This residency, combining sound and digital creation with research (in collaboration with the hypermedia laboratory CiTU-Paragraphe at Paris 8, of which both designers are members), will focus on developing the second part of iA VOX®, linked to the research-creation project VOX ePŒTICS. This project, tied to Philippe Franck’s doctoral research on “itinerancy and intermediality in sound arts,” blends pioneering and contemporary sound poetry, sound art, and the use of AI to extract radiophonic and visual fragments from the context where this AV performance takes place.
Reservoir Vox – VOX ePŒTICs
A receptacle object materializing iA VOX®, envisioned as a reservoir of information as fluid as water, serves as a vessel to contain and offer a broader audience a new way to experience it, beyond its current uses. For example, it could be presented during an exhibition through an installation utilizing VR technology.
With this object, users can immerse themselves in an environment where the AI has access to all the curated data used in the itinerant VOX ePŒTICs performances. This immersive content, defined and managed by the generative AI, will autonomously create a new eSPACE: a “VOXLAND,” embodying a hybrid and experiential “VOX LANGUAGE.”
VOX ePŒTICs explores the intersection of digital technologies, poetic and sound arts, and the humanities, relying on an immersive and participatory multimedia framework. Drawing from poetic fragments, electro-organic soundscapes, and words captured in situ within urban environments, it offers a theoretical and artistic reflection on hybrid forms of writing and their interactions with virtual and augmented reality environments.
The project examines the challenges and possibilities of these new forms of expression in constructing augmented identities, the relationship between humans and machines, and the impact of immersive experiences on how sounds and words are perceived and translated.
Conception : La Société i Matériel – Philippe Franck, Marc Veyrat
Sound creation/poetic mix : Paradise Now
Images : Marc Veyrat
Coding : Jonathan Juste
Marc Veyrat (Fr)
Artist, Aggregated Professor, HDR Senior Lecturer in Art Sciences; Head of the Hypermedia Communication Department at the University Savoie Mont-Blanc, and researcher at the CiTu Paragraphe Laboratory at the University Paris 8; Associate Researcher at the UNESCO / ITEN Chair (Innovation, Transmission, Digital Edition).
Marc Veyrat is interested in the complexity of information shaping - in digital, visual and contemporary art - networking, and communication strategies, particularly in Mixed Reality (XR) devices and across social networks or the web.
In 2000, he initiated La Société i Matériel, a collaborative hypermedia project using information in different artistic dimensions (pictorial, textual, sound, etc.), which produced i-REAL, an XR project (5 VR worlds to date) presented at numerous international events and festivals. He has written numerous articles and directed publications (including 100 notions for Digital Art, La Société i Matériel - De l'information comme matériel artistique - volume 1, Never Mind - De l'information comme matériel artistique - volume 2 - all published by L'Harmattan in 2015).
Paradise Now (Fr/Be)
Intermedia producer and creator based in Belgium, Philippe Franck has developed since the 90s the Paradise Now project which favors an actively transversal and collaborative approach. He favors a sensitive and cinematic approach that embraces different influences and fields (electronics, sound art, post-rock, post-pop, improvised music …).
He has worked closely with various videographers (Régis Cotentin, Hanzel & Gretzel), poets (Ira Cohen, Gerard Malanga, Catrine Godin, Biba Sheikh, Werner Moron in Les ours bipolaires, Eric Therer for the project & Stuff), choreographers (Nadine Ganase , Manon Oligny, Karine Ledoyen), digital artists (Philippe Boisnard, Franck Soudan, Jacques Urbanska, Thomas Israël) and other adventurous audio creators (recently Christophe Bailleau within the duo Pastoral, Gauthier Keyaerts in Supernova, Stephan Dunkelman, Maurice Charles JJ, A Limb).
Since 2005, he has also collaborated with holistic performer / masseuse Isa Belle for a series of installations and “sound” performances shown in numerous festivals, cultural centers and international events. He has also produced and participated in several records on various independent labels (Sub Rosa, Optical Sound, Transonic…). In 2022, he began a doctoral thesis in Information and Communication Sciences (Cognition, language, interaction) at the University of Paris 8 (CiTu Paragrahe), under the dual supervision of Khaldoun Zreik (Paris8) and Marc Veyrat (University of Savoie Mont Blanc).
Jonathan Juste (Ch/Fr)
Jonathan Juste is a Franco-Swiss freelance digital designer and creator, born in the Alps and based in France. He pursued his academic studies at the University of Savoie Mont-Blanc, where he obtained a Master's degree in Interactive Writing and Interaction Design.
As a developer, graphic designer, and educator, his transdisciplinary practice spans various media. From still and moving images to digital and interactive design, he uses programming as a tool for creating visual and sonic experiences.
He supports artists in the realization of their digital projects, notably immersive works in augmented and virtual reality. He is interested in questions of space, time, body, and data, which he explores and questions through his creations.
He works in partnership with several research laboratories, such as the LLSETI laboratory at the University of Savoie Mont-Blanc or the Paragraphe laboratory at Paris 8, and thus participates in exchanges and collaborations between artistic and academic communities.
In 2017, he founded pixelpirate, a digital design and development company.
Infos
- 30.12.2024 > 07.01.2025
- Couvent d’Hautrage
- 6 Place d’Hautrage 7334 Saint-Ghislain – Belgique
- transcultures.be
Production
- As part of the Arts/Sciences program of the European Pepinieres of Creation
- With the support of Transcultures
