GN Pro is a meeting, thinking and exchange space for professionals in the digital sector. This year’s theme is the relationship between digital creators on the one hand and representatives of museum institutions, event agencies and advertising agencies on the other. The day will start with conferences and cases studies and will end with a networking time.

GN Pro is proudly supported by hub.brussels and screen.brussels.

More info about the festival: lesgaragesnumeriques.com

AGENDA OF THE DAY

9h30 : Opening

10h : Conferences and panels

10h - 11h: Bozar Lab

11h - 12h30 ]unframed[ Panel Talk on ArtScience

12h30 : Networking lunch

13h30 : Conferences and panels

13h30 - 14h10 Case Study: Singularité/ Tech

14h10 - 14h50 : Case Study: Le Motel & Antoine De Schuyter

14h50 – 15h10: break

15h10 - 15h50 : Case Study: L’Autre Ecole

15h50 – 16h30: Case Study: Bruxelles, the Grand Place to be

16h30 : Wrap up

17h: networking cocktail

18h: Opening Night: concerts & A/V live shows

CONFERENCES AND PANELS

Panel talk on Art and Science (Ohme)

The panel will bring in different points of view on the topic of art and science collaborations, to tackle questions such as what does it mean to build bridges between artistic and scientific disciplines, especially in this society of hyper specialization and fragmentation? What does it make a collaboration between artist and scientist successful? How to present the outcomes of this collaborations to our audiences, playing the key role of mediators in sensible and meaningful way?

The goal is to offer a moment of reflection about a topic that is living a particularly “hype” moment, but it is often misinterpreted and misunderstood: with this panel talk, we aim at contributing in “dispelling the fog” and shed a light on the how and why these collaborations, partnership and encounters are beneficiary for all parties involved as well as for the general public.

Speakers: Eric Kluitenberg, Anne-Marie Maes, Lorenzo Gerbi, Jennifer Wong

Moderation: Camilla Colombo

Singularité(s)/Tech / Kosice / Slovaquie

The Singularity (s) / Tech group returns to the exhibition of their VR work "14.12.2017: † Neutrality of the Net in the United States † at the Tabacka KulturFabrik in Slovakia which will have taken place a few days before Garages Numériques, of 24 October 30. After having been the cultural capital of 2013, Kosice, the second Slovak city became a member of "UNESCO creative cities", in this context that KulturFabrik launched a program between Art / Science and Technology entitled Art'n'Tech, program that the group Singularité (s) was invited to join.Reviews on a fresh experience so to answer the following questions: what is the art & digital news encountered by the group in Slovakia? how did the Slovak public react to a Belgian work on net neutrality and digital freedoms?

Speakers: Léa Rogliano, Christophe Boucher, Katrien Van Cappellen

Case study : Le Motel and Antoine De Schuyter

Le Motel is a producer and graphic designer based in Brussels. His love for ethnic music combined with elements from footwork, hip-hop, jazz and techno leads to a beautiful collage between electronic and organic elements. This love for eclectism alos reflects in the people he collaborates with such as Roméo Elvis, YellowStraps, Clap! Clap! Or recently Veence Hanao. Le Motel is working with visual artist Antoine de Schuyter to present an A/V show.

Speakers: Fabien Leclercq, Antoine De Schuyter

Moderation : Céline Dejoie

Case study: Elèves en Liberté

A unique experience of virtual reality sound. Based on a prototype developed for the experiment by the studio Demute in Brussels, this technology called Room Scale Augmented Audio allows, with a simple headphone on the ears, to immerse itself in a sound universe in 3 dimensions and interact with him. It will therefore be proposed to visitors to enter a classroom that will virtually come alive through the headset, and to interact physically with the sound elements that will be offered to them.

Speakers: Wouter Gordts (Demute), Patrick Séverin (HorsZone)

Case Study : Bruxelles, The Grand Place to Be

On the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the inscription of the Grand-Place of Brussels on the UNESCO World Heritage List, the Museum of the City of Brussels and the Historical Heritage Cell offer an unprecedented exhibition on this emblematic site of Brussels architecture.

An unprecedented virtual reality experience: the bombing of the Grand-Place in 1695. As in a machine to go back in time, the user finds himself in the 17th century square. He can observe the different houses, the Town Hall, the King's House ... buildings very different from those he could see before entering the museum. Suddenly, a cannonball falls on the pavement, the shock is intense. There, a wooden house is burning ... Night falls, ashes fly. The user really lives the bombing of 1695.

Speaker: Vinciane Godfrind (Musée de la Ville de Bruxelles)