Lumières sur le Quai Festival
Lumières sur le Quai festival annually explores desirable futures through artistic-scientific perspectives, inviting you to immerse yourself in interactive, visual, and luminous installations. Discover the Quai des Savoirs main exhibition, participate in interventions and performances, engage in workshops and creative sessions for all ages, and meet notable scientific figures, artists, and key individuals shaping our era.
Lumières sur le Quai 2024
Creating with AI?
Such was the theme of its tenth edition, which coincided with the closing of the AI: Double Je exhibition. What is AI’s take on art? And what role remains for humans? Over the course of two weeks, the public was invited to explore these questions through a variety of artistic and scientific experiences, including installations, exhibitions, workshops, conferences, and performances.
Lumières sur le Quai 2023
Play with fire
For its 9th edition, in conjunction with the conclusion of the exhibition Feux, mégafeux, the Lumières sur le Quai festival centers around the theme ‘Play with Fire’ and explores pyrotechnic creations from various perspectives: live arts, street arts, techniques and technologies based on combustion, ranging from cooking to propulsion, from culinary arts to space industry. This is the challenge of this new edition, at the intersection of visual arts, participatory sciences, and maker culture: playing with fire while reconnecting with climate hope!
Lumières sur le Quai 2022
Fiction or reality?
For the 8th edition of Lumières sur le Quai, in continuation with the exhibition Esprit Critique : détrompez-vous !, the festival delve into the dangerous connections between fiction and reality. In a world grappling with fake news, deep fakes, conspiracy theories, and other false sciences, how can we discern the truth? Why always pit fiction against reality? Explore reality through fiction, illuminate fiction with reality. This is the daring challenge of this 8th edition!
Lumières sur le Quai 2021
Reshape our bounds
That’s the challenge set by Quai des Savoirs for the 7th edition of Lumières sur le Quai around the theme taking back control of our futures. To conclude the season of the exhibition De l’Amour presented in the same year, the Quai des Savoirs addresses issues of coexistence, the trust we place in science, the space we allocate to others on the planet, and many more.