Digital technologies such as the internet, mobile phones and wireless networks are creating new social interactions within the urban environment, and changing our ways of life. This change is altering our perception of space and time, and modifying our relationships with others. Much more than a technological revolution, this is a human adventure which designers, industrialists and other players in the city have seized upon.

Three years after the first event, the Cube Festival has put together an itinerary full of surprises, with interactive pieces set in the public space, as well as artistic events based on digital creation including multimedia shows, screenings, performances, and electro-visual live shows.
The Cube Festival has activities for everyone: multimedia workshops, a Kid’s Corner for children aged from 3 to 12, guided tours, and special arrangements for the disabled.
The Festival Village, a convivial centre for information, meeting venues and innovations, is the real heart and festive agora of the event.
The Cube Festival also brings together artists and experts to discuss its theme “No(s) Futur(s)” (our futures) at get-togethers organised jointly with the renowned MIT publication “Technology Review”.

The Cube Festival is organised by Communauté d’Agglomération Arc de Seine, la Ville d’Issy-les-Moulineaux and Le Cube.
Institutional partners : Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication, Conseil Régional d’Ile-de-France, Conseil Général des Hauts-de-Seine
With the support of : Fnac.com, France Télécom, Manutan, RATP, Arcadi, Apple Education, Violet, Talents, Espace Icare
Media partners : Télérama, Arte.tv, Beaux Arts Magazine, A Nous Paris, Métro, Technology Review, MCD, Radio FG, Paris Mômes
Translation by our partner : www.tradonline.fr
Thanks to : Médiathèque d’Issy-les-Moulineaux, librairie Chantelivre

TOURS AND GET-TOGETHERS
From 6.30pm to 10pm, Esplanade de l’Hôtel de Ville, free access
Special tours of the exhibition will be arranged throughout the evening, from 6.30pm onwards. The festival’s mediators will welcome all, children and adults, to the pieces placed along the itinerary. Visitors will also be able to meet the artists whose pieces are exhibited, present on the opening night, to share their mutual experience of the festival.

ELEGANGZ DJ SET
Esplanade de l’Hôtel de Ville, free access
Mathilde Mallen, musician and actress, and Juan de Guillebon, musician, are part of the Elegangz collective, teaming up for the first time for the Cube Festival, in order to lead the festival-goers on an atypical audio and visual walk, riddled with intrigue and suspense.
Navigating between seventies rock, funk, dark disco and electro, Mathilde Mallen constructs a hybrid universe along with Dye, a sound and vision electronic project incarnated by Juan de Guillebon. Elegangz is a production company and an international artist collective, promoting digital creation and the bringing together of different artistic disciplines. The duo’s mutual influence will vouch for an eclectic mix of sounds.

EZ3KIEL live
9pm, tickets (10 €), at the Issy-les-Moulineaux Auditorium (M° Mairie d’Issy)
Ez3kiel will open the Cube Festival’s Hybrid Evenings with a live show that will take us through enchanted worlds, whether through sound or vision (see previous page).

PICNIC
Esplanade de l’Hôtel de Ville / bring your picnic!
The month of June will be hot and sunny! Well, we like to think so anyway. In celebration of the festival’s opening, but also the coming summer, the Cube Festival declares the picnic season open! Fill your baskets with food and drink, and we’ll bring chequered cloths, nibbles and nice bottles to what promises to be a great place to meet new friends and have a pleasant time together.

SECOND LIFE PARTY: unveiling of the Cube’s first media building / from 6.30pm
For all those who can’t make it to Issy-les-Moulineaux or who prefer to walk their avatar around virtual worlds, the Cube Festival invites you to the opening night on the MCD cultural island, with a similarly rich programme: get-togethers, performances and discoveries! It will also be a great occasion to unveil the Cube’s first media building, created by Xavier Boissarie and Roland Cahen. They have adapted their “Bandonéon” piece for the occasion, also viewable along the festival’s itinerary. This piece will take its place on the Cube’s virtual façade for the whole year.
Second Life address: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Cultures%20Digitales/71/60/23 (from 3rd June onwards)

The Cube Festival has organized a poetic itinerary through the city-centre, consisting of some twenty interactive pieces that establish a sensitive and particular relationship with the public.

Created by artists from the international scene, these devices bring into play cutting-edge technologies in the field of interactivity, forging a genuinely personal relationship with spectators: image recording/analysis, gestural interfaces, sound spatialisation, mobile media and many more.

Some of the pieces are accessible 24 hours a day, conjuring up an unprecedented nocturnal and urban sense of magic.

PERMANENTLY VISIBLE PIECES (24 hours a day)
Smoke Tree – John Gerrard / Germany
Bandoneon – Xavier Boissarie et Roland Cahen / France
Vibrations – Vadim Bernard / France
Ciel ! – Bruno Rosier / France
A+ – Thierry Fournier / France
Pixels Animés – Antoine Visonneau et Joseph Poidevin/ France

PIECES VIEWABLE DURING OPENING HOURS (9am – 9pm)*
*Late night opening on Tuesday and Saturday: 10pm
Paranoid Architecture – Emmanuel Vantillard / France
Moving By Numbers – Wolf Ka/ France
Brand : We Play The World – Jens Brand/ Germany
Standard Time – Datenstrudel/ Allemagne
Emotion Vending Machine – Maurice Benayoun, Jean-Baptiste Barrière / France
Jewel Box : Baton Pass – Kyoko Nagashima / Japan
The Endless Forest – Tale Of Tales/ Belgium
The Dead Man Box – Grégory Hervelin / France

PIECES VISIBLE WHEN THE RECEPTION POINTS ARE OPEN (VARIOUS OPENING HOURS)
Mur – Fred Perié / France
Sans Titre, A… – Fred Perié/ France

ITINERARIES WITH SOUNDS AND MOBILE PIECES (FROM 9AM TO 9PM)*
*Late night opening Tuesday and Saturday: 10pm
Myht (Meet Your Heartbeat Twin) – Ivo Flammer et Wolf Ka / France
Paysage Ephémère – Xavier Boissarie / France
Oterp – Antonin Fourneau / France
Regrets – Jane Mulfinger et Graham Budgett / United-States

SIGHTS AND SOUNDS ALSO AVAILABLE ALONG THE INTINERARY…
Talents – Special Issue 2 : Archi & Design / Talents Editions
Arte Radio – Créations Sonores / Arte France

The Cube Festival offers some most surprising finds: performances and cinemixes that bring together with spectacular virtuoso electronic music, digital image, and special effects.

These Hybrid Evenings explore points where artistic disciplines meet, and their cross-breeding with digital techniques.

Watch out for multimedia events, hosted by established artists and up-and-coming young talents: not to be missed!

THE CRAZY TOAD CHRONICLES
In partnership with the Technology Review
Original idea and moderation by Pierre de la Coste, hypertext writer

Is Pierre de la Coste a crazy toad? Above all, he has invented this very serious theory, which he developed in an article published in the “NO(S) FUTUR(S)” special edition of the renowned MIT’s Technology Review, on this occasion co-published by Le Cube.
During the Cube Festival, Pierre de la Coste will talk about The Crazy Toad Chronicles, along with invited key-figures who will present their visions of the future, as far as major social issues are concerned: the school of the future, the communicating city, virtual worlds… And many other surprising subjects! These get-togethers are open to all, everyone is invited to debate, in a convivial and impassioned environment, coffee provided.
From Wednesday 4th June to Saturday 7th June, from 1.30pm on, at the Festival Village / Free entry and access

The crazy toad theory
Crazy toads are those who do not follow the rest of the group when the breeding season comes, and therefore face certain death. But it is these same toads which, following the wrong direction, discover new areas and so may ensure the species’ survival, in cases when a highway suddenly crosses the path the normal toads have to take to reach their breeding grounds. “Human behaviour is sometimes comparable: weren’t Christopher Columbus, Leonardo da Vinci or Newton considered mad by their contemporaries, because they seemed to be following the ‘wrong path’? What they did, in fact, is open up new paths for humanity, which allowed it to progress, and perhaps survive its errors.” Pierre de la Coste.

Pierre de la Coste’s full article and other contributions to the “NO(S) FUTUR(S)” special feature are to be found in the 7th edition of the Technology Review, co-published by Le Cube.
On sale at 6.50 € at the Festival Village.

FESTIVAL VILLAGE
At the heart of the Cube Festival, the Festival Village is a meeting point, a place for discussion set in a convivial and festive atmosphere. Located at the Esplanade de l’Hôtel de Ville, it will provide documentation (map of the festival, a “Petit Journal” co-published with Beaux Arts magazine, partner magazines, etc.), as well as a shop with cultural content, either co-published or promoted by Le Cube. The Festival Village also contains a Lounge space, with a different programme of video-art screening each day. Opportunities for the public to meet artists or actors in the field of digital creation will be organised every night from 7.30pm. Several pieces on the itinerary will also be permanently exhibited at the Festival Village.

THE KID’S CORNER (6 to 12 YEARS OLD)
Le Cube Festival has also arranged a 6-day programme of activities for children aged from 6 to 12: multimedia workshops, exhibition tours, projections or get-togethers with artists. Kids will be able to discover digital art while having fun. The Kid’s Corner, specially made with children in mind, is located at the heart of the Festival Village. Entertaining learning kits will be given to children free of charge, to help them improve their understanding of the exhibition and digital creation in general. On Wednesday 4th and Saturday 7th June, a “Cube en Kit” workshop will take place at the Kid’s Corner, in which children will be asked to reassemble the Cube’s 6 sides, with the help of clues found on the Cube Festival’s emblematic pieces. On Sunday 8th June, from 2.30pm to 6pm, the Paris Mômes magazine will hold a workshop on its photo competition, and a philosophical afternoon tea tackling the “parents-children” theme, moderated by Brigitte Labbé, writer and director of Milan Publishing’s “Goûter Philo” collection.

A NOVEL SCHOOL PROJECT: “LES LAPINS DU FUTUR” (Rabbits of the future)
This is a novel school project, bringing together five CM2 (fifth year) classes, from areas in the Arc de Seine urban community, involving the towns of Chaville, Issy-les-Moulineaux, Meudon, Vanves and Ville d’Avray. Each school will provide a home, before and during the festival, to one “communicating electronic rabbit”, the well-known Nabaztag. The children will be able to communicate with it, discuss and imagine the future of their city. These rabbits will witness and relay the story built up by the children. They will eventually put together an “interactive book”, which will be read by the Nabaztag rabbits. A presentation evening will take place at the Issy-les-Moulineaux Auditorium on Thursday 5th June, from 7pm, followed by the Nabaz’mob performance, an opera with 100 communicating rabbits, as imagined by Jean-Jacques Birgé and Antoine Schmitt.
This school project is organised in partnership with Violet and Apple Education. The workshops will be moderated by La Ligue de l’Enseignement 92, Claude Delafosse, illustrator and multimedia designer, and Le Cube’s team.

THE CUBE FESTIVAL IN SECOND LIFE:
MEDIA BUILDING AND EVENTS
Already present in Second Life, on the “Digital Music and Cultures” cultural island, Le Cube has chosen the Cube Festival to unveil the first “virtual Media Building” whose walls are made with a proper “screen skin”.
Xavier Boissarie and Roland Cahen’s piece, Bandonéon, will be specially adapted and re-imagined for Second Life, so as to constitute Le Cube’s media building. This piece, also visible along the festival’s itinerary, will be visible all year long on Le Cube’s virtual façade.
And throughout the festival, Le Cube has also put together a programme of exceptional events in Second Life, as well as a discovery workshop on this virtual world, every day from 6pm at the Festival Village.
This virtual presence is part of the Cube Festival’s reflection on relations between virtual territories and real territories, and on the new boundaries of the dematerialised public space.
Programme of events in Second Life from 3rd to 8th June
Special unveiling event: Tuesday 3rd June from 6pm on, in Second Life
More information at http://slurl.com/secondlife/Cultures%20Digitales/71/60/23

THE “CUBE FESTIVAL” SUPPLEMENT
Co-published with Beaux Arts magazine
As the Cube Festival is taking place, Beaux Arts magazine and Le Cube are co-publishing an 8-page colour supplement dedicated to the Cube Festival. Available for 2 Euros at the Festival Village, this is a real “Petit Journal” that contains more information on the pieces and artists taking part in the itinerary. Visitors will also receive a map/programme free of charge.

THE CUBE FESTIVAL’S PUBLISHING PACK
SPECIAL PRICE: 32 Euros instead of 38.50 Euros
This publishing pack contains the “Special issue 2: Talent / Le Cube” DVD + Beaux Arts magazine’s “Cube Festival Special” supplement + the Technology Review magazine with a “No(s) Futur(s)” feature. Take the whole of the Cube Festival home with you!

ARC DE SEINE – Urban Community
Arc de Seine was set up on 1st January 2003 by the towns of Chaville, Issy les Moulineaux, Meudon, Vanves, and Ville d’Avray. The Urban Community manages to strike the balance between an economically vibrant locality and a pleasant environment for its 165 000 inhabitants. Arc de Seine acts on behalf of five towns and is responsible for developing the area, improving transport, managing public spaces (waste disposal, road and highway maintenance), reconciling economic innovation and environmental protection, developing sports activities, as well as promoting education and the practice of cultural activities, in conjunction with Le Cube in the field of digital technology and with the education authorities in the field of dance, theatre and music.
www.agglo-arcdeseine.fr

ISSY-LES-MOULINEAUX
Under the impetus of its mayor André Santini, the city of Issy-les-Moulineaux has achieved, within a few years, the status of one of the world’s leading cities in terms of digital technology. For example, it is the only city in France to have been ranked twice among the “Top 7 Intelligent Communities”. It owes its reputation to the success of many innovations, putting NICTs to good use in social, educational, economical or cultural fields. With three-quarters of its population connected to high-speed internet, innovative tools available on issy.com (web TV, podcasts, RSS feed, contributions from internet surfers, online administrative services), in public places (free access points, multichannel reception, Cyber-nurseries, cyber-tearooms, internet access for schools, town planning and sustainable development workshops, etc.) or outside (hotspots, presence of Second Life, 3D model of city searchable on the Yellow Pages’ website), Issy has positioned itself as a pioneering and audacious city.
www.issy.com

Digital art exhibition in the city: 24 hours a day*
* Some pieces are only visible during the festival’s opening hours (9am – 9pm) or when the reception points are open (Multimedia library, Chantelivre bookstore).

Festival Village: 9am – 9pm / late night opening on Tuesday and Saturday: 10pm
Visitors’ guidance, information point, bar, lounge, presence of mediators along the itinerary…
Esplanade de l’Hôtel de Ville

Guided tours: everyday
For all: at 1pm, 5pm and 7pm
Families: Wednesday, Saturday and Sunday at 10am, 2pm and 4pm
Groups and special-needs visitors: book in advance
Booking is advised: 01 58 88 3000 or mediation-festival@art3000.com or at the Festival Village
Meeting point: Festival Village

Kid’s Corner: Wednesday, Saturday and Sunday from 2.30pm to 6pm
Various activities for children aged 6 to 12
Information and booking: 01 58 88 3000 or mediation-festival@art3000.com
Esplanade de l’Hôtel de Ville

Hybrid Evenings: Tuesday 3rd to Friday 6th June, 9pm
Tuesday, Thursday and Friday at the Auditorium, Mail Raymond Menand (Metro Mairie d’Issy)
Wednesday at the Espace Icare, 31 bd Gambetta (Metro Corentin Celton)
Price: 10 € per evening/4 evenings pass: 25 €
Tickets can be purchased at Le Cube and directly at the Festival Village or just before the events (until stock lasts).

Get-togethers in the tent: Wednesday 4th to Saturday 7th June, from 7.30pm to 8.30pm
Convivial get-togethers and discussion (drinks provided) with artists exhibiting at the festival

The Festival’s opening night: Tuesday 3rd June, from 6.30pm to 10pm
Special line-up, tours, get-togethers with artists and picnics…
7pm: Elegangz DJ Set, City hall esplanade / free entry
And at 9pm: Ezekiel live at the Issy-les-Moulineaux Auditorium (tickets).

Le Cube Festival on Second Life: opening on Tuesday 3rd June, from 6.30pm
Unveiling of the Cube’s first media building in Second Life, on the MCD cultural island.
“Bandonéon”, by Xavier Boissarie and Roland Cahen will be visible all year long on the Cube’s virtual façade.
Special events will take place in Second Life from Wednesday 4th to Saturday 7th June.
Second Life address: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Cultures%20Digitales/58/46/23 (from 3rd June on)

CONTACT :
Le Cube – 20 Cours Saint Vincent, 92130 Issy-les-Moulineaux
T. 01 58 88 3000 / F. 01 58 88 30 10 / www.lesiteducube.com / festival@art3000.com