Phytopoiesis

Phytopoiesis is an interactive visual and sound art installation. It is composed of a living plant capable of generating images using artificial intelligence.
Phytopoiesis generates images that are constantly renewed. It generates prompts, and is interfaced with the open AI Stable Diffusion. This plant dreams of hybridizing with human beings. Phytopoïesis is an interactive visual and sound art installation composed of a living plant capable of generating images using artificial intelligence. This interactive artwork present a plant that reacts to the human touch. Sensitive to our electrostatic energy, it reacts to our touch and proximity with evolving sound characters and images. By being interfaced with a computer, the plant has the ability to send requests: prompts to an artificial intelligence in order to generate original images resulting from hybridization between plant organisms and human beings. The images change and appear in real time on the screen in front of it. Mixing flesh, sap, blood, body, leaves, roots, spines, hair,… The organic forms of the images evolve, creating a visual experience that is constantly renewing itself for visitors.
Our art installations offer sensitive interactions with the environment, in order to enhance symbolic connections between human beings and plant beings. This interactive plant installation hybridized with an AI tends to question the human/plant parity, and to shake up the established relations of domination and submission.
In this installation like in most of our atworks, we want to create a symbolic mirror with the body, in order to generate sensitive interactions that question our contemporary relationships with the environment. This artwork is a continuation of our interactive and sensory artistic approach whith plants reacting to the contact and caresses of the spectators through sound behaviours.
web : https://www.scenocosme.com/phytopoiesis_e.htm
pdf : https://www.scenocosme.com/PDF/phytopoiesis_EN.pdf

The Director

Scenocosme : Gregory Lasserre & Anais met den Ancxt The couple artists Gregory Lasserre and Anais met den Ancxt work under the name Scenocosme. They live in the Rhone-Alpes region in France. These artists overturn various technologies in order to create contemporary artworks. Their works came from possible hybridizations between the technology and living world.
Their artworks are exhibited in numerous museums, contemporary art centres and digital art festivals in the world. They have exhibited their interactive installation artworks at ZKM Karlsruhe Centre for Art and Media (Germany), at Daejeon Museum of Art (Korea), at Museum Art Gallery of Nova Scotia (Canada), at National Centre for Contemporary Arts (Moscow), at Contemporary Art Museum Raleigh (USA), at Bòlit Centre d’Art Contemporani (Girona) and in many international biennals and festivals : Art Center Nabi / INDAF (Seoul), BIACS3 / Biennial International of Contemporary Art of Seville (Spain), Biennial Experimenta (Australia), NAMOC / National Art Museum of China / TransLife / Triennial of Media Art (Beijing), Futuresonic (UK), WRO (Poland), FILE (São-Paulo), ISEA / International Symposium on Electronic Art (2009 Belfast, 2011 Istanbul, 2012 Albuquerque, 2013 Sydney), EXIT, VIA, Lille3000, Ososphere, Scopitone, Seconde nature (France)… during important events : World Expo (Shanghai), Nuits Blanches (Toronto, Halifax, Singapor, Bruxelles, Brighton, Amiens, Segovia, Bucharest), Fête des lumières (Lyon)… and in various art centers : MONA (Australia), MUDAC, Fondation Claude Verdan (Lausanne), Musée Ianchelevici (Belgium), Kibla (Slovenia), Banff Centre (Canada), Villa Romana (Firenze), Utsikten Kunstsenter (Norway), Watermans (UK), Centre des arts d’Enghien-les-Bains, Gaîté Lyrique (Paris) etc.

General Information

Directors: Scenocosme : Gregory Lasserre & Anais met den Ancxt
The Production Company: Scenocosme : Gregory Lasserre & Anais met den Ancxt
Awards: Selected for the Lumen Prize in the category “Futures Award Finalists” : The Lumen Prize for Art and Technology – London (UK)
Year of Creation: 2024
Minimum Age: 5
Subtitles: no langage

Technical Information

Format: interactive installation
Content: plant, laptop, videoprojector, speaker, wooden box, interactive device
Number of participants: 4
Equipment: technical needs : plant, laptop, videoprojector, speaker, wooden box
Device: technical needs : plant, laptop, videoprojector, speaker, wooden box,
Surface area: minimum 3m x 3m (more is better)
Duration: infinite
Internet Connection: no

Contact

scenocosme@gmail.com

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