TT8 2026
Across the three pilot territories of Transition to 8: European societies in flux (TT8), Rennes, Eleusis, and Ljubljana, a series of artistic residencies were implemented as key moments of research, creation, and public engagement. Following the project’s open call and artist selection, these residencies provided the conditions for artists to immerse themselves in each local context and to develop work grounded in TT8’s participatory methodology.
Designed in formats adapted to each territory and artistic practice, the residencies combined artistic research with mediation activities that opened the creative process to wider audiences. Through artist talks, workshops, and open studios, local communities, students, cultural professionals, researchers, and emerging practitioners were invited to engage with the artists’ approaches, experiment with tools and ideas, and take part in dialogue around the societal challenges at the core of TT8, particularly air pollution, ecological transition, and the embodied experience of environmental conditions.
Together, the residencies strengthened local cultural ecosystems while reinforcing the project’s European dimension through the circulation of artists and methods. They also contributed to TT8’s wider objectives by making artistic research more transparent and accessible, fostering knowledge exchange, and supporting critical reflection on how contemporary art and technology can translate complex environmental realities into shared, perceivable, and discussable experiences.
Guillaumit - Rennes | October 2025
Guillaumit’s residency in Rennes combined an artist talk and a hands-on workshop with students and emerging professionals in creative and digital arts. Rooted in TT8’s community engagement process, the workshop invited participants to create visual characters inspired by roles performed during the project’s sociodrama sessions, while experimenting with symbolic techniques (ink and blowing methods) to represent pollution. Alongside the practical work, the artist talk opened Guillaumit’s broader practice-geometry in visual art, urban interventions, and augmented reality-creating an accessible entry point into how digital creation can address ecological transition and societal challenges.
Katarina Gryvul - Rennes | December 2025
Katarina Gryvul’s residency in Rennes focused on sound research, linking TT8 datasets with field recording practices and performance development. A combined artist talk and workshop was delivered in a women and gender minorities-only format, creating a safer and more supportive space for exchange within electronic and experimental music contexts. The session blended professional knowledge-sharing (visibility, networks, festivals/labels expectations) with a collective listening format where participants presented their own tracks and received direct feedback. The residency strengthened both artistic research and local community empowerment, while connecting TT8’s environmental focus to listening practices, identity, and professional positioning.
Floriama Candea - Eleusis | December 2025
Floriama Candea’s residency in Eleusis culminated in two public workshops and artist talks that made her work-in-progress visible and discussable. Framed through TT8’s methodology, the sessions explored how physiological and embodied-response data gathered through sociodrama sessions with Eleusis residents can inform an interactive kinetic installation that “converses” with live air-quality data. Participants engaged through guided walkthroughs, Q&A, and informal discussion, gaining insight into an interdisciplinary process that connects science, technology, and contemporary art to the lived physical and emotional experience of air pollution.
MAOTIK (Mathieu Le Sourd) - Eleusis | January 2026
MAOTIK’s residency in Eleusis was shared publicly through an artist talk and open studio, offering audiences a direct encounter with a developing immersive, data-driven multimedia installation. The talk introduced MAOTIK’s generative approach-real-time transformation, algorithms, and audience inclusion-while the open studio demonstrated how TT8 physiological recordings and qualitative testimonies from Eleusis sociodrama sessions, together with local air-quality data, can be translated into an environment that renders “invisible threats” perceptible. The format supported strong engagement by allowing participants to experience the artwork’s logic as it was being built, and to connect environmental conditions with embodied perception and social meaning.
Simina Oprescu - Ljubljana | October 2025
Simina Oprescu’s residency in Ljubljana was presented through an open studio and artist talk structured as a lecture-format session exploring listening as an unstable and relational process. Through conceptual framing and selected artistic examples, the talk examined resonance as both vibration and transmission, failure as a generative method within sonic research, and the threshold of the inaudible as a compositional strategy. Audience engagement was supported through directed listening comparisons and discussion, strengthening a shared vocabulary around threshold-based sound practices and the material, architectural, and contextual conditions that shape sonic perception.
Fraction (Eric Raynaud) - Ljubljana | October 2025
Eric Raynaud’s residency in Ljubljana advanced the development of Perfect Blue, his artistic output, focusing on strategies for integrating TT8 physiological recordings datasets into a generative audiovisual system. Alongside an open studio and artist talk (“Slow Cooking”), the residency developed a flexible mapping architecture in Max/MSP to normalise heterogeneous physiological recordings and translate them into coherent sound behaviours and chromatic modulations (including a reconstructed cyanometric scale). The public sessions opened the research process to local artists, researchers, curators, and audiences, prompting dialogue on ecology, temporality, and the ethics of technological mediation, while demonstrating how data-driven art can support environmental awareness through perceptual experience.