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Lights contacts
Interactive sound and light installation with body and skin from public

Scenocosme : Gregory Lasserre & Anais met den Ancxt


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Lights contacts: This interactive artwork bring people together.

Lights Contacts is an interactive artwork with an important social dimension.
This artwork bring together the spectators around an artistic experience.
It creates unpredictable and positive relationships between the spectators.
It transforms the visitors into sonorous human and question in a poetic, sonorous and luminous way our perception of the other.
This installation offers a social, sensory and symbolic dimension, with a sensitive and emotional implication of the audience.



An interactive sound and light installation with body and skin from public

Lights Contacts is an interactive artwork perceptible by two people and more. This sensory installation is tactile, luminous and sonorous. It proposes an original and interactive stagings where spectators’bodies are transformed into real sonorous human instruments. In a poetic way, Scenocosme invite the spectator to question the perception of the other.

A first person is invited to put his hand on a small shiny ball. In contact with it, his body turns sensitive and reactive to other living bodies. If the person remains alone, nothing happens, there is no reaction. They must touch each other’s skin. Each touch generates variable sounds and lights which evolve according to the proximity of contacts and spectators.

In this intimist artwork, the energetic clouds of bodies (electrostatic energy) are musically felt. Scenocosme artists propose a sensory experience with the other person’s body in order to animate what we cannot detect. In this situation, energetic contacts with other human bodies become sonorous. They want to provoke, to overturn degrees of proximity that we use in our relationships with known or unknown people.

The space of the work is cover with light. It allows to draw an intimist space of interactions. Each physical contact between spectators generates a sound with a light color which vary according to intensities of bodies’ electrostatic energy. When nobody interacts, sounds and lights switch off. The only small spot light the shiny ball.



The urban space version of this work is : Urban Lights Contacts


«Lights Contacts» has received several awards: :
- Award Visual arts and new technologies / Bains numériques #5 - Festival international des arts numériques (Fr)
- Award Lab30 Public’s Choice Award / Lab30 - Media Arts Festival - Augsburg (Germany)
- Award Qwartz Arts Nouveaux Médias / Qwartz Paris / A-part, festival international d’art contemporain (Fr)

Coproduction : Centre des Arts d’Enghien-les-Bains, Scène conventionnée pour les écritures numériques

Collection : ZKM - Museum of Contemporary Art collection - Karlsruhe (Germany)

 

The work is possible in several versions

Lights Contacts
In an indoor space several lights in the space highlight the room


Urban Lights Contacts
Outdoor in the urban space.
In the evening the light highlights a building or an urban space.
All the day the work resonate with the sound dimension.
The urban space version of this work is : Urban Lights Contacts

 








Energetic clouds

The interactive device proposes a very sensitive approach of the body. It allows to feel various degrees of electrostatic contacts according to proximities of bodies. Some people produces more electrostatic energy.

The sensory staging is a kind of a ritual of meetings through the touch. The installation designs a space where proxemic distances of every day life are broken: hierarchical positions, social distances are then banished during these sensorial relations. Lights Contacts creates a transgressive space-time where socials relations are suddenly pushed aside, inverted. The energetic clouds take form of « proxemic cloud’s » which, becoming sensible, tangible, allow to play with distances between bodies. Then, Lights Contacts involves the spectators, and provokes intimate or funny situations. Couples kiss or make sonorous caress to each other, or unknown people touch their hands timidly, or many people play together... Many kind of reactions are possible. Depending on cultural areas, the contact with the other is different. This convivial space generates time for extra ordinary meetings. Light and sound vibrations appear fragile, they depend only on contacts with each other.



Synchronisation between sound and colour

Sonorous textures evolve according to the approach and the energetic intensity of bodies. Scenocosme study the way a sound can influence relations between spectators. They explore its power of retro-action, and how it can change the understanding and the touch between persons : when a caress feels like playing on a body like playing a music instrument for example.

There is a correlation between intensity of contacts and intensity of musicality and light. Thus, variations of proximity and electrostatic energy influence sonorous and light textures: If one person touches totally the skin of the other, it generates sonorities with high pitch. If more persons touch the first one, energies are added and sonorities are more high. If the person touches lightly the first one or approaches at few centimetres without touch, sonorities are more low.

Several group of sounds are associated to various light tints in order to propose lots of possibilities. A sound is assigned to the first person in contact with the ball. This sound is played when an another person touch his skin. The pitch of the sound varies according to the energetic intensity of the relation. The light tint associated to the sound evolves according to the pitch. It offers a vibrating and fragile light links to small energetic variations between bodies.(for example : a warm sound is associated to a red tint)











Domaine Rockefeller - Faculté de Médecine Lyon-Est - Lyon (Fr)







Scotiabank Nuit Blanche / Le Labo - Centre d’arts médiatiques - Toronto (Canada) Photos: Marc Lemyre, Toronto 





Biennale d’art contemporain Alios et les territoires sonores - La-Teste-de-Buch (Fr)





Put and keep the palm of the hand on the ball.





Inhale...Exhale




Then, invite someone else to touch your body’skin






White Night Bucharest ARCUB Cultural Centre of Bucharest Municipality - Bucharest (Romania)



AURORA 2015 - New Media Art Exhibition - Dallas (USA)
Dallas Arts District / Immersive public art event in public space



Festival Showroom of Contemporary Sound - Zagreb (Croatia)



Festival Les Nuits de Lauzerte / De la terre à la lumière (Fr)









This installation can be exhibited in several ways




Indoor version with lights
The light installation cover the architecture of the space with several PAR LED RVB.





Indoor version in a light space
If the space can’t be in the dark, the artwork is shown without it light structure.
This version of the artwork is called «Contacts»






Urban version :
Urban Lights Contacts
This installation take place in the public space
in front of a building.
Urban Lights Contacts offers a sound dimension during the day and a sound and light dimension at nightfall.
Sounds and lights systems are integrated in the space : on a facade, behind windows...





Indoor version in the dark
Lights Contacts - Festival Citysonics (Belgium)



Indoor version in a light space
Contacts - Festival Les Urbaines (Switzerland)



Outdoor stand-alone version
Lights Contacts Festival Bains Numeriques (France)










Previous exhibitions of Lights Contacts


ESME - Paris (Fr)
"Humain Re-Connexion"
22/01/2025 - 25/01/2025

Galerie de Rohan / lieu d’art contemporain - Landerneau (Fr)
Festival Nuits d’Hiver
Curator : Aurélie Maguet
"Effervescences lumineuses" / Solo show
05/12/2024 - 05/01/2025 : https://galeriederohan.landerneau.bzh

WeSA Festival / Museum MUT - Sound is the New Music - Seoul (Korea)
Curators : Gabriel Soucheyre & Jin Won Lee - Gazaebal
12/12/2024 - 15/12/2024 : www.wesa.kr

Espace culturel MAIF Social Club - Paris (Fr)
"Faisons Corps"
Curator : Nawal Bakouri
27/03/2024- 05/01/2025 : www.maifsocialclub.fr

Parcours artistique Maisons folles #8 - Ronchin (Fr)
Curator : Nicolas Tourte
01/06/2024 - 02/06/2024

Festival of the New European Bauhaus - Brussels (Belgium)
Musée Royal d'Art & d'Histoire
10/04/2024- 13/04/2024 : www.new-european-bauhaus-festival.eu

Chapelle de la Trinité - Lyon (Fr)
"Mixit"
25/04/2024 - 25/04/2024

"Lug-du-Num" / "Les Arts Numériques sur le devant de la scène"
Espace la Bâtie - Saint Laurent d’Agny (Fr)
Maison de Pays de Mornant - Mornant (Fr)
11/11/2023 - 03/12/2023 : www.lug-du-num.com

Clujotronic – Electro Arts Festival - Cluj-Napoca (Romania)
07/10/2022 - 09/10/2022 : www.clujotronic.ro

Place de l'Office de Tourisme - Morzine (Fr)
17/12/2022 - 04/16/2023

Domaine Rockefeller - Faculté de Médecine Lyon-Est - Lyon (Fr)
« Êtres sensibles»
Solo show
19/09/2022 - 24/11/2022

Scènes urbaines : Novaciéries - Saint-Chamond (Fr)
05/09/2020 - 22/11/2020

Centre culturel Passage Sainte-Croix - Nantes (Fr)
Solo show
28/01/2020 - 22/02/2020 : www.passagesaintecroix.fr

Le Prisme - Centre culturel de la Ville d'Élancourt (Fr)
Solo show
18/01/2020 - 21/02/2020 : www.leprisme.elancourt.fr

Sensorium / centre culturel Rüttihubelbad - Walkringen (Switzerland)
"Touché !"
Curator : Frédéric Blanvillain
01/02/2020 - 01/12/2020

Château de Blandy-les-Tours - Blandy (Fr)
Festival FETNAT - Performances artistiques et numériques
13/07/2019 - 14/07/2019 : www.chateau-blandy.fr

Dak Nong Cultural Museum - Gia Nghia (Vietnam)
Explorasound
Curator : Guy Martini / UNESCO
30/06/2019 - 30/12/2022

Musée de la mine - Saint-Étienne (Fr)
21/09/2019 - 21/09/2019 : www.musee-mine.saint-etienne.fr

La Ferme d'en Haut - fabrique culturelle - Villeneuve-d'Ascq (Fr)
Lille 3000 Eldorado
Curator : Céline Dacquin
14/09/2019 - 15/12/2019

Centre d'art Les Églises - Chelles (Fr)
Solo show
08/02/2019 - 17/03/2019

Galerie Le Manège / Institut français de Dakar - Dakar (Sénégal)
Curator : Delphine Calmettes
Novembre numérique / pARTcours 7
Solo show
03/12/2018 - 31/01/2019

L'arteppes - espace d'art contemporain - Annecy (Fr)
Solo show
29/11/2018 - 30/12/2018 : www.larteppes.org

Festival Univers Numériques Ugine - Ugine (Fr)
Curator : Josselin Vinay
01/02/2019 - 02/02/2019 :

Médiathèque de Roanne (Fr)  
Solo show
15/10/2018 - 17/11/2018

Biennale ArtFareins 2018 / Château Bouchet - Fareins (Fr)
Curator : Jacques Fabry
01/06/2018 - 15/07/2018 : www.artfareins.com

Citadelle d'Arras / Main Square Festival - Arras (Fr)
06/07/2018 - 08/07/2018 :

Carrefour des Arts de Lalouvesc / 30 ans  - Lalouvesc (Fr)
07/07/2018 - 26/08/2018 :

MusVerre / Musée du verre - Sars-Poteries (Fr)
19/05/2018 - 19/05/2018 : www.musverre.lenord.fr

MAK Vienna - Museum of Applied Arts - Vienna (Austria)
"Aesthetics of Change"
Curators : Peter Weibel, Gerald Bast, Elisabeth Schmuttermeier, Patrick Werkner
15/12/2017 - 15/04/2018 : www.mak.at

Centre Pompidou - Paris (Fr)
16/11/2017 - 16/11/2017 : www.centrepompidou.fr

Odyssud - Centre culturel - Blagnac (Fr)
Rencontres Sensibles - Scenocosme : Gregory Lasserre & Anais met den Ancxt
Curator : Maud Denjean
22/09/2017 - 23/12/2017 : www.odyssud.com

Biennale d’Arts Atlantic / Espace Encan - La-Rochelle (Fr)
17/11/2017 - 19/11/2017 : www.arts-atlantic.fr

Labanque / Centre de production et diffusion en arts visuels - Béthune (Fr)
Empathies - Scenocosme : Gregory Lasserre & Anais met den Ancxt
Curator : Philippe Massardier
30/03/2017 : vernissage
01/04/2017 - 23/07/2017 : www.lab-labanque.fr

Orangerie du château de la Louvière - Montluçon (Fr)
Art graphique, art numérique : Curator : Lucie Bisson
19/05/2017 - 04/06/2017

Festival Zéro 1 / Art Numérique - La-Rochelle (Fr)
13/04/2017 - 16/04/2017 : www.festivalzero1.com

La Passerelle / centre culturel du Pays de La Gacilly - Gacilly (Fr)
Frontières Intimes
24/03/2017 - 12/04/2017

Chapelle de l'espace Aignan-Thomas Desfriches de la Média-bibliothèque du Val - Olivet (Fr)
31/01/2017 - 18/02/2017

Festival Aujourd’hui Musiques - Perpignan (Fr)
Théâtre de l'Archipel Scène Nationale de Perpignan
18/11/2016 - 27/11/2016 : www.theatredelarchipel.org - www.aujourdhuimusiques.com

Médiathèque Alphonse Daudet - Genay (Fr)
03/01/2017 - 31/01/2017

ZKM | Media Museum - Karlsruhe (Germany)
CODE_n new.New Festival
CODE_n exhibition
Curated by Peter Weibel with Giulia Bini Sabiha Keyif, Daria Mille, and Philipp Ziegler
20/09/2016 - 22/09/2016 : www.zkm.de - www.newnewfestival.com

Palais de l'Archevêché / Octobre Numérique - Arles (Fr)
07/10/2016 - 30/10/2016 : www.octobre-numerique.fr

Mèq Festival - Festival international d'art numérique performatif - Montpellier (Fr)
Humain trop humain Centre Dramatique National de Montpellier
ISI_Lab Festival
Curator : Mathilde Nourisson-Moncey
16/09/2016 - 17/09/2016 : www.humaintrophumain.fr - http://isilab2016.wixsite.com/isilab

Espace culturel Puzzle / Troisième lieu - Thionville (Fr)
DESconnexions
Curators : Roch Charline, Benoit Thierry, Caroline Rinaldi
30/09/2016 - 10/11/2016

Oddstream festival - Nijmegen (Netherlands)
Curator : Lieke Wouters
18/03/2016 - 28/03/2016 : www.oddstream.nl

Espace d'exposition de la ville de Ploumagoar - Ploumagoar (Fr)
26/02/2016 - 11/03/2016 :

Centre culturel de Comines Warneton - Comines (Belgium)
26/10/2015 - 04/11/2015 :

Les Docks, cité de la mode et du design - Paris (Fr)
Qwartz Award : 10 years
10/06/2015 - 10/06/2015 : www.citemodedesign.fr - www.qwartz.fr

Musée EDF Hydrélec - Vaujany (Fr)
Nuit Européenne des Musées
16/05/2014 - 16/05/2015 : www.musee-edf-hydrelec.com

Musée de Millau et des Grands Causses - Millau (Fr)
Scenocosme : Rencontres sensorielles
06/12/2014 - 14/02/2015 : www.museedemillau.fr

Château de Saint-Priest - St-Priest (Fr)
04/02/2015 - 07/02/2015 :

Le Mixeur, tiers-lieu culturel - St-Etienne (Fr)
Curator : Igor Deschamps
08/12/2014 - 20/01/2015 :

Western Plains Cultural Centre - Dubbo (Australia)
Experimenta - Speak to Me : Curator : Abigail Moncrieff, Jen Mizuik
10/08/2014 - 10/11/2014 : www.westernplainsculturalcentre.org

Centre Arc-en-ciel - Liévin (Fr)
03/11/2014 - 30/11/2014 :

Pavillon Multimedia - Edmundston / New-Brunswick (Canada)
Soutien : Institut Français + Ville de Saint Etienne
Consulat Général de France dans les Provinces atlantique
08/08/2014 - 24/08/2014 :

Albury LibraryMuseum - Albury (Australia)
Speak to Me : Curator : Abigail Moncrieff, Jen Mizuik
20/05/2014 - 17/07/2014 : www.experimenta.org

Musée Savoisien / Nuit des musées - Chambéry (Fr)
17/05/2014 - 18/05/2014 : www.musee-savoisien.fr

QUT - Queensland University of Technology's - Queensland (Australia)
Creative Industries Precinct / the block : Speak to Me : Curator : Abigail Moncrieff, Jen Mizuik
07/04/2014 - 02/05/2014 : www.ciprecinct.qut.edu.au


Art Karlsruhe - Contemporary Art Fair / Karlsruhe (Germany)
ZKM booth (ZKM Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe) : Curator : Peter Weibel
12/03/2014 - 16/03/2014 : www.zkm.de - www.art-karlsruhe.de

Unpainted / media art fair - Munich (Germany)
17/01/2014 - 20/01/2014 : www.unpainted.net

La Serre - espace d'exposition - St Etienne (Fr)
15/01/2014 - 15/02/2014 :


International Symposium on Electronic Art - Sydney (Australia)
Powerhouse Museum / Experimenta
Speak to Me / Curator : Abigail Moncrieff, Jen Mizuik
07/06/2013 - 21/08/2013 : www.isea2013.org

Château de Suscinio / Rêverie Moderne - Sarzeau (Fr)
27/09/2013 - 29/09/2013 : www.suscinio.info

Alios et les territoires sonores - La-Teste-de-Buch (Fr)
Bim! Bam! Boum! / Biennale d’art contemporain
20/09/2013 - 29/09/2013 :

La Nuit de la Création - La-Motte-Servolex (Fr)
05/10/2013 - 05/10/2013 :

Musée La Briqueterie - Langueux-les-Grèves (Fr)
14/06/2013 - 10/11/2013 :

La Gaîté lyrique / Parizone@dream - Paris (Fr)
01/06/2013 - 02/06/2013 : www.gaite-lyrique.net

Château de Ratilly Centre d’art vivant - Treigny (Fr)
24/03/2013 - 17/06/2013 : www.chateauderatilly.fr


Experimenta 2012 - International Biennial of Media Art
RMIT Gallery - Melbourne (Australia)
Speak to Me / Curator : Abigail Moncrieff, Jen Mizuik
14/09/2012 - 17/11/2012 : www.experimenta.org


Daejeon Museum of Art - Daejeon (Korea)
Energy : Curator : Minkyung Kim
19/09/2012- 18/11/2012 : http://dmma.daejeon.go.kr

Utsikten Kunstsenter - Kvinesdal (Norway)
04/10/2012 - 18/11/2012 : www.utsiktenkunstsenter.no

Nocturne: Art at Night - Halifax (Canada)
13/10/2012 - 13/10/2012 : www.nocturnehalifax.ca

Eclat Nocturne - Vandœuvre-lès-Nancy (Fr)
27/10/2012 - 27/10/2012 :

Numusic festival - Stavanger (Norway)
27/09/2012 - 29/09/2012 : www.numusic.no

Abbaye de l’Escaladieu - Horizons numériques - Bonnemazon (Fr)
22/09/2012 - 23/09/2012 :

Musée du château de Flers - Villeneuve-d'Ascq (Fr)
15/09/2012 - 16/09/2012 :

Noche de Luna Llena - Segovia (Spain)
Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Esteban Vicente
07/07/2012 - 07/07/2012 :

A-part, festival international d’art contemporain / Carrières de Lumières - Baux de Provence (Fr)
«Lights Contacts» : Prix Qwartz Arts Nouveaux Médias
05/07/2012 - 05/07/2012 : www.festival-apart.com - http://qwartz.fr

Le 106 / Scène de Musiques Actuelles - Rouen (Fr)
09/06/2012 - 10/06/2012 : www.le106.com

FEW - Fête de l'Eau 2012 - Wattwiller (Fr)
26/05/2012 - 10/06/2012 : www.fetedeleauwattwiller.org

L'espinoa - Espace culturel - Baignes (Fr)
23/03/2012 - 20/04/2012 : Exhibition : www.espinoa.com

La chapelle des Augustins - Poitiers (Fr)
09/01/2012 - 03/02/2012 : Exhibition : http://chapelledesaugustins.crdp-poitiers.org

Lab30 - Media Arts Festival- Augsburg (Germany)
27/10/2011 - 29/10/2011 : www.lab30.de

Festival accès(s) - Pau (Fr)
06/10/2011 - 09/10/2011 : www.acces-s.org

Le Labo - Centre d'arts médiatiques - Toronto (Canada)
01/10/2011 - 23/10/2011 : www.lelabo.ca

Scotiabank Nuit Blanche - Toronto (Canada)
01/10/2011 - 01/10/2011 : www.scotiabanknuitblanche.ca

Nuit Blanche Metz - Metz (Fr)
30/09/2011 - 30/09/2011 : www.n3b.fr

La Nuit Défendue / Médiathèque Jacques Ellul - Pessac (Fr)
30/09/2011 - 30/09/2011 :

Maison Folie hospice d'Havré - Tourcoing (Fr)
17/09/2011 - 16/10/2011 :


ISEA 2011 - International Symposium Electronic Art - Istanbul (Turquey)
14/09/2011 - 07/10/2011 : http://isea2011.sabanciuniv.edu

Plektrum festival - Tallinn (Estonia)
Curator : Marge Paas
08/09/2011 -18/09/2011 : www.plektrumfestival.com


NAMOC - National Art Museum Of China - Beijin (China)
TransLife - Triennial of Media Art
Curator : Zhang Ga
26/07/2011- 17/08/2011 : www.mediartchina.org - www.namoc.org

Festival Les bouillants / Corpus numerica : www.bouillants.fr
07/06/2011 - 30/06/2011 : 7 Bis - Saint-Brieuc (Fr)
09/04/2011 - 08/05/2011 : Volume - Vern-sur-Seiche (Fr)
21/03/2011 - 08/04/2011 : Le diapason - Rennes (Fr)


Eyebeam - Art + Technology Center - New York (USA)
"BioRhythm: Music and the Body"
02/06/2011 - 06/08/2011 : www.eyebeam.org - www.worldsciencefestival.com

Fondation Claude Verdan - musée de la main - Lausanne (Switzerland)
16/06/2011 - 29/04/2012 : www.verdan.ch

Centre des Arts d' Enghien-les-Bains - Enghien-les-Bains (Fr)
1011/06/2011 - 11/06/2011 : www.cda95.fr

Déclics festival / L'Agora - Nanterre (Fr)
26/04/2011 - 15/05/2011 : www.nanterre-multimedia.net

Festival Les Pluriels - Rouen (Fr)
30/03/2011 - 03/04/2011 : www.lespluriels.com

Festival Electrochoc : www.lesabattoirs.fr
13/04/2011 - 15/04/2011 : Millenium - Isle-d'Abeau (Fr)
07/04/2011 - 12/04/2011 : Hotel de ville - Villefontaine(Fr)
31/03/2011 - 06/04/2011 : Les Abattoirs - Bourgoin-Jallieu (Fr)

Festival Chemins numériques #4 / Corps numérique - Reims (Fr)
29/01/2011 - 12/02/2011 : www.cheminsnumeriques-reims.com


White Night Brighton - Brighton (UK)
30/10/2010 - 30/10/2010 : www.whitenightnuitblanche.com


Nuit Blanche Amiens - Amiens (Fr)
16/10/2010 - 16/10/2010 : www.whitenightnuitblanche.com

L'abbaye de Noirlac / Centre culturel de rencontre - Noirlac (Fr)
Les univers interactifs de Scenocosme / Curator : Paul Fournier
18/09/2010 - 19/09/2010 : www.abbayedenoirlac.fr

FAD - Festival de Arte Digital - Belo Horizonte (Brazil)
02/09/2010 - 03/10/2010 : www.festivaldeartedigital.com.br


INDAF - Incheon International Digital Art Festival - Songdo (Korea)
Soutien de l'Ambassade de France en Corée
01/09/2010 - 30/09/2010 : www.indaf.org

Citysonics - Festival des arts sonores - Mons (Belgium)
27/08/2010 - 12/09/2010 : www.citysonics.be

Science Gallery / Biorhythm : Music and the Body - Dublin (Irland)
02/07/2010 - 01/10/2010 : www.sciencegallery.com

Bains Numeriques #5 / Festival arts numériques - Enghien-les-Bains (Fr)
«Lights Contacts» : Prix de la création Arts visuels et technologies
12/06/2010 - 19/06/2010 : www.bainsnumeriques.fr

Athens Video & Art Festival - Athen (Greece)
07/05/2010- 09/05/2010 : www.athensvideoartfestival.gr


World expo Shanghai / Exposition universelle de Shanghai 2010 - Shanghai (China)
01/05/2010 - 15/07/2010 : www.expo2010.cn - www.lille3000.eu

Médiathèque François-Mitterrand - Saintes (Fr)
27/03/2010 - 27/03/2010 :

Les Urbaines - emerging arts festivals - Lausanne (Switzerland)
04/12/ 2009 - 06/12/ 2009 : www.urbaines.ch




Daejeon Museum of Art - Daejeon (Korea)


Les Urbaines - emerging arts festivals - Lausanne (Switzerland)

Scenocosme : Gregory Lasserre & Anais met den Ancxt - www.scenocosme.com