Human bodies, celestial bodies and grains of life
EUGLOH Annual Summit
Cross your own body, travel through that of the stars, witness a solar flare, dive into a black hole, directly experience gravitational mirages, hear the song of the Earth, see Mars and maybe touch it, feel weightlessness, pulse to the celestial rhythms, contemplate the deep universe, make the complex equations of flowers blossom, catch grains of pollen and see time slow down.
Le sas>opens to all a tangible digital journey of art-science research in the Great Hall of the Orsay Linear Accelerator.
Great Hall of the Orsay Linear Accelerator
Le sas>201
Bâtiment 201, Porte 1, 1er étage
Rue Henri Becquerel
91440 Bures-sur-Yvette
France
JOURNEY
01_INTO TWO
Magnetic resonance and printing in grayscale on foliated glass – Polyptych of twenty pieces
Into two explores the inner parts of two people to turn outside their inside; to untangle their mutual intrication; to catch their common dynamics and let those fragile hearts beat.
Mirrors augmented with medical imaging, sensors, computers and 75” screens. Triptych in lacquered glass and oak wood.
A mirror reflects a human being, a woman, a man, as revealed by X rays imaging, positron emission tomography or magnetic resonance imaging. In and out of the body shown by CT scan, PET or MRI. The visitors discover on their own a new morphological or metabolical intimacy that was until now hidden to them.
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Martian art-science creation for visitors, sensors, loudspeakers, computers, lenses, mirrors and video- projectors. Aluminium and acrylic.
The Eye of Mars intertwines science, technology, dream, and imagination to focus on the special relationship between humans and Mars: Yesterday, we feared to be invaded by Martians ... today, we long to be there.
04_GRAINS OF EVOLUTION
Polyptych in grogged sandstone, silica and LED
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Magnified, kneaded, sculpted, heated, a hand of ceramic pollen grains carve the time of the evolution. Each one tells a different story. Altogether, they subsume the structural and functional richness still present in nature. They talk about diversity. The wonder of these unsuspected microscopic living things lies in their fragility which preserves a future.
05_PRONAOS - IN THE AIR
Module of the Pronaos mission, video
Part sculpture, cartography and part film, this installation proposes to explore the trajectory of Pronaos to experiment with the phenomenon of the stratospheric winds and the cosmological diffuse background.
[Arianna Lab]
06_COSMIC UTOPIA
Immersive and sensitive cosmolgic exploration
Cosmic Utopia is an immersive installation exploring a speculative thought experiment in which an eternal inflation due to a quantum fluctuation emerges around the Sun, moving an ISS-like space station a fraction of a second away from the control centre on Earth.
[Arianna Lab]
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07_ARIANNA LAB
Workshop-Laboratory
Arianna Lab takes as its starting point the recovery of objects related to space research. A cabinet of curiosities reflects this ongoing research-creation process and supports the presented works.
08_THE HARMONY OF THE WORLDS
Electrokinetic sculpture
Conceived as an illustration of the (only apparent) simplicity of gravity, the Harmony of the Worlds is dictated by the motion of three fictitious systems. An electronic and digital device without screen around Kepler’s laws and the movement of stars.
[Arianna Lab]
09_SOLAR ORBITERS
Solar physics, sensors and videoprojector
With the latest solar mission, we will see the poles of the Sun for the first time and get to the bottom of our interaction with it. Here, we are walking on the surface of our star, the one that follows us beyond the visible daily light.
Collaborative virtual reality
The SCIdataVR platform brings our feet in the void of the solar system. Equipped with controllers, several of us can take hold of the planets that make up the solar system in order to observe and manipulate them, to dive into them.
11_THE WEIGHT OF SHADOWS
General relativity, sensor and videoprojector
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The metric of space-time is based on the bodies that fill it. Without realising it, they weigh on it. As they pass, they modify and distort it. As they pass, they cannot be indifferent to it.
12_ACOUSTIC SPACE
Film setup
This film explores the idea that our world is a sphere made up of a plurality of centres and without any limits (Marshall McLuhan). It is based on Valentina Terechkova’s unique experience, the first woman to go into space alone in 1963. [Arianna Lab]
13_KIRUNA - MEASURE OF FLUXES
Sound composition, video and Earth’s magnetic field
The Earth is in many ways within the Sun’s sphere of influence. The fickle solar magnetic field is particularly strong at high latitudes and adds to the Earth’s magnetic field. These variations along different times are measured by the Swedish Institute of Space Physics and retrieved in real time by the Kiruna algorithm that governs the work. [Arianna Lab]
14_THE SUN'S COURSE
Light sculpture
The installation takes its title from the apparent course of the Sun: From sunrise to sunset, it describes a curve that has been materialised by a glass composition alternating transparency and opacity. The glass is a window that gives us a view of our star in its symbolic dimension. A source of life whose circular, all-encompassing shape evokes the love that embraces all things.
Relativistic art-science composition for visitors, sensors, loudspeakers, computers and video-projectors
The presence of a massive celestial body distorts space-time. The presence of another also modifies the environment in which we evolve. See me through you seeks to make visible the deformations of space-time and tangible the relativity of the observer to others by immersion in the deep universe.
16_JULIA'S FLOWERS
Touch screen, loudspeakers and computer
Julia’s Flowers gives the visitors the opportunity to interactively experience a whole mathematical world on their own. With their fingertips, visitors manipulate the initial conditions of an iterated equation, x→x2+c, and see the outcomes in real time.
