This fall, the Science District invites visitors to travel through time. Immediate boarding towards the future at the Quai des Savoirs with the 10th edition of the festival Lights on the Quay on the theme Create with AI?at the closing of the exhibition AI: Double JeAt the Museum, the public will be transported into the past with the opening of the exhibition Giants.
Lights on the Quay: Creating with artificial intelligence?
Artistic and scientific tour, workshops, meetings and street shows, the 10th edition of the Lumières sur le Quai festival on the theme Create with AI? promises some great surprises on the Jules-Guesde alleys but also in the towns of the Toulouse metropolitan area. The festival which closes the exhibition AI: Double Jeinvites the public to explore AI from various angles, creating a multidisciplinary dialogue.
From October 18 to November 3
In and around the Quai des Savoirs and in several places in the metropolis
3 shows not to be missed before the festival
Human in the loop with the Nicole Seiler company
What happens when an artificial intelligence participates in the creation of a choreography? Based on instructions generated by this AI before each performance, discovered live by the performers, the artistic process is revealed before the eyes of the audience.
- October 2, 8 p.m. at the Mazades theater in Toulouse followed by a discussion with artists and researchers on the challenges of AI and its place in artistic creation
- October 4, 8:30 p.m. at the Escale in Tournefeuille. Presented as part of La Biennale – Toulouse Occitanie International Festival of Performing Arts and the Lumières sur le Quai festival
Spectacle SonIA with the MAB company
Mixing theater, dance, music, video and robotics, the show SonIA tells, through poetry and dreaminess, the reciprocal relationships between humans and the “intelligent” machine, and questions, through sensitivity and emotion, the major issues today of artificial intelligence. At the center of the device, a dancer and her drone…
Show co-produced with Quai des Savoirs and l’Usine, with the participation of ANITI, ENAC and LAAS-CNRS of Toulouse
October 5 at 7:30 p.m. and 9 p.m. – Jardin du Grand Rond / Free open access
AI Shows – 45 quick and easy everyday recipes followed by 53 chic and delicious recipes for the Apocalypse celebrations by Magali Desbazeille
Magali Desbazeille and Julie Valero, two curious artists and researchers, cook several artificial intelligences live. On the menu, 45 easy and quick everyday recipes, followed by 53 chic and gourmet recipes.
Shows co-produced with Quai des Savoirs.
October 12 at 8:30 p.m. – Théâtre du Grand Rond / Duration: 30 min for each show / Free admission
A grandiose exhibition at the Museum: Giants
In its next major exhibition, the Museum follows in the footsteps of unknown giants. Visitors will discover the history of 8 species from the Cenozoic through 3 life-size skeletons and 5 titanic 3D sculptures.
This journey into the past offers an immersion into the daily life of these impressive creatures: Gigantopithecus blackithe Asian monkey as tall as three orangutans, or even Gastornis Lawrence the giant flightless bird, discovered in the region and exhibited for the first time at the Toulouse Museum. A great opportunity to feel very small!
An exhibition open to the general public, to be discovered from October 8, 2024 to June 29, 2025, in 3 languages (French, English, Spanish), produced by the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences and adapted by the Natural History Museum of Toulouse.
The Museum Gardens in music
To savor the end of the summer season, the Jardins du Muséum will be transformed into a musical guinguette on September 5 with a concert by Marie Sigal, a local artist with a poetic musical universe.
Free access within the limit of available places / Doors open at 6:30 p.m.
Concert from 8 p.m. to 9 p.m.
On September 29, Metronum and JDM are joining forces to celebrate the arrival of autumn during a friendly day of entertainment and concerts, Metronum on the garden side[s].
Free and open access / From 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Also to be discovered this autumn, the events of all the establishments of the Directorate of Scientific, Technical and Industrial Culture of Toulouse Métropole: aeroscopia, the City of Spacel’Flight of the Pioneersthe Museum and the Quay of Knowledge.
The Explorers Pass: With this offer, visitors have access to all five establishments.
More information
Toulouse Museum – Quai des Savoirs: 35 and 39 allées Jules Guesde – 31000 Toulouse
