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24.11 > 31.12.2024 | 24.11 > 31.12.2024 | Exhibition Cartographies of the Sensible | Tetouan Institute and Art Center (Ma)
This “ex/position” was born from the desire to bring together, within the same dynamic and the same space/time, the dimensions of research/sciences (the conference “TEXTE IMAGE 7”) and creation/arts. It features a selection of multi/inter-media works that highlight…
31.10 > 02.11.2024 | Transcultures @ Computer Art Congres #8 | La Plata (Ar)
Initiated in Paris in 2002 by Khaldoun Zreik/laboratory CiTU Paragraphe-University Paris 8, the Computer Art Congress (CAC) is an interdisciplinary academic event that investigates art and science from various perspectives. CAC.8 particularly emphasizes the role of minority and underrepresented…
CD | Caressing the Clouds – Isa*Belle + Paradise Now (Fr/Be) | Transonic Label (Eu)
Since 2004, Isa*Belle (holistic masseuse, artist of the senses) has been working with sound creator Paradise Now (Philippe Franck’s solo and collaborative artistic project) to create sound installations and performances from an impermanent interlacing of singing bowls (Tibetan, Vietnamese,…
25.10.2024 | Transonic Unit > Maja Jantar (Nl/Fi + Paradise Now (Fr/Be) , Tommy Lawson (Fr) | Festival More Ohr Less – Baden (At)
Founded in 2004 by German electronic pioneer Hans-Joachim Roedelius (co-founder in the 70s of Cluster, Harmonia, collaborator of Brian Eno) and organized by the members of the Roedelius family, More Ohr Less is an annual meeting place for musicians…
04 > 20.10.2024 | Émergences numériques & sonores @ lumen 2024 | Centre de la Marionnette (Tournai – Be)
For several years, Transcultures has been a partner of the Lumen event initiated by the Maison de la Marionnette in Tournai and which makes the link with digital arts. For this ninth edition, Transcultures is once again in charge…
30.09 > 02.10.2024 | Ci-Dit Colloquium – What voices are we made of?… | University of Wroclaw(Pl)
Why put orality and reported speech forms at the center of our concerns? Following the “Ci-dit” conferences, which focused particularly on digital genres (more in their scriptural dimension) and on graphic material supports, it seemed important to re-examine the…
11 + 14.09.2024 | Transcultures @ Festival AICOT (Art in the country of Tokyo – Jp)
Transcultures and the European Pepinieres of Creation are pleased to be partners of the Art in Country of Tokyo 2024. AICOT festival is an interdisciplinary artistic event of international dimension, which takes place in the 23 wards of Tokyo, as…
31.08.2024 | Planned Accidents Festival | Thila Ground – Seoul (Kr)
Transcultures is pleased to be able to honor the invitation of Rafael Sanchez, artistic director of the Planned Accidents festival by presenting performances of sound and intermedia artists here from the Wallonia-Brussels Federation: Alain Wergifosse, Isa*Belle and Paradise Now,…
07.08.2024 | “Body & Movement” Workshops (Isa*Belle) | Couvent d’Hautrage (Saint-Ghislain – Be)
In the framework of the Sonic Summer 2024, Isa*Belle (sound and holistic artist/masseuse) offers everyone 2 workshop modules (10 participants maximum) on the theme “Body in Accord” composed of autonomous sessions (2 hours each) open to all…
31.07.2024 | “Body & Sound” Workshops (Isa*Belle) | Couvent d’Hautrage (Saint-Ghislain – Be)
In the framework of the Sonic Summer 2024, Isa*Belle (sound and holistic artist/masseuse) offers everyone 2 workshop modules (10 participants maximum) on the theme “Body in Accord” composed of autonomous sessions (2 hours each) open to all…
24.07.2024 | “Body & Movement” Workshops (Isa*Belle) | Couvent d’Hautrage (Saint-Ghislain – Be)
In the framework of the Sonic Summer 2024, Isa*Belle (sound and holistic artist/masseuse) offers everyone 2 workshop modules (10 participants maximum) on the theme “Body in Accord” composed of autonomous sessions (2 hours each) open to all…
10.07.2024 | “Body & Sound” Workshops (Isa*Belle) | Couvent d’Hautrage (Saint-Ghislain – Be)
In the framework of the Sonic Summer 2024, Isa*Belle (sound and holistic artist/masseuse) offers everyone 2 workshop modules (10 participants maximum) on the theme “Body in Accord” composed of autonomous sessions (2 hours each) open to all…
10.07 > 01.09.2024 | Sonic Summer @ Couvent d’Hautrage (Saint-Ghislain – Be)
Transcultures joins its partner Septem (Cultural Centre of Saint-Ghislain) to offer, this summer 2024, a program of friendly events open to all. Workshops, concerts, installation, sound art video selection… dialoguing with the spaces of the Hautrage convent (16th century),…
26 > 27.05.2024 | 3AI Symposium – Art in the Age of Artificial Intelligence #2 | Ionian University (Corfu – Gr)
The European Pepinieres of Creation and Transcultures, partners of University Paris 8, are joining forces with this symposium to select and support international digital and intermedia artistic projects related to the theme which will be presented in parallel with…
03 > 18.05.2024 | Transcultures Opening @ Couvant d’Hautrage | Saint-Ghislain (Be)
To celebrate its active participation in the project combining creation and training of the Hautrage convent, Transcultures, Interdisciplinary Centre for Digital and Sound Cultures, invites you, in different spaces of the convent, to a multiple event. In a friendly…
19 > 20.04.2024 | Disjonct’son #1 Festival – Sound and multimedia performances | Databaz (Angoulême – Fr)
Transcultures is pleased to renew a partnership with the Databaz structure (led by the French creator, author and researcher Philippe Boisnard) which supports digital arts and emerging creative practices for the launch of its new mini festival “Disjont’son” which…
18.04 > 28.04.2024 | Festival Nuits Beau Tas #14 | Bruxelles
The fourteenth edition of the “Nuits du Beau Tas” festival arrives in mid-April. This intimate and warm experimental festival offers, this year over ten days of alternative and visionary culture, a real prospective cultural offer that will make you…
13 > 19.04.2024 | Dar Zero Residence – Paradise Now (Fr/Be) + Tommy Lawson (Tg/Fr) | Databaz (Angoulême – Fr)
Tar Zero was born, in 2022, in Tangier, during a meeting between sonic and intermedia creators Philippe Franck (Wallonia) and Tommy Lawson (Corsica) as part of an artistic journey in the white city still haunted by ghosts of the…
Article | Interview with multimedia artist Rafael (Be) and launch of Unit Academia (Seoul)
The Belgian artist, based in the Republic of Korea for over 10 years and working between South Korea and Belgium, and in residency at Transcultures Belgium in March 2023, responded to Philippe Franck’s questions regarding the launch of a…
16.02.2024 | Contemporary artistic creation at the crossroads of light… – Round Table | Bright Sessions Brussels (Be)
For the very first time, Bright Festival invites experts, artists and professionals, from various sectors, to share their experience on different topics related to organizing a festival of lights. The Bright Sessions offer participants the chance to discuss with…
29.01 > 04.02.2024 | Zone Libre – Sound Art Festival 2024 | Bastia (Fr)
Since its creation in 2019, the Zone Libre sound arts festival has emerged as one of the essential events for sound creation in Corsica. Discovering projects that question, shake up and enrich aesthetics, the festival has established itself for…
20 > 24.01.2024 | Travelling Souls Residency – Maja Jantar (Nl/Fi) + Paradise Now (Fr/Be) | Transonic Lab – Hautrage (Be)
One after their residency in the Transonic Lab and two and a half years after the release of their first EP “Transonic Delta”, the vocalist-performer Maja Jantar and the sound creator Paradise Now find themselves this time at the…
27 + 28.11.2023 | ArtComTech Talks – Philippe Franck (Be/Fr) + Gabriel Soucheyre (Fr) | Town Hall (Vilnius – Lt)
As part of “Spirit of Vilnius”, ArtComTech is offering 2 conference-meetings with Philippe Franck (27.11) and Gabriele V. Souchère (28.11) -respectively director of Transcultures and Videoformes- who will talk about their respective cultural and artistic experiences…
23 > 24.11.2023 | HyperUrban Symposium #9 – City driven by data | Ibn Zohr University, Agadir (Ma)
HyperUrban 9 addresses the issue of the Data Driven City and not limited to it, it remains open to any contribution proposing reflections and/or achievement(s) in the following areas (non-exhaustive list): hybrid land planning, territory Rewriting & Rereading, digital…
24.10.2023 | A Luni Son (performance AV) – Isa*Belle + Paradise Now (Fr/Be) + Petermfriess (De/Be) | Tiny Gallery (Bruxelles)
At the invitation of the Tiny Gallery, as part of the exhibition “Forever (a closeup of love and marriage)”, Isa*Belle and Paradise Now offer an audio-visual performance which takes its source from their visual and sound installation “A…
22 > 27.10.2023 | Les cailloux meurent aussi – Mathilde Schoenauer Sebag (Fr/Be) | Prix Europa (De)
Le projet radiophonique et éditorial “les cailloux meurent aussi” de l’artiste pluridisciplinaire Mathilde Schoenauer Sebag a été nominé pour le Prix Europa. L’occasion de revenir sur ce projet au long cours produit par Transcultures (soutenu par le Fond de…
13.05.2023 | Sonic Spheres [Audio tribute to Pol Bury] – Album + CD & Booklet | Transonic Label (Be)
As part of the events organized in La Louvière to celebrate the centenary of the birth of Pol Bury (1922-2005), Transcultures commissioned several sound creators (of various adventurous aesthetics) from the Wallonia-Brussels Federation to produce a piece freely inspired…
22.09.2023 | Round table – Perspectives: Culture & artificial intelligence(s) | Anciens Abattoirs (Be)
MuseumLab and Transcultures, Center for Digital and Sound Cultures, offer you a round table that will offer five views of culture professionals on their understanding, their relationship to the plural concept of artificial intelligence as well as their specific…
21.09.2023 | Round table – Art and NFT : sharing experience – Kika Nicolela (Br/Be) | Anciens Abattoirs (Be)
After the fallout of the speculative bubble that surrounded the world of NFT works and the past craze for metaverses, it is time for museum institutions to ask themselves the right questions…
Article | Spectres & Neons, rencontre avec Alain Wergifosse – par Philippe Franck | jazzmania.be
Après un mini album online Flux & Densités publié en 2020, le label Transonic a sorti fin 2022, l’album CD Spectres & Neons composé de 22 pistes et comprenant un livret de 20 pages. Rencontre avec un artiste…
08.09.2022 | Tree Stories Performance – Kotryna Žilinskaitė (Lt) + Hasan Alp Çelikel (Tk) | Darnos Šventė (Lt)
Tree stories is a interdisciplinary and multifaceted in progress project inspired by the timeless poetry and mystical power of raw nature embodied by the tree in a time where Man is continuing to destroy the natural environment as…
28.07 > 24.08.2023 | Body – Sound/Mouvement (workshops) – Isa*Belle | REPIT 2023 – SEPTEM Saint-Ghislain (Be)
At the invitation of the cultural center Septem, Isa*Belle offers 2 modules on the theme “Body in harmony” proposed autonomous sessions open to all. In the framework of the REPIT 2023, initiated by SEPTEM, a series of workshops on…
25.06 > 10.09.2023 | Transcultures @ ARTour – Contemporary Art and Heritage Biennial 2023 (Be)
With the title “In between Worlds”, this 14th edition invites you to discover works from all disciplines that question the notions of concrete or imaginary territories, intermediate spaces, elusive borders, singular dimensions… So many parallel worlds – real or…
16.06.2023 | Tree Stories – Performance Kotryna Žilinskaitė (Lt) + Hasan Alp Çelikel (Tk) | Ideas Block (Lt)
Tree stories est un projet in progress, interdisciplinaire et multiforme inspiré par la poésie intemporelle et le pouvoir mystique de la nature brute incarnée par l’arbre à une époque où l’homme continue de détruire l’environnement naturel de la planète…
09 > 11.06.2023 | Reflets sonores Festival – Belgian Federation of Electro-Acoustic Music | Chapelle de Verre (Fauquez – Be)
The Reflets sonores (Sonic Reflects) festival organized by the Belgian Federation of Electroacoustic Music (FeBeME/BeFEM) offers three evenings of exceptional sound creation in an unusual heritage site that lends itself perfectly to listening and contemplation: the Glass Chapel of…
03.06.2023 | Songs from a vacant apartment | L’imprimerie (Liège – Be)
Songs From a Vacant Apartment’ offers an intimate audio lounge bringing together small sound, poetic, choreographic and hybrid forms of international artists, open to all audiences. Remembering the description of the surrealist André Breton, “a sound apartment whose parquet…
13.05.2023 | Sonic Spheres live [Pol Bury tribut] | Daily-Bul & Co (Be)
As part of Louviérois World Day and the launch of the album “Sonic Spheres” on the Transonic label, Transcultures offers several sound art and experimental music performances by artists who participated in this compilation of pieces commissioned in memory…
13.05.2023 | Sonic Spheres [Audio tribute to Pol Bury] – Album + CD and booklet | Transonic Label (Be)
As part of the events organized in La Louvière to celebrate the centenary of the birth of Pol Bury, Transcultures commissioned several sound creators from the Wallonia-Brussels Federation to produce a piece freely inspired by the work and the…
Album | Akashic Diaries – Biba Sheikh (Lb/USA) + Paradise Now (Fr/Be) | Transonic label (Be)
Based on texts taken from the book “Akashic Diaries – Detroit Degree Zero and Other Crisis Writings” commissioned to Biba Sheikh at the start of the Covid 19 lockdown in April 2020, Paradise Now (here in close collaboration with…
Book | Akashic Diaries – Detroit Degree Zero and Other Crisis Writings – Biba Sheikh (Lb/USA) | Europia (Fr)
Ces textes brûlants/émouvants sont des fragments poétiques, et des croquis, nourris par les visions et les expériences de Biba Sheikh, performeuse, metteuse en scène et autrice nord- américaine nomade d’origine libanaise, vivant à Detroit. Ce journal akashic (du sanskrit,…