Scenocosme: Body and Clouds

Escales tactiles, Scenocosme & Compagnie K. Danse, interactive dance performance (fabrics, interactive device, lights, audio system). Presentation at Le Cube/ Centre for digital art – Paris (FR) – 2011.

LEA Volume 18 Issue 3
Volume Editors: Lanfranco Aceti, Janis Jefferies, Irini Papadimitriou
Editors: Jonathan Munro and Özden Şahin

ISBN: 978-1-906897-18-5
ISSN: 1071-4391

Reference: Grégory Lasserre & Anaïs met den Ancxt, “Scenocosme: Body and Clouds,” eds. Lanfranco Aceti, Janis Jefferies and Irini Papadimitriou, Leonardo Electronic Almanac (Touch and Go) 18, no. 3 (2012): 140-153.

Scenocosme: Body and Clouds
by Grégory Lasserre & Anaïs met den Ancxt

As media artists, we explore the capacities of technologies in order to draw sensitive relationships through artworks that are based on the enhancement of sensory experiences. Our works spring from hybridization processes between the living world and technology which inspire us to invent new sensitive and poetic languages. Our artworks explore and engage elements of reality which are invisible or we cannot perceive with our normal senses. We use the idea of the cloud as a metaphor of the invisible. The cloud has an unpredictable form, since it is in an indeterminate status of metamorphosis, and its processes escape human perception. Our inter- active works create sound and visual languages, translating the exchanges between living beings, the body and the environment.

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