ISEA2023 Art Event Overview


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  • Art Exhibitions:

    • ISEA Selected Artworks

      • Works include:

      Forum des images ISEA2023 Exhibition
    • Exhibition. Forum des Images, May 16 – 21 With ISEA2023 selected artists: Ugo Arsac, Bastien Didier (Mentalista), disnovation.org, Vidya-Kelie Juganaikloo and Sunjeong Hwang At the Forum des images, throughout the Symposium, a thematic display will propose, with different partners, different points of view on the idea of Symbiosis, as will be the case with works by Quebec artists from the partnership with CALQ and elektra, as well as the partnership with artport, from the Whitney Museum of American Art. But works from the ISEA2023 selection will also be exhibited, created by Vidya Kelie, Ugo Arsac, the deeptech studio mentalista, Sunjeong Hwang or disnovation.org. For ISEA2023, Vidya-Kelie Juganaikloo is reactivating the website Hypercodex.org. Ugo Arsac, for his part, will present the “immersive documentary” ENERGĒIA (2022). Mentalista will present its latest project, Mental Garden (2022). Also in the idea of inter-region communication, the Tanhamnu Warp Drive project by Sunjeong Hwang Created in 1988 to compile an audiovisual memory bank of Paris, the Forum des images has since celebrated cinema and moving pictures of all kinds. h... [Read more]

      • Focus Québec: Symbiosis
    • Exhibition. Forum des Images, May 16 – 21 As a recognized actor in the field of digital creation, Québec participates in the dissemination of contemporary digital art internationally. On the occasion of this worldwide meeting around creation and research ISEA2023 Paris, ELEKTRA presents the Focus Québec event dedicated to a selection of works by Québec artists of international scope. ELEKTRA proposes to take a first look at the digital creation from Québec with an exhibition in the Forum des Images. A dozen artists will exhibit recent works on current issues such as artificial intelligence, the place of nature in our increasingly technological society, robotics and interactivity. Moreover, you are invited to live this human/machine symbiosis by participating in the extraordinary robotic performance, Inferno, at the Cube Garges. Presented in its maximum version with 18 exoskeletons, Inferno will give you a rare symbiotic moment, which you will remember for the rest of your life. [Read more]

      • Micro-Folie at ISEA2023
    • Exhibition. Forum des Images, May 16 – 17 ISEA2023 and the Cube Garges have partnered with the Micro-Folie network. In a logic of decentralization and democratization of culture, this project led by the French Ministry of Culture is open to local authorities and networks of the French Institute all over the world and offers access to a digital museum. Thus, a Micro-Madness will be accessible to ISEA audiences throughout the Symposium, and the Cube Garges has been invited to curate a collection of digital arts, integrating artists from the ISEA2023 selection (including Mentalista, Félicie d’Estienne d’Orves, disnovation.org, XP unit, Franck Vigroux & Antoine Schmitt, as well as adrien m & claire b). In addition, the Micro-Folie network will be a key partner in the distribution of the augmented catalog, allowing, in the long term, many audiences to discover the works selected for ISEA2023. Selected ISEA2023 artists: Mentalista, Félicie d’Estienne d’Orves, disnovation.org, XP unit, Franck Vigroux & Antoine Schmitt, as well as adrien m & claire b A micro–folie is a cultural space organised around 3 units: a digital... [Read more]

      • Symbiosis, artport x ISEA2023
    • Exhibition. Forum des Images, May 16 – 21 The ISEA International Symposium and the Whitney Museum of American Art’s artport website, an online gallery space for commissions of net art, have teamed up for the 28th edition of the symposium in Paris. In line with the overall theme of the event, “Symbiosis”, four original works commissioned for artport by the Whitney Museum between 2021 and 2023 will be presented to ISEA2023 participants from May 16 to 21, 2023, at the Forum des images in Paris. The installation features Auriea Harvey’s computerized cosmology SITE1; Mimi Ọnụọha’s interactive archival video work about big agriculture; an AI curating Biennials by UBERMORGEN, Leonardo Impett and Joasia Krysa; and a transmedia story by Rachel Rossin about the increasing fusion of humans and technology. These projects — ranging from critical thinking about the structures that support our society to the creation of new mythologies carrying our relationship to the world — offer an offbeat look at the idea of Symbiosis.   Whitney Museum artport is a  portal to Internet art and an online gallery space for commissions of net art a... [Read more]

      • Le Cube, other ISEA2023 exhibitions

      Le Cube: The strange microcosmic laboratory of the Oumpalous
    • Exhibition. Le Cube Garges, April 27 – May 18 With ISEA2023 selected artists: Robin Baumgarten, Alison Bennett  Disnovation.org (artists collective), Yosra Mojtahedi, Anne Marie Maes & Florian Sumi “Once upon a time, in a world devastated by a great cataclysm, there will be the Oumpalous tribe. Together they will learn from the mistakes of the past world. Together, they will create a new world.” What will tomorrow’s world look like? For centuries, societies have been trying to give an answer to this question and to project themselves into the future, so near and so far. We may develop theories of futurology or run the statistical prediction tools, but facing time, imagination is the best entrance into the future. In a few decades, today’s children will be enacting their visions of the future based on their current imaginations. The exhibition L’étrange labo microcosmique des Oumpalous is intended to be a time capsule putting into shape the imaginations and questions shared by the international artists selected in the framework of ISEA2023 and young people from Garges-lès-Gonesse accompanied by a workshop, on the more specific subject... [Read more]

      • Augmented Palace / Palais Augmenté exhibition & Lab ISEA
    • Exhibition. Grand Palais Ephémère, June 23 – 25 Palais Augmented, the first festival dedicated to artistic creation in augmented reality and immersive cultural innovations returns for a third edition with the common theme of the avatar, virtual bodies and their relationship to physical, political and social bodies. This festival, an initiative of Fisheye and the Rmn – Grand-Palais, aims to draw up a real inventory of technological innovations linked to culture. On the program this year, a journey of new works in augmented reality created by international artists and accessible from your smartphones, interactive digital experiences in spaces called “labs” and a public agora , addressing themes related to contemporary digital creation. . The artists exhibited: Liu Bolin (born in 1973, China), Lu Yang (born in 1984, Japan), Salomé Chatriot (born in 1995, France). The institutions present: Opéra National de Paris, Chaillot Théâtre National de la Danse, Universcience, ISEA, Palais des Beaux Arts de Lille, Grand Palais Immersif, Francetv, Gobelins PARIS, ECAL – Ecole Cantonale d’Art de Lausanne, EDF, ENSAD. In order to make the most of the exhibi... [Read more]

      • Hacnum Selection

      Fusion of the Possible
    • Fusion of the Possible, Topographie de l’art, April 15 – June 15 Yesterday’s possibilities are today’s realities that we are constantly merging to make them even better. Over the last sixty years, many artists with a strong affinity for technology of their time have anticipated our environments or uses with their creations. It is often by hacking innovations that they innovate in turn when their multiple practices come together as their techniques agglomerate. From the scientific laboratory to the artist’s studio, everything happens at the junction of the material and the immaterial, as well as that of intelligence and data, without forgetting the realities that are brought together by considering them extended. There is no longer an autonomous field of research, isolated from the others. In an age when the notion of artistic tendency is no longer operative, the exhibition The Fusion of Possibilities, with artworks from converging practices, aims to be the expression of the symbiosis of ideas as well as of forms. [Read more]

      • House Of Human Sciences
    • Exhibition, MSH Paris Nord, May 17- 27 As part of ISEA2023, a major event on the world stage of electronic creation, two project leaders from MSH Paris Nord present their research. In dialogue with the sciences, experimental creation broadens our knowledge of the world. The MSH Paris Nord welcomes works that give us the opportunity to see and hear new relationships between humans and non-humans, and that question our understanding of our own identity as an autonomous species. Artists: Etienne Armand Amato & Claire Sistach, ISEA2023 selected artists Diane Schuh [Read more]

      • Hangars Numériques: Southern Winter Exhibitions 2023

      36 degrés & Galerie Charlot: Psych.e
    • Exhibition at 36 degrés and Galerie Charlot, June 6 – 18 36 degrees and Galerie Charlot imagine a new exhibition experience inspired by mystical themes, spiritualism and various realities. In a unique space opposite the Grand Palais, we will bring about encounters with the public, technology, science and spirituality through numerous works and workshops. Psych.e offers a contrasting environment, housed in two former Haussmannian apartments where the very cause of our contemporary disconnection – technology – serves as a portal to a universe of new discoveries and spiritual awakening. Creating a new space for self-discovery and exploration of awakened practices, Psych.e is a flexible space bringing workshops and performances to life, breaking white-cube norms of scenography, programming and behavior. Psych.e imagines an alternative that shakes up the codes of our relationship to art, by offering artistic and human experiences to live. [Read more]

      • Nuit Blanche, Point Éphémère
    • Exhibition. ISEA2023 selected artwork, Point Éphémère, Nuit Blanche 2023, June 3 For the Nuit Blanche 2023, Point Éphémère presents the installations of three selected artists of ISEA2023, the 28th International Symposium on Electronic Art Dasha Ilina, Yoon Chung Han and Anne Marie Maes are three artists from diverse backgrounds. If their practices vary, they have in common to reflect on issues of technology, biology and science. Their three installations will be exhibited during an artistic course in the place. [Read more]

      • AI, Kombucha, and Cyberfeminism
    • École des Arts Décoratifs, May 16 – 21 Juried artworks On the occasion of the ISEA2023 Symposium ‘Symbiosis’ that it co-organizes, École des Arts Décoratifs hosts an exhibition. Aiming to think simultaneously about spirituality, technology and living together, the exhibition is made of contemplative installations in different modalities, from interactivity to meditation. The Altars for Cosmic Talismans by Lucile Olympe Haute compose a space of recollection of the different facets of the same life form. The staged discs can be approached as material experiments, waste from a drink production or ritual objects. They invite us to question what we believe in, our collective values and their influence on our relationship to the world, the ways we collaborate with, care for, cultivate or exploit other living things. The installation-play Spectral Plain by Guillemette Legrand and Vincent Thornhill proposes to immerse oneself in a world that has undergone a geomagnetic reversal, in search of a new energy alignment. The journey ends around a campfire, around which the representation of a multi-species energy network is built. Spectral Plain is powered by a cosmic ra... [Read more]

      • Nobody Sees Us: Rewiring Our Communication Systems Exhibition
    • Exhibition. ISEA2023 selected artworks. IESA Arts and Culture School Gallery, May 23 -30  The exhibition, Nobody Sees Us: Rewiring Our Communication Systems explores the hidden structures of communication networks and the ways in which they can be rebuilt, reconstructed, and reshaped through the digital medium. This exhibition is titled after Sylvia Plath’s poem Mushrooms. Textiles link nature to the digital world, and computers expose hidden internet structures. Through these works by artists Kate Geck, and Mark Farid, we can see things that have become visible, to imagine and reimagine communication in new ways. The exhibition juxtaposes physical and virtual worlds, exploring the similarities in the structures of nature and culture, and the trinity of waves, frequencies, and physics. The exhibition invites us to explore our complex networks and rethink the ways in which we communicate with each other. Nobody Sees Us: Rewiring Our Communication Systems” explores the hidden structures of communication networks and the ways in which they can be rebuilt, reconstructed, and reshaped through the digital medium. This exhibition is titled after Sylvia Pla... [Read more]

      • Art and/or Game: Symbiosis or Dissonance Exhibition
    • Exhibition. Centre Culturel Canadien, May 16 – 20 Art and/or Game: Symbiosis or Dissonance? is an exhibition that looks at some current practices in the very vibrant area where experimental games meet related art practices. Experimental games seek to resist the hegemony of the huge international digital games industry by presenting a profusion of local, personal and community-based alternatives that stretch the game form expressively and critically. The exhibition brings together a selection of artists and game designers from Canada and France with very different approaches to this interstitial space. The works range from the explicitly political and activist to those with more implicit and poetic integration of social critique, from the very figurative to the abstract, and from more traditional screen game formats to ones with physical interfaces of different types. The game-work by the collective Disnovation.org is part of ISEA’s official programming. This project is funded by the European MASC-RISE programme under grant agreement n°101007915. Visitors are invited to play on site with all the games presented in the exhibition. [Read more]

      • Théâtre-Sénart Arts Numériques Fest Exhibition
    • Exhibition. Théâtre-Sénart, May 2 – June 3 In the framework of ISEA2023, Siana presents in collaboration with the Théâtre de Sénart, for the Arts numériques Fest festival from 2 to 20 May 2023, a series of artistic works by Dylan Cote and Pierre Lafanéchère, Earthsatz and Framed Earth. These creations will also be presented in the city centre of Evry-Courcouronnes for the Nuit Blanche on 3 June 2023. The world told by Google Earth intrigues us… The imperfections of its forms, the defects of its textures, its suspended time, constitute the attributes of a universe that is more akin to algorithmic fiction than to our tangible reality. The video installation Earthsatz seeks to amplify the cold and anguished poetry generated by this “pocket world” where life is non-existent, where pixels have replaced particles. The challenge is to contemplate it for what it is: a fictional universe that mimics our own while developing its own autonomy. Earthsatz proposes a stroll through this altered world whose fictional, artificial and irrational aspects are celebrated. In dialogue, the photographic landscapes of Framed Earth, immersed in the ocean, linger on dwel... [Read more]

      • ISEA2023 at Tetris
    • Exhibition. Le Tétris, Le Havre,  June 14 – 24 Tetris Espace Expo The two projects exhibited at Tétris explore, each in their own way, the evolution of our ecosystems and our relationship with them. Tobia by David Porta, gives life to new man-machine interactions, between organic and inorganic matter, while the mobile application Yanto by Iris Qu Xiaoyu, Marc Lee and Shervin Saremi, proposes an immersive journey in the ocean to meet a marine fauna, eaten away by the acidification of the oceans. Organized by: Papa’s Production [Read more]

      • Revolution V52
    • Exhibition at Digitale Zone, Marseille and Musée Dehors (Museum Outside), Caen, June 1, 2022 – June 1, 2023 Revolution V52 is a one-year world tour which presents, in 52 weeks, 52 artists and 52 works. Its ambition is to offer a global panorama of visual digital creation. This digital odyssey will be broadcast in public spaces in Caen and Marseille. The exhibition tool that we are proposing in Caen and Marseille profoundly modifies the codes of the exhibition, the connected screen does not require the transport of works, no assembly, no dismantling, it makes it possible to invite artists from all over the world, it constitutes a research tool on the distribution of dematerialized works. Moreover, its focus on the public space allows the greatest number of people to become familiar with contemporary creation. Through an intriguing mise en abyme effect, the works and artists of the virtual globe appear in the public space. Given the flexibility of this tool and the artistic abundance on the web, further accentuated by the arrival of the NFT, we wanted to be at the technological and artistic rendezvous by proposing to the public one exhibition per week for... [Read more]

      • ISEA2023 Diffusion
    • Exhibition. Digitale Zone, Marseille and Musée Dehors, Caen, June 15 – Sep 15  During the summer of 2023, we will be hosting two ISEA2023 selected artists. The exhibitions will be displayed in two 24-hour screen windows in Caen and Marseille. Open to the street, these two windows constitute a research tool on the diffusion of dematerialized works. Their orientation on the public space allows the greatest number of people to become familiar with contemporary creation. Through an intriguing mise en abyme effect, the works and artists of the virtual globe appear in the public space. The two selected works on display for this summer exhibition period are Synthetic Landscapes by Varvara & Mar (15 June to 31 July) and Face of Universe by Tatsuru Arai (1 August to 15 September). See you in the streets of Caen and Marseille for ISEA2023! [Read more]

      • Outland Exhibition at Plateforme
    • Exhibition April 7-23, Plateforme Paris The second opus of the Outland exhibition brings together, in the framework of ISEA2023, the work of Marija Avramovic & Sam Twidale, Golnaz Behrouznia and Sandrine Deumier. Focusing on the hybridization Real/Fiction, Nature/Synthetic, Humans/Avatars, Outland defines an introspective journey on new realities intrinsically linked to scientific neologisms. Micro-worlds, synesthesias and techno-biologisms attempt to create new forms between the artificiality of digital imaginaries and the limited reality of the living and ecosystems. Mineral, vegetal, abstract, living, artificial forms merge, communicate in an attempt to create a new impossible genesis. Falsified, modified, printed, nature becomes pure allegory or past memory, loses its original meaning and becomes an artefact. A decontextualised element. Outland’s works participate in the loss of reference points of what could be defined as the memory of a harmonious time. They are the memorial alteration of a past connected to the natural elements. They are also the mental representations of a post-human future, immersed in autonomous algorithms, genetic transformations... [Read more]

      • ESAD Orléans Exhibition
    • Exhibition. St-Pierre-le-Puellier collegiate church and ÉSAD Orléans gallery, Orleans. March 30 – May 28, 2023 Architectures and landscapes through the prism of virtual realities, augmented realities, artificial intelligence, video games, metaverse, NFT cultures… An exhibition by ÉSAD Orléans and the Department of Culture of the Town Hall of Orléans. An ISEA2023 labeled event The Earth is heating up. The windows open. It is often in times of crisis that art opens new windows, like so many points of view on the world, nourishing small or large stories. Our windows today are said to be “virtual”. Are the architectures and landscapes they reveal unreal? Are they only of the order of fiction, of dreams, like a projection of our fantasies, our delusions or our intimate or social anxieties? Or do they bear witness to our way of inhabiting the world? Or even the way we give it shape by our machines to record the real, precisely? Virtual realities, augmented realities, artificial intelligences, video games, metaverses, NFT cultures… populate the USB #5 exhibition · Window(s) on course . Inspired by Alfred Hitchcock’s film, Rear Window (or Rear Window ), ... [Read more]

      • Abbaye de Maubuisson

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    • ISEA2023 Projections
    • Screenings, Le Cube Garges. On 15 May 2023 at 5pm and 18 May 2023 at 5pm. Le Cube Garges presents a cycle of screenings exploring different perspectives on the concept of symbiosis. This programme invites you to discuss the possibilities and limits of technology, the relationship between humans and machines and the future of our society and environment. Three creations by ISEA2023 laureates will be presented at Cube Garges Écran. Democratopia. A speculative future scenario of Data-Driven AI-Supported Direct Democracy by Lina Dovydėnaitė presents a speculative scenario of direct democracy where artificial intelligence is harnessed to serve the community. The film invites us to reflect on the possibilities and limits of data-driven democracy. The selection of videos from Disnovation.org’s Post Growth Toolkit project will challenge dominant narratives of growth and progress and explore speculative models of environmental accounting at the limits of the quantifiable. With the creation Let Me Fix You, directed by Dasha Ilina, explores the relationship between humans and robots in the context of care work. The film highlights the irreplaceability of human workers in provid... [Read more]

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