Archives : Arts Sciences

Arts/Sciences #20: boredomresearch
5 April 2017

boredomresearch have been exploring, for two decades of artistic practice, the natural world through the medium of computational technologies. Their latest project, Robots in Distress, consists in a swarm of self-organising robots that monitor the environmental status of the...

Arts/Sciences #19: Jonas Degrave
17 February 2016

Jonas Degrave, reseacher in the field of artificial intelligence, will explain the philosophical issues we see looming at the horizon. When machines start figuring out human culture, where does this put us, "real" intelligences?

Arts/Sciences #18: RRI-ICT Forum
9 November - 10 November 2015

In the framework of the European project RRI-ICT Forum, iMAL organises a special Arts/Sciences event, inviting artists and scientists to debate around "Responsible Research and Innovation". With a.o. Paolo Cirio, Patrick...

Arts/Sciences #17: Frank Theys
18 February 2015

For this first Arts/Sciences gathering of the year, iMAL invites Belgian film maker and visual artist Frank Theys for a lecture on the segregation between science and society, and its influence on modern art.

Arts/Sciences#16: Peter Beyls
26 November 2014

Peter Beyls is a Belgian pioneering interdisciplinary artist who has been exploring computer programming for nearly four decades. He worked in various research environments and his practice is a continuous dialogue between visual arts, music and sciences (computer science,...

Arts/Sciences#15: William Latham
22 May 2014

William Latham is a computer art pioneer, internationally known for his organic artworks based on the processes of evolution. He was a Research Fellow at The IBM UK Scientific Centre, then founded a game studio that produced highly successful video games. Since 2007, Latham...

Arts/Sciences#14: Malcolm Le Grice
27 November 2013

Malcolm Le Grice is a film and video artist. He has written critical and theoretical works including a history of experimental cinema and numerous articles on film, video and digital media. In this lecture, he will discuss the development of art focussing on the machine, as...

Arts/Sciences#13: Emmanuel Ferrand
5 June 2013

Reductionism in today’s art, how do artists question mathematics and genetics, approach “deep” aspects of science or have a critical discourse on it.

Arts/Sciences#12: Jean-Paul Fourmentraux
21 November 2012

This conference concerns the way the artistic creation and the technological research are now so entangled that any innovation within the one interests and bends the development of the other one. In the new laboratories of art and computer creation (Ircam, Hexagram, Lip6,...

Arts/Sciences#11: Evelina Domnitch & Dmitry Gelfand
23 May 2012

iMAL invites Evelina Domnitch and Dmitry Gelfand. The duo creates sensory immersion environments that merge physics, chemistry and computer science with uncanny philosophical practices. After the lecture, Evelina and Dmitry will play Sonolevitation, an acoustic levitation...