Exhibition whith “Seconde Nature” in “Ecole Supérieure d’Art d’Aix-en-Provence” (fr)
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Grégoire Lauvin, sound and bio artist, and Pascal Chirol, programmer artist, recently graduate at the “Ecole Supérieure d’Art d’Aix en Provence“.
Invited by “Seconde Nature”, a festival of art dedicated to new media and electronic arts, they colaborate to bring an original show, where new technologys mixed with humour and art.
Pascal Chirol creations involved software art and net art. He is as well interseted in robotics and works with Grégoire Lauvin, who experiment interactions between electronic systems and alive organism like vegetals. The result of their collaboration is surprising realisations totaly un-seen in contemporany art.
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WIND DRAWS
Pascal Chirol
http://updatepixels.net
The installation here, is a wind space made of 15 fans in circle.
Some drawing object is use like « Analogic Reactif Protocol », something like a boat “sailing pen”, which is drawing on a paper pushed by the wind.
The fans are controled by a software I build in Processing (project : Wind Earth) and a microcontroler. So, every fan is blowing world wind from data network, using the datas to make a live analogic randomnes.
This installation is asking the question of artist creation and is action.
Where take place author & creation ? How art is build ?
Which are the borders of art : How are they given ? by who ?
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BioOsc
Sound installation ; electronic, amplifier, leafs.
Grégoire Lauvin
http://www.gregorth.net
BioOsc is a sound generative installation that use plants as electronic parts.
The sound produce is generated by sixteen basic oscillators. But, each of them is pluged to a couple a leaf who act like emectronic parts, and so tune the fraquency.
As the leafs get dry, the sound change and slowly die.
The sound change very slowly over time, sometime quick enouth to be ear.
The piece is over when all of them are dead, and the sound is barely audible, the pitch getting higher.
The time of this process depend of the type of plants used, the weather condition, ect.
Because the system is very sensitive, when somebody touch the leaf, it cause the tune to change, allowing visitor to play and interac directly with the piece.
The purpose is to made a technologic system and alive things work together, porducing an original sound, and opening new area for bio-art.
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Hyperonyme (work in progress)
Pascal Chirol
http://updatepixels.net
An “Hypernymy” is the semantic relation from a word to another, the first one, more general, include the extention of the second one, more specific, in the relation of class tu subclass.
The first one is so the hypernym of the second one.
This software generate graphic representation of the internal folders and files structure of an hard drive.
It is important to mention that the amont of datas on the hard drive is taken as several different parts disolve one the magnetic substrac. The graphic representation is so more an graphic interactivity than a alternative navigation.
A work in progress to get an other visual of my computer data.
Le Flash Festival au centre Pompidou, une des seules et des plus grande manifestations Françaises dédiées à la présentation d’oeuvres numériques sur le net, nous a encore une fois montré qu’il valait mieux faire démonstration des qualités du dernier logiciel Adobe, plutôt que de parler de ce qui se passe réellement sur le net, et des questions qui dépassent cette société du spectacle.
