OUT OF FRAME (HORS CADRE)

by Samuel Bianchini and Didier Bouchon, 2015

Developed and prototyped in the context of the research project “Behavioral Objects”
by the Reflective Interaction team at EnsadLab
with the support of the Labex Arts-H2H
and the Bettencourt Schueller Foundation and its Chair for Innovation & Expertise

Hardware realization: Adrien Bonnerot and Ely Bessis
Software realization: Didier Bouchon

Out of Frame (Hors Cadre), Samuel Bianchini and Didier Bouchon, 2015
Ars Electronica, Campus Exhibition, Kunstuniversität Linz, September 2015

A frame is hung on a wall. It is empty and sober: no content, no background, without moulding or any other ornament. But from time to time, it moves subtly, twists on itself. Occasionally, its movements are more abrupt, even violent, as if it was undergoing motor discharges, involuntary, such as those at work in hysterics. The frame is like a body, revealing impulses that can’t be controled, contained or framed.
Yet, these are expressed through the frame’s own movements rather than by any kind of representation it could contain.

Photo and video credits: Filipe Pais, Samuel Bianchini