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Transcultures et les European Pepinieres of Creation presents for this 2021 edition of the Ibrida festival a selection of videos produced as part of their No Lockdown Art project that they initiated during the first global containment linked to…

ARTour 2021 propose de questionner les rapports qui nouent aujourd’hui l’écrit et les arts visuels, numériques et sonores. Les artistes invités, auteurs, plasticiens, créateurs intermédiatiques les conjuguent au gré de leurs pratiques respectives, les associent pour les donner à…

Transcultures presents a video selection in connection with the No Lockdown Art initiative (initiated in spring 2020, during the first confinement, in partnership with the European Pepinires of Creation), as well as the performance Sonic Dreams by Paradise Now…

Après une première résidence particulièrement fructueuse en mars 2021 au Delta (Namur), à laquelle avait fait suite un premier EP commun “Transonic Delta” publié sur la bandcamp de l’alter label Transonic, la vocaliste, compositrice et céramiste d’origine polonaise Maja…

Matthieu Quiniou says: “Blockchain technology permits the control, or more precisely, a certified timestamping of transactions, deals and events on a distributed ledger. In such a system, no suspicions whatsoever will crop up of some administration faking an information…

As every year since the launch of La Semaine du Son first in Brussels and then also in Wallonia and Flanders, by the association Halolalune, Transcultures is happy to collaborate in this unifying event which works to give, for…

Paradise Now est la facette artistique de Philippe Franck, directeur de Transcultures – Centre des cultures numériques et sonores qu’il a fondé en Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles et du réseau des Pépinières européennes de Création. Sa vision de la création qu’il…

L’œuvre de Tamara Laï occupe une place à part dans l’évolution de l’art vidéo et multimédiatiquede ces 30 dernières années. D’abord vidéaste à la fin des années 80 porté par la dynamique de la scène artistique liégeoise dont elle…

The Sound Arts Forum, renamed Zone Libre (Free Zone), from the name of the Corsican association that initiated it, asserts itself as a sound arts festival which, as Tommy Lawson specifies, “offers forms adapted to current and forward-looking constraints,…

Proposed in upstream of the Biennale of contemporary art and heritage ARTour 2021 on the theme “The conjugated image”, this exhibition by Belgian visual artist Jean-François Octave is built from a “sign”, an index observed in the Roman Church…

As part of our participatory FontainaSound * project, the sound footprint of a territory to be built together over a decade, Transcultures, center of digital and sound cultures and organizer of the City Sonic festival, is joining forces with…

Comme depuis quelques années maintenant, Transcultures et Arts2 proposent un workshop d’une semaine à de talentueux étudiants-jeunes artistes ouverts à différentes écoles d’art outre celle de Mons. Il s’agit après une introduction sur différents types de dispositifs numériques et…

On the occasion of the Drone Day International, events dedicated to the sound drone are taking place around the world bringing together researchers of the sensation of sound freed from melody and rhythm creating another sonorous space-time…

This second series of online “chamber” sessions commissioned by Transcultures and the Transonic label to sound creators of various aesthetics but all adventurous practices will honor singular artists based in Belgium, in France but also international references…

Accueillis en résidence Sonopoetics au Delta de Namur du 10 au 14 mars 2021 (en partenariat avec Transcultures et les Pépinières européennes de Création), Maja Jantar et Paradise Now ont travaillé sur un matériel – textuel et musical –…

Didié Nietzsche (BE) returns to the Transonic Lab to find Paradise Now (BE/FR) to finish with the American-Lebanese author / performer Biba Sheikh a Sonopoetics album based on texts from the book “Akashic Diaries – Detroit Degree Zero and…

On the theme “Sources and resources”, the 2021edition of the International Digital and Visual Arts Meetings of Abidjan offers a series of exhibitions, lectures / debates / presentations, workshops and performances by African artists and European artists. This fifth…

Since 1984, Videoformes has organized an annual international festival, in Clermont-Ferrand, which presents the latest news in digital creation: installations, videos, performances, multidisciplinary digital creations, and round tables on themes extended to the creative industries and societal developments linked…

After a promising first residency mixing sound poetry, singing, electronic treatments and guitaristic landscapes at Productions Rhizome in Quebec, during the Month of Poetry, in March 2020, Maja Jantar and Philippe Franck (alias Paradise Now) meet again, a year…

For over twenty years, Alexandre Castant has developed a refined and demanding critical work, exploring the world of contemporary images (from La photographie dans l’œil des passages, 2004 to Ecrans de neige – photographs, texts, images, 2014). ) as…

After a fruitful first part of a residency at the end of January, A Limb returns to the Transonic Lab to find Paradise Now for a second part of residence (also featuring other artists they collaborate with).

Transcultures and its partner European Pepinieres of Creation supported the Persistence EP project by Belgian-based French artist Christophe Bailleau produced by IRM. The profusion of inspirations and ideas shows along the constant sonic mutations of “Persistance”, a generous new…

Initiated and coordinated by Jacques Donguy (poet, essayist, critic), Jean-François Bory (writer) and Sarah Cassenti (visual artist, performer and also here model maker), the magazine Celebrity Cate investigates new hybrid writings (in the broad sense) by recalling the major…

The first edition of this online micro festival is part of the Transonic Second Life Sessions which regularly offers concerts and audio-visual performances in various Second Life venues, bringing together a community of sound and multimedia artists and visitors…

Transdisciplinary and international review launched in October 2019, both demanding and accessible free of charge, LINKs is a beautiful stirrer of thoughts that crosses different fields of scientific investigation, philosophical, artistic. We can only support such an adventure which…

Between these two collaborative Belgian/internationalists sound creators, the meeting is both natural and open. Paradise Now invites Didié Nietzsche to join him for a new series of recordings passing through various aesthetics and sonic practices…

As part of the #NoLA2020-21 ongoing project, sound creators from different countries and adventurous aesthetics are invited to each send a live audio session (like an intimate concert to share online with an unknown public) this will be illustrated with a…

From a selection of texts written by different authors/artists from different countries, the sound artist/producer Paradise Now has created several audio cinematic pieces from the the voices and read writings of these authors (and other guests for the occasion)….

In pre-announcement of the publication of the book “Akachic Diaries – Detroit Degree Zero and other crisis writings” to be published in early 2021 by Aquarius Press editions, Biba Sheikh is invited to unveil some extracts from these burning/moving…

Founded in Brussels in 1989, La Lettre volée is an “art house” publishing house which has been offering, for over twenty years, various collections in the literature sectors, human sciences and aesthetics (“Essais” and “Palimpsestes” collections) and arts (several…

In the panorama of Belgian and international digital arts, or more broadly of contemporary arts willingly integrating today’s technologies, Mathieu Zurstrassen (Brussels) has a special place…

Everything you always wanted not to know about IMAGES IN THE MIDDLE – IDM ©. This book is 333 (+3) pages for the 33 years of Jean-François Octave in this transdisciplinary contemporary art workshop, not quite like the others…

In 2017, four Belgian, French, Slovenian and Romanian structures working for the development of puppetry arts joined together to create the Numeric’s Art Puppetry Project (N.A.P.P.) supported by the Creative Europe program…

Around Philippe Franck gathered for ‘Lumen #5’, several creators and researchers (including Nathalie Stefanov – art critic, exhibition curator, teacher at the ” ESA Nord-Pas-de-Calais and associate researcher in the laboratory of the Center d’Etude des Arts Contemporains -…

Transcultures, which in 2008 initiated the Digital and Sound Emergences support program in partnership with art schools in Wallonia-Brussels and France, and the Maison de la Marionnette join forces to support and promote digital, intermedia and / or sound projects…

This public presentation celebrates the official release of the book “When technology meets puppetry” directed by Françoise Flabat and Philippe Franck…

The art of puppetry is an art of interdisciplinarity, borrowing, transforming and combining endlessly tradition and modernity, creating new and original theatrical forms, influencing other art forms. Lumen aims to be an opening for the sector of the puppetry arts…

The ‘alter label’ Transonic presents the audio catalogue of the 16th edition of the international festival of sound arts City Sonic, passing through various Belgian cities: Louvain-la-Neuve, Braine L’Alleud, Brussels, Wavre. These 25 pieces by international artists (Leo Kupper, Iancu Dumitrescu,…

“Triptyque Prototype” is an enigma with an exploded temporality which allows cross and associative readings. Its protagonist is in tension between the doll or the android and the woman of flesh-and-blood.

Hosted for a final part of a residency at Lizières (Centre of cultures and resources initiated by the multidisciplinary artist Ramuntcho Matta near Paris), after a successful first part in June 2020, the duet Isa Belle + Paradise Now…