Akousmaflore
Sensitive and interactive musical plants
scenocosme : Grégory Lasserre & Anaïs met den Ancxt
The interactive garden
Akousmaflore is an interactive installation, a small garden composed of living musical plants, which react to human gestures and to gentle contact. Each plant reacts in a different way to contact by producing a specific sound. The plant «language» or song occurs through touch and the close proximity of the spectator. Our invisible electrostatic aura acts on the plant branches and encourages them to react. The plants sing when the audience is touching or stroking lightly them. A plant concert is created.
Alliance between nature and digital technology
In their artwork, the artists Scenocosme create hybrids between plants and digital technology. Plants are natural sensors and are sensitive to various energy flows. Digital technologies permit us to establish a relationship between plants and sound. We display the effects of random data flow and plant interaction. The data is modified as the spectator meanders around and touches the installation, resulting in a random musical universe. Audience gestures and movements generate sound effects and changes in the texture of the sound.
Approach : invisible design
Our body continually produces an electrical aura, which cannot be felt. This phenomenon exists in the environment immediately surrounding us. In our research, the «design of the invisible», our approach is to animate that which we cannot detect. Mixing reality with imagination, we propose a sensory experience that encourages us to think about our relationship with other living things and with energy. Indoor plants can have an ambiguous existence that swings between decorative object and living being. It is said that «inanimate objects» can react when they receive human attention. Through Akousmaflore, plants let us know about their existence by a scream, a melody or an acoustical vibration.
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- Festival VIA à Maubeuge - Interview de Véronique Godé / OREVO, RTS TV : Kulturna zakladnica (Cultural Treasury) : Kibla (Maribor - SLOVENIE), FR3 Région : Festival 38ème Rugissant (Grenoble - FR) , Monbled TV : Festival Artrock (St Brieuc - FR), M6 : Maison Salvan (Toulouse - FR)
CAM Raleigh - Contemporary Art Museum - Raleigh (USA)
Born Digital / Curator : Elysia Borowy-Reeder 28 jan - 30 april 2012 : Exhibition : www.camraleigh.org
Galeria 13 muz / Digital_ia 2012/ 4th Digital Art Festival - Szczecin (POLAND) 12 jan - 01 march 2012 : Exhibition : www.digitalia.13muz.eu - www.13muz.eu
The OCT Art and Design Gallery - Shenzhen (CHINA)
Festival croisements - Augmented senses Curator : Yan Xiaodong, Charles Carcopino 12 augst - 11 sept 2011 : Exhibition : www.faguowenhua.com/croisements
Soutien : Ambassade de France en Chine
MONA - Museum of Old and New Art - Tasmania (AUSTRALIA)
Experimenta Utopia Now / Curator : Amy Barclay, Daine Singer 05 augst - 3 oct 2011 : Exhibition : www.mona.net.au
The OCT Shanghai Suzhou creek - Shanghai (CHINA)
Festival croisements - Augmented senses Curator : Yan Xiaodong, Charles Carcopino 28 june - 31 jully 2011 : Exhibition : www.faguowenhua.com/croisements
Soutien : Ambassade de France en Chine
Norwegian Museum of Science, Technology and Medicine - Oslo (NORWAY) NIME 2011 / Sonic Interaction Design Curator : Trond Lossius, Frauke Behrendt 29 may - 21 augst 2011 : Exhibition : www.tekniskmuseum.no - http://sid.bek.no
Musée des beaux-arts de la Nouvelle-Écosse - Halifax (CANADA) Art Gallery of Nova Scotia
/ The Last Frontier / curator : Sarah Fillmore
2 Dec 2010 - 26 April 2011 : Exhibition :
www.artgalleryofnovascotia.ca
Partner : Consulat général de France dans les Provinces atlantiques
Festival Les Nuits Botanique - Bruxelles (BELGIUM) Le Botanique - centre culturel de la communauté française 12-22 May 2011 : Exhibition : www.botanique.be
Carriageworks - Home for Contemporary Arts - Sydney (AUSTRALIA)
Experimenta Utopia Now / Curator : Amy Barclay, Daine Singer 25 Sept - 16 Oct 2010 : Exhibition : www.carriageworks.com.au
Experimenta Utopia Now - International Biennial of Media Arts
The Arts Centre BlackBox- Melbourne (AUSTRALIA) Curator : Amy Barclay, Daine Singer 11 Fev - 14 March 2010 : Exhibition : www.experimenta.org - www.theartscentre.com.au
Les Urbaines - emerging arts festivals - Lausanne (SWITZERLAND) Arsenic - centre d'art scénique contemporain / Curator : Patrick de Rham 4-5-6 Dec 2009 : Exhibition : www.urbaines.ch
ZKM Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe /
YOU[ser] 2.0 Das Jahrhundert des Konsumenten / The Century of the Consumer Curator : Peter Weibel
Karlsruhe (GERMANY) 30 April - 30 Augt 2009 : Exhibition : www.zkm.de
Festival des jardins métissés
/ Parc de Wesserling / Musée textile -
Husseren-Wesserling (FR) 14 June - 4 Oct 2009 : Exhibition : www.parc-wesserling.fr
Festival International EXIT 2009 / Maison des Arts de Créteil
- Créteil (FR) New Freaks ! - Nouveaux monstres ! / Curator : Charles Carcopino 12 - 22 March 2009 : Exhibition : www.maccreteil.com
BIACS3 - International Biennial of Contemporary Art of Seville CAAC - Andalusian centre of Contemporary Art - Sevilla (SPAIN) YOUniverse, the exhibition / Curator : Peter Weibel 2 Oct 2008 - 11 Jan 2009 : Exhibition : www.fundacionbiacs.com/biacs3 Program : Biacs3_informacion_general.pdf
Festival Internacional de las Artes de castilla y leon - Salamanca (SPAIN)
Curator : Guy Martini
15 May - 15 June 2008 : Exhibition : www.festivalcyl.com
