Bug Antenna se compose de deux antennes télescopiques qui interagissent avec l’environnement wifi de la pièce. Le dispositif réagit à l’intensité et aux nombres des réseaux présents dans le lieu. Sa gestuelle s’apparente à celles des antennes d’un insecte, cherchant à sonder et à interagir avec son environnement.
Chaque jour, quelques milliers d’objets sont laissés à l’abandon dans les rues de nos villes. Certains objets s’arrêtent brutalement après des années de dur labeur, d’autres sont victime de la mode, et de nouvelles versions plus performantes viennent chaque jour les remplacer.
Dans l’époque Post-Trump que nous traversons, le monde apparaît confus et l’attention accordée à la crise écologique est lentement balayée sous les tapis des programmes politiques. C’est dans ce décor dystopique qu’un groupe d’objets activistes, récoltés dans les rues de Paris, trouvés dans des vides greniers et à L’Emmaüs de Pau, unissent leurs forces afin de protester contre l’apathie humaine. Ampoules, imprimantes, caméras de surveillance, et réfrigérateurs sont invités à venir interpréter des chorégraphies, pour une manifestation globale des objets.
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A large carpenter’s rule moves along, folding and unfolding like an animal lost in the space where it has been released, looking for what it must measure. Its motorised articulations are also sensors sensitive to the resistance of the contours of the space. When this resistance is too strong, the movement stops and gives way to another type of articulation. The object’s behaviour is the result of a combination of its morphology and the sensitivity of its articulations.
With the participation of Didier Bouchon, Sophie Fougeray, Mario Simon, Giuseppe Chico, Éric Yvelin, Angeline Ostinelli, Bachir Soussi-Chiadmi, Caroline Martins and Cyril Makhoul.
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When staring at Voir des Choses Bouger you might see worms but also articulated sausages or automated jewellery. The starting point is much less figurative. We set a context and then we trigger the experience.
We observe the behaviour of this barely articulated things. It’s an experience out of the laboratory, moved into a stage and open to interpretation. Objects are able to move due to their hermaphrodite surface. They own an interaction faculty which reacts to their contexte, the stage and the public. The animated objects are then in constant improvisation and interaction with the situation. The basic behaviour is then stupid. It doesn’t mean nothing by itself. It is ontologically neural. Only the activation, the performance in a certain time and environment will spark its poetry.
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
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
