Biennale des Imaginaires Numériques 2026 - Biennale des Imaginaires Numériques

Created in 2018 and organized by Chroniques – the Biennale des Imaginaires Numériques is the leading event for digital arts and cultures in the South region. Exploring visual arts, sound arts, and live performance, the Biennale examines the presence and use of digital technology and new technologies in art. It takes over public spaces and gives a voice to artists from diverse backgrounds, both national and international. 

The aim is to examine how digital practices—whether rooted in performance, installation, live performance, virtual or augmented reality, video, or algorithmic writing—can become spaces for symbolic, political, and aesthetic struggle.

The Biennale’s guest of honor, the Saison Méditerranée, brings the voices of artists and creators committed to many forms of digital practice, whose artistic gestures bear witness to a necessary counter-narrative. The theme of resistance, approached through the lens of digital cultures, opens up a plural space for reflection at the crossroads of activism, subversive tactics, and artistic acts of disobedience. The aim is to examine how digital practices—whether rooted in performance, installation, or live performance—can become spaces for symbolic, political, and aesthetic struggle.

For its 5th edition, the Biennale will take place in several cities in the South region—Aix-en-Provence, Marseille, Avignon, Arles, Istres, and Port de Bouc—with a multidisciplinary program from October 23, 2026 to January 17, 2027.

• Opening night in Marseille on Saturday, October 24 at Friche Belle de Mai and the centre of Vieille Charité Exhibition openings, group exhibitions, installations at the crossroads of sculpture, sound creation, and virtual reality, sound creations, performances, audiovisual live sets, DJ set. A program of 9 exhibitions bringing together around fifty artists presented across the South region for three months, exploring the theme of resistance—hacktivism, détournements, and artistic tactics in the digital age.

Exhibition Souffles Terrestres (free admission) Centre de la Vieille Charité At 11:00

Exhibition Désobéir à l'ère numérique (free admission) Friche la Belle de Mai – La Tour/4e étage From 14:00 to 22:00

Exhibition Cartographie sensible et mémoires recomposées (free admission) Friche la Belle de Mai – Panorama From 14:00 to 22:00

Installations at Friche (free admission, subject to availability) ThunderGolf Place des Horizons Saturday, October 24 from 14:00 to 22:00 Sunday, October 25 from 14:00 to 18:00

Invu (Archipel) - free admission Le Module Saturday, October 24 from 14:00 to 22:00 Sunday, October 25 from 14:00 to 18:00

Petit Plateau at 19:00 Élégie d’une disparition Performative sound creation From €8 to €10

Grand Plateau at 20:30 Tuqus – طقوس Live audiovisual performance From €10 to €12

Grand Cab from 22:30 to 2:00 Chayyel Live audiovisual performance From €12 to €15

Grand Cab from 22:30 to 2:00 Deena Abdelwahed DJ set From €12 to €15

• Closing night on Saturday, January 16, 2027 at 20:00, at Espace Julien, 39 cours Julien 13006

Immersive DJ set with Modeselektor DE x Collectif Scale FR

Since the early 2000s, DJs and producers Gernot Bronsert and Sebastian Szary, aka Modeselektor, have formed an essential duo on the Berlin techno scene, deeply rooted in East Berlin. IDM, hip-hop, UK Bass, breaks, house, ambient: Modeselektor has thrown itself into every style, giving its music great variety.

On stage, Flux, a work by the Scale collective, will accompany the DJ set. Shifting between poetic waves and frenetic undulations, the work is synchronized across a variety of speeds, colors, and amplitudes.

Opening the event, Marseille native Mile Dietrich will be behind the decks with a techno-garage show and a touch of punk.