Artlab


The Artlab is a center for research, development and prototyping dedicated to digital arts
Le Artlab est un centre de recherche, développement et prototypage dédié aux arts numériques
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"Melodiane" exhibition in the Artlab

Since end of November, Nicolas de Melodiane has been exhibiting at the Artlab entrance three artworks from his project Melodiane. Melodiane is a project of a futuristic utopic society. For this long term work, Nicolas digitally draws and writes about the life in 900, a spherical city located among the clouds which hosts a entire civilisation. As a designer of a precise dream, organised and detailed, he incepts a school system, legal authorities, and even the agricultural system of 900's in...

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Workshop for Paris 8 University students

From January 15 to 18, Antonin Fourneau (artist in residency in the Artlab) led a workshop for 6 students from Paris 8 University. He was helped by Alexandre Saunier, the Artlab full-time technician. More than a basic workshop, these 4 days were a preparation for the 13th Eniarof (Fourneau's digital fun fair, November 8 and 9, Aix-en-Provence, France) and also the first opportunity to try our new workshop room ! The six students were shared in 3 pairs to go through 3 days of research...

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"Melodiane" exhibition in the Artlab

Since end of November, Nicolas de Melodiane has been exhibiting at the Artlab entrance three artworks from his project Melodiane. Melodiane is a project of a futuristic utopic society. For this long term work, Nicolas digitally draws and writes about the life in 900, a spherical city located among the clouds which hosts a entire civilisation. As a designer of a precise dream, organised and detailed, he incepts a school system, legal authorities, and even the agricultural system of 900's in...

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Workshop for Paris 8 University students

From January 15 to 18, Antonin Fourneau (artist in residency in the Artlab) led a workshop for 6 students from Paris 8 University. He was helped by Alexandre Saunier, the Artlab full-time technician. More than a basic workshop, these 4 days were a preparation for the 13th Eniarof (Fourneau's digital fun fair, November 8 and 9, Aix-en-Provence, France) and also the first opportunity to try our new workshop room ! The six students were shared in 3 pairs to go through 3 days of research...

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Raspberry Sushi Saturdays in the Artlab

The Artlab is also a place for research and development. Our attention si currently going towards the Raspberry Pi (wikipedia link). Every month, we welcome several experienced programmers for Raspberry Sushi sessions : for an afternoon and an evening, the resources of the Artlab are available for them to try, test and search new uses of Raspberry Pi, and then to develop their first encouraging results. We will soon give more details about the achievements of these Raspberr...

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What's up in the Artlab?

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The Artlab may gather various and numerous technical resources, most of its value comes from the people involved in its projects, visitors who make it stronger and always richer exchanges between its contributors. Let's have a look on what this human wealth enables.   The adventure of Water Light Graffiti The Artlab is made of artists and technicians meeting each others. When Antonin Fourneau started his residency to realize its project Water Light Graffiti, he met technicia...

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Stairway to Artlab

This week, Jason Cook's "Hall Effect" project, which improves Digitalarti stairway, became the raw material for new creations. Its lights have been matching colors to the stairway passersby for months. A person going up or down the stairs was followed by a distinct random color. The people detection and lights control system got enhanced by a radio-transmitter. The stairway data are now available on a server, easy to use for various projects : while Alex and Jason linked a giant...

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An orange mechanical hand at the Artlab entrance

The Artlab is a welcoming place: a mechanical hand covered with an orange glow waves hello or goodbye at the people entering or leaving the Artlab. It could also bless them in the name of robotics... This hand was part of the research conducted for Lulu White (Jason Cook, 2012). It works thanks to a presence detector, several servo motors and a PCB made in the Artlab....

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Tom Wersinger : code art enters the Artlab

Since it was launched one year ago, the Artlab has been focusing on concrete projects, using elements like water, or objects like the fur and feathers texture. Brand new artist-in-residence Tom Wersinger follows a software approach, turned to an open and social web. His work brings a software touch and remains relevant with the Artlab hardware dominant feature. After 3 years spent working for 22mars, this self-taught creative developer started or took part in many pro...

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BILL, created by Emmanuel Le Cerf in Digitalarti's Artlab

Emmanuel Le Cerf created BILL from a simple paper bill. It deals with a piece of material supposed to last on the long-term, which is turned into a never ending show. Artist Emmanuel Le Cerf used a basic bill paper. Originally white, this paper becomes blue when touched by heat. If over-exposed to heat, the paper is totally blue. If a new heat comes close to the blue paper, it lets a white and ephemeral mark. This is the unexpected property Emmanuel used for BILL. He describes how: Bi...

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Flashback: Water Light Graffiti exhibition during Nuit Blanche 2012

On the occasion of the parisian Nuit Blanche, Water Light Graffiti was exhibited on Place Poulmarch in Paris, a well-known location for its numerous graffitis. After its first appearance in Poitiers and its online success, Antonin Fourneau's creation met the parisian audience, and could lean on talented graffiti artists like Popof, Popay, the Painthouse collective and the Graffiti Research Lab for all-night-long demonstrations. Unfortunately, another unexpected guest showed up : bad weather, ...

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Lulu White created by Jason Cook in Digitalarti's Artlab

Lulu White, created by Jason Cook (2012) in the Digitalarti Artlab The work is one in a series titled object avatar, investigations in body applied sensors to manipulate sculptural objects at long distance. As robotics and electronics are commonly conceived as masculine in their form and function, touch sensitive responds to this cliché by employing cabaret paraphernalia to test the androgynous and seductive capacities of the machine. What at first encounter seems an individual inter...

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Workshop in the Artlab for ECV students

Introduction to Digital Arts and first steps with Arduino : this was the program of a workshop, lead by Jason Cook in the Artlab, ECV students attended 8th October. Dominique Moulon, ECV teacher, entrusted his students with Jason for several workshops dealing with digital creation and its artistic approach.  After the last session, the students will create a project thanks to these technologies and tools. Jason Cook explains how to properly get the componants ready. Preparatio...

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[LIVE] Water Light Graffiti during the Nuit Blanche in Paris

[EDIT October 7th] Due to a technical problem and a terrible weather, we had no internet access during the Nuit Blanche, so we could not provide a good live report of the Water Light Graffiti event. We will bring you soon a photo and a video report. Please excuse us for this issue.  Saturday night, Art will be all over Paris for the famous Nuit Blanche. On this occasion, Water Light Graffiti (created in the Artlab by Antonin Fourneau) will be displayed. Reknown graffiti artists will pe...

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Water Light Graffiti lights up the parisian Nuit Blanche

Water Light Graffiti displayed for Paris Nuit Blanche 2012 and live broadcasted on Digitalarti and on Twitter #NB12. It has seduced Poitiers inhabitants and hundreds of thousands of people online. Antonin Fourneau's Water Light Graffiti will soon be displayed on Paris streets. The 6th of October, Poulmarch place (Paris 10), on the occasion of La Nuit Blanche, Antonin will display his artwork, inviting reknown graffiti artists like Popof, Popay, the Graffiti research Lab, along with ...

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Jason Cook : Artistic robotics workshop and artwork presentation at Scopitone 2012

Jason Cook Manager and magician of the Artlab will take part in Festival Scopitone 2012 (Nantes, France) from September 18th to 23rd. He will run a workshop, present his artwork Object Avatar and take part in a conference. Workshop: At Insula, during Friday 21st September, Jason will run a workshop dealing with "Creative Robotics". The workshop access is free and restricted to 15 persons, you just have to sign up here. Attendees will improve their robotics basic knowledge by w...

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Water Light Graffiti, created by Antonin Fourneau in the Artlab

For a few weeks, Antonin Fourneau has been working in residence at Digitalarti Artlab on the Water Light Graffiti project : a wall made of LED which light up when touched by water. After several tries, prototypes and material improvements, Water Light Graffiti was finally ready to take place for a few days in a public space, which happened to be Poitiers. From July 22nd to 24th, Poitiers inhabitants could discover and try Water Light Graffiti with the artist, the Digitalarti Artlab team and Pa...

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