The University of Lille, with the support of the Hauts-de-France region and in partnership with Le Fresnoy – Studio national des arts contemporains, is launching a new call for applications for the AIRLab residency (Artist in Immersion Research in a Laboratory) for the 2026–2027 academic year. Application deadline: 1 May 2026
AIRLab (Artist in Immersion Research in a Laboratory), a one-year programme, aims to facilitate collaboration between an artist who creates visual, graphic, audiovisual, theatrical, choreographic, musical or literary works, and a research laboratory at the University of Lille.
WED 25 NOV 2026— 4.00pm A talk organised in partnership with CEAC/University of Lille as part of the educational programme, open to the public. Matthieu Raffard has been working as part of an artist duo with Mathilde Roussel since 2017.
WED 18 NOV 2026— 4.00pm A lecture organised as part of the educational programme, open to the public. Cy Lecerf Maulpoix is an author, translator and lecturer in critical theory at the city’s School of Fine Arts (INSEAMM).
WED 4 NOV 2026— 4.00pm Lecture organised as part of the teaching programme, open to the public. Guillaume Chevillon is a professor at ESSEC, where he holds the Chair in Cultural Industries, Art and Creative Technologies and is Director of Metalab for AI, Data and Society, a transdisciplinary research institute dedicated to the societal challenges of artificial intelligence.