Le Cube Festival, a flagship event for the French digital scene, showcases the many facets of digital creation — innovating and revolutionising the genres for the enjoyment of all!
For its 2010 edition, Le Cube Festival invites you to a series of unique outdoor and indoor events: a digital arts exhibition at Le Cube — transformed for the occasion — the launch of a major multimedia urban game in the city, a 3D digital travelling circus in the 7 cities making up the Urban Community of Grand Paris Seine Ouest, the possibility of meeting the artists, etc. Urban Community of Grand Paris Seine Ouest

A GREAT DIGITAL ARTS EXHIBITION IN A COMPLETELY TRANSFORMED LE CUBE
A transformed Le Cube presents twenty performers from the international digital arts scene, in an exhibition extending over 700m2. The Cube Festival has devised this exhibition as a panoramic tour of the various forms of digital art today: interactive and generative installations, participatory works, interactive design, etc. Using innovative mediation guaranteed to reach all audiences, it promises a playful journey into the heart of digital design today. A programme of digital workshops and special debates will accompany this exceptional event.

A MULTIMEDIA URBAN GAME IN THE CITY
The Cube Festival presents a great multimedia urban game open to the general public. Organised in the Issy-les-Moulineaux city centre, the game will take the public on a playful exploration of the city. Players will take part in a group adventure scripted by a writer, using new technologies to solve puzzles! They move from the real to the virtual world and back using augmented reality, geolocation, the 3D City, communicating objects, QR codes, etc.

SEVERAL VERY SPECIAL EVENTS
The Cube Festival presents a programme of original and participatory events open to all!
“How I met an artist” Meet the artists featured in the exhibition for a special insight into their work
The “Rendez-vous with the Future” A meeting at Le Cube followed by an online chat with Claudie Haigneré and Jacques Attali
“Les ApéroLive” Relax over a drink while watching a performance
“Digital arts explained to children… and adults!” A playful event aimed at a better understanding of digital art
“The ideas tea party” A fun and intelligent parents/children discussion over snacks and drinks

3D CIRCUS
The Urban Community of Grand Paris Seine Ouest has joined forces with us in creating ‘CyberCircus’, a 3D digital circus full of pop-up effects, aimed at younger audiences and families.

The Cube Festival is organised by Le Cube, centre for art and digital creation, the Urban Community of Grand Paris Seine Ouest and the city of Issy-les-Moulineaux.
Institutional partners: Ministry of Culture and Communication, the Ile-de-France Regional Council, the Hauts-de-Seine General Council / Media partners: Télérama, Arte.tv, A Nous Paris, Advanced Creation, MCD, Radio FG, Paris Mômes Other partners: RATP, 1R2tchat, Pixaway Production, Trad’online, Mindscape, PikPik Environnement.

LE CUBE : CENTER FOR DIGITAL CREATION
With no other equivalent on the French cultural scene, over 10 years, Le Cube has established itself as a pioneering and emblematic centre for digital creation. Initiated by the town of Issy-les-Moulineaux, it opened its doors in 2001 and is part of the Urban Community of Grand Paris Seine Ouest (GPSO, Grand Paris Seine Ouest). It is run and managed by the ART3000 association, a pioneer in the field of the digital arts since 1988.
Le Cube’s missions : activities for all, production, dissemination
Le Cube has three main areas of focus: introduce the public to digital practices, support artistic production and research, and present all kinds of digital art to the public.
Le Cube raises awareness and teaches about how Information and Communications Technologies may be put to use for artistic and cultural purposes via its programme of activities for all levels of experience. It provides opportunities to exchange ideas, experiment and produce focussing on the ins and outs of the digital society. And with its steady on- and off-site programme of artistic events, Le Cube is the main showcase in France for digital creation, having organised over 600 events.
Le Cube : key figures
• 700 sq m dedicated to experimenting and creating with digital technology
• 80 multimedia stations accessible to the public, very high-speed internet
• 5000 hours of training each year, for all levels of experience
• More than 1000 international artists exhibited and more than 600 events organised
• More than 100 artists and collectives have come to Le Cube in residency
• An international digital art festival: the Cube Festival (30.000 visitors each year)
• More than 500 mentions in the media each year: TV, radio, print media and Internet
www.lecube.com

• LOTUS 7.0, Daan Roosegaarde

  Lotus 7.0 is a living wall made out of smart foils which interact with the spectators. As they draw closer to the installation, hundreds of aluminium foils unfold themselves in an organic way, generating links between the private and public spaces....

• SYMBIOSE, Experientiæ Electricæ

  Symbiose is an artificial-life graphic environment representing an ecosystem. It shows various levels of a world: an area made of volcanoes, land and oceans. Biological life is represented by various types of bacteria, each able to inhabit one of the v...

• BODY PAINT, Mehmet Akten

  Movement creates paint… With Body Paint, the spectators’ bodies become living paintbrushes, with which they can play and create on a giant virtual canvas a constantly evolving composition. Hidden in the simplicity are layers of subtle details. Size...

• BENEATH, Super Nature

  With Beneath, spectators are immersed in an underwater world. Through their gestures and movement, they communicate with aquatic beings and environments, while also establishing a relationship with other users of this silent world. Beneath consists of ...

• BOREAL, Hugo Verlinde

  Like the wonderful lights that can sometimes be seen in the polar regions, Boréal reveals the intense activity of an invisible sun. A celestial object both discreet and protective, the installation is sensitive to the nature and quality of our presenc...

• ANHARMONIUM, TeZ

  By investigating the spatial awareness of fluctuations that emerge from vibrational phenomena, Anharmonium takes spectators to an original meditative space, a kind of psycho-physical observatory. Infrasonic and ultrasonic transducers, designed especial...

• ANAMORPHOSE CHRONOTROPE, TABLE CINETIQUE and ANAMORPHOSE SPATIALE, Adrien M Company

  Based on devices developed for performances by the Adrien M Company, the installations make up a nonsensical laboratory for experiments carried out over the past 4 years on movement synaesthesia and temporal anamorphoses. They explore the digital movem...

• GLOWING PATHFINDER BUGS, Squidsoup

  The “Glowing Pathfinder Bug” appears to be hybrid centipede, or a kind of caterpillar. It lives in the sandy deserts of Faroffistan and has the habit of roaming around small trenches and paths. It is very sociable and loves to meet other bugs; whe...

• SONIC BED_LONDON, Kaffe Matthews

  Music being felt via one’s back, travelling all over one’s body right to the fingertips: this is the experience Sonic Bed_London offers. By lying down in this very special bed, visitors can genuinely feel music penetrating their body, an experience...

• HISTOIRES EXQUISES, LAB212

  Based on the exquisite corpse game, Histoires Exquises invites the visitors to take part in the creation of a collective sound story. Each user can choose to add or replace a sequence wherever they want in the story by recording themselves on a microph...

• PAROLES DE… and ÉQUATIONS LYRIQUES, Jérémie Dres

  “Paroles de…” 2007 Murmur, shout, sigh, speak, be silent, hum, sing, whisper ... Poetry needs decibels to bloom! Paroles de… is a project that triggers a dialogue between sensitivity and programming. It was devised to observe what “word-part...

• RÉTROSPECTION

  Ten years of video art at Le Cube: the perfect excuse to share! Sit yourself down in the Lounge Area and, thanks to a tactile table, choose the work you wish to watch from a selection of international artists which we have often been the first to tell ...

A FULL-SCALE EXPERIENCE FOR THE GENERAL PUBLIC !
The Cube Festival presents one of the first multimedia participative urban games for the general public. Mixing new technologies and an immersive script, this game has never been done before in this form and enables the public to rediscover, while having fun, the territory through solving puzzles and carrying out tasks via various types of digital media. Moving between the real and the virtual, players will use cutting-edge technology without even realising it: augmented reality, geolocation, communicating objects, RFID chips, QR codes, etc. Written by Ouarda Zérarga*, a young author and stage director, this game is aimed at the general public, and families in particular.

AT THE HEART OF INNOVATIVE CHALLENGES IN AN AUGMENTED CITY
This urban game enables players to take a fresh look at the Issy-les-Moulineaux territory, within an augmented environment. Players will have to collect information and clues by scanning QR codes scattered all over the city, thanks to their own mobile phones or the ones at their disposal. Puzzles will be geolocated within Urbadeus, an interactive project enabling players to explore and personalise the territory via a mobile phone. To solve puzzles, they must also find hidden clues on the Internet via Le Cube’s website and social networks. Communicating objects such as the digital rabbits Karotz will provide information at key moments. They will also communicate with players equipped with a RFID chip.

A COLLECTIVE DIGITAL EXPERIENCE
Naturally, the innovative city of Issy-les-Moulineaux is the ideal location to organise a full-scale, collective digital experience like this multimedia game. The Issy 3D application, a 3D real-time visit of the city, enables visitors to go on a 3D, real-time tour of the territory. Players will be encouraged to navigate Issy 3D to gather information on the next meeting point: information collected in the virtual world will enable them to get their bearings in the real world and to progress in the adventure.

A THE ADVENTURE HAS ALREADY STARTED …
A substantial system will be implemented in this new territory. Beforehand, historical information will be scattered all over the city and on the Internet so as to gradually familiarise the public with the adventure. On D-day, the adventure begins with actors performing a scene, so that participants enter the game directly. Screens and specific spaces will be staged and mediators will be present at each step to assist players as they delve deeper into their story.

* Ouarda Zérarga teaches at the Paris X Nanterre University and is part of the performing arts analysis department. She has been awarded the SACD/Beaumarchais grant and will be in residence at La Chartreuse in October 2010.

Mael Le Mée was born in 1977. Alongside his script-writing activity, he develops a multi-disciplinary work which ranges from plugging vegetables to computers, giving talks about cultural policies of the future, installing time machines to see what the weather was like to producing comfort organs. He is interested in the relationship between technology and the body, issues relating to simulation and the aesthetics of control.
www.mael-lemee.org

RENDEZ-VOUS WITH THE FUTURE / GUESTS: CLAUDIE HAIGNERÉ AND JACQUES ATTALI
Thursday 23 September and Tuesday 28 September from 7pm to 8pm
Public meeting, broadcast live on the Internet and followed by an online chat
FREE ACCESS
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On this occasion, admission to the Cube Festival will be free on Thursday 23 and Tuesday 28 September from 6.30pm to attend the meetings.
Under the patronage of Joël de Rosnay and co-hosted by Jean-Pierre Alix and Nils Aziosmnoff, the Rendez-vous with  the Future are an invitation to debate with prominent futurologists and forecasters. Filmed and broadcast live on the Internet, they will also be relayed in real-time via Twitter, Facebook and IPhones. At the end of a 30-minute presentation, it will be the turn of the audience at Le Cube and Internet users to speak, as they will be able to ask their questions directly to the guest speakers. A participative and multi-platform event aimed at thinking collectively about the world of tomorrow.

THURSDAY 23 SEPTEMBER, 7PM: CLAUDIE HAIGNERÉ
Claudie Haigneré, the former minister delegate for Research and New Technologies then later for European Affairs, is the chairwoman of Universcience, the public institution behind the Palais de la Découverte and the Cité des Sciences et de l’Industrie. With a PhD in medicine, Claudie Haigneré is the only female astronaut to have been selected by the Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales (CNES, the French space agency). As such, she has taken part in several missions on board Soyuz spacecrafts, the Russian space station MIR and the International Space Station (ISS).

TUESDAY 28 SEPTEMBER, 7PM: JACQUES ATTALI
Jacques Attali – a lecturer, writer, honorary State Councillor, special advisor to the French President of the Republic from 1981 to 1991, the founder and first President of the London-based European Bank for Reconstruction and Development – is the CEO of A&A, an international consulting firm specialised in new technologies, and the President of PlaNet Finance, an international non-profit organisation assisting microfinance institutions. He founded Action Contre la Faim and the European programme Eurêka. Amongst other things, he has advised the Secretary General of the United Nations on the risks of nuclear proliferation.

The “Rendez-vous with the Future” are organised by Le Cube, the centre for art and digital creation; 1R2tchat, the expert in participative communication; Triple C, the clever communication agency; in partnership with JD2 , a commando squad for multimedia projects. www.rendezvousdufutur.com

« HOW I MET AN ARTIST »
Wednesdays 22 and 29 September WEDNESDAYS from 7pm to 8pm
Hosted by Florence Pillet, Art critic
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The Cube Festival brings together artists and the public for a convivial and privileged exchange. How does an art project come to be? What are the resources needed to carry out one’s work? How does a person become an artist? Many questions to be explored with the artists whose work is shown at the festival.
Wednesday 22 September : SOUND AND INTERACTIVE DESIGN
With Daan Roosegaarde, TeZ and Kaffe Matthews
Mercredi 29 septembre : LIVING ART – BEHAVIOURAL ART
With Hugo Verlinde and the Experientæ Electricæ collective

DIGITAL ART EXPLAINED… TO CHILDREN* AND ADULTS**
Saturdays 25 September and 2 October at 3pm* and 5pm** / Sundays 26 September and 3 October at 5pm**
Hosted by Alexia Guggémos, Art critic and journalist
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During the weekend, the Cube Festival encourages children and adults to come discover and learn about the concepts and stakes of digital art today. On Saturdays, from 3pm to 4pm, children will excel at this new form of art thanks to Alexia Guggémos, who will let them experiment with interactive works shown in the exhibition: learning and having fun at the same time. And on Saturdays and Sundays, from 5pm to 6pm, the focus will be on adults, who will journey through 60 years of incredible artistic adventure on a brief tour of digital art history, which the Cube Festival is fully part of…
* Digital art explained to children: Saturdays 25 September and 2 October from 3pm to 4pm (followed by snacks & drinks)
** Digital art explained to adults: Saturdays 25 September and 2 October and Sundays 26 September and 3 October from 5pm to 6pm

“4-HANDS IPHONE” ADAM & ATAU
Thursday 30 September at 7pm
Adam & Atau exploit a commonly available consumer electronics device, the Apple iPhone, as an expressive, gestural musical instrument. The iPhone can play music as a commodity, and this is the way most listeners interact with it. Adam & Atau reappropriate the iPhone and its advanced technical capabilities to transform the consumer object into an expressive musical instrument for concert performance. In a duo, with one in each hand, they create a chamber music, “4-hands iPhone”. The accelerometers which typically serve as tilt sensors to rotate photos in fact allow high precision capture of the performer’s free space gestures. The multitouch screen, otherwise used for scrolling and pinch-zooming text, becomes a reconfigurable graphic user interface akin to the JazzMutant Lemur, with programmable faders, buttons, and 2D controllers that control synthesis parameters in real time.
All this drives open source Pure Data (PD) patches running out of the free RJDJ iPhone app. A single advanced granular synthesis patch becomes the process by which a battery of sounds from the natural world are stretched, frozen, scattered, and restitched. The fact that all system components – sensor input, signal processing and sound synthesis, and audio output, are embodied in a single device make it very different than the typical controller + laptop model for digital music performance. The encapsulation in a self-contained, manipulable object take the iPhone beyond consumer icon to become a powerful, expressive musical instrument.
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Atau Tanaka works in the interaction and intersection between sound and digital technology with a visceral approach. He conducted his work at STEIM, as « Artistic Ambassador » for Apple Europe and as a researcher at Sony CSL Paris. Since 2007, he moved to the United States, where he is Director of Culture Lab Newcastle.
Adam Parkinson is interested in the embodied experience of music, exploring immersive bass tones and electrifying crackles. He regularly plays with harpist Rhodri Davies, vocalizer Gwilly Edmondez and turntablist Mariam Rezaei in music that incorporates textural improvisations, stuttering electronica and disco-pop.

CYBERCIRCUS, A 3D DIGITAL CIRCUS WITH POP-UP EFFECTS
Ectoplasmovision© optimises 3D technology, eliminating the traditional limitations of screens. Instead of playing on depth with isolated pop-up effects, the performance is taken out of the screen and spectators are immersed in a pseudo-holographic world, at the heart of virtual reality.
www.agglo-gpso

AND OVER 30 MEDIATORS PRESENT TO ASSIST VISITORS…

TAKE A BREAK AT THE LOUNGE AREA…
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Attend the festival meetings while enjoying an elderflower drink, make your own video art selection via a tactile table, experiment with the creative uses of iPad… Take your time at the heart of the exhibition, in the Lounge Area, to exchange and relax inquisitively and gastronomically.
Le Café Bio (the organic café) and its 100% natural products: savoury “tartines” with wild garlic, sweet snacks and gastronomic assortments specially prepared by Audrey from “Collisions Culinaires” on event nights.
La Boutique: a selection made especially for the Cube Festival including artists’ DVDs, key books and magazines that can be purchased there.
L’écran Partizan: a selection of the best music videos by the creation laboratory Partizan. www.partizan.com

SCHOOLS
GUIDED VISITS AND WORKSHOPS
FROM MONDAY TO FRIDAY / MORE INFORMATION: +33 1 58 88 3000
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For students and teachers to familiarise themselves with “digital art today”, the Cube Festival has developed an innovative approach to visiting, playful and participative thanks to touch-screen computers and communicating objects (iPads and multimedia rabbits Karotz). With the help of mediators, students can enjoy a Le Cube that has been fully re-designed for the occasion and discover works that had not previously been shown in France. The Cube Festival also offers to combine this visit with workshops.

CHILDREN’S WORKSHOP : “DESSIN MAGIQUE” (magic drawing)
FROM THE AGE OF 4
Visible, invisible, lasting or ephemeral art… The Cube Festival invites you to a drawing workshop unlike any other, using a digital workbench designed especially for the event. Drawn poems, digital “exquisite corpses” or words in image, children gather around this interactive table to become illustrators of a whole new kind.
CHILDREN’S WORKSHOP: “ROBOTS À JOUER” (robots to play with)
FROM THE AGE OF 6
Manipulating a robot-pawn to play and create. Embarking on a journey filled with surprises, children will discover the many facets of digital art while having fun and familiarising themselves with playful and multimedia robotics. Inquisitive minds are welcome!
CHILDREN’S WORKSHOP: “DESIGN INTERACTIF” (interactive design)
FROM THE AGE OF 8
All of us create, all of us invent! This workshop intends to shed a new light on mundane objects by adding original interactions to them thanks to the power of digital technology. Children programme small interactive modules and sensors in order to rethink the way a lamp works, design moving sculptures, create talking soft toys… Creativity and style meet in this unique studio where tomorrow’s objects are invented in an ephemeral and poetic way.

SUNDAYS 26 SEPTEMBER AND 3 OCTOBER AT 3PM
THE IDEAS TEA PARTY
IN PARTNERSHIP WITH THE MAGAZINE PARIS MÔMES AND THE ASSOCIATION PIKPIK ENVIRONNEMENT
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Children and parents get together to exchange on themes mixing digital uses of today and what is at stake for the future. Snacks and drinks will be offered to the participants at the end of the discussion.
SUNDAY 26 SEPTEMBER: “TOUCHES MANQUANTES ?” (missing keys)
Imagined and hosted by artist Sylvie Hazebroucq, in partnership with Paris Mômes magazine. On a piece of recycled cardboard, the children design their dream keyboard, inventing codes they would love to have at their disposal, which represent their own “missing keys”. www.parismomes.fr
SUNDAY 3 OCTOBER: “ÉCO-GESTES EN NUMÉRIQUE” (digital green behaviour)
A game-workshop in partnership with the “PikPik Environnement” association, where children and adults have fun discovering how they can act green on a daily basis in our digital era. Pikpik is an association teaching children, adults and companies based in the Hauts-de-Seine about behaving in an environmentally-friendly way via playful and practical activities.
www.pikpik.org

PROJECTION « 3D KIDS »
ON WEDNESDAYS, SATURDAYS AND SUNDAYS, 5PM
FREE (SUBJECT TO AVAILABILITY)
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For the past 5 years, Le Cube has been selecting the best new images for the “3D Kids” programme, created in association with the Némo Festival.  A lot of computer graphics, a pinch of experimenting and a zest of imagination for all! View the selection in the kids’ corner during the Cube Festival.
Co-produced by Le Cube, Arcadi and Châlet Pointu

MULTIMEDIA URBAN GAME
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Schedule
Saturday 25 and Sunday 26 September
Two game sessions: 2pm and 4pm
Where?
Esplanade de l’Hôtel de Ville, Issy-les-Moulineaux / M° Mairie d’Issy (metro line 12)
Who?
Children from the age of 6 and families
Fee and terms
Free
Booking required, +33 1 58 88 3000

CYBERCIRCUS
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All ages
Wednesday 22 September, 7pm, at the Espace Icare in Issy-les-Moulineaux
Friday 24 September, 7pm, at the Vanves Theatre.
More information on CyberCircus: www.agglo-gpso.fr / +33 1 46 29 19 74