Art Meets Technology at MuDA
French digital artists collective Lab212, have opened their latest exhibition at the Museum of Digital Art (MuDA) in Zurich.
Formed in 2008, Lab212 focus on daily lives and environments, highlighting the invisible ties that bind space, movement and time through interactive storytelling and narratives.
Béatrice Lartigue, Cyril Diagne and Tobias Muthesius are three of the founding members of the Lab212. All have majored in Interactive Design at Les Gobelins in Paris, and it was here that their boundaries of design really started to be tested.
Their new exhibition is on at MuDA, where they continue to probe the relationships between physical and virtual worlds through the enchanting artworks presented in this exhibition that are delighting the public with poetic and playful sensory experiences.
The Starfield installation lets visitors ride a swing, leaping light years away swaying over the real surface of the moon and through the Milky Way. Starfield involves a swing that is coupled with Microsoft Kinect and the projection of a starry sky. As someone rides the swing, a 3D camera tracks the angles of the ropes, estimating the visitor’s eye position in three-dimensional space. Visitors can now experience an out of this world journey swinging through our galaxy’s constellations and the tiniest craters of the Moon.
In Variations Juliette Champain utilises ceramics and electronics to produce a contemplative installation where rotating motors make elements dance under the visitors’ eyes. In Envol by Béatrice Lartigue, Sébastien Courvoisier, Louis Warynski visitors embody a bird and fly above a boundless dreamscape. Space is shaped along the way, and a musical topography emerges.
By blowing on a tiny windmill in Appel d’air by Tobias Muthesius, Pierre Thirion, visitors can activate its bigger brother, a large industrial fan, and start a conversation with the wind. Empreintes by Béatrice Lartigue and Sébastien Courvoisier allow visitors to create sculptures in space through the tracking of their hands in motion. Enthusiastic Overlay by Cyril Diagne sees the manipulation of tennis balls in front of a high-speed camera, allowing visitors to make them come to life as enthusiastic little creatures.
Art meets technology meets, and humans get introduced as well. At this MuDA and Lab212 exhibition people have the opportunity to use their bodies to bring the installations to life, becoming inherent actors of the exhibition, shaping, revealing and defining the artworks during the time of the exchange.
The Lab212 exhibition is on until Friday 23 December 2016.
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