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Press kit nuitnumérique#13 – March 12th 2016

Centre culturel numérique Saint-Exupéry Chaussée Bocquaine, esplanade André Malraux, 51100 Reims T (0033) 3.26.77.41.41 F 03.26.88.97.11 [email protected] www.saintex-reims.com

Contact Press Saint-Ex : Claire TOUTAIN [email protected] T (0033) 3.26.77.41.41

The Centre culturel numérique Saint-Éxupéry organizes the 13th instance of the nuitnumérique

The nuitnumérique (digital night) is a multidisciplinary event about digital cultures. The

nuitnumérique will take place on March 12th from 6:00PM. to 1:00AM. It offers a

journey around artworks and installations with artists coming from all around the world. The

theme of the 13th instance is Mecathronics. It is also the opening of the expocollective (collective

exhibition) will take place from March 15th to May 28th 2016.

nuitnumérique#13 Saturday March 12th 2016 • 6:00 PM > 01:00AM • at Saint-Ex

expocollective from March 15th to May 28th 2016 • at Saint-Ex

Of the imagination of modern and contemporary technologies.

Mecathronics is a wide theme, which is often assimilated to pure technique. With the

democratisation of fablabs and digital tools that become more and more accessible to everyone,

artists develop their researches and productions even further. Their expertise changes them into

“handymen of modern times” in many fields. They are always ready to repel and call into question

the limits of the engines and technologies surrounding us to hijack them.

The artistic journey of the nuitnumérique is conceived around the exploration of different areas,

sound, picture, tool and its hijacking, light or movement.

Come discover these sensitive and playful artworks, with your family or friends, and take part in

the surprises, workshops and discoveries.

Exhibition tour press and sponsors March 12th 2016 • 5:00PM • at Saint-Ex (with the artists and Clémentine Treu, artistic director of Saint-Ex)




Le tricodeur • France, 2014 Sew & Laine Interactive installation

“Le Tricodeur”, when the digital meets knitting…

Come explore the links and the possible interactions between digital and textile thanks to a tool : an

unbridled knitting machine ! With “Le Tricodeur”, become a digital pirate and transform your pictures into

design stitch.

This project deals with the benefit of using digital tools in the textile production and demonstrates the

creative power of textiles products. In this installation, textile and digital will be combined to serve graphic

design and information transmission by the question of their visualisation.

© Louis Eveillard Sew&Laine is an association dedicated to textile and handmade creation, based in the city of Bordeaux. It offers cultural action, implements social and environmental projects and helps experts in their development. In 2015, Le Tricodeur was exhibited during the Fashion Tech Week in Paris, the Fashion Tech Days in Roubaix, in the CAPC for the Nuit des Musées (Museums’ Night) in Bordeaux, in Étapes de l’innovation « Transformation numérique » (Innovation Steps « Digital Transformation ») in Pau and in the Grand Ramdam des Tiers-Lieux in Latresne. www.sewetlaine.com www.letricodeur.com




Kamiko • Canada, 2014 mixMotion Interactive installation

Kamiko is an interactive kinetic sculpture that responds to your presence by moving and changing its shape

and color. Unique and attractive, it creates an engaging interactive experience.

Kamiko is the result of mixMotion's experiments in designing modular systems for sculptural interactive

experiences. They created Kamiko's body using the geometry of the origami as inspiration. The body looks

and feels like paper but is actually a synthetic material that is resistant to tearing and moisture. It has a

microcontroller as a brain and sensors that can detect the presence of people around it. Kamiko moves using

a motor system and spans more than 3 meters in diameter when fully open.

Designer : Karlen Chang

Karlen Chang is a multi-disciplinary artist and designer. He is Co-Founder and Creative Director of mixMotion, Since 1995, Karlen has been exploring the intersections of art, design and digital technology to create emotionally powerful experiences. His work uncovers the emergent social relationships between people and interactive environments. mixMotion is a design firm specialising in experiential marketing, events and exhibitions. Their focus is on creating remarkable and engaging live/interactive experiences, which often incorporate the elements of interactive design/installations, live video (VJ) performances, and motion graphic design. Kamiko has already been exhibited around the world, including in Toronto (Canada) during a TEDx event. www.mixmotion.com/




In The Cloud with Lulu • France, 2014 Julien Levesque Interactive installation

In The Cloud With Lulu is a hanging mobile made of small clouds that move according to the rhythm of the

artist’s daily physical moves. The faster he moves, the more the clouds shake and wave. When he stands

still, the mobile comes to a stop as well. In The Cloud With Lulu thus allows us to have a glimpse on the physical activity of a person when he/she is

not there, as a way to feel a little closer to the loved one. Thanks to that mobile, little Lulu can sleep tight.

For several years, Julien Levesque regularly includes Internet as a material in his work. He invents interactive devices that question in a playful and critic ways our contemporary reality. Through various medias (Internet, photography, video, edition), this artist changes data sometimes with humour and poesy, sometimes with distance and critic, in order to explore the information landscape that surround us. His artworks are midway in the web and offline, questioning at the same time the boundaries that separate them. His work has already exhibited many times in Show Off and in the Gaîté Lyriquefotr Futur en Seine, likewise to Variation Media Art Fair, to the 18th Japan Media Arts Festival, to the Biennale Update_4 of Bruxelles or in the Centre Pompidou for DCODD.

www.julienlevesque.net




Mantha • France, 2016 Bastien Mairet & Sami Afilal Interactive installation

A machine to observe, to meet, to tame…

This hybrid form is several meters high. It is the result of Bastien Mairet’s artistic researches about the

animality of machines. With Sami Afilal’s help, this young artist and designer living in Reims rises to the

challenge to give life to a huge machine. They invite you to control it and transform its luminous skin.

In co-production with the association Velours, Mantha will later become the emblem of the Boom Bap

Festival in Reims (23 April > 1er May 2016).

Young alumni of ESAD, the school of design of Reims, Bastien Mairet works on automatons, moving objects and robotics. He has created among other things design items mixing clockmaking and sensibility, which were exhibited at the Grand Palais and edited by Bernard Chauveau. He also realizes scenographic installations as the conception and the realization of a scientific banquet in the Halles de Boulingrin in September 2014, mixing food and air guns in order to imagine a speech about food during WWI. www.bastienmairet.com




Machines à réaction en chaîne • France, 2015 Cie Mister Fred Mecanical installations

For its last performance, the company built several mecanisms in the style of Rube Goldberg’s machines.

Their principle is the realisation of a simple task in a deliberately complex way, often thanks to a chain

reaction.

Come discover their funny and offbeat universe.

The troupe Mister Fred was created in 2004 with the comedian/juggler Fred de Chadirac. It aims at bringing a new point of view about juggling and clown thanks to a staging between cirque and theatre. It highlights burlesque forms, near to a black-and-white movie, where extravagant characters evolve. Its particularity is the development of juggling with objects : brooms, newspapers, plastic bag, suitcases...

www.compagnie-misterfred.com




An instrument for the sonification of everyday things • Germany, 2014 Dennis P Paul Musical performance

For the nuitnumérique#13, Dennis P Paul will make a musical performance that transforms everyday objects

into music. The forms are scanned and transcribed into audible frequencies.

Dennis P Paul is a German artist whose his work focuses on the interaction between humans and technology and the relationship between the conceptual, the virtual, the immaterial, and the physical. His works frequently take the form of installations in public spaces, physical interfaces, and generative systems. With great interest he is researching the communicative, playful, narrative, and critical qualities of new and digital media. He strongly believes that technology must be something warm and emotional. His work has been exhibited internationally and has received various renown awards. His work was exhibited around the world (especially alt_cph 2014 in Copenhague, the Transmediale in Berlin or Ars Electronica in Linz) and he received many prestigious awards. He teaches also in Hochschule für Künste of Bremen.

www.dennisppaul.de




Sensing colorspace • Germany, 2014 Sonice Development Interactive robotic installation

Sensing Colorspace is an interactive robotic installation documenting the acoustic events of its surrounding.

Visitors call the device actively by clapping and thereby influence the robots route. They record their

interaction and inscribe their presence to the wall. Events and lines overlay steadily and modulate

the appearance of the colorspace– a continuously evolving system.

Sonice Development invents and builds robotic installations. They work on a coherent beauty of imperfection, by linking both worlds – the digital and the material. Sonice Development creates programs and rules which realize themselves in robotic systems. These kinetic animations are focussed on their “being“ and behaviour. The currently visible is always the coming alive of systemic rules. All their works have a relationship to the architetural environment. They are often specifically made for the sheer location to affect the people they come into contact with. Sonice Development has already exhibited in Blooom Art Showi in Cologne, in Musrara Mix Festival in Jérusalem, in the exhibition « Red Never Follow » in the galery Saatchii of London, in the Colab Gallery, Weil am Rhein, in St. Gallen fpr the Museum Night and to Metropol Park in Berlin.. Recently, they were invited in the Festival Maintenant of Rennes. A first Sensign Colorspace’s installation can be seen at 10th floor of the 25hours Hotel Bikini Berlin. www.sonicedevelopment.com

▷ ▷ Sensing Colorspace will also be exhibited as part of the expocollective until May 28th 2016.




Lightbox Sequencer 2.0 • Holland, 2008 Jonas Vorwerk Interactive audiovisual installation

Come learn today’s electronic music with the sound and light show of the installation Lightbox Sequencer 2.0 !

By exploring the functions of the boards, you will produce unconscious sounds. They will change depending

on your interactions and progressively you will create a true musical harmony. Finally, several players can

fill the space with various sounds ; in this way, these sounds will communicate and respond to each other.

Therefore, you will create music.

Jonas Vorwerk is a multimedia Dutchman artist. He creates environments where digital dreams and real experience are connected. His installations often explore the idea of repetition, interaction, chance or changing. He works mainly with new technologies, light, music and space with the intention of exploring new dimensions that digital world can create in the physical space. Thanks to his own engagement in the electronic music scene and his engineer formation, he draws his inspiration from popular culture. Jonas Vorwerk’s artworks were exhibited to STPR, to the Dutch Design Week, to Motel Mozaique, to Amsterdam Light Festival, and many others. www.jonasvorwerk.nl

▷ ▷ Lightbox Sequencer 2.0 will be also exhibited as part of the expocollective until May 28th 2016.




CaricaBot • France, 2016 Florent Chaffiol Interactive robotic installation

In the style of the greatest caricaturists of Montmartre (as Jean-Claude Fusain or BernArt'), this robot

invites you to sit down for few minutes to draw a portrait, your portrait. The eye of the machine interprets

your face according to an algorithm and draws a divergent realistic picture with its hesitant mechanisms.

Florent Chaffiol is a video maker living in Reims. He is interested in old mechanisms that used to allow people to broadcast moving pictures as the zoetropes or the thaumatropes. In the current context, he leads his researches on the contemporary machines of our everyday life. www.florent-chaffiol.com

▷ ▷ Caricabot will be also exhibited as part of the expocollective until May 28th 2016.




Surprises et extras

We invite you to discover Theo Jansen’s miniature beach creatures. These specimens are realized thanks to

digital fabrication tools. The project questions the natural and artificial, the organic and mechanical and our

spontaneous anthropocentrism.

www.strandbeest.com Have you ever seen a robot entirely composed of manufactured pieces by a 3D printer? During the

nuitnumérique#13, you will play with Martin, the mascot of Axon’Câble. This playful robot is composed of

over 200 pieces and fully cabled with Axon’s electric connections.

www.axon-cable.com




With its workshop « Scratch ta K7 » the artist Tapetronic offers you to share his passion of sound

manipulations. He will teach you to divert and recycle audiotapes and walkmans in order to make new

musical instruments.

In a playful and magnetic atmosphere, the possibilities offered are infinites: you can make Velcro stripes, roll

walkmans, record on unusual supports… and many more.

www.alexismalbert.com

The nuitnumérique#13 is the opportunity to spend a friendly evening with your loved ones ! The

baréphémère#19 « Winecraft Bar » will be open until 1:00AM. Designed by Paul Touzel, the baréphémère will

offer refreshments and light meals. The perfect setting to relax and enjoy the DJ set specifically prepared

for the evening and the nuitnumérique#13.

© Mathilde Quentin

The Cartonnerie partners with Saint-Ex for the nuitnumérique#13 to highlight the work of the young

collective from Reims : VAPEUR. It is an association of adventurous and electronic music producers. Vapeur

will present live creations of Puzupuzu and Bruit Fantôme.

It is the opportunity for you to closely observe how electronic music can be played on the spot!




centre culturel numérique Saint-Exupéry Atypical place in the cultural life of Reims, Saint-Ex is a center that welcomes and shares digital artforms and practices. It aims at the cultural development of the region. It includes the label <ART>machine</>, which gathers the various areas of work around a major event : the nuitnumérique, a journey between international artworks created around a theme which questions on the consequences of the « digital revolution » in our society.

guided tours of the expocollective To book, please call (0033)+3.26.77.41.41 or send an email to [email protected] Guided tours for groups / schools : from Tuesdays to Fridays 10 :00AM to 12 :00AM and 2 :00PM to 6 :00PM Public tours : when Saint-Ex is open

practical information Free access How to come? Centre culturel numérique Saint-Exupéry Chaussée Bocquaine, Esplanade André Malraux, 51100 Reims [email protected] T. (0033) +3.26.77.41.41 At 5min-walk from the city center, Saint-Ex stands between the theater La Comédie de Reims and the youth hostel CIS de Champagne • Bus : arrêt Comédie – lines 1, 7, 8, 10 • Tramway : arrêt Comédie – lines A, B • Parking : Stade Vélodrome A. Delaune

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