SCENOCOSME

The Artist(s)

Conscious Isolation 

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Grégory Lasserre and Anaïs met den Ancxt are two artists working and living in Rhône-Alpes region, in France. As an artistic duo, under the name Scenocosme, they employ multiple forms of expression to design interactive artworks, and choreographic collective performances, in which spectators share extraordinary sensory experiences.

Their practice mixes art and digital technology to find substances of dreams, poetries, sensitivities, and delicacies that create hybridizations between the living and technological world, inventing their own sensitive and poetic languages to reflect the symbiotic relationship between the active networks of both the virtual and physical bodies.

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Anaïs met den Ancxt (born in Lyon 1981) graduated from the University of Lyon in Anthropology, from the Ecole Nationale des Beaux Arts in Lyon (DNSEP design d’espace), and from the Ecole Supérieure d’Art et de Design of St Etienne (Post diplôme design and research). Grégory Lasserre (born in Annecy 1976) studied Computer Science and Electronics and graduated a Master in Multimedia. Since 2002, he has been creating interactive artworks as a digital artist.

When they create their interactive artworks, they explore capacities of technologies in order to draw sensitive relationships through specific stagings where senses are augmented. Their artistic process is characterized by the introduction of natural elements in their technological art installation, like plants, stones, water, wood, the human body.

They are also interested by the living bodies and the influences of energy as sources of sensitive interactions like electrostatic energy and heat. Thus, plants of their artwork Akousmaflore react to the human touch by different sounds. They use also water (Fluides), stones (Kymapetra) and wood (Ecorces; Matières sensibles) as elements capable to generate tactile, visual and sound sensory interactivity. They pay a singular attention on spectator’s body because it is able to build a relationship with others and elements. They focus on relationships that individuals can have between them and they suggest new meetings and relation possibilities. Their interactive installations involve the audience socially and physically.

They have received several international awards for their interactive artworks: “The Lumen Prize Silver Award” (London), “The Human Interface Award” / Phaeno museum (Germany), “The Award Qwartz Arts New Media” (Paris), “The LumiVille Trophie” (Lyon), “The Award visual Arts and new technologies” (Enghien-les-Bains) etc. They have received artisitic grants from “FNAGP / Bourse de la Fondation Nationale des Arts Graphiques et Plastiques” (Paris), “The Grants for digital art ICI ARTV“ (Montreal), “La Diagonale Paris-Saclay / Création Art & Science”, “SCAN : Soutien à la Création Artistique Numérique” (Région Rhône-Alpes), “Bourse DICREAM du CNC”.

Their artworks are shown in several museums, contemporary art centers and digital art festivals in the world : at ZKM / Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe (Allemagne), at Museum Art Gallery of Nova Scotia (Canada), at Daejeon Museum of Art (Korea), at Contemporary Art Museum Raleigh (USA), at Bòlit / Centre d’Art Contemporani (Girona), and in many international biennals and festivals : Art Center Nabi / INDAF (Séoul), Biennial International Experimenta (Australia), BIACS3 Biennial International of Contemporary Art of Seville (Spain), NAMOC / National Art Museum of China / TransLife / Triennial of Media Art (Beijing), Futuresonic (UK), WRO (Pologne), Microwave (Hong Kong), Mois Multi (Quebec), FILE (São Paulo), ISEA / International Symposium on Electronic Art (2009 Belfast, 2011 Istanbul, 2012 Albuquerque, 2013 Sydney, 2016 Hong Kong), EXIT, VIA, Lille3000, Ososphere, Scopitone, Seconde nature (France)… during important events : World Expo (Shanghai), Nuits Blanches / Whites Nights (Toronto, Halifax, Singapour, Bruxelles, Brighton, Amiens, Segovia, Bucarest, Dublin, Lancaster, Zagreb, Dallas, Baltimore), Fête des lumières (Lyon)... and in various art centers: MONA (Australia), Musée Ianchelevici (Belgium), MUDAC, Fondation Claude Verdan (Lausanne), Kibla (Slovenia), Banff Centre for Arts (Canada), Villa Romana (Firenze), Utsikten Kunstsenter (Norway), Watermans (UK), NCCA / National Centre for Contemporary Arts (Moscow), Dak Nong Cultural Museum (Vietnam), FRAC Alsace, Centre des arts d’Enghien-les-Bains, Centre d’Art Labanque (Bethune), Centre d’art Les Églises (Chelles), La Gaîté Lyrique (Paris) etc.