This spring, six artists are in residence with partners of the CHRONIQUES CRÉATIONS platform throughout the region. Each project, in its own way, explores the boundaries between body and machine, tradition and technology, resistance and poetry, with a view to presenting them at Biennale des Imaginaires Numériques 2026.
Lundja Medjoub
La structure des voix
La structure des voix diverts traditional uses of voice and urban space. By amplifying and manipulating vocal fragments, this project offers a poetic diversion of service voices: a gentle but disturbing intrusion, where disembodied voices emerge in the everyday soundscape, creating perceptible, musical, and political disturbances.
Residency from February 22 to 26, at GMEM – Centre national de création musicale, Marseille
Coproduction : GMEM – Centre national de création musicale, LABgamerz, Stereolux (Nantes), Césaré – Centre national de création musicale de Reims, l’aCNCM – association des Centres Nationaux de Création Musicale, avec CHRONIQUES – Pôle régional de la création en environnement numérique, pour la Biennale des Imaginaires Numériques, dans le cadre de la plateforme CHRONIQUES CRÉATIONS. Avec le soutien de la SACEM.
Clément Édouard
INVU [Archipel]
INVU consists of seven sand sculptures, each incorporating a wireless speaker and a motion sensor. These objects, designed by artist Eva Vedel, are both fragile and tactile, and can be picked up and moved by the audience. Each movement modifies the sound material and its spatialization, transforming the perception of the whole. The refrains they broadcast will draw their inspiration from a reinvented lyricism, giving rise to a shared space that is both fragile and strong: a refuge where one can draw strength from resilience and connection.
Residency from March 9 to 13, at GMEM – Centre national de création musicale, Marseille
Coproduction : Biennale des Imaginaires Numériques, dans le cadre de la plateforme CHRONIQUES CRÉATIONS, GMEM — Centre national de création musicale, Les Rotondes (Luxembourg), avec CHRONIQUES – pôle régional de la création en environnement numérique, le GMEA, Centre National de Création Musical d’Albi, le GRAME Centre National de Création Musicale de Lyon, la Région Rhône-Alpes-Auvergne, La DRAC Rhône-Alpes-Auvergne, la SACEM, la Maison de la Musique Contemporaine.
Agnès de Cayeux
SILA
SILA is an immersive poetic work that blends documentary and fiction: a Greenlandic experience that offers a counterpoint to the virile and heroic imagery of polar expeditions. Agnès and her collaborators invite us to travel through real and virtual polar worlds, following in the footsteps of women artists, scientists, and activists who have explored this Arctic territory from the 19th century to the present day. In Kalaallisut, the official language of Greenland, the word sila refers to natural elements such as wind, air, and weather, but also to a vital force that governs the universe.
Residency from March 23 to 27, at Grenier à Sel à Avignon.
Production délégué: Dark Euphoria. Coproduction Le Safran – Scène conventionnée d’Amiens Métropole, Le Grenier à Sel et CHRONIQUES, Pôle Régional de la Création en Environnement Numérique PACA – pour la Biennale des Imaginaires Numériques, dans le cadre de la plateforme CHRONIQUES CRÉATIONS.
Mawena Yehouessi
Black Afterlight
Black Afterlight questions the absence of magic in technological imaginaries. The first stage of a larger project, the work prefigures a solar device activated during Vodun rituals in Benin. Combining digital art, cosmopolitics, and diasporic spirituality, Black Afterlight offers a diffracted cinema that turns the image into a place of healing, dissonance, and liberation.
Residency from February 23 to 27, at the Ballet National de Marseille
Coproduction : CCN-Ballet National de Marseille, Festival Parallèle (Marseille), 3 bis f – Centre d’arts contemporains (Aix-en-Provence) avec CHRONIQUES – Pôle régional de la création artistique en environnement numérique, pour la Biennale des Imaginaires Numériques, dans le cadre de la plateforme CHRONIQUES CRÉATIONS.
Olivier Bémer
Go Uncanny
Go Uncanny is inspired by the worker’s wig: the diversion of time and work materials to create personal objects. By getting hired as a temporary worker in a logistics warehouse, Olivier Bémer will film his daily life with a hidden camera and create hybrid figures. Scanned and then animated in 3D, they will appear in the film. Part documentary, part symbolic sabotage, Go Uncanny revives the tradition of go canny: slowing down, shifting gears, resisting through disruption, play, and fiction.
Residency from March 16 to 22, at Centre d’art Fernand Léger à Port-de-Bouc
Coproduction : Centre d’art Fernand Léger – Port-de-Bouc, avec CHRONIQUES – Pôle régional de la création en environnement numérique, pour la Biennale des Imaginaires Numériques dans le cadre de la plateforme CHRONIQUES CRÉATIONS. Avec le soutien de l’ADAGP dans le cadre de la bourse “Temps de recherche artistique”.
Mathilde Reynaud
Le langage des phalènes
Le langage des phalènes explores the first documented computer bug as an act of animist resistance. The game mechanics, inspired by The Butterfly Dream (Chuang Tzu), transform this technical flaw into a space for poetic subversion of life on the machine. The player moves between a garden and archives, while fatigue triggers metamorphoses (human/butterfly) and sensory glitches (video memories, acoustic distortions).
Residency from March 23 to April 7, at the Fruitière Numérique à Lourmarin
Coproduction : PLÉIADES – Réseau Arts & Sciences, La Fruitière Numérique (Lourmarin), Octobre Numérique, CHRONIQUES – Pôle régional de la création en environnement numérique – Région PACA pour la Biennale des Imaginaires Numériques, dans le cadre de la plateforme CHRONIQUES CRÉATIONS.
Launched in 2018, the CHRONIQUES CREATIONS platform brings together production and dissemination structures at the regional, national, and international levels. Together, they support and guide artists across all disciplines in creating original works to be presented as part of the Biennale des Imaginaires Numériques in Marseille, Aix-en-Provence, and throughout the Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur region.
The platform thus promotes cooperation around artistic projects from production to dissemination through financial support as well as technical and artistic expertise.
CHRONIQUES CREATIONS fully aligns with the missions of the Resource Poles for Artistic Creation in a Digital Environment, supported by the French Ministry of Culture and the DRAC Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur.
