Ohme

Biometrika Workshop

Bring your laptop to CurieuCity to explore the interaction between technology, body signals, and artistic performance during Biometrika Workshop!

Participants will receive instructions to learn the basics of electronics and computer coding, allowing them to use their own biosignals, such as heartbeats, to build real-time visual and sound effects.

We’ll be using TouchDesignerr, a tool for creating dynamic digital art (non-commercial version is free), and Thonny, an open-source software to program Raspberry Pi Pico. Please download and install both in advance on your laptop:
•⁠ ⁠TouchDesigner: https://derivative.ca/download
•⁠ ⁠Thonny: https://thonny.org/

We’ll help you if you need assistance. Together we’ll get started on your first prototype or guide you towards more advanced applications.

Biometrika—a project developed by Ohme in collaboration with Pilar and FARI—is an immersive and innovative experience blending art, science, and technology in a playful and participatory approach. The project also includes an artist residency. The deadline for the residency open call is 30/11/24.
👉 More info about the open call: https://ohme.be/call-for-applications-biometrika-residency/

To register click here: https://www.billetweb.fr/curieucity-marolles

Mazette

Chemistry and Hops: The Art of Brewing with Tasting

Mazette, the cooperative café-brasserie in the Marolles, brews its own beer from start to finish. Come and discover the steps involved in creating this traditional Belgian beverage and see how Mazette has optimized its space to create the perfect short supply chain! Tastings will also be offered during the tour.

To register click here: https://www.billetweb.fr/curieucity-marolles

Michel Goyon

ART ET MARGES MUSEE : ARBORESCENCES

CurieuCity invites you to visit the Art et marges musée, free of charge, where artist Michel Goyon will give a guided tour of his “Arborescences” exhibition.

For over forty years, Michel Goyon (1963) has been developing a complex, hybrid body of work, in which plastic experiments and cultural, artistic and scientific references intertwine in a perpetual quest for meaning. A visionary, he draws his inspiration from fields as varied as contemporary art, mathematics, American comics, alternative culture, art brut and science fiction. His work, spread over some 1,400 pages of illustrated notebooks, large-scale drawings and volumes, blurs the boundaries between the real and the imaginary.

The Arborescences exhibition, curated by Thibault Leonardis and Roberta Trapani, offers an immersive retrospective of Michel Goyon, spanning his entire career through an interactive multimedia journey. A monograph, co-published by Knock Outsider, the Art et marges musée and Patrimoines irréguliers de France, accompanies the event, rethinking the boundaries between art brut and contemporary art.

To register click here: https://www.billetweb.fr/curieucity-marolles

François Gaspard & Boris Wilmot

Sine

Come onto the stage to learn, step by step, how to create your own electronic music!

Sine is an audiovisual lecture-performance that, from both a physicist’s and a musician’s perspective, explores how electronic music producers design sound and compose music. Starting with a simple sine wave, this experience playfully and interactively delves into the physics of sound, synthesis, and electronic music production.

The performance begins with a sine wave to demonstrate how, by adding, filtering, and manipulating these waves, we can create the three essential sounds of electronic music: the kick, snare, and hi-hat. Then, the show takes on a more musical tone, inviting you to participate in a Guitar Hero-style game to apply effects and contribute to the collective creation of a final musical composition.

Created by François Gaspard, engineer and musician, and Boris Wilmot, graphic designer and digital artist, Sine offers a unique opportunity to discover, play with, and understand electronic music in a new light.

Friday 29/11:

19:00 – 20:00

Saturday 30/11 – Sine, 2 performances scheduled as follows:

14:00 – 15:00
16:00 – 17:00

Sunday 1/12:

16:00 – 17:00

To register click here: https://www.billetweb.fr/curieucity-marolles

Experimentarium Physique/Chimie - ULB & Inforsciences

Espace & Vous

In recent years, sending people into space has become increasingly commonplace. But sometimes you’re sent to a space station, and you don’t know when you’ll be able to come back down. On stage, three actors try to come up with solutions to help astronauts stuck on the International Space Station. Using whatever means available, they experiment and explain some of the basic principles that make these journeys possible.

Duration of the spectacle: 30 min

Start Time: 13h30 , 14h30

To register click here: https://www.billetweb.fr/curieucity-marolles

Experimentarium Physique/Chimie - ULB & Inforsciences

Espace & vous

In recent years, sending people into space has become increasingly commonplace. But sometimes you’re sent to a space station, and you don’t know when you’ll be able to come back down.

On stage, three actors try to come up with solutions to help astronauts stuck on the International Space Station. Using whatever means available, they experiment and explain some of the basic principles that make these journeys possible

Duration of the spectacle: 30 min

To register click here: https://www.billetweb.fr/curieucity-edition-speciale&language=en

ULB - inforsciences

Lichensgo – Exhibition

Discover the photo exhibition created by students in Secondary 5 Chemistry Techniques at the Athénée Royal Andrée Thomas. These students took part in Lichens GO, a participatory science programme aimed at assessing the quality of the air around us by studying lichens. 🌱

Lichens, slow-growing organisms sensitive to air pollution, play a unique role in measuring cumulative pollution over several years, complementing modern measurement sensors. Through this project, students were trained to recognise different species of lichen, understand their ecological role, and apply a scientific protocol in the field.

After their training, the students set off to explore the area around the Marais Wiels to assess local air quality using the Lichens GO protocol. Their observations and results are presented in the form of photographs exhibited at La Marelle, offering a visual insight into their work and the conclusions drawn from this study of the urban environment.

To see the pre-project, click here: https://curieucity.brussels/en/community/lichensgo-pre-festival-project/

This exhibition is a testament to young people’s commitment to environmental research and shows the importance of participatory science in understanding and preserving our environment.

Urban Species

SpecXcraft

You are cordially invited to the second Trans-Specific Assembly of Les BruXelles Libérées.
Already confirmed: A marsh; A singing reedbed; Chlorophyll and protozoa; Sparrows and fairies, winged and otherwise. The Wiels Marsh is a place where new alliances are forged between humans and many other species. In this sense, it holds the promise of a new way of thinking about our relationship with the city and with living things. In this workshop, the Urban Species* research-action collective invites you to open the specXcraft** project briefcase, and collectively imagine and build bits of Brussels of the future. Starting with the Wiels Marsh, the species that inhabit it, the practices of those who care for it, and the material generated during the festival, participants will be invited to give shape to the second Trans-Specific Assembly of Liberated BruXelles.

To register click here: https://www.billetweb.fr/curieucity-forest

Students from elementary schools

Focus on Chlorophyl – Exhibition

This exhibition is the fruit of work carried out during the ‘Focus on Chlorophyll’ workshop, conducted as part of the festival’s pre-project, with the participation of pupils from École des Sept Bonniers and École des Cèdres. They explored questions such as: Why are plants green? Where is chlorophyll found? How can pigments be extracted from plants? Through a variety of fun experiments, the pupils discovered the crucial role of plants in food webs and were introduced to the scientific approach.

The trophic webs created by the pupils in the Duden Park, the Wiels Marsh and the Bempt Park will be exhibited in photographic form at the Wiels Marsh.

To consult the pre-project, follow this link : https://curieucity.brussels/en/community/focus-on-chlorophyll-pre-project/

Maxime Jennes et Dimitri Petrovic (Les Meutes) + Jaqâmaz

The Way Back – Film concert

This activity is only available in FR

In August 2015, Hussein Rassim arrives in Brussels after traveling thousands of kilometers from Iraq. A year later, after obtaining his residence permit, he decides to travel to Greece. This musical road movie takes you through Hussein’s migratory journey and that of thousands of other migrants. Through his encounters and the countries he traverses, his story takes shape and gives a voice to the forgotten.

“The Way Back” is more than just a documentary. Hussein’s captivating journey helps us better understand the plight of migrants and the challenges they face. This engaging cinematic experience raises awareness of the complex reality of migration, sheds light on the individual stories behind the statistics, and questions European immigration policy. With its dual approach, “The Way Back” humanizes the phenomenon of migration while encouraging critical reflection on contemporary sociopolitical issues.

During this cine-concert, the screening of The Way Back is accompanied by live music performed by the band Jaqâmaz, which includes the film’s protagonists, Hussein and Juliette.