Psychotik Room (V2) 2009 - Dardex

Interactive, and immersive Installation buy the collective Dardex-Mort2Faim
Psychotik Room (V2) 2009
Dardex - Mort2Faim Collective
49 bd Carnot
13100 Aix-en-Provence
06 83 03 19 35
[email protected]
http://dardex.free.fr
Installation description:
Psychotik Room is an interactive installation in which the viewer is immersed in a psychiatric isolation
room with head mounted display. By dint of magnetic motion sensors and heartbeats sensor, the 3D
environment and sound are modified in real time. This installation questions relationship between new
media‘s immersion, and social isolation of the individual.Thus underlining the frailty of human body
confronted with today’s world, in a sterile hospital universe, out of reality, referring to the horror film’s
aesthetic. This installation offers to the viewer a moment of deep closeness and meditation, in a 3D
universe modified under corporal pressures which may cause claustrophobia feelings.
Psychotik Room (V2) has been developped during an artistic residence in ECM Kawenga of Montpellier
in March 2009, with a finacial grant for multimedia creation from the Region of Languedoc- Roussillon .
Photographies :Psychotik Room (V2), exposition, ECM Kawenga, Montpellier, Mars 2009.
Physical and virtual content:
Psychotik Room consists of two spaces: a physical one (a padded pedestal) and a virtual one (an isolation
room).
The visitor can freely moove within a 4 m x 4 m large physical space.
A (60 x 60 x 110 cm) sculptural pedestal stands in the center of this space. This socle is padded with white
leather and supports an immersion helmet (Head Mounted Display) and a heartbeat sensor. It is also
used as an informatic station containing a monitor and a computer system.
A magnetic movement sensor (Polhémus Fastrak) analyses visitor’s coordinates within the space.
The virtual space displayed through the Head Mounted Display, is informatically shaped on a three
dimensionnal base where the visitor can also navigate. This virtual environment is a psychiatrical
isolation cell ( a 4 x 4 m room with a height of 2,5 m ).
Walls of this virtual room are also padded with the same white leather and a neon bulb lights the room
with a flickering greenish tone.
Vistor’s heartbeats are analysed in real time thanks to an informatic program and entails visual
perturbations in the virtual space
The sound displayed in the headphones is also based on visitor’s heartbeats. An informatic program
synthesizes this captation and generates deff sound waves synchronized with the visitor own heart
rythm.
Photographs: Psychotik Room (V2), exhibition, ECM Kawenga, Montpellier, March 2009.
The Dardex-Mort2Faim Collective gathers several artists, Quentin Destieu, Romain Senatore, Sylvain
Huguet and Stephane Kyles, who graduated from the Ecole Supérieure d’Art in Aix en Provence and
laureates of Pépinières Européennes for young artists.
They are activists as well as performers and first of all they engaged in an exploration of the notion of
play, reprocessing popular aesthetics and underground culture, thus underlining the frailty of social
relationships and the human body confronted with today’s world. Since they appreciate the video game
“8 bits” universe and the computer and networks revolution, they express themselves by means of several
techniques: video, sound, graphic arts, design, laser and the web in installations and happenings using
interactivity and games.
They collaborate with the International Centre for Art and New Technology in Prague (CIANT), the
Emergences festival in Paris, the Eniarof experimental fun fair and the M2F Creations Association in Aix en
Provence. They have also presented their works on a regular basis since 2003 in various exhibitions and
festivals in France and abroad.
Photographs: Psychotik Room (V2), exhibition, ECM Kawenga, Montpellier, March 2009.
_Psychotik Room, Salon de la Jeune Création, Grande Halle de la Villette, Paris, october 2008.
_Cass brik techno, Exhibition Coimbra Aix-en-Provence, Santa Clara galery, Coimbra, Portugal, july2007.
_Camping station, Flash Festival, Paris, Centre Pompidou, may 2008.
_Vidéo paintball, Emergences Festival , Maison de la villette, Paris, september 2006.
_Festival Norapolis Festival VI, Metz, april 2008.
C.V collective Dardex mort2Faim:
2009 :
Festival Enter 4, D.O.X., Centre for Contemporary Art, Prague, République Tchèque, installation interactive.
Fête de l’animation, Lille, France, installations interactives, installations vidéo.
Festival Hybrides, Kawenga, Montpellier, France, installation interactive.
Workshop Bricomédia, Kawenga, Montpellier, France.
Rencontre de l’Orme, Pôle Media, La Friche de la Belle de Mai, Marseille, France, installations interactives.
Conférence, Soirée Microvision, Kawenga, Montpellier, France.
Résidence de Création, Kawenga, Montpellier, France.
Festival GAMERZ 04, Aix-en-Provence, France, installation interactive.
2008 :
Festival GAMERZ 03, Istanbul, Turquie, installations interactives, installations video.
Salon Jeune création 08, Grande halle de La Vilette, Paris, installations interactives.
Exposition Crossover Urban Art, galerie Nikki Diana Marquardt, Paris, installation interactive.
Workshop IMMEDIATE, Cologne, Allemagne.
Web Flash festival, Centre Pompidou, Paris, conférence et installation.
Festival Multiplace, Bratislava, Slovaquie, performance.
Workshop IMMEDIATE, Bratislava, Slovaquie.
Festival Norapolis, Nouveaux trinitaires, Metz, installation interactive.
Festival Micromusic et Pixel experience #2, gare de Coustellet, France, installation interactive.
Exposition GAMERZ 02, Aix-en-Provence, installation interactive.
Workshop IMMEDIATE, Istambul, Turquie.
Workshop IMMEDIATE, Prague, République Tchèque.
2007 :
Exposition Jouer au réel, Médiathèque de Meudon la Forêt, installation interactive.
Festival Enter 3, Institut français de Prague, République Tchèque, installations interactives.
Exposition CAMPING, Ecole Supérieure d’Art, Aix-en-Provence, installations interactives.
Festival Emergences, Maison de la villette, Paris, installation multimédia.
Cycle de performances, La Vitrine, Maribor, Slovénie, performance.
Exposition Coimbra Aix-en-Provence, Coimbra, Portugal, installations interactives et performance.
Festival Sloveniarof, Maribor, Slovénie, installation interactive.
Festival Elektro-circus, Carpentras, Game-art.
Festival Histoires d’eaux, histoires d’art, Gréoux le bains, installation.
Conférence à l’Ecole Supérieure d’Art, Aix-en-Provence.
2006 :
Festival Expérience numérique, Salon de Provence, diffusion de vidéos.
Exposition GAMERZ, Aix-en-Provence, installation vidéo.
Festival ENIAROF 0.2, Aix-en-Provence, installation multimédia interactive.
Festival Arborescence, Aix-en-Provence, installation multimédia.
Festival Emergences, Maison de la villette, Paris, installation multimédia interactive.
Exposition Provence Pernambouco, musée d’Etat de Pernambouco, Recife, Brésil.
Festival SPA, Recife, Brésil, performance & installation multimédia.
Festival Park in Progress, Marly-le Roi, performance & installation multimédia.
Festival Un peu d’Alice, Cabaret Aléatoire, Marseille, installation vidéo.
Sperm festival, Abaton, Prague, République Tchèque, performance.
Performance, Palac Akropolis, Prague, République Tchèque.
Conférence Laser in Context, FAMU (film and TV school), Prague, République Tchèque.
2005 :
Conception et réalisation d’une édition « index_1 » (l’usine).
Performance Clonex, Balthazar, Marseille, installation vidéo.
Festival Aires libres, Marseille, installation vidéo.
Festival kinoleon, Lavoir moderne, Paris, performance vidéo.
Exposition Exploité sans complexe, Aix-en-Provence, installation et performance vidéo.
Festival Expérience numérique, Salon de Provence, diffusion de vidéos.
Exposition « Faut pas cracher dans la soupe », Aix-en-Provence, installation vidéo.
Festival ENIAROF, Aix-en-Provence, course de souris avec retransmission vidéo sur grand écran.
Festival Elektro-circus, Carpentras, installation vidéo.
Installation réalisée avec le soutien de :
ECM Kawenga