Distances

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Project Title

Distances

Full project title

Distances

Project Description

The interactive artwork "Distances" virtually brings together people who are not able to touch themselves physically.

This artwork was born in 2020 in response to the Coronavirus crisis that forced us to be isolated and to have physical distances from the others.

In this installation, 2 persons in 2 separate physical spaces are invited to have contact virtually within the same image bringing them together face to face.

http://www.scenocosme.com/distances_e.htm

Project Region

ST ETIENNE, France

EU Programme or fund

Description of the project

Summary

The couple artists Gregory Lasserre and Anais met den Ancxt work under the name Scenocosme. Their singular artworks use diverse expressions: interactive installations, visual art, digital art. Their artworks are exhibited in numerous museums, contemporary art centres and digital art festivals in the world.

Distances
Interactive installation

The interactive artwork "Distances" virtually brings together people who are not able to touch themselves physically.

This artwork was born in April 2020 in response to the Coronavirus crisis that forced us to be isolated and to have physical distances from the others.

In this installation, 2 persons in 2 separate physical spaces are filmed in real time by 2 devices. They are invited to have contact virtually within the same image bringing them together face to face. The head-to-head proposed by the software of the artwork is trying to constantly reduce the proxemic distance between the two persons.
The images of their faces, their hands are attracted and created unique ephemeral meetings with the other.

Key objectives for sustainability

Since the COVID this installation we presented and connect people in several art space and country

1M Sotto la Metro (One meter under the subway station) - Roma (Italy)
26/05/2021 - 30/05/2021

Quai des Savoirs - Toulouse (Fr)
15/12/2020 - 05/09/2021

Coutts Art Center - Shanghai (China)
31/10/2020 - 02/12/2020

Institut Français de L'île Maurice - Beau-Bassin-Rose-Hill (Mauritius)
06/11/2020 - 30/11/2020

Le Parvis / lieu d'art et de spiritualité - Saint-Nazaire (Fr)
15/09/2020 - 17/10/2020

Key objectives for aesthetics and quality

This artwork is participatory in its creative process for the 2 visitors interacting at the same time.
This staging is constantly renewed for the other groups of observer visitors who are in the exhibition space.
In this creation, we generate reactions and gestures from the spectators in response to virtual contacts.

Key objectives for inclusion

we will present this installation in other country and places in the future

Festival Zéro 1 / arts hybrides et numériques
Galerie des hospices / Université de Limoges - Limoges (Fr)

Institut Français de Tunisie . Tunis (Tunisie)

and also in Canada in 2022

Results in relation to category

This artwork connect people virtually

How Citizens benefit

This artwork connect people virtually

This artwork is also close to our precedent artwork "Rencontres imaginaires"

That we have ever show in public space

Please look at the video here

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5WciYzuxHc&feature=emb_logo

The visitor is faced to an interactive mirror screen. This one reflects his body, his face. Virtual hands and faces are trying to touch him, to catch him. These hands and faces have lots of various behaviors and question relationships to the other. The hands and faces feel the presence and move along the face of the viewer. When he goes away, the hands and faces disappear. They will reappear with other behaviors when a new person will come.

In this artwork, we provocate reactions and gestures from the spectators in response to virtual contacts.
The audience plays with the hands which scrap the ear, caress the hair, touch the tip of the lips etc.
The contact is virtual but gives strange real feelings for the viewer.
It can be amused, annoyed, or expressed some pleasure.