and contemporary) that re-trace and “increase” the city connected to other (hidden) areas/urban locations and redefine it into a multi audio ever changing deterritorialized/reterritorialized space, by activating our moving listening. Between physical and virtual architectures, places and non-places, sound streaming via the Internet and embedded devices,

    Transcultures

  • 27-03-2014 – Talk – Art Zoyd, 44 years of differentiated musical creation

    20/03/2014

    Mons > Arts2 > 11:30 Unclassifiable musical group founded in 1969, Art Zoyd is also since 1987 a recording and creation studio, based in Valenciennes (France). UFO in the French music industry, Art Zoyd encourages young artists through residencies, productions and creations. Transversality plays a major role in the artistic choices of their creative studio. At the Art School of

    Transcultures

  • 20>23-03-2014 – Exposition spamm.be – Mobile Awards Art(s) & Network(s) – Festival VIA 2014

    12/03/2014

    Exposition spamm.be + Mobile Awards 2014-Art(s) & Network(s) + présentations/ateliers ouvert découverte du Net Art Launched by Transcultures at the occasion of Transnomades 2013 (Quinzaine Numériques of the Federation Wallonia- Brussels), the Mobile Awards – Art(s) & Network(s) intend to stimulate the online artistic creation giving it greater visibility . The 2014 edition are focused to artworks created to be broadcasted via the

    Transcultures

  • 21-03-2014 – Workshop Nomades Numériques – Damien Pairon: introduction to the digital video softwares

    11/03/2014

    As part of Festival VIA, the dance show ‘Hors Champs’ of Michèle Noiret will be premiered in Mons, fon March 21 and 23 at Theatre Le Manège. On this occasion, Damien Pairon (multimedia-video artist) will coordinate a workshop in the framework of Nomades Numériques (series of workshops on creative digital practices launched by the manège.mons as part of the European

    Transcultures

  • 19 > 22.03.2014 – Festival Vidéoformes

    09/03/2014

    Clermont Ferrand Pour sa 29ème édition, Vidéoformes, festival international d’art numérique, se met aux couleurs (trans) belges en invitant des artistes et projets soutenus part Transcultures. On y retrouve la performance-installation Fragments #43-44 (également soutenu par numediart et la cellule arts numériques du Ministère de la Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles) de Gauthier Keyaerts en collaboration avec François Zajega (visuels) et Yacine Sebti (programmation),

    Transcultures

  • 19-03-2014 – Conférence – Philippe Franck : Other resonances – an introduction to sound art

    09/03/2014

    Louvain-la-Neuve > PointCulture > 18:00 What are the roots of the sound art that cross disciplines? What are the main features of these forms and adventurous sound practices? How does site specific audio creation dialogue with the urban space? How does it develop? What are the possibilities and these pitfalls? These are some questions and issues that Philippe Franck (Transcultures,

    Transcultures

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