[-empyre-] Week Four with Laura Cinti, Grégory Lasserre, and Anaïs met den Ancxt

[Patrick Keilty]

Great discussion heading into our final week of "Plant Art and New
Media"! Week four brings us three guest discussants, Laura Cinti,
Grégory Lasserre, and Anaïs met den Ancxt.

Looking forward to continuing the conversation!

Dr Laura Cinti is an research-based artist working with biology,
co-founder and co-director of C-LAB - a transdisciplinary bio art
collective and organisation. C-LAB has been invited to range of
international conferences, exhibitions and continues to contribute in
publications to broker discussions on the intersections of art and
science. Laura has been involved in art projects, exhibitions and
workshops with support from the European Commission, scientific
institutes, pharmaceutical companies, councils, universities, cultural
institutes and commercial partners. Laura has a PhD from UCL (Slade
School of Fine Art in interdisciplinary capacity with UCL Centre of
Biomedical Imaging), a Masters in Interactive Media: Critical Theory &
Practice (Distinction) from Goldsmiths College, University of London
and BA (Hons) Fine Art (First Class) from University of Hertfordshire.

Scenocosme is a collaboration between Gregory Lasserre & Anais met den
Ancxt. Gregory Lasserre and Anais met den Ancxt are two artists
working together as a duo under the name Scenocosme. They work and
live in France. They develop the concept of interactivity in their
artworks by using multiple kinds of expression. They mix art and
digital technology in order to find substances of dreams, poetries,
sensitivities and delicacies. Their works come from possible
hybridizations between the living world and technology which meeting
points incite them to invent sensitive and poetic languages. They also
explore invisible relationships with our environment : they can feel
energetic variations of living beings. They design interactive
artworks, and choreographic collective performances, in which
spectators share extraordinary sensory experiences. Plants of their
artwork Akousmaflore react to the human touch by different sounds.
They use also water (Fluides), stones (Kymapetra) and wood (Ecorces;
Matières sensibles) as elements capable to generate tactile, visual
and sound sensory interactivity. Their artworks were presented in
several contemporary art and digital art spaces. Since 2004, they have
exhibited their interactive installation artworks at ZKM Karlsruhe
Centre for Art and Media (Germany), at Museum Art Gallery of Nova
Scotia (Canada), at Contemporary Art Museum Raleigh (USA), at Daejeon
Museum of Art (Korea), at Bòlit / Centre d’Art Contemporani (Girona)
and in many international biennals and festivals.
http://www.scenocosme.com/


Patrick Keilty
Assistant Professor
Faculty of Information
Bonham Centre for Sexual Diversity Studies
University of Toronto
http://www.patrickkeilty.com/