Grégory Lasserre & Anaïs met den Ancxt exhibits “Akousmaflore” at VANOC’s CODE Live (Cultural Olympiad Digital Edition), a festival celebrating Canadian culture and talent into the digital sphere running February 4-21, 2010. Akousmaflore will be exhibited at Great Northern Way Campus (577 Great Northern Way, Vancouver) as part of the Eco-Art series, co-presented with the Canadian Film Centre.

Akousmaflore is an interactive garden composed of living musical plants or flowers, which react to human gestures and light contact.

Indoor plants can have an ambiguous definition that swings between decorative object and living being. Plants are natural sensors and are sensitive to various energy flows. Digital technologies permit us to have a relationship with plants and sound. We 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 gestures and movements generate sound effects and changes in the texture of the sound. A flower concert is created.

Mixing reality with imagination, we propose a sensory experience that encourages us to think about our relationship with other living things and energy.

Artist Biographies:

Anais met den Ancxt was born in Lyon in 1981. She is graduated from the University of Lyon in anthropology, from the Ecole Nationale des Beaux Arts in Lyon, and from the Ecole Supérieure d’Art et de Design of St Etienne.

Grégory Lasserre was born in Annecy in 1976, he has studied Computer Science and Electronics, he has a Masters degree in Multimedia and has been creating interactive artwork since 2002 as a digital artist.

The duo have exhibited their artwork at ZKM - Centre for Art and Media (Germany), BIACS3 - International Biennial of Contemporary Art of Seville (Spain), ISEA2009 - International Symposium Electronic Arts (Ireland / UK) and many digital art festivals in France (EXIT, VIA, Scopitone, Arborescence, Mal au Pixel, 38e Rugissant… ) and others countries (Futuresonic (UK), WRO (Poland), Streamfest, SHARE (Italy), ACM SIGRRAPH (Germany)  in art and cultural center (Kibla multimedia center (Slovenia), Carré des Jalles(fr).

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