iMAL

18/06/2026

iMAL & EMAP present .b.csonka
our EMAP artist in residency 2026

Out of 643 submissions from across Europe, the participating member institutions jointly selected the 2026 artists during the jury conference hosted at the MEET Digital Culture Center in Milano back in April.

The selected artist for iMAL is Éva Csonka with her project The Most Dangerous Games We (Might) Play.

The Most Dangerous Games We (Might) Play seeks to create an orchestra composed of interactive robotic instruments that explore a shared soundscape.

The project has a deeply poetic component and aligns perfectly with iMAL’s vision, prioritising the use of low-tech and recycled materials in the form of DIY robotics. The project shares our philosophy of degrowth and perfectly embodies a critical approach and resistance against the techno-liberal monoculture that increasingly seeks to scale at the expense of planetary boundaries and dominate our cultural and political imagination. This installation/performance will allow us to delve deeper into the debate on the need for a more sustainable digital creation that embraces limits as an opportunity to reclaim creativity.

Congrats! We are looking forward to welcoming you in October!

EMAP is cofunded by the Creative Europe programme of the European Union.

30/05/2026

Meet our residents in the framework of .art ❤️

23/05/2026

23/05/2026

Next Friday 29th, we invite you to an unforgettable dinner concert experience combining live coding and gastronomy art by .sttlr as part of the artist duo formed with Kristin Gudmunsson

A delicious dinner will be served at the same time as Alex and Agathe perform.
This will be starting at 7pm in our main exhibition space and we are just telling you that it would be a pity to miss this for many many reasons.

So hurry up! get your ticket fast (link to purchase in our website, easy easy!). Just remember, seats are limited!

Come and enjoy the non metaphorical part of our Cookery programme.

With love,

the iMAL team

20/05/2026

30/04/2026

Concert alert 🚨 🚨 🚨 🚨

29th May will be an evening dedicated to live coding.
We are delighted to count on the greatest Alex MacLean
We start at 5 pm with a talk followed by a concert-dinner at 7pm.
On that evening we will also have the amazing and she will also have her dedicated post of course!

Together and on the weekend following (30 and 31 May) they will get deep into pattern thinking and how it can ground contemporary creative technology in ancient arts and crafts.
To do this they will be working with glue guns, motors, lollypop sticks and code examples, to explore how complex patterns of sound and movement can be made from simple parts.
They will introduce the free, web-based strudel software for this, exploring its possibilities for live coding music, while connecting it with other pattern-based codes like knitting and weaving patterns.

Check our programme and register fast!!! Seats are limited.

If you are joining both, the talk/performance/dinner + workshop, we recommend to select the combo ticket in our website!

All info in the link 🔗 of our bio

21/04/2026

14/04/2026

📣Workshop alert 📣

Live coding patterns and tangles 29-30-31 May at iMAL

A long weekend dedicated to livecoding, with our two guests Agathe Herrou (aka ) & Alex McLean

📅 Friday 29.05.2026: panel discussion and concert-dinner with Agathe & Alex - in harmony with Peter Sattler .sttlr for the meal

📅 Saturday 30 + Sunday 31.05.2026: masterclass

During the workshop, Agathe & Alex will introduce the web-based livecoding platform strudel (https://strudel.cc), exploring its possibilities for music, while connecting it with other pattern-based codes like knitting and weaving patterns. No experience with code, music, or textiles necessary!

🧶 ALEX MCLEAN (Sheffield) is a musician, software artist and researcher, who co-founded the TOPLAP live coding and Algorave algorithmic dance movements, and instigated the free/open source TidalCycles and Strudel live coding environments.

🧶 AGATHE HERROU (Leuven), known musically as th4, is a French livecoder, developer and mathematician based in Leuven. Her performances typically consist in from-scratch improvisations, with an accent on dark, melancholic melodies and textures.

To know more and to register, please follow the 📎 in our bio.
please remember that seats for the workshop and also for the concert-dinner are limited. Don't miss your spot!

14/04/2026

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As we had announced, the menu of this new Slow Cookery 2026 will combine masterclasses, performances, talks and dinners, with introductory workshops in our Fablab.

So here we go with the first introductory workshop alert
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: Learning electronics and building Object Communication & Automation
with Louanne Deltenre .d

This hands-on workshop introduces participants to Object-Oriented Programming and electronics using the ESP32 microcontroller. Over four Saturdays, attendees progress from setting up the development environment and understanding embedded code to prototyping with sensors and actuators like LEDs and servo motors. Bridging between physical hardware and digital logic, the idea is to empower participants to build cause-and-effect interactions and simple automation scenarios.

The latter half of the workshop shifts toward connectivity and collaboration, introducing Wi-Fi communication and Node-RED for networked systems. Participants will learn how to integrate their individual devices into a shared interface, culminating in a final collective project. By the end, the group will collaboratively design a responsive environment or visual installation, emphasizing a "learning through making" philosophy that balances technical skills with creative experimentation.

The workshop takes place over 4 Saturdays in May, from 10:00 to 18:00.
Saturday 9 + 16 + 23 + 30.05.2026

Seats are limited, so I would reserve a spot now, if I were you.

More info in the 📎 of our bio.

Graphic design of The Cookery:

14/04/2026

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The Cookery is back!

And since we enjoy tweaking the recipe a bit for every edition 👩‍🍳, this time, we’re having a ⏳🛀 🐌 slower Cookery, with activities spread through May and June.

The menu will combine masterclasses (led by a duo composed of one international and one Belgium-based artist), performances, talks and dinners.

Names confirmed:
Alex McLean Agathe Herrou aka Thomas Teurlai Clarice Calvo-Pinsolle
and more to be announced...

A long weekend dedicated to livecoding, a masterclass where participants will build electromagnetic microphones using components salvaged from domestic appliances to explore the invisible sounds of everyday machines.

➕ the addition this year of introductory workshops in our super :
- an introduction to electronics and the Arduino physical computing platform
- and an introduction to Fusion 360, a CAD software to design objects for digital fabrication.

Read on for a quick preview of the programme in the 📎 of our bio.

More info & registration links will follow soon!

And do not forget to save the dates!

We’re still cooking the programme of talks & performances but you will read and taste it soon. We can already tell you that Peter Sattler will be back with a delicious meal... .sttlr

So stay tuned for more!

This programme is supported by .brussels

Design by: Camille Chautru