On October 4 2007, iMAL (Interactive Media Art Lab) will open its new venue, the first Center for Digital Cultures and Technology in Brussels, a new place of about 600m2 for the meeting of artistic, scientific and industrial innovations. The inaugural programme is composed of an exhibition, concerts and performances from October 4 - 7, with artists from Belgium, Europe, USA and Second Life.

Ideally located in the very center of Brussels along the Canal in a district currently involved in an intense urban renewal process, the new Center will host the office, workplace and workshop rooms of iMAL, and will propose a public space of 400m2 entirely dedicated to the contemporary artistic and cultural practices emerging from the fusion of computer, telecommunication, network and media.

EXHIBITION: The exhibition explores the hybrid world merging the Internet and the physical world. About a dozen works from artists coming from Belgian, Europe and USA are proposed. With Yannick Antoine (BE), Yves Bernard (BE), Jonah Brucker-Cohen (USA), HC Gilje (NO), Linda Hifling (DK), Thomas Israïël (BE), Walter Langelaar (NL), Sascha Pohflepp (DE), Domenico Quaranta (IT), Antoine Schmitt (FR), SecondFront & Odyssey (Second Life), Walter Verdin (BE).

CONCERTS AND PERFORMANCES

THURSDAY 4.10, 18:00

OPENING: Performance Second Life <-> Brussels, with the collaboration of Second Front and Odyssey

FRIDAY 5.10, 20:30

Espaces Croisés, Mathieu Chamagne (fr), Pyrogenesis, Pascal Baltazar (fr), 2006 - These two artists supported by GMEA, the musical research group of Albi will play personal compositions where they expore new types of gestural interfaces for controlling multi-channel computer-based sound processes.

Mikro, HC Gilje (no), Justin Bennett (uk), 2006 -”Mikro” is a series of improvised performances using the immediate surroundings as raw material. A microscope captures everyday objects and surfaces like wallpaper, coins, clothing, furniture, newspapers and transforms it into an explosive universe of textures. Contact microphones and electromagnetic sniffers pick up unhearable sounds to create the live soundtrack.

SATURDAY 6.10, 20:30

EAVK, Visual Kitchen (be) & Eavesdropper (be) - Visual Kitchen explores the semantics of live AV performance and video art from a background of VJ’ing and music video production. Eavesdropper started as a drum’n bass breakbeats producer that soon found his way to theatre, performance soundtracks and sounddesign.

sCrAmBlEd?HaCkZ!, Sven König (de), 2006-07 -Realtime-Mind-Music-Video-Re-De-Construction-Machine. s?H! is a conceptual software which makes it possible to work with samples in a completely new way by making them available in a manner that does justice to their nature as concrete musical memories. s?H! is performed live by Sven singing to travel through an improvised remix of symphonic orchestra audiovisual archives.