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This introductory lecture by Jacques Urbanska (with a background of comedian and theatre director and more recently intermedia artist and digital arts projects manager at Transcultures) will allow participants to grasp the idea…

Starting from a historical reminder of the experiences of various pioneers who integrated the electronic & media technologies – since the 50’s technologies – to their poetic creative process to take the language out of the page…

As part of the pluridisciplinal manifestation “Reste la lumière” coordonated by Lettres en voix, Transcultures partners with this association and it’s Québec partner Rhizome Productions and Bibliotheca Wittockiana to offer…

Quebec dancers / choreographers Manon Oligny and Maryline Daoust join forces with sound artists Philippe Franck and Isa Belle to create a performance starting from the blue color, poetically associating movement and sound…

For the second time, Transcultures is a partner of the International Meetings of Digital Arts of Abidjan who work to develop digital cultures in Côte d’Ivoire in collaboration with several European and international partners…

For its fifth edition, hosted by the Mons Mundaneum and organized as part of the cross-border project C2L3PLAY – Cross Border Living Labs, Vice Versa highlights the achievements and research of this living lab of the cross…

Le lieu moderne invites the Transonic label for a special evening around the new album L’échappée belle of the post electro pop duo Pastoral, which poses a look both surreal and poetic on the imaginary and resort areas of…

A stimulating and inventive reality, the presence of sound in contemporary art has been affirmed, without discontinuity since the 2000s, in current artistic practices. However, its history is old and, above all, it engages many…

This audio-video-poetic triptych was born from a literary commission (by Transcultures as part of the International City Sonic Sound Art Festival) to author / performer Charles Pennequin, around the notion of show from…

On the occasion of the release of the first album of the French/Belgian duet Pastoral entitled ‘L’échappée belle” on the Belgian Transonic indie label, this special evening offers a electro/post pop Pastoral concert and an exhibition of photographic/poetic diptychs…

With the multiform project L’échappée belle – an interdisciplinary collaboration begun in 2007, resumed in 2016 and completed in 2017 – Pastoral explore under a surreal, animist and poetic look, the imaginaries and living spaces of a provincial Wallonia…

‘Poévies’ is an audio-visual project with variable geometry and constant evolution initiated by Philippe Franck in complicity with Zoé Tabourdiot. It is about capturing intimate moments of contemporary French-speaking…

Following the workshop and collective exhibition ‘The Secondary Sonic Space’ initiated in October 2018 by the association Simultan and Timisoara, European Capital of Culture in 2021 in partnership with Transcultures and Pépinières…

Within his module of research in sound art at the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts de Bruxelles, Philippe Franck is inviting the Belgian sound and intermedia artist Alain Wergifosse for a workshop with Belgian and European visual…

‘Firebird’ is the result of an interdisciplinary writing residency conducted in Autumn 2018, between Paris (France) and Charleroi (Belgium), within the framework of the European Pepinieres of Creation…

Longtime transatlantic accomplices, Transcultures (Be) and Rhizome (Qc) are offering a new edition of ‘E-critures hybrides’. This bilateral event associates creation and reflexion by giving a new visibility to those poetic-intermedia…

For it’s fourth event, Le Lieu Moderne, in partnership with the alter label Transonic, invites for it’s fourth edition Paradise Now who’ll be presenting his new album Migrations (commissioned for an exhibition of Ivorian visual artist…

This meeting offers an introduction to the most singular and diverse artistic approaches and audio researches, inviting participants to make their curiosity audible and their listening active. Several artists from different backgrounds…

In the context of “Mon Père ce Robot ?”, Jacques Urbanska will lead a round table discussion about arts/science intersections, with Philippe Boisnard, Eric Minh Cuong Castaing, Lorena Jouven, Thomas Peyruse…

In the framework of ‘The Architects of peace’ event, the Mundaneum (Mons) wishes to tell the sotory of two founding “laboratories for peace”. The first, the Peace Palace in The Hague, striving for peace through international law…

After the second workshop sound art led by Raymond Delepierre and Philippe Franck at Simultan, the ‘Seconday Sonic Space’ installation will be presented to the public as part of the ‘Beyond the obvious’ annual event organised…

In 1996, Omega, a member of Cult of the Dead Cow, an American group of famous hackers and mass media “Do it yourself,” proposed the portmanteau word ‘hacktivism’ to describe computer hacking for political purposes…

The new issue of the review ‘Inter, art actuel’ (Québec) offers various points of view on the notion of apocalypse. Apocatastasis: we walk, we almost touch. Disasters are multiplying, closer and more disastrous. Our time has become…

At the invitation of Levente Kosma, director of the Simultan Festival, Raymond Delepierre and Philippe Franck propose -at Simultan’s office- a second workshop for young Romanian sound and multimedia artists…

Let us celebrate the quality and endurance of the French quarterly magazine Turbulences Vidéo, which deals with the contemporary arts and moving images in general, video art and digital cultures in particular…

On the occasion of its twenty year anniversary, the Maison du Livre questions the future! No crystal ball so far, it is the “current” future that is observed: the future seen from here, the one that makes us dream,…

In September, the “Google of paper” invites you to celebrate its 20 years of cultural bubbling during a festival under the sign of unusual archives and heritage. In the framework of Digit’As Fabrica will be shown several…

At the invitation of Levente Kosma, director of the Simultan Festival, Raymond Delepierre and Philippe Franck propose as part of Timisoara, European Capital of Culture in 2021, a workshop for young Romanian sound and…

Born in the meeting between an Ivorian visual artist Jacobleu and a French-Belgian sound artist Philippe Franck (aka Paradise Now), this dozen impressionistic, electronic, organic soundscapes composed especially…

This year, Brussels joins, for the first time, Drone Day International. Indeed, this event of May 26th dedicated to the drone sound takes place all over the world bringing together researchers of the sensation of sound released…

On the occasion of the year Louvain 2017-2018 dedicated to the digital worlds, Transcultures proposed the French artist Nicolas Maigret and the international working group DISNOVATION.ORG for a residence and a seminar at the Catholic University of Louvain-La-Neuve.

On Saturday, April 21st, Eastern Belgium at night will proceed to the opening of their new establishment, Imprimerie, located on the edge of the river Vesdre (Liège). A duly mandated bailiff will signify an occupation of the premises…

Practiced by shamans in Tibet before Buddhism, recently rediscovered in the West for therapeutic purposes and reinvented, in the form of performance, by Isa Belle with the complicity of Paradise Now, the sound massage…

RHIZOmatics is an evolving in situ project that offers new features to each presentation, to meet specific needs, or to offer artists/projects that use new creative possibilities…

As part of the Reims Scène d’Europe Festival, the creation music platform Région Grand Est is organizing a symposium / meeting on the subject of musical creation in the show in Europe.

Transcultures is happy to participate in the second edition of the Adbidjan International Digital Arts Festival hosted mainly by the French Institute of Cote d’Ivoire featuring artists and experts from America, Europe and Africa…

This first workshop of the series Emergences digital and sound of 2018 is coordinated by digital / audio / intermedia artists (Valérie Sandor (aka Valkiri) and Stephane Kozik…

Conceived by Rhizome (a Quebec organization defending living literature in connection with other contemporary disciplines) and Transcultures (Center for Digital and Sound Cultures-Charleroi), the Ecritures project intends – since 2014- to call, alternately between the Federation Wallonia-Brussels and Quebec,…

With new digital technologies, traditional forms of writing and reading are changing. in parallel, new forms of expression, writing and sensory experiences appear…

Initiated by Transcultures in 2014 in collaboration with the Numediart Research Institute (University of Mons), Vice Versa intends to give a particular visibility and to provoke a critical and public reflection on so-called…