Contacts is an interactive sound installation with body and skin from public

An interactive sound and light installation with body and skin from public

"Lights Contacts" is an interactive artwork perceptible by two people or more. This sensory installation is tactile, luminous and sonorous. It proposes an original and interactive staging among spectators’ bodies. They are transformed into real sonorous human instruments. In a poetic way, we invite the spectator to question the perception of the other one.

This artwork is composed by a small interactive shiny ball. A first person is invited to put his hand on the shiny ball. In contact with this object, his body gets sensitive and reactive to other living bodies. If the person remains alone, nothing happens, there is no reaction. He must invite another person to touch him. They must touch each other’s skin. For example, they can shake hands, caress or kiss each other. Each touch generates variable sounds. The various sonorous vibrations change with the proximity of contacts and spectators.

We also present the installation with a structure for lights connected to spots lights RVB inside. Then each contacts between the people interact with the color and the intensivity of the lights.

With the artwork «Lights contacts» we want to design each presentation and light scenography according to the specificity and the size of the exhibition space.

«Lights Contacts» implicates 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. According to cultural areas, the contact with other people is different.

In this artwork, the energetic clouds of bodies (electrostatic energy) are musically felt. We 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. We want to provoke, to overturn degrees of proximity that we use in our relationships with known or unknown people.

Coproduction :
Centre des Arts d’Enghien-les-Bains, Scène conventionnée pour les écritures numériques : www.cda95.fr

The installation «Lights Contacts» has received the Award "visual arts and new technologies” for the 5th edition of the Bains numériques international digital arts festival organized by the centre des arts of Enghien-les-Bains in France. The jury was composed by Eduardo Kac, Annick Bureaud and Ghislaine Boddington.

«Lights Contacts» have also receive the Award Lab30 Public's Choice Award at Lab30 - Media Arts Festival - Augsburg (GERMANY)

Artwork Presentation(pdf)

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Put and keep the palm of the hand on the ball.

Inspire...Expire

Then, invite someone else to touch your body'skin

Each contacts generate sound and light variations.

This installation can be exhibite in 3 ways


1- Indoor version in the dark	2 - Indoor version in a lighting space	3 - Outdoor version
The lighting structure is not heavy, easy to hang, with differents sizes and can be show in different sizes of spaces. When the lights comes, all the space is illuminate.	When the ceiling is too low or if the space can't be in the dark, the artwork is show without is lighting structure. This version of the artwork is call «Contacts»	We have made this version for the public space. The lighting structure is incorporate to an autonomous base.

1- Indoor version in the dark
Lights Contacts - Festival Citysonics - Belgium

2 - Indoor version
Contacts - festival Les Urbaines - Switzerland

3 - Outdoor version
Lights Contacts - Festival Bains Numeriques #5 - France