Between low and high tech, analogue and digital, obsolete and new media  Opening: 19 April, 18:00-22:00, Brussels Up to 20 May. Cécile Babiole, first artist in residency at iMAL FabLab, proposes a visual and luminous installation revealing the confrontation between the digital and the physical. Her Miniatures, small-scale musical instruments directly produced by 3D printers, will immerse you in the sounds of popular culture. The installation ‘Gob...

An openLab masterclass with Marius Watz, Brussels Call for participation deadline : January 20th! Workshop / Production Lab: February 18-24th Exhibition: February 25-26th This openLAB is the first masterclass on Digital Fabrication at iMAL in Brussels. With an emphasis on forms generated by code, it will end with an exhibition of the works produced by the participants. Participants will explore how software processes can be combined with digital fabrication to produce ph...

More than 15 years after the beginnings of net art, the Internet has become the most ubiquitous participative global media of the 21st century; a huge territory between normalisation, commerce, hope and utopia. Is the Internet a disenchanted space for artists and creative people or is there a future for online arts and critical creative actions? If so, what are their possible forms and directions? This is what WJ-Spots Brussels proposes to investigate by gathering an international...

Brand New Monochromes by Stefaan Quix 29 September - 28 October 2011, Brussels Quix presents a new series of small-scale works incorporating the algorithmic and minimal compositions that he usually exhibits as large-scale installations. Here, in a way reminiscent of old and precious miniatures and icons, small wooden boxes embed the latest display technologies of ubiquitous mobile devices (iPod and iPad) to showcase the work on noise and pixel that is so dear to the artist, with a new ...

  With the emergence of affordable EEG devices and other biofeedback sensors for the health and game industry, we see more and more artists inspired by these promising technologies in which they imagine the possibility of measuring one's emotions. From the very early experiment of Alvin Lucier and David Rosenboom to the latest art projects using fashionable EEG headsets, the question remains open: what do our brainwaves tell us? And furthermore, how can they be used by artists...

  For Nuit Blanche and Todays Art Festival in Brussels we invite you to take control of miniMAL, the low-res, low-tech media facade created by iMAL during the Media Facade Festival Europe 2010. This 4 days workshop (28 September - 1 October 2011) will be dedicated to the design and development of interactive interfaces and softwares to drive the 18 LED spotlights behind iMAL's windows. Design interaction through various inputs (microphone, webcam, sensors, mobile devices...

A solo exhibition by HC Gilje (NO)  Conversations with Light, Sound and Architecture Opening April 29, 18:00-23:00 April 29 - May 22, 2011 iMAL, Brussels  HC Gilje spent more than 10 years developing a unique approach to the intersection between visual art, performance art, and live improvisation. HC Gilje is most certainly a digital artist: his main instrument is the computer and he has developed his own software, as is typical in this digital world when one wants to fr...

Projection on forms and spaces An openLAB Masterclass with HC Gilje (NO), Brussels Sat 9 - Sun 17 April 2011 Call for participation deadline: 16 March 2011     iMAL proposes in collaboration with artist HC Gilje (NO) a new openLAB (project oriented workshop) on the use of light, space and technology to create new forms of visual artworks. Using VPT (Video Projection Tool), a free software for realtime projection, participants will be able to create (audio-)v...

About iMAL A short history iMAL (interactive Media Art Laboratory), is a non-profit association created in Brussels in 1999, with the objective to support artistic forms and creative practices using computer and network technologies as their medium. In 2007, iMAL opened its new venue: a Centre for Digital Cultures and Technology of about 600m2 for the meeting of artistic, scientific and industrial innovations. A space entirely dedicated to contemporary artistic and cultural practices eme...