CREATIE - Artistic Research Group

02/10/2026

It is an exciting month: Welcome (back) to the old & new CREATIE researchers starting their new projects! 🌱

Research Projects:
- Hannes d'Hoine , 'Double Bass as Algorithmic Improvisation System: Redefining the Role of a Traditional Instrument Through Embodied Synergy with Embedded Electronics'
-Ioannis Panagiotou, 'I’ve Heard on Skipper Street: Exploring Lived and Imagined City Identities Through Voicescapes of Its Passers-by'
- Nicolas Kummert , 'RAMEAU(x) Improvising New Branches of Rameau’s music'
- Adilia Yip , 'Echoes of Heritage: Intercultural music exchange through network music co-creation'

PhD Projects:
- Helen Bledsoe, 'The Embodied Interface: Assembling Interactive ALife Systems for Musical Performance'
- Massimiliano Cerionii, 'Engaging with Sonic Emergence: Cybernetics, Generative AI, and Distributed Agency in Posthuman Music'
- Majella Clarke, 'Expanding Conducting Practice through Posthuman Assemblage and Artificial Intelligence (AI)'
- Eveline Vervliet , 'Auto-Destructive Composition: Erasure and Remains in Transient Posthuman Musics'
-Guy-Shawn Wong, 'Arbitrary Intelligence: Imperceptible Forms and Extended Musical Coherence in Computer Music'

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(Image by Helen Bledsoe , glitching out by Umut Eldem)

10/07/2026

Our new call for new research & PhD projects!

OPEN CALL
🖊 Apply for
- Research projects (1- or 2-year)
- PhD projects (4-year)
→ Starting in September 2027
The application procedure consists of several steps. Below are the first deadlines for submitting your proposal for each type of application and school.
→ Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp
Research and PhD proposals – deadline 3 November 2026
→ Koninklijk Conservatorium Antwerpen
Research proposals – deadline 21 September 2026
PhD proposals – deadline 10 November 2026
🔗 More info
https://www.ap-arts.be/.../open-call-research-projects-2026
📷 Research class by Harry Gamboa, 2025, photo by Wannes Cré

OPEN CALL

🖊 Apply for
- Research projects (1- or 2-year)
- PhD projects (4-year)

→ Starting in September 2027

The application procedure consists of several steps. Below are the first deadlines for submitting your proposal for each type of application and school.

→ Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp
Research and PhD proposals – deadline 3 November 2026

→ Koninklijk Conservatorium Antwerpen
Research proposals – deadline 21 September 2026
PhD proposals – deadline 10 November 2026

🔗 More info
https://www.ap-arts.be/en/news/open-call-research-projects-2026

📷 Research class by Harry Gamboa, 2025, photo by Wannes Cré

27/03/2026

The fifth edition of the Convergence seminar is in the books! Two and a half days of lectures, interdisciplinary performances, custom instruments, new technologies, feedback loops, musical robots, and hybrid environments. Huge thanks to everyone who made it possible!


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18/02/2026

During the NextDoors week our researchers engaged the students of Koninklijk Conservatorium Antwerpen with workshops on music, technology, and theater:

* Umut Eldem , Sara Simionato , and Giusy Caruso - Pianist & Artist Researcher introduced music students to co-creative practices with Somax2 from

* Furkan Ak & Davide Paolillo created a performance where sound, text, and embodied action meet in unstable terrain.

* Nicolas Kummert explored how sensor data of dancers' movements can be used to augment a musical performance

Photos 1, 2, and 4 by Cèlia Tort Pujol

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09/01/2026

⚠️NEW DEADLINE: January 20th⚠️
🌳Call for proposals - Convergence 2026🌳

The fifth edition of the Convergence seminar will focus on technological co-creation in interdisciplinary arts. Researchers, artists, and anyone currently engaging with this subject are invited to share their practices, experiences, and historical perspectives. Lectures, performances, workshops, and installations are welcome.

The seminar will take place on March 23rd and 24th 2026 at Royal Conservatoire Antwerp, Belgium.

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