Digital Arts – Creativite and Innovation Tour in Ireland 17-27 September
The French Embassy in Ireland, in association with Irish cultural partners, is proud to present the Digital Arts – Créativité & Innovation Tour from 17 to 27 September 2024.
This project showcases French expertise in digital creativity through outdoor interactive installations and hands-on workshops on video mapping, augmented reality and AI, led by French digital artists Maxime Touroute and Rémy Dupanloup.
Presented in close collaboration with Irish cultural partners, this tour takes place in Dublin, Galway, Tuam, and Ballina. It aims to make cultural activities more accessible by bringing them directly into the public space, encouraging wider participation and engagement. By blending art, creativity, innovation, and technology into immersive experiences – ’Painting Mirror’ and ’Let’s Draw’ – the tour aims to engage the public in meaningful interactions with technology.
The workshops are designed to facilitate access to digital tools and stimulate creative potential and collaboration among students and professionals from various cultural sectors through the sharing of resources, expertise, and diverse artistic experiences.
The Digital Arts – Créativité & Innovation Tour is a key part of the French Embassy’s ongoing commitment to supporting and promoting digital arts in Ireland, aligning with national cultural strategies and paving the way for future collaborations.
Through this project, we aim to further strengthen the cultural connections between France and Ireland and encourage dynamic, innovative partnerships between our two countries.
All events are free.
The Digital Arts – Créativité & Innovation Tour is presented by the French Embassy in Ireland in association with the National Gallery of Ireland, The Digital Hub, BETA Festival of Art & Technology, NCAD, Dublin City Council Dublin Winter Lights, Galway City Council, Centre for Creative Technologies University of Galway, CREW, Galway Cartoon Festival, Creative Places Tuam, Culture Works, Ballina Arts Centre, Creative Mayo Communities Grant Scheme 2024, Architecture At The Edge Festival, Jackie Clarke Collection.
Full details available at https://ie.ambafrance.org/Digital-Arts-Creativite-Innovation-Tour-in-Ireland
A full list of the dates can be found below.
Immersive Experiences
’Painting Mirror’ – Dublin – Culture Night
Friday 20 September, 4pm-11pm
National Gallery of Ireland
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’Let’s Draw’ – Galway – Culture Night
Friday 20 September, 9pm-12am
Spanish Arch
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’Let’s Draw’ – Ballina
Saturday 21 September, 8pm-11pm
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Skills Development Workshops
Dublin
17 September
Projection Mapping workshop
@ NCAD– National College of Art and Design
18 September, 1-5pm
Augmented Reality workshop (introductory to intermediary level)
@ The Digital Hub
More info & Registration
Ballina
21 September, 1pm-3pm
Augmented Reality workshop for young people (12- 17 years)
@ Ballina Arts Centre
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Tuam
23 September, 10am-2pm
Augmented Reality and Projection Mapping in public space workshop
@ Town Hall
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Galway
25 September, 11am-5pm
Creating Augmented Reality Experiences workshop
@ Centre for Creative Technologies, University of Galway
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26 September, 2pm-5pm
Video-Mapping workshop
@ CREW
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ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Maxime Touroute
Maxime Touroute is a French digital artist building experiences combining technology and interactivity, such as Let’s Draw, a massively participative videomapping where hundreds of participants draw live on facades, or Painting Mirror, a videomapping where the public is caricatured in real-time by Artificial Intelligences. Maxime also assists artistic teams and cultural institutions as a software engineer, unlocking new creative potential on technically innovative projects with Augmented Reality, public participation and artificial Intelligence. To free creativity from technological hassle, Maxime shares his software and makes it available to the entire creative community to encourage collaboration and foster creative innovation. His artistic and entrepreneurial approach has been rewarded by numerous international exhibitions and workshops, as well as by the French Ministry of Higher Education and Research, which awarded him two “Pépite” prizes in 2020 and 2022. maximetouroute.com
Rémy Dupanloup
As a French infrastructure and web engineer, Rémy designs software for digital creation. He is a developer behind Let’s Draw and Painting Mirror, two interactive video projections where thousands of people can participate simultaneously. He also works on various creative projets in Artificial Intelligence and Augmented Reality to unlock creative possibilities using web technologies. www.linkedin.com/in/remy-dupanloup
