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Laurence Bagot

A journalist for 15 years, in 2008 Laurence Bagot co-founded narrative, a new media production company. Based on the observation that digital technology is everywhere in our lives, it is committed to integrating it into museum culture. Since 2018, she has headed up PXN’s “Collège Expo”, which brings...

Updated on 03/12/2019

Collective open-studio at the Cité internationale des arts

18 artists in residence at the Cité internationale des arts open the doors to their workshops. Coming from all over the world, they will share with the public their work in progress and their experiences of residency in France.

Updated on 27/04/2022

Accused #2: Walter Sisulu by Gilles Porte and Nicolas Champeaux

Virtual reality animated documentary short, Accused #2: Walter Sisulu takes the viewer through the story of one of apartheid’s most infamous trials, the Rivonia trial. His perspective is from the "second accused" after Nelson Mandela, Walter Sisulu.

Updated on 16/01/2020

Eve, Dance is an Unplaceable Place by Margherita Bergamo and Daniel González Franco

Co-created by Italian choreographer Margherita Bergamo and Colombian digital artist Daniel González Franco, Eve, Dance is an Unplaceable Place is an immersive experience combining contemporary dance and virtual reality. The spectator becomes an actor, blurring the spaces between the real and the...

Published on 09/12/2019

Dear Future Me (Cher futur moi), by Irvin Anneix

This documentary webseries portrays Generation Z, young people aged 15-25 who have grown up with digital technology. A rich and emotional documentary, featuring questions, advice, fears and hopes.

Updated on 13/11/2020

Endodrome by Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster

With Endodrome, a virtual reality work exhibited at the Venice Biennale until 24 November 2019, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster immerses audiences in an abstract and meditative environment. It is the first virtual reality work in the history of the Venice Biennale.

Updated on 18/11/2019

Julie Desmet-Weaver

From the height of her recently started career, Julie Desmet-Weaver has already distinguished herself as an artist whose mission is to energise artistic forms, re-read mythology and create new languages. Between the digital arts, literature and dance, she imagines contemporary worlds capable of...

Updated on 28/01/2020

Vectronom, by Ludopium

A Franco-German co-production, Vectronom, a colourful and rhythmic game, was praised by the press and the independent scene.

Updated on 28/01/2020

The VR Arles Festival in Paris

After the success of its first edition in February 2019, the VR Arles Festival is once again coming to Paris for a weekend.

Updated on 22/01/2020

Body and technology at the Digital Choc festival

Digital Choc, Tokyo's digital culture festival, runs this year from 20 February to 8 March. A few weeks away from the Olympic Games, this 9th edition questions the relationship between body and technology in the festive spirit that characterises the event.

Updated on 24/02/2020

French video games are awarded “Pégases”

Supported by the Syndicat National du Jeu Vidéo (The National Union of Video Game), the new Césars of the video game the “Pégases” (“Pegasus”) Awards will be held on 9 March 2020 at the Théâtre de la Madeleine in Paris.

Updated on 10/03/2020

March 8, 2020: International Women's Rights Day

On the occasion of March 8, International Women's Rights Day, the Institut français chose to highlight meetings, works, or portraits of women who, from Mexico to Tunisia, from Haiti to South Africa, from France to India, fight, through art and culture, for women's rights and explore the feminine...

Updated on 09/05/2022

Whist, by AΦE Company

With Whist, shown at the Palais de Chaillot from March 10 to March 20, Esteban Fourmi and Aoi Nakamura, founders of the AΦE Company, offer an astonishing experience combining dance and virtual reality, allowing the viewer to travel through the meanderings of their unconsciousness.

Updated on 13/03/2020

Video games “Pégases“ award winners

Supported by the Syndicat National du Jeu Vidéo (The National Union of Video Game), the « Pegases », the new award of video game, rewarded on March 9 the best of French creation in this booming sector.

Updated on 13/03/2020

#Culturecheznous (Culture at home)

Archaeology, cinema, museums, audiovisual, shows, youth, heritage, dance, archives... Discover the exceptional digital cultural offer offered by the Ministry of Culture and its operators on culturecheznous.gouv.fr.

Updated on 04/05/2022