Salle 200 - Performances and projections

FRENG

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 29

14:00Salle 200Social Experiments

Beyond Absolute

A performance by Reiko Yamada in collaboration with the LUCA project, with Ilona Schneider (soprano)

What if we could open new channels of communication between physicians and their patients? Using the LUCA device, an innovative technology designed to diagnose thyroid cancer, the artist transforms each consultation into a unique soundscape that combines physiological data gathered by the physician and impressions drawn from the patient's subjective experience. This presentation of “Beyond Absolute” features a selection of these soundscapes that will be performed by a singer moving among, and engaging with the audience.

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14:30Salle 200Augmented Experiences

Constellation of the Flesh

A Virtual Reality Dance Experience by Mária Júdová and Choy Ka Fai in collaboration with the Moving Digits Project

Can we digitize the dance of the supernatural? Can we transform fragments of trance into a sensorial experience? Inspired by the concept of post-human choreography, the project speculates on the choreographic expressions of trance in shamanistic dance movements and proposes new perspectives on how the body can transcend beyond physical senses and observes variations of altered state of consciousness. Maybe we all have the itch to transcend beyond our physical flesh and venture into the digital cosmos of virtual realities.

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15:30Salle 200Challenging the matter

Always Dead and Alive

A video by Theresa Schubert in collaboration with Immersify (Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center PSNC)

What if pixels were considered as interacting agents able to self-organize? The residency combines research on the evolution of patterns in nature and self-organisation of forms with generative video. The team created ‘Always Dead and Alive’, a computational video and surround audio experience. It takes us in a flow of light, color and sound, playing out a sequence of patterns based on cellular automata rules. The resulting scenarios between geometric abstraction and minimalism challenge our usual boundaries of perception.

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15:50Salle 200Ecological Explorations

By the Code of Soil

A video by Kasia Molga & Robin Rimbaud in collaboration with the GROW Observatory

What if you could see and hear the soil speak? The artists worked with soil data as their material, creating soilscapes and data portraits of the GROW places. When launched on participating computers as a harmless “computer virus”, the artwork always looked and sounded differently, governed by data from GROW’s soil moisture sensors distributed all over Europe. Now made into a 3-channel video piece, it portrays a system of interconnected and interdependent processes conveying the condition of the land - unique and different to each place.

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16:10Salle 200Ecological Explorations

Becoming.eco(logical)

A video by Miha Tursič & Špela Petrič in collaboration with ARCTUR

How to visualize the impact of humans on carbon emissions? Like data journalists, the artists research climate data to build an understanding of the human condition within a changing environment. With this wide set of data and a model of anthropospheric carbon flows, running on the ARCTUR supercomputer, the artists visualised an understanding of human impacts on global carbon flows. As contemporary activists, they are using this project to advocate for more open and accessible research data while shedding the light on models and simulation biases.

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17:30Salle 200Challenging the matter

Sci-Fi Miners

A performance by João Martinho Moura in collaboration with the CritCat Project (INL)

Can nanotechnologies replace rare materials? This residency team explores how, with the help of scientific advances in nanotechnology and artificial intelligence, a new generation of nanoclusters are replacing critical natural resources becoming very rare on planet earth. “Sci-fi Miners” is an audio-visual, interactive and virtual reality performance where the artist takes the audience on a journey on the nanometric scale of matter.

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18:00Salle 200Augmented Experiences

Still

A performance by Natan Sinigaglia in collaboration with vvvv

Can we recollect and embrace a fulfilling sense of time through a multimedia performance? The team pushes the limits of the vvvv real-time multimedia software in a performance tackling the question of the perception of time, overcoming immediate interaction and opening spaces for contemplation. Alone on stage, the artist plays the saxophone. He manipulates the audiovisual immersive scene through his movements sensed by a full-body 3D tracking device, establishing a dialogue with the custom software system.

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18:30Salle 200Social Experiments

Constella(c)tions

A performance by Michelle Agnès Magalhaes in collaboration with Benjamin Matuszewski and Frederic Bevilacqua (BeCoMe Project, ISMM Team) and the musicians from SoundInitiative. 

Can smartphones become collective performance devices? Creating alternative uses of our mobile technologies, Constella(c)tions proposes a musical experience built out of physical and metaphorical connections between performers and the public. An artistic proposition to repurpose smartphones as collective musical instruments, where the audience can engage actively in the performance.

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SUNDAY, MARCH 1

14:30Salle 200Social Experiments

Beyond Absolute

A performance by Reiko Yamada in collaboration with the LUCA project, with Ilona Schneider (soprano)

What if we could open new channels of communication between physicians and their patients? Using the LUCA device, an innovative technology designed to diagnose thyroid cancer, the artist transforms each consultation into a unique soundscape that combines physiological data gathered by the physician and impressions drawn from the patient's subjective experience. This presentation of “Beyond Absolute” features a selection of these soundscapes that will be performed by a singer moving among, and engaging with the audience.

Learn more

15:00Salle 200Augmented Experiences

Constellation of the Flesh

A Virtual Reality Dance Experience by Mária Júdová and Choy Ka Fai in collaboration with the Moving Digits Project

Can we digitize the dance of the supernatural? Can we transform fragments of trance into a sensorial experience? Inspired by the concept of post-human choreography, the project speculates on the choreographic expressions of trance in shamanistic dance movements and proposes new perspectives on how the body can transcend beyond physical senses and observes variations of altered state of consciousness. Maybe we all have the itch to transcend beyond our physical flesh and venture into the digital cosmos of virtual realities.

Learn more

16:00Salle 200Challenging the matter

Always Dead and Alive

A video by Theresa Schubert in collaboration with Immersify (Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center PSNC)

What if pixels were considered as interacting agents able to self-organize? The residency combines research on the evolution of patterns in nature and self-organisation of forms with generative video. The team created ‘Always Dead and Alive’, a computational video and surround audio experience. It takes us in a flow of light, color and sound, playing out a sequence of patterns based on cellular automata rules. The resulting scenarios between geometric abstraction and minimalism challenge our usual boundaries of perception.

Learn more

16:15Salle 200Ecological Explorations

By the Code of Soil

A video by Kasia Molga & Robin Rimbaud in collaboration with the GROW Observatory

What if you could see and hear the soil speak? The artists worked with soil data as their material, creating soilscapes and data portraits of the GROW places. When launched on participating computers as a harmless “computer virus”, the artwork always looked and sounded differently, governed by data from GROW’s soil moisture sensors distributed all over Europe. Now made into a 3-channel video piece, it portrays a system of interconnected and interdependent processes conveying the condition of the land - unique and different to each place.

Learn more

16:30Salle 200Ecological Explorations

Becoming.eco(logical)

A video by Miha Tursič & Špela Petrič in collaboration with ARCTUR

How to visualize the impact of humans on carbon emissions? Like data journalists, the artists research climate data to build an understanding of the human condition within a changing environment. With this wide set of data and a model of anthropospheric carbon flows, running on the ARCTUR supercomputer, the artists visualised an understanding of human impacts on global carbon flows. As contemporary activists, they are using this project to advocate for more open and accessible research data while shedding the light on models and simulation biases.

Learn more

17:30Salle 200Challenging the matter

Sci-Fi Miners

A performance by João Martinho Moura in collaboration with the CritCat Project (INL)

Can nanotechnologies replace rare materials? This residency team explores how, with the help of scientific advances in nanotechnology and artificial intelligence, a new generation of nanoclusters are replacing critical natural resources becoming very rare on planet earth. “Sci-fi Miners” is an audio-visual, interactive and virtual reality performance where the artist takes the audience on a journey on the nanometric scale of matter.

Learn more

18:00Salle 200Augmented Experiences

Still

A performance by Natan Sinigaglia in collaboration with vvvv

Can we recollect and embrace a fulfilling sense of time through a multimedia performance? The team pushes the limits of the vvvv real-time multimedia software in a performance tackling the question of the perception of time, overcoming immediate interaction and opening spaces for contemplation. Alone on stage, the artist plays the saxophone. He manipulates the audiovisual immersive scene through his movements sensed by a full-body 3D tracking device, establishing a dialogue with the custom software system.

Learn more