The selections
Looking for ideas? Find inspiration in the thematic selections of the Institut français or in those of its partners.
Programming ideas in tune with the year's major events and highlights!
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2024 Bains Numériques highlights
From June 12 to 14, 2024, the City of Enghien-les-Bains and its arts center are organizing the 11th edition of Bains numériques, an international biennial of digital arts.
The event is part of the Cultural Olympiad, and will focus on the notion of performance and the challenges posed by the development of digital technologies.
Award winners in 2023
Every year, French digital creations shine at festivals and events across the globe. Here are the award-winning creations, productions and artists referenced on IFdigital in 2023!
The highlights of digital creation in France
Each year, festivals, fairs, markets and professional meetings throughout France are great opportunities to discover the latest creations and productions, to highlight new trends and issues, to encourage exchanges between professionals, and to contribute to the dissemination and the emergence of new projects. Immersives experiences, video games, digital art, digital cultural outreach: save the date for the French digital creation events!
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Award winners in 2022
The French digital creation settles year after year on the podiums of festivals in France and abroad. The year 2022 was rich in awards for French productions and artists, discover the winners!
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Discoveries from the Némo Biennial 2021-2022
The 2021-22 edition of the Némo Biennial, under the theme Beyond Reality?, explores the capacity of digital arts and technologies to reveal the invisible. Discover some of the most impressive works programmed on this occasion!
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Award winners in 2021
Every year, French digital creation shines at festivals and events around the world. Let's take a look at the creations, productions and artists that won awards in 2021!
Institut français programs
The Institut français provides the French cultural network abroad (Institut français, Alliances Françaises, cultural services of French embassies around the world) and its partners with specific tools to help them build their cultural actions.
Binge: For all your digital series cravings
The Institut français introduces a new program exclusively for the French cultural network abroad dedicated to French digital series entitled "Binge". With their rise to prominence in recent years, short and digital series have garnered a growing audience, catalyzing innovative approaches to cultural creation and consumption. This initiative aims to highlight the richness and creativity of this specific format of content creation. So feel free to immerse yourself and satisfy your digital series cravings with no restraint!
Putting the spotlight on mobile creation with Unlock
Cellphones have become integral parts of our daily lives, fostering the emergence of new artistic content. In order to promote these new formats and cultural consumption models, and to provide support to the creative sector, the Institut français has curated a catalog of French digital creations specifically designed for mobile devices. "Unlock" brings together twelve artworks in different formats: Augmented Reality experiences, mobile video games, webtoons, podcasts and innovative reading experiences.
Immerse your audience in the Institut français' VR catalog
France benefits from a strong international recognition in the field of virtual reality. French productions are often selected and awarded in festivals across the world. The Institut français invites the French cultural network abroad to present the creativity and diversity of French works internationally, thanks to "La Sélection VR", a catalog which includes over thirty VR works of reference.
Exhibition : Escape, digital generations
The Institut français is presenting the French cultural network abroad and its partners with a new exhibition focused on the key contemporary issues of the digital world. Following the success of a similar initiative over the past two years, Escape, digital generations offers an educational and engaging exploration of digital cultures, featuring around twenty creations that combine digital art, video games, and virtual reality experiences.
This exhibition will be available for circulation in the cultural network's institutions and those of their partners starting in November 2024 for a period of two years. It includes a variety of workshop suggestions and mediation guidelines suitable for all audiences.
La Collection
La Collection is a new platform exclusively for members of the French cultural network abroad. Its goal is to offer a flexible and easily distributable selection of French cultural content to enrich programming and expand collaboration with partners.
