FR / EN News | Artworks | Biography | Publications | Exhibitions | Contact Lights contacts Presentation PDF + Photos Lights contacts: This interactive artwork bring people together. Lights Contacts is an interactive artwork with an important social dimension. An interactive sound and light installation with body and skin from public Lights Contacts is an interactive artwork perceptible by two people and more. This sensory installation is tactile, luminous and sonorous. It proposes an original and interactive stagings where spectators’bodies are transformed into real sonorous human instruments. In a poetic way, Scenocosme invite the spectator to question the perception of the other. A first person is invited to put his hand on a small shiny ball. In contact with it, his body turns sensitive and reactive to other living bodies. If the person remains alone, nothing happens, there is no reaction. They must touch each other’s skin. Each touch generates variable sounds and lights which evolve according to the proximity of contacts and spectators. In this intimist artwork, the energetic clouds of bodies (electrostatic energy) are musically felt. Scenocosme artists propose a sensory experience with the other person’s body in order to animate what we cannot detect. In this situation, energetic contacts with other human bodies become sonorous. They want to provoke, to overturn degrees of proximity that we use in our relationships with known or unknown people. The space of the work is cover with light. It allows to draw an intimist space of interactions. Each physical contact between spectators generates a sound with a light color which vary according to intensities of bodies’ electrostatic energy. When nobody interacts, sounds and lights switch off. The only small spot light the shiny ball.
The urban space version of this work is : Urban Lights Contacts «Lights Contacts» has received several awards: :
The work is possible in several versions Lights Contacts
The interactive device proposes a very sensitive approach of the body. It allows to feel various degrees of electrostatic contacts according to proximities of bodies. Some people produces more electrostatic energy. The sensory staging is a kind of a ritual of meetings through the touch. The installation designs a space where proxemic distances of every day life are broken: hierarchical positions, social distances are then banished during these sensorial relations. Lights Contacts creates a transgressive space-time where socials relations are suddenly pushed aside, inverted. The energetic clouds take form of « proxemic cloud’s » which, becoming sensible, tangible, allow to play with distances between bodies. Then, Lights Contacts involves the spectators, and provokes intimate or funny situations. Couples kiss or make sonorous caress to each other, or unknown people touch their hands timidly, or many people play together... Many kind of reactions are possible. Depending on cultural areas, the contact with the other is different. This convivial space generates time for extra ordinary meetings. Light and sound vibrations appear fragile, they depend only on contacts with each other. Synchronisation between sound and colour Sonorous textures evolve according to the approach and the energetic intensity of bodies. Scenocosme study the way a sound can influence relations between spectators. They explore its power of retro-action, and how it can change the understanding and the touch between persons : when a caress feels like playing on a body like playing a music instrument for example. There is a correlation between intensity of contacts and intensity of musicality and light. Thus, variations of proximity and electrostatic energy influence sonorous and light textures: If one person touches totally the skin of the other, it generates sonorities with high pitch. If more persons touch the first one, energies are added and sonorities are more high. If the person touches lightly the first one or approaches at few centimetres without touch, sonorities are more low. Several group of sounds are associated to various light tints in order to propose lots of possibilities. A sound is assigned to the first person in contact with the ball. This sound is played when an another person touch his skin. The pitch of the sound varies according to the energetic intensity of the relation. The light tint associated to the sound evolves according to the pitch. It offers a vibrating and fragile light links to small energetic variations between bodies.(for example : a warm sound is associated to a red tint)
Scotiabank Nuit Blanche / Le Labo - Centre d’arts médiatiques - Toronto (Canada) Photos: Marc Lemyre, Toronto Biennale d’art contemporain Alios et les territoires sonores - La-Teste-de-Buch (Fr) Put and keep the palm of the hand on the ball. Inhale...Exhale Then, invite someone else to touch your body’skin
This installation can be exhibited in several ways Indoor version with lights The light installation cover the architecture of the space with several PAR LED RVB. Indoor version in a light space If the space can’t be in the dark, the artwork is shown without it light structure. This version of the artwork is called «Contacts» Urban version : Urban Lights Contacts This installation take place in the public space in front of a building. Urban Lights Contacts offers a sound dimension during the day and a sound and light dimension at nightfall. Sounds and lights systems are integrated in the space : on a facade, behind windows... Indoor version in the dark Lights Contacts - Festival Citysonics (Belgium) Indoor version in a light space Contacts - Festival Les Urbaines (Switzerland) Outdoor stand-alone version Lights Contacts Festival Bains Numeriques (France) Previous exhibitions of Lights ContactsGalerie de Rohan / lieu d’art contemporain - Landerneau (Fr) Festival Nuits d’Hiver Curator : Aurélie Maguet "Effervescences lumineuses" / Solo show 05/12/2024 - 05/01/2025 : https://galeriederohan.landerneau.bzh Espace culturel MAIF Social Club - Paris (Fr) "Faisons Corps" Curator : Nawal Bakouri 27/03/2024- 05/01/2025 : www.maifsocialclub.fr Parcours artistique Maisons folles #8 - Ronchin (Fr) Curator : Nicolas Tourte 01/06/2024 - 02/06/2024 Festival of the New European Bauhaus - Brussels (Belgium) Musée Royal d'Art & d'Histoire 10/04/2024- 13/04/2024 : www.new-european-bauhaus-festival.eu Chapelle de la Trinité - Lyon (Fr) "Mixit" 25/04/2024 - 25/04/2024 "Lug-du-Num" / "Les Arts Numériques sur le devant de la scène" Espace la Bâtie - Saint Laurent d’Agny (Fr) Maison de Pays de Mornant - Mornant (Fr) 11/11/2023 - 03/12/2023 : www.lug-du-num.com Clujotronic – Electro Arts Festival - Cluj-Napoca (Romania) 07/10/2022 - 09/10/2022 : www.clujotronic.ro Place de l'Office de Tourisme - Morzine (Fr) 17/12/2022 - 04/16/2023 Domaine Rockefeller - Faculté de Médecine Lyon-Est - Lyon (Fr) « Êtres sensibles» Solo show 19/09/2022 - 24/11/2022 Scènes urbaines : Novaciéries - Saint-Chamond (Fr) 05/09/2020 - 22/11/2020 Centre culturel Passage Sainte-Croix - Nantes (Fr) Solo show 28/01/2020 - 22/02/2020 : www.passagesaintecroix.fr Le Prisme - Centre culturel de la Ville d'Élancourt (Fr) Solo show 18/01/2020 - 21/02/2020 : www.leprisme.elancourt.fr Sensorium / centre culturel Rüttihubelbad - Walkringen (Switzerland) "Touché !" Curator : Frédéric Blanvillain 01/02/2020 - 01/12/2020 Château de Blandy-les-Tours - Blandy (Fr) Festival FETNAT - Performances artistiques et numériques 13/07/2019 - 14/07/2019 : www.chateau-blandy.fr Dak Nong Cultural Museum - Gia Nghia (Vietnam) Explorasound Curator : Guy Martini / UNESCO 30/06/2019 - 30/12/2022 Musée de la mine - Saint-Étienne (Fr) 21/09/2019 - 21/09/2019 : www.musee-mine.saint-etienne.fr La Ferme d'en Haut - fabrique culturelle - Villeneuve-d'Ascq (Fr) Lille 3000 Eldorado Curator : Céline Dacquin 14/09/2019 - 15/12/2019 Centre d'art Les Églises - Chelles (Fr) Solo show 08/02/2019 - 17/03/2019 Galerie Le Manège / Institut français de Dakar - Dakar (Sénégal) Curator : Delphine Calmettes Novembre numérique / pARTcours 7 Solo show 03/12/2018 - 31/01/2019 L'arteppes - espace d'art contemporain - Annecy (Fr) Solo show 29/11/2018 - 30/12/2018 : www.larteppes.org Festival Univers Numériques Ugine - Ugine (Fr) Curator : Josselin Vinay 01/02/2019 - 02/02/2019 : Médiathèque de Roanne (Fr) Solo show 15/10/2018 - 17/11/2018 Biennale ArtFareins 2018 / Château Bouchet - Fareins (Fr) Curator : Jacques Fabry 01/06/2018 - 15/07/2018 : www.artfareins.com Citadelle d'Arras / Main Square Festival - Arras (Fr) 06/07/2018 - 08/07/2018 : Carrefour des Arts de Lalouvesc / 30 ans - Lalouvesc (Fr) 07/07/2018 - 26/08/2018 : MusVerre / Musée du verre - Sars-Poteries (Fr) 19/05/2018 - 19/05/2018 : www.musverre.lenord.fr MAK Vienna - Museum of Applied Arts - Vienna (Austria) "Aesthetics of Change" Curators : Peter Weibel, Gerald Bast, Elisabeth Schmuttermeier, Patrick Werkner 15/12/2017 - 15/04/2018 : www.mak.at Centre Pompidou - Paris (Fr) 16/11/2017 - 16/11/2017 : www.centrepompidou.fr Odyssud - Centre culturel - Blagnac (Fr) Rencontres Sensibles - Scenocosme : Gregory Lasserre & Anais met den Ancxt Curator : Maud Denjean 22/09/2017 - 23/12/2017 : www.odyssud.com Biennale d’Arts Atlantic / Espace Encan - La-Rochelle (Fr) 17/11/2017 - 19/11/2017 : www.arts-atlantic.fr Labanque / Centre de production et diffusion en arts visuels - Béthune (Fr) Empathies - Scenocosme : Gregory Lasserre & Anais met den Ancxt Curator : Philippe Massardier 30/03/2017 : vernissage 01/04/2017 - 23/07/2017 : www.lab-labanque.fr Orangerie du château de la Louvière - Montluçon (Fr) Art graphique, art numérique : Curator : Lucie Bisson 19/05/2017 - 04/06/2017 Festival Zéro 1 / Art Numérique - La-Rochelle (Fr) 13/04/2017 - 16/04/2017 : www.festivalzero1.com La Passerelle / centre culturel du Pays de La Gacilly - Gacilly (Fr) Frontières Intimes 24/03/2017 - 12/04/2017 Chapelle de l'espace Aignan-Thomas Desfriches de la Média-bibliothèque du Val - Olivet (Fr) 31/01/2017 - 18/02/2017 Festival Aujourd’hui Musiques - Perpignan (Fr) Théâtre de l'Archipel Scène Nationale de Perpignan 18/11/2016 - 27/11/2016 : www.theatredelarchipel.org - www.aujourdhuimusiques.com Médiathèque Alphonse Daudet - Genay (Fr) 03/01/2017 - 31/01/2017 ZKM | Media Museum - Karlsruhe (Germany) CODE_n new.New Festival CODE_n exhibition Curated by Peter Weibel with Giulia Bini Sabiha Keyif, Daria Mille, and Philipp Ziegler 20/09/2016 - 22/09/2016 : www.zkm.de - www.newnewfestival.com Palais de l'Archevêché / Octobre Numérique - Arles (Fr) 07/10/2016 - 30/10/2016 : www.octobre-numerique.fr Mèq Festival - Festival international d'art numérique performatif - Montpellier (Fr) Humain trop humain Centre Dramatique National de Montpellier ISI_Lab Festival Curator : Mathilde Nourisson-Moncey 16/09/2016 - 17/09/2016 : www.humaintrophumain.fr - http://isilab2016.wixsite.com/isilab Espace culturel Puzzle / Troisième lieu - Thionville (Fr) DESconnexions Curators : Roch Charline, Benoit Thierry, Caroline Rinaldi 30/09/2016 - 10/11/2016 Oddstream festival - Nijmegen (Netherlands) Curator : Lieke Wouters 18/03/2016 - 28/03/2016 : www.oddstream.nl Espace d'exposition de la ville de Ploumagoar - Ploumagoar (Fr) 26/02/2016 - 11/03/2016 : Centre culturel de Comines Warneton - Comines (Belgium) 26/10/2015 - 04/11/2015 : Les Docks, cité de la mode et du design - Paris (Fr) Qwartz Award : 10 years 10/06/2015 - 10/06/2015 : www.citemodedesign.fr - www.qwartz.fr Musée EDF Hydrélec - Vaujany (Fr) Nuit Européenne des Musées 16/05/2014 - 16/05/2015 : www.musee-edf-hydrelec.com Musée de Millau et des Grands Causses - Millau (Fr) Scenocosme : Rencontres sensorielles 06/12/2014 - 14/02/2015 : www.museedemillau.fr Château de Saint-Priest - St-Priest (Fr) 04/02/2015 - 07/02/2015 : Le Mixeur, tiers-lieu culturel - St-Etienne (Fr) Curator : Igor Deschamps 08/12/2014 - 20/01/2015 : Western Plains Cultural Centre - Dubbo (Australia) Experimenta - Speak to Me : Curator : Abigail Moncrieff, Jen Mizuik 10/08/2014 - 10/11/2014 : www.westernplainsculturalcentre.org Centre Arc-en-ciel - Liévin (Fr) 03/11/2014 - 30/11/2014 : Pavillon Multimedia - Edmundston / New-Brunswick (Canada) Soutien : Institut Français + Ville de Saint Etienne Consulat Général de France dans les Provinces atlantique 08/08/2014 - 24/08/2014 : Albury LibraryMuseum - Albury (Australia) Speak to Me : Curator : Abigail Moncrieff, Jen Mizuik 20/05/2014 - 17/07/2014 : www.experimenta.org Musée Savoisien / Nuit des musées - Chambéry (Fr) 17/05/2014 - 18/05/2014 : www.musee-savoisien.fr QUT - Queensland University of Technology's - Queensland (Australia) Creative Industries Precinct / the block : Speak to Me : Curator : Abigail Moncrieff, Jen Mizuik 07/04/2014 - 02/05/2014 : www.ciprecinct.qut.edu.au Art Karlsruhe - Contemporary Art Fair / Karlsruhe (Germany) ZKM booth (ZKM Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe) : Curator : Peter Weibel 12/03/2014 - 16/03/2014 : www.zkm.de - www.art-karlsruhe.de Unpainted / media art fair - Munich (Germany) 17/01/2014 - 20/01/2014 : www.unpainted.net La Serre - espace d'exposition - St Etienne (Fr) 15/01/2014 - 15/02/2014 : International Symposium on Electronic Art - Sydney (Australia) Powerhouse Museum / Experimenta Speak to Me / Curator : Abigail Moncrieff, Jen Mizuik 07/06/2013 - 21/08/2013 : www.isea2013.org Château de Suscinio / Rêverie Moderne - Sarzeau (Fr) 27/09/2013 - 29/09/2013 : www.suscinio.info Alios et les territoires sonores - La-Teste-de-Buch (Fr) Bim! Bam! Boum! / Biennale d’art contemporain 20/09/2013 - 29/09/2013 : La Nuit de la Création - La-Motte-Servolex (Fr) 05/10/2013 - 05/10/2013 : Musée La Briqueterie - Langueux-les-Grèves (Fr) 14/06/2013 - 10/11/2013 : La Gaîté lyrique / Parizone@dream - Paris (Fr) 01/06/2013 - 02/06/2013 : www.gaite-lyrique.net Château de Ratilly Centre d’art vivant - Treigny (Fr) 24/03/2013 - 17/06/2013 : www.chateauderatilly.fr Experimenta 2012 - International Biennial of Media Art RMIT Gallery - Melbourne (Australia) Speak to Me / Curator : Abigail Moncrieff, Jen Mizuik 14/09/2012 - 17/11/2012 : www.experimenta.org Daejeon Museum of Art - Daejeon (Korea) Energy : Curator : Minkyung Kim 19/09/2012- 18/11/2012 : http://dmma.daejeon.go.kr Utsikten Kunstsenter - Kvinesdal (Norway) 04/10/2012 - 18/11/2012 : www.utsiktenkunstsenter.no Nocturne: Art at Night - Halifax (Canada) 13/10/2012 - 13/10/2012 : www.nocturnehalifax.ca Eclat Nocturne - Vandœuvre-lès-Nancy (Fr) 27/10/2012 - 27/10/2012 : Numusic festival - Stavanger (Norway) 27/09/2012 - 29/09/2012 : www.numusic.no Abbaye de l’Escaladieu - Horizons numériques - Bonnemazon (Fr) 22/09/2012 - 23/09/2012 : Musée du château de Flers - Villeneuve-d'Ascq (Fr) 15/09/2012 - 16/09/2012 : Noche de Luna Llena - Segovia (Spain) Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Esteban Vicente 07/07/2012 - 07/07/2012 : A-part, festival international d’art contemporain / Carrières de Lumières - Baux de Provence (Fr) «Lights Contacts» : Prix Qwartz Arts Nouveaux Médias 05/07/2012 - 05/07/2012 : www.festival-apart.com - http://qwartz.fr Le 106 / Scène de Musiques Actuelles - Rouen (Fr) 09/06/2012 - 10/06/2012 : www.le106.com FEW - Fête de l'Eau 2012 - Wattwiller (Fr) 26/05/2012 - 10/06/2012 : www.fetedeleauwattwiller.org L'espinoa - Espace culturel - Baignes (Fr) 23/03/2012 - 20/04/2012 : Exhibition : www.espinoa.com La chapelle des Augustins - Poitiers (Fr) 09/01/2012 - 03/02/2012 : Exhibition : http://chapelledesaugustins.crdp-poitiers.org Lab30 - Media Arts Festival- Augsburg (Germany) 27/10/2011 - 29/10/2011 : www.lab30.de Festival accès(s) - Pau (Fr) 06/10/2011 - 09/10/2011 : www.acces-s.org Le Labo - Centre d'arts médiatiques - Toronto (Canada) 01/10/2011 - 23/10/2011 : www.lelabo.ca Scotiabank Nuit Blanche - Toronto (Canada) 01/10/2011 - 01/10/2011 : www.scotiabanknuitblanche.ca Nuit Blanche Metz - Metz (Fr) 30/09/2011 - 30/09/2011 : www.n3b.fr La Nuit Défendue / Médiathèque Jacques Ellul - Pessac (Fr) 30/09/2011 - 30/09/2011 : Maison Folie hospice d'Havré - Tourcoing (Fr) 17/09/2011 - 16/10/2011 : ISEA 2011 - International Symposium Electronic Art - Istanbul (Turquey) 14/09/2011 - 07/10/2011 : http://isea2011.sabanciuniv.edu Plektrum festival - Tallinn (Estonia) Curator : Marge Paas 08/09/2011 -18/09/2011 : www.plektrumfestival.com NAMOC - National Art Museum Of China - Beijin (China) TransLife - Triennial of Media Art Curator : Zhang Ga 26/07/2011- 17/08/2011 : www.mediartchina.org - www.namoc.org Festival Les bouillants / Corpus numerica : www.bouillants.fr 07/06/2011 - 30/06/2011 : 7 Bis - Saint-Brieuc (Fr) 09/04/2011 - 08/05/2011 : Volume - Vern-sur-Seiche (Fr) 21/03/2011 - 08/04/2011 : Le diapason - Rennes (Fr) Eyebeam - Art + Technology Center - New York (USA) "BioRhythm: Music and the Body" 02/06/2011 - 06/08/2011 : www.eyebeam.org - www.worldsciencefestival.com Fondation Claude Verdan - musée de la main - Lausanne (Switzerland) 16/06/2011 - 29/04/2012 : www.verdan.ch Centre des Arts d' Enghien-les-Bains - Enghien-les-Bains (Fr) 1011/06/2011 - 11/06/2011 : www.cda95.fr Déclics festival / L'Agora - Nanterre (Fr) 26/04/2011 - 15/05/2011 : www.nanterre-multimedia.net Festival Les Pluriels - Rouen (Fr) 30/03/2011 - 03/04/2011 : www.lespluriels.com Festival Electrochoc : www.lesabattoirs.fr 13/04/2011 - 15/04/2011 : Millenium - Isle-d'Abeau (Fr) 07/04/2011 - 12/04/2011 : Hotel de ville - Villefontaine(Fr) 31/03/2011 - 06/04/2011 : Les Abattoirs - Bourgoin-Jallieu (Fr) Festival Chemins numériques #4 / Corps numérique - Reims (Fr) 29/01/2011 - 12/02/2011 : www.cheminsnumeriques-reims.com White Night Brighton - Brighton (UK) 30/10/2010 - 30/10/2010 : www.whitenightnuitblanche.com Nuit Blanche Amiens - Amiens (Fr) 16/10/2010 - 16/10/2010 : www.whitenightnuitblanche.com L'abbaye de Noirlac / Centre culturel de rencontre - Noirlac (Fr) Les univers interactifs de Scenocosme / Curator : Paul Fournier 18/09/2010 - 19/09/2010 : www.abbayedenoirlac.fr FAD - Festival de Arte Digital - Belo Horizonte (Brazil) 02/09/2010 - 03/10/2010 : www.festivaldeartedigital.com.br INDAF - Incheon International Digital Art Festival - Songdo (Korea) Soutien de l'Ambassade de France en Corée 01/09/2010 - 30/09/2010 : www.indaf.org Citysonics - Festival des arts sonores - Mons (Belgium) 27/08/2010 - 12/09/2010 : www.citysonics.be Science Gallery / Biorhythm : Music and the Body - Dublin (Irland) 02/07/2010 - 01/10/2010 : www.sciencegallery.com Bains Numeriques #5 / Festival arts numériques - Enghien-les-Bains (Fr) «Lights Contacts» : Prix de la création Arts visuels et technologies 12/06/2010 - 19/06/2010 : www.bainsnumeriques.fr Athens Video & Art Festival - Athen (Greece) 07/05/2010- 09/05/2010 : www.athensvideoartfestival.gr World expo Shanghai / Exposition universelle de Shanghai 2010 - Shanghai (China) 01/05/2010 - 15/07/2010 : www.expo2010.cn - www.lille3000.eu Médiathèque François-Mitterrand - Saintes (Fr) 27/03/2010 - 27/03/2010 : Les Urbaines - emerging arts festivals - Lausanne (Switzerland) 04/12/ 2009 - 06/12/ 2009 : www.urbaines.ch Daejeon Museum of Art - Daejeon (Korea) Les Urbaines - emerging arts festivals - Lausanne (Switzerland) Scenocosme : Gregory Lasserre & Anais met den Ancxt - www.scenocosme.com |