Seconde Nature and Zinc are digital imagination incubators that have been working for several years towards fostering and promoting contemporary creation, advancing the understanding of the world in the digital age, and helping audiences appropriate technologies to develop their creativity and emancipation.
The two associations organise the Biennale of Digital Imagination, whose third edition will be held from November 10, 2022 to January 23, 2023. After having explored the theme of Levitation during the first edition, then the concept of Eternity, the topic that will be explored is Night in 2022.
Seconde Nature 's ambition is to promote and foster digital creation as well as support the digital art scene, hand in hand with cultural institutions and researchers.
Seconde Nature offers its various audiences a variety of activities and resources: exhibition tours, workshops, training, artistic and cultural education projects and educational tools, in order to make digital arts and culture accessible to all.
Seconde Nature is keen to put different kinds of audiences – amateurs and professionals alike – in touch with the full range of creative possibilities. The association is committed to professional structuring and international cooperation around digital arts.
Zinc supports artists and disseminates their work, encouraging art forms that use digital technologies. Zinc also organises events at the Friche Belle de Mai, in Marseille, as well as in the Sud region: festivals, shows, screenings, public meetings.
Zinc is also a MEDIALAB and a FABLAB open to anyone wishing to practice, be introduced to or learn more about technology: from creative software to electronics, from the internet to 3D printing and virtual reality. These creative workshops explore the uses of digital technologies, personal digital construction, and collective innovations for collaboration
Zinc offers training, engineering, expertise, and conferences for professionals in the fields of culture and social work, so that everyone can understand the world in digital mode.
