My computer just started to smoke

The project « My computer just started to smoke », was done in the frame of a residence at the Lab in 2012. It was presented at the Gamerz festival 09 and at the Fête des 01, organized by Labomedia in Orléans (France) in 2013 .   Collectif Dardex: Quentin Destieu and Sylvain Huguet   […]

Landstape

Landstape was completed with support and production of M2F Créations.   Lanstape plays with the usual robotics training: a robot must follow a line on the fl oor. In this artistic installation, the line is made of magnetic audio tape, and the robot is equipped with head and speakers to read the tape. A magnetic […]

Hold On

Maxime Marion and Emilie Brout   Somewhere between film and video-game, in the interactive installation Hold On, you can go your way through famous movie’s sequences like those from The Shining, Old Boy or Rocky… Thanks to an arcade-type device, you can choose and control sequences from those video-ludic style movies. Paradoxically using both the […]

Toy Band

Debeul AXL   What more natural than enjoy yourself playing music ? What more natural then than a live electronic moment with a smart and playful interface ? Following the interactive installation“Playmobeat” allowing the audience to compose music with the toys, Debeul and his “Toy Band” are back with a miscellaneous live electro music set. […]

Dipterous experience

Servovalve (Gregory Pignot / Alia Daval)   Dipterous experience is an archaic visual process combined with a micrographic device paying tribute to flies… some fruit burst open so that you may enjoy it better. Servovalve is a sound and graphic duet, who creates strange devices with radical electronic design, ranging from simple poetic act ( […]

Forger

Quentin Destieu, Sylvain Huguet, Grégoire Lauvin (DARDEX Art group)   Faced with hysterical crowds invading contemporary art galleries and exhibitions in search of the slightest souvenir or artifact. Faced with paranoid and autistic artists who wallow in isolation and meditation, the artists’collective Dardex-Mort2Faim answers with The Forger, a robotic device that both satisfies the ever […]

Cheoptic Hologram

Stephane Kyles, Quentin Destieu, Pascal Silondi, Ivan Chabanaud   Holographic researches.    

Meule-2-Foin (French for haystack)

Monsieur Moo “Meule-2-Foin” is an interactive installation made of a big hay ball that delivers a lively music whenever someone happens to push it. The reading speed being proportional to the running speed of the ball , the spectator can control the track’s “pitch” but he’s obliged to keep a certain pace if he wants […]

Mesa Draw

Grégoire Lauvin Mesa Draws presents a never-ending landscape that passes by. The relief of this landscape is generated by an analog device connected to a computer. The landscape unfolds from left to right, as seen through the window of a car. When no one watches, the landscape is flat. But when the spectator moves his […]

Machine 2 Fish

Dardex-Mort2Faim Art group Machine 2 Fish is an installation in which the movements of a true living goldfish are being robotized by an experimental robotic system. Thanks to its prosthesis the goldfish can move as if in an earthly environment. The fish and the machine combine into a smart autonomous device inspired by cyborgs and […]