scenocosme
by scenocosme
composed of living musical plants, which react to gentle contact.
Each plant reacts in a different way to contact by producing a
specific sound. The plant «language» or song occurs through
touch and the close proximity of the spectator. Our invisible
electrostatic energy acts on the plant branches and encourages
them to react. The plants sing when the audience is touching or
stroking lightly them. A plant concert is created.
In their artwork, the artists Scenocosme create hybrids between
plants and digital technology. Plants are natural sensors and are
sensitive to various energy flows. Digital technologies permit
them to establish a relationship between plants and sound. They
display the effects of random data flow and plant interaction. The
data is modified as the spectator meanders around and touches
the installation, resulting in a random musical universe. Audience
contacts with plants generate sound effects and change in the
texture of the sound. There are specific vegetal languages through
sonorous compositions. They signify characters, behaviors having
a feedback, an influence on the reaction, on the feeling and on the
approach of the spectator.
Our body continually produces an electrostatic energy, which
cannot be felt. This energetic cloud follows us like an invisible
shadow and touches lightly our environment. Mixing reality with
imagination, Scenocosme animates that which we cannot detect
and proposes a sensory experience that encourages us to think
about our invisible relationship with other living being. Through
Akousmaflore, plants let us know about their existence by a
scream, a melody or an acoustical vibration.
The exploration of depths into the veil reveals various meditative universes, through organic, liquid or incandescent substances.
Metamorphy creates an ambiguity between a real physical space, a virtual space materialized by the reflection of a mirror, and a virtual space generated by the videoprojections of a digital device. In this sensory artwork, real reflections and virtual images get mixed up, give the illusion of a distorted reality.
Like a music score, each interaction zone on the fabric offers sonorous matters (sound effects) when the spectator applies pressure with the hand. Then, when nobody interacts with the veil, it becomes rigid and virtual matters disappear. The spectator’s reflection only remains
The epicenter is a large hemispherical mirror, it receives the moving images from the video-projector and also reflects the same visuals all around the space. The optical and sound immersion is integral, the visuals visible on the mirror are propagating through the space. Large pieces of translucent fabrics are hanged from the ceiling and design several delicate cycloramas. It reinforces the idea of the circle which is deployed in the space. The spectators are immersed inside the visuals.
“Cyclic” is an interface of exchanges and physical connections, an organic system, powered by the energy of all. Through a singular ritual, this artwork is a collective performance to experiment all together. It's an invitation to share a moment of symbolic and sensitive relations with the others. Like a fragile and ephemeral ecosystem, where each element is interdependent from the others. The interactions between the spectators generate a moving and evolving landscape.
Two sensitive interfaces activate the visuals and sounds of the installation. Scenarios of the artwork evolve according to the touch, the electrostatic energy produced by the person and also all people who gives their hands. Other people can enter inside the space, sit down, touch one interface or give a hand to its neighbour in contact with this interface.
The skin-to-skin contacts between the spectators will modify the visual and sound scenarios: many singular moving shapes and patterns are mixed together in order to constitute an original and evolutionary graphic hybridization. Each new contact produces different evolutions among the many possible real-time generations. The work is constantly renewed according to the quality of the physical contacts between people. The energy of each person allows to change the visual and sound hypnotic scenes.
The couple artists Gregory Lasserre and Anais met den Ancxt work under the name Scenocosme. Their singular artworks use diverse expressions: interactive installations, visual art, digital art, sound art, collective performances etc.... Scenocosme mix art and digital technology to find substances of dreams, poetry, sensitivity and delicacy. These artists overturn various technologies in order to create contemporary artworks. Their works came from possible hybridizations between the technology and living world (plants, stones, water, wood, humans.,..) which meeting points incite them to invent sensitive and poetic languages. Their artworks are exhibited in numerous museums, contemporary art centres and digital art festivals in the world. They have exhibited their interactive installation artworks at ZKM Karlsruhe Centre for Art and Media (Germany), at Daejeon Museum of Art (Korea), at Museum Art Gallery of Nova Scotia (Canada), at National Centre for Contemporary Arts (Moscow), at Contemporary Art Museum Raleigh (USA), at Bòlit Centre d’Art Contemporani (Girona) and in many international biennals and festivals : Art Center Nabi / INDAF (Seoul), BIACS3 / Biennial International of Contemporary Art of Seville (Spain), Biennial Experimenta (Australia), NAMOC / National Art Museum of China / TransLife / Triennial of Media Art (Beijing), Futuresonic (UK), WRO (Poland), FILE (São-Paulo), ISEA / International Symposium on Electronic Art (2009 Belfast, 2011 Istanbul, 2012 Albuquerque, 2013 Sydney), EXIT, VIA, Lille3000, Ososphere, Scopitone, Seconde nature (France)… during important events : World Expo (Shanghai), Nuits Blanches (Toronto, Halifax, Singapor, Bruxelles, Brighton, Amiens, Segovia, Bucharest), Fête des lumières (Lyon)... and in various art centers : MONA (Australia), MUDAC, Fondation Claude Verdan (Lausanne), Musée Ianchelevici (Belgium), Kibla (Slovenia), Banff Centre (Canada), Villa Romana (Firenze), Utsikten Kunstsenter (Norway), Watermans (UK), Centre des arts d’Enghien-les-Bains, Gaîté Lyrique (Paris) etc.
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