EXPERIMENTA 2011

Driven by the spirit of sharing and of making new encounters, the Arts-Sciences Biennale 2011, for the first time, hosts an Experimenta Salon, an experimental space to show technological devices that can be applied in the fields of live performances, graphic arts, creative industries (graphic art, design, communication), or for pedagogical and scientific cultural purposes.

The goal is to allow the audience to test these human-machine interface devices, which have resulted from a collaborative work between artists and scientists (some of them developed through the Atelier Arts-Sciences), or have stemmed directly from research laboratories and insitutes (CEA, INRIA, Centre Multimédia Erasme, Universities). The showcased models represent different development phases, we can find examples from technological demonstrators through stage performance extracts to real artworks.   The main idea is to give an opportunity to project holders to present their works directly and collaboratively around the installations.

Showcased technologies are focused around two main fields: light and energy, and computer and digital technologies.

Experimenta is a discovery venue for the general public, an idea sharing platform for professionals by bringing together creators of art and technology in Grenoble. Guided by the Atelier Arts-Sciences team and by Masters degree students in Scientific and Technical Communication, visitors are invited to immerse into a luminous network through an evolving scenography and similarly to a wish-tree, where they can leave a CV, a business card, a word that they were here...

Ars Electronica Center from Linz in Austria, is the special guest of this first edition.

PARTNERS

Atelier Arts-Sciences, Hexagone Scène Nationale in Meylan, ARS ELECTRONICA CENTER, CEA Leti, CEA Liten, INES, MINATEC IDEAs Laboratory®, MINATEC, INRIA, Université Joseph Fourier, ICM, University Pierre Mendès-France, Erasme - Centre Multimédia du Rhône, ENSCI Les Ateliers, CCSTI Grenoble-La Casemate, La Source, Fontaine, Maison de la musique de Meylan.

The Atelier Arts-Sciences and Ars Electronica Center are both dedicated to observe, to co-develop and to show new technologies joined with digital arts and they involve the audience into this fascinating approach. In the spirit of sharing this common mission, we are proud to be the international guest of the Rencontres-i Arts-Sciences Biennale 2011, and to be able to exhibit breakthrough models at the Experimenta Salon.

INSTALLATIONS

The HandNavigator is a device allowing to manually manipulate objects in a virtual world, thanks to a 3D mouse with a set of detectors on its top. Ergonomic and design studies have allowed to improve the device by creating several more and more user-friendly prototypes.

Interactive LED screen capturing movement up to 10m in distance. These "pixel detectors" allow to have a glimpse of various usages and dedicated interactive writings.

Samuel Bianchini, University of Valenciennes / EnsAD Lab
Atelier Arts-Sciences Co-production

Two artistic installations that illustrate a new way of producing movement in artistic productions and in visual communication using the eMotion software, a live IT animation tool processing signals from the real world.

Adrien M / Claire B 

Tactile interactive table specially designed for restaurants (menus, client recognition, games for children) open to multiple graphical environments.

POLYTECH Grenoble UJF 

Aesthetics Modelling Studio, an intuitive 3D modelling software based on a sketch-like metaphor allowing to create complex forms by successively mixing volumes, or by sculpture/modelling-type metaphors.

INRIA, ÉVASION Project Team

An expressive game using constraint-free gestures and gestures imposed by an instrument and physical laws behind sound production. Paired with movement capture devices, exploring the concept of gestural writing.

Dominique David
Atelier Arts-Sciences Co-production

BATTERY RUCKSACK

A video projector attached to a battery in a rucksack is a source of all the movements street artists perform, while projecting images of their show on city walls. An on-going collaboration with CEA Liten in order to improve battery performance.

KompleXKapharnaüM

Based on Magic Pad technology, this installation offers to transform large printed surfaces into interactive media (light and sound) able to capture human movement by photodetection.

Laurent Jamet, CEA ISORG
Atelier Arts-Science Co-productions

KALEIDOSCOPE

Centre Expérimental Multimédia Erasme

PHOTO-LUMINESCENT FACES &
LIGHT GUIDES

Combined with technology of diffusing light on thin-film, the changing properties of chromatophores reveal a human face, which is changing depending on the light spectrum. Prototype stemming from a research phase in Pascal and Aurélie Baltazar's project, L'Ecorce du Vent, in residency at the Atelier Arts-Sciences.

Gilles Le Blevennec, CEA Liten

iSOFA

THE PLANETERRELLA : FACING LIGHT

Aurora borealis simulator. "Behind the science revealed in the experiment by Planeterrella, there lays poetry in a painting of light, being constantly reinvented."

Jennifer Anderson, Ithéré Company / Jean Lilensten, IPAG
Atelier Arts-Sciences Co-production 

Technology module inspired by the Midsummer Night's Dream, a stage production combining Shakespeare and digital arts. Objective: bringing to life on stage the play's magic fairy world, while actors play with music, video and light manipulating interactively the props.

David Gauchard, The Unijambiste Company / Taprik 

SUN BOTTLE & SUN FOUNTAIN

Ars Electronica Center, Linz