WEKIT X Deval & Losseau

WEKIT

WEKIT stands for Wearable Experience for Knowledge Intensive Training. WEKIT is an ambitious European research and innovation project supported under Horizon 2020 to develop and test within three years a novel way of industrial training enabled by smart Wearable Technology (WT). In particular, 13 WEKIT partners representing academia and industry from six countries in Europe will build a ground-breaking industrial-strength learning technology platform and unique methodology to capture expert experience and share it with trainees in the process of enabling immersive, in-situ, and intuitive learning. In this way, WEKIT will bring learning content and technical documentation to life via task-sensitive Augmented Reality (AR), making industrial training more efficient, affordable and engaging.

ATLAS

ATLAS is a work between digital arts and visual arts, under the form of an interactive and scenographic exhibition (a mix between real models and an interactive virtual world). After being plunge in an archipelago of poetical islands, spectators are invited to build virtual cities. For that, they have a « seed launcher ». Each launch will make an house grow. The growing houses follows some urbanistic rules, they adapts to their environnement: cities in the cloud, uprooted cities, cities on stilts, flying cities… Spectators creates empty cities, without inhabitants, giving a large place to imagine what happens inside these houses. These cities take on a life of their own, with or without the interactions of users, like living organisms… The names of these cities are inspired by forgotten or immersed cities: Xanadu, Canope, Kerma, Kitej… The work consists of creating huge cities, for wandering and loose yourself. To provoque a reflexion on the topics of urbanism, architecture, and their influence on our lifestyles. And giving life to inanimate things...

About this residency

From Dec. 4, 2017 to Nov. 23, 2018

Localization: Oxford, GB

VR augmented reality visual art smart cities environment urbanism

Deval & Losseau

Yann Deval
Interactive designer, motion-designer, musical composer. After studying the history of cinema in La Sorbonne (Paris) and studying editing and audio-visual post-production in Cannes, he settled in Brussels in 2006 where he developed his activities as motion-designer and VFX artist. He works for the film industry (Mood Indigo by Michel Gondry, The Brand New Testament by Jaco Van Dormael), music-videos (Puggy, Sacha Toorop), documentaries for Arte, tv-shows for France Television)… He occasionnaly trains professionals and students at digital creation workshops (School Arts2 Mons, EMMD Motion Design Brussels...) Between 2012 and 2017, he co-directs the virtual reality performance IMMERSIO. This performance is a mix between live music and digital arts, and was played in diverse venues (SAT Montreal, ADAF Athens, SignalOFF Prague, Wisp Festival Leipzig, Bozar and Halles de Schaerbeek Brussels…).

Marie-Ghislaine Losseau
Scenographer, visual art designer. She studied scenography at La Cambre / Brussels and visual arts at ISPG Brussels. She develops an activity around the topics of scenography, visual installations and the organisation of workshops with kids and adults.

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