20/05/2023
Forum des images, Paris, France
We were selected to publish our ANR-funded Brain Body Digital Music Instrument (BBDMI) project as part of this year’s International Conference on Electronic Art (ISEA). I presented our collaborative work in front of an international audience, both in person and online streaming. The recordings of all presentation can be watched on the ISEA website (after registration).
Also presenting was our colleague Diane Schuh on her PhD project Mycelium Garden, in which we cloned a mushroom found in the MSH Paris 8 garden. She is in the process of fruiting the mycelium, and has already created a sound installation using signals recorded from the mycelium blocks with help from our BBDMI music architecture.
About ISEA2023
ISEA, a major event on the global electronic art scene, aims to strengthen the dialogue between artists, researchers, engineers, designers and entrepreneurs from the cultural and creative industries who participate in the advances of research and creation. This multidisciplinary event is open to both specialists and the general public.
The 28th edition of ISEA, co-organised by Le Cube Garges and the École des Arts Décoratifs, took place in Paris at the Forum des images from 16 to 21 May 2023, as well as through an artistic programme spread over 80 partner cultural venues throughout France in spring-summer 2023.
Following an international call for entries, more than 1400 applications from 70 countries were examined by an artistic and scientific committee of 200 international experts. The theme of this edition was Symbiosis. In this time of global health, ecological, economic and democratic crisis, symbiosis is a polysemous notion that allows us to explore in a transversal and interdisciplinary way the mutations and transformations underway in the digital age, to question the meaning supposedly given to progress, especially in the current environmental and health context, and to imagine possible and viable futures for our planet and our ecosystems.
ISEA2023 is co-organised by Le Cube Garges, executive producer, École des Arts Décoratifs, academic supervision, and the Forum des images, symposium venue.