The festival unites art, music, media and design in a relentless approach of contemporary culture. Heading for the 7th edition from 25th till 28th of November Cimatics will again pop-up both underground and above at the most unexpected moments and locations in the center of Brussels to present experiments in the field of audiovisual and digital culture. Cimatics presents audiovisual concerts, performances, live cinema, interactive installations, electronic music, DJ/VJ sets, selected screening programs and much more to discover.

Cimatics was set up in 2003 for the first Cimatics VJ festival. Soon after, this was expanded into a festival for 'Live Audiovisual Art & VJing' by which Cimatics succeeded in building up a solid international reputation in the field of live audiovisual art.
Cimatics aims at a rigorous approach to its own field of interest and therefor concentrates on the interchange between the wide variety of existing culture segments. In this way, the festival has always been intended to be an event with a meta-narrative, a node where grass-roots, underground and pop or art become mixed. In short, a contemporary happening with a capital 'H'.
Since the beginning, a great many artists of all sorts have formed part of this collage, this cultural mash-up. In addition, but crucial, is that the artists are challenged to leave their familiar position on a stage in a concert hall and enter the public or semi-public domain with, for example, interactive audio-visual installation and audio-visual concerts.

Cimatics\AV\Platform is an organisation that focuses on audio-visual performances, with the emphasis on those that have grown out of VJ culture and cyber culture. Most of the projects revolve around the interaction (live or otherwise) between sound and image: live cinema, visual music, expanded cinema or DJ/VJ. Next to that there is also a continuous attention for audio-visual installations, experimental cinema, music video and motion graphics.
Cimatics\AV\Platform was born out of the Cimatics festival, which was initially intended for VJing, but the organisation's activities have rapidly expanded. On the one hand there has been a broadening of vision: Cimatics now looks at a wider field of experimental audiovisual performances, but at the same time continues to all it can to tighten the links between audiovisual art, media art and the broader, more popular digital and audiovisual culture. In this way it attempts to contribute to the development both of the arts and of culture in a wider sense. On the other hand, on the basis of this activity it is building a platform not only for the organisation of the Cimatics festival but also focusing on the production of new audiovisual performances and installations, holding workshops and creating publications.