Ice Painting Dreams

An audiovisual installation where the audience generates its own artistic atmosphere...

 

 

“We create a peaceful atmosphere guided by Nippon cultural influences seized during Yokohama’s first edition. Ice skaters become the main characters of generative images in order to create a numeric and evolving painting. The luminous atmosphere, the spatialized sound and the projections create an attractive and friendly living space. The interactive ice rink is a technological innovation which would make its partners beaming”.

The idea of this installation is to create links between the urban space, the public and the numeric arts. Ice skaters actively participate to our installation by the mere freedom of slipping and are recorded in our IT capturing tool. The latest processes the sound, lights and images depending on the moving volume. Mediums are piloted via the internet from our office thanks to an IT interface conceived by and for XLR Project.

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 The generative images create an evolving painting which enrols in a Nippon atmosphere and invites the public to a peaceful and family travel. We can set screens, but we prefer to use the urban architecture around the installation. Alike the images, the music is generated by data captured by our self-conceived software. It brings a calm atmosphere, offers relief to the projections and contributes to the public escapism.New forms can be conceived for each artistic show in function of the architecture and the context in which we are called for. The light effect is warm and creates beams reflecting on the ice. Colour modulations are in harmony with the whole installation. This luminous atmosphere makes the link between the ice, the sound and the visual projections.

Color Voice

Interactive microphone for changeable subjects…

 

 

 

COLOR VOICE is an incentive to give speeches using the interactions with the installation (sound, mapping or video projections, light and a microphone). This requires a preparation work on the spot, with regards to a place, a kind of architecture, a story or related to a chosen subject. In any case, a speech giving opportunity is offered to the audience. The objective is to create a link on a territory or between territories, between many cultures or inside the same population.
The spectator has an effect on the installation, he/she becomes one of its creator, he/she makes it his/hers, he/she is brought to question him/herself. Instead of consuming the performance, the individual produces it; he/she is then connected with his/her environment. COLOR VOICE offers a fertile ground to the communication, to the senses awakening and invites the audience to extract from the daily life to discover or rediscover his/her living place and history. This speech, by interacting with the installation, provokes a realization. 






The themes are free to be chosen by our partners depending on the political, historical and geographical contexts. For instance: energy, architecture, evolution, urbanisation, war, gastronomy, language, international cooperation,… Through COLOR VOICE, the organisation calling us decides to give speech to its public, its inhabitants or to create links between territories or cultures.
 

X_Forme

X-Form is the name for a set of researches, experimentations and creations around audiovisual sculptures or multimedia architectures in which are locked an artistic creation system, machines, softwares, artists. X-Form is a tentative to give voice to an object in the public space. During daylight, it’s creation time. Multimedia artists are locked within X-Form and are connected to the outside world through the internet. They can also hear noises from outside. X-Form appears lifeless. The artists are invisible. X-Form, strange object, has pride of place and questions the bystanders. The artists capture, select and record the data flow. They compile with them. The information used for the performance is collected along the day. X-Form becomes a container in which information accumulates. On the nightfall, X-Form starts living and becomes meaningful. It animates and shows an audiovisual performance. Sound, video and light emanate from this form. The video is retro-projected using the mapping technique on the X-Form different faces. There comes a theatrical drama, music, poems, depending on what would have been swallowed and digested during the day. The scenario and performance in the night is each time renewed, always in movement, in a perpetual questioning regarding information flows. X-Form is a poetic commitment. The voluntary imprisonment in the virtual-reality is a political act and denounces what many already live, and what others will live even more intensively tomorrow. What are the boundaries? What are the information limits? How to select, cross check and verify it? How to dissociate reality from fiction… and disinformation? What is the difference between knowledge and the news?

X_Cube

An atypical audiovisual installation… an autonomous 4 meters side cube. It lives by itself, broadcasts images and sounds, calling the bystander to question on this living form X. Are you observing it, or is it the other way around ?

Doki Doki

 

Interaction between 3 kinds of arts

 

Yoko Higashi prepares a Buto which evolves and transforms as closely as possible from Nippon reality. Provided with movements sensors, she creates her own sonorous atmosphere. “We would like to introduce the audience with a culture, full of paradox, using multimedia to position the body into a given space. This is a research on mankind sensitivity using dance, in the current world, in its traditions, its codes, its noises and its urbanism.”

TOUS LES CHRISTS ICI RESSEMBLENT À BJORN BÖRG

Solo de danse chorégraphique & vidéo

Le multimédia éclaire les fictions, les représentations  qu’entretient le corps avec lui-même. C’est un duo entre  l’homme modulateur d’images et l’homme générateur  d’images.    Par un principe de miroir numérique, le corps en action  est révélé par sa propre image projetée. II naît de sa lumière  en devenant l’écran de son double. Puis, il va générer une  série d’empreintes, telle des fractions de temps enregistrées  et fixées. Isolées, mises en série, manipulées et accumulées,  ces images constituent le lexique fictionnel intégré par la  danse.

UFO77

 

UFO77 is an AV performance. With Yoko HIGASHI & Lionel MARCHETTI, they play with sound and visual material. The symbiosis between the 3 artists around this floating video object gives birth to an artistic performance mixing numeric arts, electric voices and analogical music instruments. All of these in full interaction.

State Laboratory

 

Research of new multimedia writing

 

Since its creation, XLR Project questions the empirical forms of performances: dance, theatre, visual arts, literature, and sound through multimedia. To answer these questions, we experiment technologies and propose artistic shapes called “LABORATORY STATES”. The acting spectator witnesses many stories and actions simultaneously displayed in front of him (actors, dancers, texts, videos, interactive system and sound). Everything is live and each member of the group can improvise in his/her personal space. A staging based on a spatial protocol, a performance prepared in spaces where the artistic behaviour of the performers evolves. The autonomy of each member creates the coherence of the performance. During 3 years, we have created a research group at Lyon 2 university, together with history of arts and musicology teachers and students.