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...

  Beautiful Beasts Wednesday, 15 February 2012 | 20:00 Performances About Media Gallery Credits A digital generative storytelling Upon conclusion of her residency with Rudi Giot, Lucille Calmel, & MARC (Limsi-cnrs), Pascale Barret will present a new "work in progress" version of her project Beautiful Beasts initiated at iMAL during the Arts/Science research project VIRAGE. During this presentation, the public will be ab...

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 ...

MFF 2010 : Artvertising BrusselsWorkshop by Julian Oliver and Damian Stewart30 September - 2 October 2010The Artvertiser is an urban, hand-held "Improved Reality" project that re-purposes street advertisements as the surface for exhibiting art.
During this 3-days workshop, participating artists will have the opportunity to create visual works to replace urban advertisement in the city. They will be able to experiment and analyse real time computer vision techniques developed by Julia...

4 June - 21 August 2010 @ iMAL Opening / Vernissage : 3 June, 18:30 Exhibition / Exposition / Tentoonstelling PLAYLIST explores the relationship between video games, music and visual art. The exhibition, produced  by LABoral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial (Spain) and now presented at iMAL in a new version, shows artworks by artists coming from the "chiptune" and media arts scenes who reused old PC's and games consoles to create new sound and visual contents. Reinventing ...

4 May 2010, 14:00-18:00 @ iMAL conférence / lecture Alain Depocas (Fondation Daniel Langlois, Montréal) manages the international research project DOCAM about the preservation of media arts heritage. DOCAM was a five year research alliance, initiated by the Daniel Langlois Foundation (DLF), which focused on the documentation and conservation of media arts heritage. The results, now online (www.docam.ca), include a conservation guide, a cataloguing guide, a documentation model, a...

28 April 2010, 20:30 @ iMAL presentation / demo iMAL invites 3 schools with a multimedia or digital art section to present some of their best projects. This first Special Students will features productions made at the Design & Media Academie (Genk), Ecole de Recherche Graphique (Brussels) and ESAPV (Mons). On the menu: a game with haptic feedback, an interactive social music creature, a participative photographic sculpture, computed clocks and a communicating jacket. www.imal.org ...

iMAL - interactive Media Art Laboratory vendredi 19 février 2010, à 10:00 A research project on authoring and controlling interactive scenarios for music, performing and installation art Presentations * Demo * Workshop * Performances * Exhibition ------------------------------------------------------- with Yannick Antoine, Pascale Barret, Laura Colmenares, Yacine Sebti (chantiers iMAL), Renaud Rubiano, Georges Gagnerez, Loïs Drouglazet (didascalie.net), Mathieu Chamagne, Charles...

16-19 Dec. 09 @ iMAL, Brussels Art&D Research Project Public Show After 2 residencies at iMAL and one year of work, Tom Heene and his colleagues artists, developers and scientists show the results of the research project DarkMatr. DarkMatr investigates the way virtual and physical data can be merged and presented in a total user experience. The resulting installation uses meaningful representations of web data so that we can empathize with. Taking place within an immersive environm...

04 DEC 09, 20:00 @ iMAL Public Evening Program On Friday 4, during the whole day, iMAL is hosting an exceptional seminar organised by Council and Tinker.it with leading experts, designers and artists such as Usman Haque, Nicolas Nova, Rafi Haladjian (Violet), Timo Arnall, Gérald Santucci (Head Unit RFID, EC), Christian Nold, Rob van Kranenbourg, Tinker.it, Philips Design,... The workshop is full with more than 100 participants registered from all over Europe. However you can still assist to...