Alsos is an interactive clearing in a small fantastic forest.
Alsos installation was born with the idea to link nature and technology
This artwork suggests a relationship between living world and technology : a possible hybridization with a digital plant. In this installation, the audience can interact on a sound world ready to awaken.
In this installation the visitors share sonorous experiences. The clearing is both an intimist space and a place for meetings. The black light transforms the space and changes the perceptions.
The audience explores the space with flash-lights or with the light from their smartphones. They illuminate the fluorescent flowers in the branches.
Each flower reacts by different sounds. The pitch of the sound is evolving according to the intensity of the lights.
The fluorescent flowers react to the luminous flows modifications. They camouflage light sensors in their pistil.
The luminous impulses and variations are sent to a data-processing program on a computer which transform them into various sounds.
The gestures and the movements of the spectators allow to generate sound effects and to change textures of the sound.Each flower having a different sound, the sound universe evolves according to light intensities, and hazards of public interventions.
Alsos* - Interview (Montage Vidéo : Jérôme Avril / Castin'prod)
Bastion - Besançon (Fr)
Festival Streamfest - Festival di arti elettroniche - Lecce (Italia)
Watermans New Media Gallery - Brentford-London (UK)
Previous exhibitions of Alsos
Chapelle du Calvaire - Vence (Fr)
"Le refuge des fées"
Curators : Erik Lorré - Fées d'hiver / Musée de Vence - Fondation Emile Hugues 01/07/2024 - 30/11/2024: www.museedevence.fr - http://feesdhiver.fr
La Part-Dieu Bibliothèque municipale de Lyon (Fr)
"L'Appel de la forêt"
Curator : Violaine Kanmacher 08/10/2024 - 01/02/2025
China Millennium Monument’s Art Museum - Beijing (China)
"One Tree, One World"
Curator : Yan Baitong, Anobo (Art has NO-BOundaries) 01/07/2023 - 30/10/2023
La Nuit de la Création - La-Motte-Servolex (Fr)
Curator : Eve Poinsard 01/10/2022 - 01/10/2022
The Festival of Curiosity - International festival of science, art, design & technology.- Dublin (Irland) Science Gallery 18/07/2019 - 22/07/2019: www.festivalofcuriosity.ie
Grand Site Solutré Pouilly / Musée départemental de Préhistoire - Solutré-Pouilly (Fr)
Exposition personnelle : Résonances végétales 28 avril - 31 nov 2013
Espace culturel Saint-André - Abbeville (Fr) 09 nov - 21 dec 2012
Halle du Jeu de Paumes - Vic-le-Comte (Fr) 25 juin - 30 aout 2012
Watermans - New Media Gallery - Brentford-London (UK)
Curator : Irini Papadimitriou
Soutien : Institut Français 06/07/2011 - 30/09/2011 : www.watermans.org.uk