Agenda des activités

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 abstract, secular or expectant – to which contemporary artists, and…

Two performance evenings around the composer of Greek origin living in France Georges Aperghis. Particularly interested in “musical theatre”, he explored the sound of speech in an original way in several vocal and lyrical works that solicit the participation of the performer…

OMFI (One Moment Free Improv) evenings are dedicated to free musical improvisation and focus on solo practice. Each time they offer three different artists performing a solo improvisation of 20-25 min. A musical meeting in Trio or Duo is then proposed…

The artists Christophe Bailleau and Aidan Baker are invited to the Sulfure Festival (Paris) for a Transcultures evening that is both ambient, intimate and contrasting. The idea of the Sulfure Festival was born from a first concert organized by Indie Rock Ma/IRM and Des Cendres à la Cave au…

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 Fauquez , entirely decorated with marble…

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 floor is an immense pedal and where the thunderbolts upset…

After a first period of residence in La Louvière at the end of April 2023 and a location of the points of his future geolocated itinerary   “D’un monde (sONore) à l’autre” (“From one world (sONic) to another” – created for the fourteenth edition of the biennale of contemporary…

In the dynamics of the 20th anniversary of the City Sonic ( initiated by Transcultures), the international sound arts festival which is also a platform of exchanges for those various creative audio fields,  began to spread in different forms (events/performances, workshops, exhibitions, etc.) involving Lithuanian, Belgian and French sound…

Since 2020, the Transonic Second Life events (sessions and festivals) have supported the creation and online dissemination of audio visual projects within the first metaverse. This third Transonic Second Life session will bring together the musicians Yadleen (Dream music), Echo Starship (Live ambient) and A Limb (Live electro) before…

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 of La Louvière based multidisciplinary artist Pol Bury (1922-2005)…

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 universe of this visionary multi-creator of Louviéroise origin …

What remains of the human body in the age of automated AI generation of realistic photographs? If digitization may have appeared as the preservation of traces of our humanity as underlined by French artist/author David Guez’s “Binary Steles”, it was quickly transformed into a possible egotic mirror, to henceforth…

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 the sound architect Didié Nietzsche) asked the author/performer to send…

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, ‘Akasha’ – l’histoire non écrite, le sens caché, la substance…

Ben Bertrand created for this occasion a composition for bass clarinet and violin which explores the polyphonic possibilities of these instruments. A concert in keeping with the famous adage taken up and commented on by Erasmus: “Haste slowly” developed in the temporary exhibition currently on display at the Erasmus…

For the uninitiated, Sub Rosa is a Brussels-based record company that emerged in the mid-1990s with the exploration of a new form of electronic music. Since 2001, the label has produced a vast collection of concrete, noise and electronic music: ‘An anthology of noise and electronic music’…

“No (more) pussyfooting” revives the classic experimental studio albums “No Pussyfooting” and “Evening Star” by Brian Eno and Robert Fripp… Belgian virtuoso guitarist Kobe Van Cauwenberghe will also play a work by Italian composer Fausto Romitelli… Lisza (Debauche) will play new intimate songs for voice, piano and guitar…

Quasi Una Fantasia: voice duo (Christina Van P.) and prepared piano (Pierre-jean Vranken). A musical journey in sound and emotion a bit like Meredith Monk… A musical creation based on poems by Michaël Vandebril. From a selection of poems taken from the two collections “L’exil de Maeterlinck” and “New…

Eclectic evening in the chapel of the Grand Hospice with the Express string 4tet which will play the famous Jesus Blood by Gavin Bryars and will create a work by Christophe Heroufosse… The duo Solange Labbé (vocals) and Sylvain Ruffier (cello). And a solo from Neptunian Maximalism saxophonist JJ…

This poetic performance is taking place in celebration of the ‘Arab American Heritage Month’, at the International Institute of Metro Detroit hosting the Arab American Awards Gala and dinner. The event highlights 24 Arab Michiganders to be recognized for work which is considered as ‘high achievement’ in the areas…

Two exceptional musicians in the spotlight for this NBT at the chapel of the Grand Hospice. The accordionist Emilie Skrijelj who experiments this instrument in an incredible way… And the Polish pianist Barbara Drazkov who will create a work by Szymon Brzoska and Miguel Rozpide for harmonium and electronics…

Opening of the 12th NBT experimental music festival with the guitar solo project of the french Jessica93 and the polyrythmic electro of Bambi OFS… Energy guaranteed to open a festival that once again wants to be experimental and anti-commercial… Will follow the polyrhythmic electro project of Cédric Dambrain aka…

The twelfth edition of the “Nuits du Beau Tas” festival takes place between the end of April and the beginning of May. 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 discover…

] P P P [ – XR Bury pays tribute to the inventiveness of Pol Bury, a multidisciplinary and visionary creator (from Surrealism to Kinetic Art), and highlights emblematic works and locations of his presence in the Louvière area. It allows for a playful and poetic connection between several…

On the occasion of the centenary of Pol Bury’s birth, Transcultures, in partnership with the Paragraphe laboratory of the Paris 8 University and CY Cergy-Paris University, is organizing a research/creation seminar on art in the digital and AI era with teacher-researchers and artists related to sound and hypermedia devices…

This workshop, which brings together PHD students and professors from the CiTu-Paragraphe laboratory – University of Paris 8, takes place in the preamble to the symposium around the legacy of the multidisciplinary and indisciplinary artist (from La Louvière), Pol Bury (1922-2005)…

The members of the Society i Material bringing together creators/researchers Marc Veyrat/design, initiator of the Society i Material project, Jonathan Juste/programming, images, Gaetan Le Coarer/images, Philippe Franck/sound and poetic design are invited, by Transcultures, for a creative residency, in La Louvière, in order to complete the…

Based on fragments taken from the work of the French philosopher Simone Weil and texts on the sound creation previously sent by the Belgian sound and visual artist Dominique Vermeesch  to Philippe Franck during the writing of the catalogue, Paradise Now offers a sonopoetic performance, mixing voice, electronics &…

LAMENT is the interaction between acoustic instruments (clarinet and bass clarinet) and electronic device. This sound ritual is also articulated with radio frequencies captured and processed in real time and soundscapes recorded in Bastia…

Associated with the publication of a book and e-book “Akashic Diaries – Detroit Degree Zero and Other crisis writings” coming out this Spring from Europia (Paris) by American-Lebanese poet/performer/director Biba Sheikh, the Belgian sound artists Paradise Sonore and Didié Nietszche (alias A Limb) have sounded several texts read by…

(do.space) exposes herself in a nameless elsewhere. “In the background, she lets us hear a performative-vibratory language called “Hearing the never seen”*. The researches of (do.space) teach to perceive by ear and soul what cannot be seen, admitting “the need to be in the dark where everything is born”….

Ouïr le jamais vu (listening to the unseen) is the first monograph devoted to Dominique Vermeesch, a major Belgian plastic and sound artist and performer whose aesthetic and feminist issues are clearly stated. Texts by François Delvoye, Carine Fol, Philippe Franck and Nadine Plateau, biography by Astrid Mattard…

Philippe Franck (directeur de Transcultures) participera aux premières Rencontres sur les arts littéraires qui auront comme thèmatique « Pratique et esthétique à l’ère du numérique », organisées par Rhizome (Qc – partenaires de longue date de Transcultures) et les Midis de la poésie…

As part of the exhibition “expocollective #20 – For the love of sport”, the artist Pierre Larauza will exhibit his sculpture “February 20, 1998, Nagano” (one of the works that he produced as part of his research “Documentary Sculptures”)…

Le projet radiophonique et éditorial “les cailloux meurent aussi” de l’artiste pluridisciplinaire Mathilde Schoenauer Sebag sera présenté à la 9ème édition du UK international radio drama festival, basé à Canterbury dans le Kent en Grande-Bretagne (organisé par International Arts Partnership)…

The “d-E+E-p_d-i+V-E” project is part of the iREAL WORLD project led by artist researcher Marc Veyrat and supported by Transcultures. It was tested in VR for the first time during the Recto VRso Art Festival of Laval Virtual 2022, then during the FMSH Digital Mediation Platform Seminar at Casa…

In the framework of City Sonic Vilnius 2023, a special “Abisonic session” is offered as part of the sound exhibition “Reimagining the City” resulting from the workshop “Spring Sound Camp #1”.

As part of the City Sonic Vilnius events planned for 2023 by Uziateka, Oasis of the Arts, European Pépinières and Transcultures, Kotryna Zilinskaité and Paradise Now are hosted for a week in residence at Kompresoriné – Ideas Block to create together a sonopoetic performance presented on March 19, at…

Kika Nicolela and Raya Lindberg offer a time for discussion in the magnificent heritage site that is the Chapelle de Bondael around the themes addressed by the exhibition: how do families, and women in particular, pass on their experiences from generation to generation, and in what form?

Transcultures, Užiateka, European Pepinieres of Creation and Ideas Block present City Sonic Vilnius Soundcamp, a sound art workshop (6 >11 March 2023) at Kompresoriné/ Ideas Block (Vilnius) featuring 7 participants from Lithuania coordinated by Belgian and French sound/intermedia artists Philippe Franck, Tommy Lawson, Christian Vialard.

As part of a joint residency Pépinières Européennes (Fr), Transcultures (Be), Oasis Art, Užiateka, Ideas Block, (Lt), 3 Belgian (Philippe Franck) and French (Tommy Lawson and Christian Vialard) artists are invited to the Kompresorinė – Ideas Block from Vilnius for 10 days sound creation residency. During this period, they…

The Commune of Ixelles presents a solo exhibition by the Brazilian artist Kika Nicolela in the Chapelle de Boondael in Brussels. It will show an exceptional group of works made in early 2022 during the artist’s residency at the Boghossian Foundation, Villa Empain (Brussels). The curator, art critic and…

This residency of the second part of the Stase project hosted by Transcultures at the Transonic Lab is based on a device-installation combining sound poetry and video. Always in search of an original language in tune with the aesthetic issues of its time, Animo Plex, the multidisciplinary company of…

Audio in a network, Digital sound festival using the INTERNET as a venue for diffusing LIVE experimental, drone, noise, field recordings, sound poetry, electronic, contemporary music. The festival is streamed live online and in a quadraphonic sound system at the venue “La Plateforme Intermédia” in Nantes, France…

In partnership with the network of European Pepinieres of Creation and Transcultures, Château Éphémère is launching for the 9th year its call for projects “Digital Arts, Sound Art & New Writings” for the 2023/24 season. Every project involving innovative digital practices and sound art in its creation process is…

The GMLR or twin studio is the cross-border sound studio common to the ARTS2 schools of Mons and the ESÄ Dunkerque-Tourcoing, site of Tourcoing. Like every year, following workshops, the GMLR offers an intermedia exhibition which combines the research and work of a dozen students from both institutions…

En association avec les Pépinières Européennes de Création, Transcultures Užiateka et ses partenaires, City Sonic Vilnius lance un appel à participation ouvert aux artistes sonores pour participer à son premier “Sound Camp”, un projet inspiré par la diversité du paysage acoustique de la capitale de la Lituanie…

For the third time, Transcultures is an important partner of the Zone Libre – sound arts festival organized by the eponymous association in Bastia, which defends creative sound and digital practices both locally and internationally. As for the 2022 edition, Philippe Franck will be the artistic curator of a…

Transcultures is very sad to announce the decease of Cat C. Boucher who has hosted in her great Second Life Cat’s Club many experimental audio visual events and artists (and in the past few months some Transonic Second Life Festivals supported by Transcultures)…

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 abstract, secular or expectant – to which contemporary artists, and…

What remains of the human body in the age of automated AI generation of realistic photographs? If digitization may have appeared as the preservation of traces of our humanity as underlined by French artist/author David Guez’s “Binary Steles”, it was quickly transformed into a possible egotic mirror, to henceforth…

Ben Bertrand created for this occasion a composition for bass clarinet and violin which explores the polyphonic possibilities of these instruments. A concert in keeping with the famous adage taken up and commented on by Erasmus: “Haste slowly” developed in the temporary exhibition currently on display at the Erasmus…

For the uninitiated, Sub Rosa is a Brussels-based record company that emerged in the mid-1990s with the exploration of a new form of electronic music. Since 2001, the label has produced a vast collection of concrete, noise and electronic music: ‘An anthology of noise and electronic music’…

“No (more) pussyfooting” revives the classic experimental studio albums “No Pussyfooting” and “Evening Star” by Brian Eno and Robert Fripp… Belgian virtuoso guitarist Kobe Van Cauwenberghe will also play a work by Italian composer Fausto Romitelli… Lisza (Debauche) will play new intimate songs for voice, piano and guitar…

Quasi Una Fantasia: voice duo (Christina Van P.) and prepared piano (Pierre-jean Vranken). A musical journey in sound and emotion a bit like Meredith Monk… A musical creation based on poems by Michaël Vandebril. From a selection of poems taken from the two collections “L’exil de Maeterlinck” and “New…

Eclectic evening in the chapel of the Grand Hospice with the Express string 4tet which will play the famous Jesus Blood by Gavin Bryars and will create a work by Christophe Heroufosse… The duo Solange Labbé (vocals) and Sylvain Ruffier (cello). And a solo from Neptunian Maximalism saxophonist JJ…

Two exceptional musicians in the spotlight for this NBT at the chapel of the Grand Hospice. The accordionist Emilie Skrijelj who experiments this instrument in an incredible way… And the Polish pianist Barbara Drazkov who will create a work by Szymon Brzoska and Miguel Rozpide for harmonium and electronics…

Opening of the 12th NBT experimental music festival with the guitar solo project of the french Jessica93 and the polyrythmic electro of Bambi OFS… Energy guaranteed to open a festival that once again wants to be experimental and anti-commercial… Will follow the polyrhythmic electro project of Cédric Dambrain aka…

The twelfth edition of the “Nuits du Beau Tas” festival takes place between the end of April and the beginning of May. 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 discover…

Based on fragments taken from the work of the French philosopher Simone Weil and texts on the sound creation previously sent by the Belgian sound and visual artist Dominique Vermeesch  to Philippe Franck during the writing of the catalogue, Paradise Now offers a sonopoetic performance, mixing voice, electronics &…

(do.space) exposes herself in a nameless elsewhere. “In the background, she lets us hear a performative-vibratory language called “Hearing the never seen”*. The researches of (do.space) teach to perceive by ear and soul what cannot be seen, admitting “the need to be in the dark where everything is born”….

Ouïr le jamais vu (listening to the unseen) is the first monograph devoted to Dominique Vermeesch, a major Belgian plastic and sound artist and performer whose aesthetic and feminist issues are clearly stated. Texts by François Delvoye, Carine Fol, Philippe Franck and Nadine Plateau, biography by Astrid Mattard…

As part of the exhibition “expocollective #20 – For the love of sport”, the artist Pierre Larauza will exhibit his sculpture “February 20, 1998, Nagano” (one of the works that he produced as part of his research “Documentary Sculptures”)…

Kika Nicolela and Raya Lindberg offer a time for discussion in the magnificent heritage site that is the Chapelle de Bondael around the themes addressed by the exhibition: how do families, and women in particular, pass on their experiences from generation to generation, and in what form?

Transcultures, Užiateka, European Pepinieres of Creation and Ideas Block present City Sonic Vilnius Soundcamp, a sound art workshop (6 >11 March 2023) at Kompresoriné/ Ideas Block (Vilnius) featuring 7 participants from Lithuania coordinated by Belgian and French sound/intermedia artists Philippe Franck, Tommy Lawson, Christian Vialard.

The Commune of Ixelles presents a solo exhibition by the Brazilian artist Kika Nicolela in the Chapelle de Boondael in Brussels. It will show an exceptional group of works made in early 2022 during the artist’s residency at the Boghossian Foundation, Villa Empain (Brussels). The curator, art critic and…

Audio in a network, Digital sound festival using the INTERNET as a venue for diffusing LIVE experimental, drone, noise, field recordings, sound poetry, electronic, contemporary music. The festival is streamed live online and in a quadraphonic sound system at the venue “La Plateforme Intermédia” in Nantes, France…

The GMLR or twin studio is the cross-border sound studio common to the ARTS2 schools of Mons and the ESÄ Dunkerque-Tourcoing, site of Tourcoing. Like every year, following workshops, the GMLR offers an intermedia exhibition which combines the research and work of a dozen students from both institutions…

For the third time, Transcultures is an important partner of the Zone Libre – sound arts festival organized by the eponymous association in Bastia, which defends creative sound and digital practices both locally and internationally. As for the 2022 edition, Philippe Franck will be the artistic curator of a…

The APO33 association launches, in partnership with the European Pepinieres of Creation and Transcultures, a call for participation for sound pieces and bio-radiophonic transmissions. Each artist proposes a sound piece of approximately 1 hour or more to be played in mono on an AM radio with a short wave…

These study days entitled “Scientific mediation and territorial project: heritage in all its states”: “is part of the research activities in Information and Communication Sciences within the UMR CNRS 6240 LISA and more precisely in axis 2: “Making society in an intercultural framework: ways of modeling in an island…

Through the creations of the Belgian visual  and multidisciplinary artist Marie Bertrand on the theme of bread as well as those of the inhabitants of the commune of Saint Ghislain, Blé d’Art jointly presents works by Marie Bertrand as well as achievements of the inhabitants made during workshops she…

.The artist Rachel M. Cholz presents a first single-band version of his multidisciplinary project “Viens Valeur”, which focuses on the fetishism of objects as sound and poetic possibilities. Interactive project with a particular writing, it is directly inspired by the ASMR process and offers an unprecedented dramaturgy with several…

Alain Wergifosse is invited again at the Saint-Etienne digital arts festival to present, in French premiere, his new exhibition “Spectres & Neons ” with about twenty photographs (12 inches/vinyl record cover format) and a listening of his new eponymous CD which has just been released on the Transonic label…

The Spectres & Neons photographic exhibition brings together around twenty images of moving urban lights taken in long exposure during journeys in the depths of spectral nights of neon subtly modulated by the 50hz of the electrical network…

Following the huge interest in the art NFTs at the beginning of 2021, the field is undergoing a natural evolution and transformation. The internet, social networks and forums have been flooded with NFT artists, collectors and resellers. The huge sums of money and earnings have twisted the minds of…

After a first collaboration with the Republic of Užupis in 2021, the European Pepinieres of Creation continue their partnership in 2022 on several events, including this new edition of the Užupio Vasaros Kultūros Diena (Užupis’ Summer Day of Culture) with more than 20 artistic activities welcomed by as many…

For his exhibition at the Koma Gallery, Jean-François Octave continues his reflection on the image and the words, started since the beginning of the 80s, and this, from his started in 1971 when he was fifteen years (in the form of diaries, then on small Aurora notebooks with…

NFThon Kaunas is a project that aims to draw people’s attention to the potential of modern technologies in the field of culture and involve them in the creative process. During the first in-person NFT hackathon in Lithuania which will happen in the frame of Audra Festival, 30 selected participants…

Hänzel & Gretzel makes us read, see, and wait for their own interpretation of the Hamlet Machine, after the text by Heiner Müller. Through this descent into Hamlet’s mental universe, a virtual puppet with violent human pulses, Hänzel & Gretzel tries to unravel the mechanisms of the interpretation phenomenon…

This exhibition presents the result of the theoretical and plastic research of more than twenty students whose plastic works intend to reflect on the tangled filiations between humans and technologies. These works are the fruit of a questioning that began when the pandemic demanded that Esä…

i-REAL is a digital arts and hypermedia project that mixes triggered VR environments using cards placed on a JE(U) – game board. These cards are i-REALIZED with/from the social network Instagram and uploaded/posted on Pinterest. Using these connections open worlds in VR. Clues scattered across maps, the board, social…

As part of the world figure skating championships, the president of the French Federation of Ice Sports (FFSG), Nathalie Péchalat, invited the artist Pierre Larauza to exhibit his sculpture “February 20, 1998, Nagano” (one of the works that he produced as part of his research “Documentary Sculptures”)…

The Swalling hEARt imagined by the sound artist Raymond Delepierre, presents a project in the shape of an imposing spherical mass enthroned like a sort of enigma which is situated in the middle of the space. Moving their hands over the smooth and slightly softened surface of this generous…

On November 5-6-7, 2021 Oggetti Specifici gallery in Turin presented the project Cosmographies – performances, installations, broadcasts with Katatonic Silentio, Jacopo Mazzonelli and Roberto Paci Dalò, with three days of performances and sound and visual installations in the gallery space…

Transcultures are pleased to be partners of the first edition of Sonic Narratives imagined in the framework of Timisoara, European Capital of Culture, by the dynamic Romanian association Simultan, which is also known for its eponymous annual festival of digital arts and adventurous music…

Dans le cadre de leur programme Emergences – Ars Sciences Recherche, Transcultures – Pépinières de Création soutient l’événement ARTEX 2021 proposé par le l′Institut des systèmes complexes de Paris Île-de-France, 3e édition de la « Journée Arts & Science des systèmes complexes » – Fête de la Science 2021…

For the second year in a row, the Lettres en Voix association, with the support of Transcultures, invites you to the Les Voix en Ville Festival, which will be held on October 1, 2 and 3. The festival intends to resonate literary and musical voices in emblematic places in…

Since the outset of her artistic activity, Tamara Laï has produced a body of work in which the variety of multimedia supports has extended in pace with her development and discoveries, from video to website via cam & chat performance, video conference, poetry collection and CD-ROM. Although she first…

What remains of the human body in the age of automated AI generation of realistic photographs? If digitization may have appeared as the preservation of traces of our humanity as underlined by French artist/author David Guez’s “Binary Steles”, it was quickly transformed into a possible egotic mirror, to henceforth…

On the occasion of the centenary of Pol Bury’s birth, Transcultures, in partnership with the Paragraphe laboratory of the Paris 8 University and CY Cergy-Paris University, is organizing a research/creation seminar on art in the digital and AI era with teacher-researchers and artists related to sound and hypermedia devices…

This workshop, which brings together PHD students and professors from the CiTu-Paragraphe laboratory – University of Paris 8, takes place in the preamble to the symposium around the legacy of the multidisciplinary and indisciplinary artist (from La Louvière), Pol Bury (1922-2005)…

Philippe Franck (directeur de Transcultures) participera aux premières Rencontres sur les arts littéraires qui auront comme thèmatique « Pratique et esthétique à l’ère du numérique », organisées par Rhizome (Qc – partenaires de longue date de Transcultures) et les Midis de la poésie…

Transcultures, Užiateka, European Pepinieres of Creation and Ideas Block present City Sonic Vilnius Soundcamp, a sound art workshop (6 >11 March 2023) at Kompresoriné/ Ideas Block (Vilnius) featuring 7 participants from Lithuania coordinated by Belgian and French sound/intermedia artists Philippe Franck, Tommy Lawson, Christian Vialard.

As part of a joint residency Pépinières Européennes (Fr), Transcultures (Be), Oasis Art, Užiateka, Ideas Block, (Lt), 3 Belgian (Philippe Franck) and French (Tommy Lawson and Christian Vialard) artists are invited to the Kompresorinė – Ideas Block from Vilnius for 10 days sound creation residency. During this period, they…

The GMLR or twin studio is the cross-border sound studio common to the ARTS2 schools of Mons and the ESÄ Dunkerque-Tourcoing, site of Tourcoing. Like every year, following workshops, the GMLR offers an intermedia exhibition which combines the research and work of a dozen students from both institutions…

En association avec les Pépinières Européennes de Création, Transcultures Užiateka et ses partenaires, City Sonic Vilnius lance un appel à participation ouvert aux artistes sonores pour participer à son premier “Sound Camp”, un projet inspiré par la diversité du paysage acoustique de la capitale de la Lituanie…

For the third time, Transcultures is an important partner of the Zone Libre – sound arts festival organized by the eponymous association in Bastia, which defends creative sound and digital practices both locally and internationally. As for the 2022 edition, Philippe Franck will be the artistic curator of a…

These study days entitled “Scientific mediation and territorial project: heritage in all its states”: “is part of the research activities in Information and Communication Sciences within the UMR CNRS 6240 LISA and more precisely in axis 2: “Making society in an intercultural framework: ways of modeling in an island…

For this multi-sound creator who likes to work in a contextual way, it is a question of apprehending the particularities of the territory and the daily surrounding world, by mobilizing and sharpening the sense of listening, in order to generate through a process of sound phenomenology unprecedented representations that…

Transcultures will be present at the 12th International Colloquium on design sciences and technologies, which wants to question the limits of design process models and highlight “Unintentional Design” (DnI) as a “critique of phenomenology intentional” design. It is a desire to rethink the design process, taking into account the…

Since its inception in 2002, the Computer Art Congress has brought together artists and scholars from all over the world to observe and study the manifestations and evolution of this particular art form…

All the everyday objects that surround us hide curious sounds often imperceptible to the naked ear that it is very fun to discover by amplifying them to, perhaps, manage to make new, bizarre and amazing music. With tiny contact microphones placed strategically on any sort of object, using a…

On the occasion of Užupis’ Summer Culture Day, Transcultures offers with its Lithuanian partners Užiateka, a City Sonic Event offering from morning to evening, a workshop, an installation, a performance and a mix of sound art in the interior space (Galera) and exterior (by the Vilnia river) of the…

NFThon Kaunas is one of the regular CultureTech events from the NFThon series in the Baltics and the EU, which draw people’s attention to the potential of modern technologies and solutions (like NFT, Blockchain, Web3, Metaverse, AI, XR) in the fields of culture and sustainable development, involve them in…

In the digital age, the quality of research results in the Humanities and Social Sciences (HSS) increasingly depends on the completeness and relevance of the data processed. The digital divide (like the digital deficiency) greatly influences the question of completeness, which can amplify the phenomenon of relevance…

Philippe Franck will present the approach and action of Transcultures, Centre of digital and sound cultures based in Belgium, a pioneer structure (since 1996) for intermedia and sound arts organizing 2 international festivals (he also founded) – City Sonic /sound arts in the city and Transnumériques / digital emergences)…

During the Night of Ideas places of knowledge and culture around the world are invited to celebrate the free flow of ideas by offering conferences, as well as screenings, and artistic performances. Almost two years have passed, punctuated by the pandemic and its repercussions. The whole planet experienced closing…

Convaincue que la culture nous aide à penser et à agir sur le monde, l’UCLouvain veut inscrire celle-ci au cœur de l’enseignement et de la recherche. L’enseignement comme la recherche gagnent en effet à s’hybrider avec la création artistique. Il s’agit dès lors d’encourager ces rencontres entre arts et…

After two weeks of workshop coordinated by artists/teachers Silvain Vanot and Julien Poidevin, the GMLR (twin studio) which is the sound studio shared by the art school of Tourcoing and the one of Mons ARTS², dedicates an exhibition to an effect rarely studied…

Studio Gémellaire (GMLR) was born from the merger of two sound creation workshops: that of ARTS2, in Mons in Belgium, and that of Esä Dunkerque-Tourcoing, in France. For two weeks, Belgian and French students will work together to prepare a collective exhibition in the form of 2 workshops (one…

The series of  HyperUrban conferences offers reflections on the city in the making, in communicational, artistic, cultural, philosophical, social, economic, political, technological terms… In the continuity of the previous editions of HyperUrban, this sixth conference on Information and Communication Technologies in Urban Environments…

As part of the colloquium on Celtic Myths and Folklores, Gaëtan Le Coarer will first present the script production process of the AN DOMHAN project, and how he adapted the story, the fabula in the project. The concept of the “Other-World” described in the appendix to the translation of…

Gaëtan Le Coarer, effectuant sa résidence Pépinières MAP (Mobility in Art Process) 2021 à Transcultures est invité au prochain colloque des Rencontre d’Angoulême 2021 pour y parler des Spatialités Narratives Du Vêtement Chez Sergio Toppi – en Co écriture avec Carole Brandon.

Transcultures are pleased to be partners of the first edition of Sonic Narratives imagined in the framework of Timisoara, European Capital of Culture, by the dynamic Romanian association Simultan, which is also known for its eponymous annual festival of digital arts and adventurous music…

The CEEI-THALIM 2021-2022 seminar, “Usages and values of the black” follows the five-year cycle of conferences organized within the walls of the INHA, aimed at developing a reflection on the material forms of writing, in line with reflections carried out at the Center for the Study of Writing and…

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 Covid-19 aimed at support contemporary artistic projects likely to be…

ARTour 2021 proposes to question the relationships that today bind writing and the visual, digital and sound arts. The invited artists, authors, visual artists, intermedia creators combine them according to their respective practices, associate them to give them to watch, to read, to listen…

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 or a date. So, it is possible to time…

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, forms reinvented around new stories and more generally digital writing…

For the second part of the digital arts and research residency between LA CHAMBRE BLANCHE and Transcultures, we invite the public to the presentation of Belgian artist Alain Wergifosse and Quebec researcher Anne-Sophie Blanchet which will take place on May 13, 2021 at 2 pm (Quebec) / 8 pm…

The Drift Operating Modes, further exacerbated by the pandemic, oblige us to re/think our interrelationships with the different platforms used to communicate and re/present Art. In these “Between “ eSPACEs, our multiple bodiliness as defectors migrates and leaves traces in the form of stardust in the machines that…

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 edition combines, in “face-to-face” and “connected” modes, various…

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 to digital technology…

Incuboradio is an initiative of the Incubo collective made up of ten young artists from different fields of the school of visual arts of Mons Arts2 (visual arts, performing arts and music)…

The third collaboration between the school of visual arts of Mons Arts2 (BE) and ESÄ-Nord-Pas-de-Calais in Tourcoing (Fr) – still in partnership with Transcultures and the European Pépinières de Création – which together initiated the twin studio or GMLR has started, in a connected way, in December 2020 with a cross-border…

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 – University of Lille and Jérôme Decocq- member of the Labau..