ISEA 2023 SYMBIOSIS

Dernière minute

Exhibition

02 May 2020 - 20 May 2020

Théâtre-Sénart

Dancing, exploring, daring, in a mixture of new sensations. To live as if it were our first or last minute. This is what Adrien M & Claire B propose in their latest creation.

REVOLUTION V52

Exhibition

01 Jun 2022 - 01 Jun 2023

Digitale Zone & Musée Dehors

REVOLUTION V52 is an invitation to travel, a one-year world tour that presents fifty-two artists and fifty-two works in fifty-two weeks. Its ambition is to offer a global panorama of visual digital creation. The exhibition is presented in the public space in Caen and Marseille through two display cases.

Symbiosium Cosmogonies Spéculatives

Exhibition

17 Mar 2023 - 06 May 2023

Fondation Fiminco

The Centre Wallonie-Bruxelles is planning the Symbiosium exhibition at the Fiminco Foundation, which is an exceptional opportunity to cross perspectives and encourage artistic exchanges. It highlights the work of over thirty artists, some of whom have been or will be in residence at the Fiminco Foundation.

Ataraxie

Exhibition

28 Mar 2023 - 01 Apr 2023

Le Cube Garges

Ataraxie is the immersive installation of Maxime Houot, member of Collectif Coin, artistic studio based in Grenoble. Ataraxie means ‘peace of mind’, this installation proposes us to question what this might mean in a changed and still changing post-pandemic world. A row of lasers fills the space with beams of red light that first form simple crosses, before building up complex structures.

U.S.B. #5 . Fenêtre(s) sur cours

Exhibition

30 Mar 2023 - 28 May 2023

ÉSAD Orléans

Virtual realities, augmented realities, artificial intelligences, video games, the metaverse, NFT cultures…inhabit the exhibition Fenêtre(s) sur cours [Windows with a view] which brings together a group of artists, designers, and art and design students striving to observe the elements, geographical limits and sensitive materials of these parallel universes, through the window of art and design.

Khépri, sortir au jour

Exhibition

02 Apr 2023 - 03 Sep 2023

Abbaye de Maubuisson

On the occasion of her new exhibition at the Maubuisson Abbey, Félicie d’Estienne d’Orves narrates in her own way the intersecting destinies of man and the cosmos. Most notably inspired by ancient Egyptian stories on immortality and the nocturnal journey of the solar god Ra on his boat, she invites the spectators on a poetic and metaphysical trip to the land of shadows and reborn light.

Le Saint Game of Anouck Hilbey

Performance

04 Apr 2023 - 05 Apr 2023

la Scène nationale d'Orléans

Inspired by the divinatory arts, video games or reality TV, here is finally the show where you are the hero! Each evening, the audience participates in a "divinatory prophecy" shaped by their choices or interventions, an ounce of chance and algorithmic devices. For each of the draws, Anouck Hilbey slips into the skin of multiple avatars, similar to the cards of an animated tarot deck.

Terre Céleste

Exhibition

06 Apr 2023 - 17 Jun 2023

Galerie Charlot

For his next solo exhibition, Jacques Perconte, a key figure in the French digital and experimental art scene, immerses us in his pictorial universe where the fragmentation of reality and his love for a disillusioned nature are in perfect symbiosis.

Outland

Exhibition

07 Apr 2023 - 23 Apr 2023

Plateforme

Focusing on the hybridization of Reality/Fiction, Nature/Synthetic, Humans/Avatars, Outland defines an introspective journey into new realities intrinsically linked to scientific neologisms. Micro-worlds, synesthesias and techno-biologisms attempt to create new forms between the artificiality of digital imaginaries and the limited reality of the living and ecosystems.

The Fusion of Possibilities

Exhibition

15 Apr 2023 - 14 Jun 2023

La Topographie de l’art

Yesterday's possibilities are today's realities that we are constantly merging to make them even better. The exhibition The Fusion of Possibilities, with artworks from converging practices, aims to be the expression of the symbiosis of ideas as well as of forms.

Exhibition Peter Kogler

Exhibition

18 Apr 2023 - 09 Jul 2023

Centre des arts d’Enghien-les-Bains

The exhibition of the internationally renowned Austrian artist Peter Kogler, is a reminder of the familiar lexicon of his work from the bottom up, and at the same time an overview of more than 40 years of activity from a pioneer in the use of digital technology in visual arts.

L’étrange labo microcosmique des Oumpalous

Exhibition

27 Apr 2023 - 18 May 2023

Le Cube Garges

This exhibition brings together the imaginations and questions shared by the international artists selected for ISEA2023 and young people from Garges-lès-Gonesse accompanied in workshop, on the more specific subject of our relationship with non-human living beings.

Arts numériques Fest & Nuit Blanche

Exhibition

02 May 2023 - 03 Jun 2023

Théâtre-Sénart

In the framework of ISEA2023, Siana presents in collaboration with the Théâtre de Sénart, for the Arts numériques Fest festival from 2 to 20 May 2023, a series of artistic works by Dylan Cote and Pierre Lafanéchère, Earthsatz and Framed Earth. These creations will also be presented in the city centre of Evry-Courcouronnes for the Nuit Blanche on 3 June 2023.

The Pioneers of Digital Art in the 1960’s-1970’s: at the source of an artistic mutation

Exhibition

02 May 2023 - 02 Jun 2023

RCM Galerie

A group exhibition of innovative works by the first generation of digital artists, it presents a selection of paintings, photographs, sculptures, collages and computer-generated prints, illustrating the rich vocabulary of these artists for whom access to computers was still a great adventure.

Democratopia

Exhibition

09 May 2023 - 27 May 2023

La Traverse

Lina Dovydenaite's film Democratopia is situated between dystopia and utopia, envisioning a direct democracy based on data from futuristic cities. The artist imagines public virtual spaces where citizens shape the development of their city through the use of AI.

3.5

Exhibition

12 May 2023 - 03 Sep 2023

Musées de Soissons

Taking place during the Summer 2023 in the museums of Soissons, the exhibition 3.5 is the first monograph dedicated to Kim KototamaLune and her group Bones & Clouds (Jean-Benoist Sallé & Stéphane Baz). It includes undisplayed and unseen monumental artworks made of glass (drawn glass, sagging, thermoforming, blown glass) enhanced by lighting effects and video projections.

In the Gap

Exhibition

12 May 2023 - 28 May 2023

Galerie Michel Journiac

In the Gap emerged with an inquiry to challenge our goal-ended approach to technology. In an immersive installation with hologram screenings In the Gap offers an immersive meta-verse experience in a real place where we can access to meta-space in the gap of the data world and bring forth the invisible workings of life.

Expired Reality

Exhibition

13 May 2023 - 24 Jun 2023

Galerie Suzanne Tarasieve

The artist duo Recycle Group, created in 2006, is composed of Andrey Blokhin (born 1987 in Krasnodar, Russia) & Georgy Kuznetsov (born 1985 in Stavropol, Russia). They live and work in Paris. Their work is focused on using recycled materials and finding them a new purpose to interrogate our future. This new exhibition describes our reality under the current transformations of technology and society through their artistic vision.

Fragments

Exhibition

13 May 2023 - 27 May 2023

Le Sample

Fragments is an audio-visual project born from the collaboration between the digital artist Dylan Cote and electronic music producer Romain Poncet (Traumer). Assembled as a 30 minute live performance or a 15 minute film, Fragments proposes a new aesthetic that is inspired by both the physical and digital worlds. The project protagonises 3D rocks, presented as fossils or remnants from a civilisation, lost between past and future, organic and digital.

We are Lichen

Exhibition

15 May 2023 - 17 Jun 2023

Sorbonne ArtGallery

Between art and science, Pascale Gadon-González’s photographic artwork is articulated around the notions of symbiosis and interdependence. Lichen is emblematic in her research and constitutes the organic link of her representations. Between identity and otherness, Pascale Gadon-González questions the cognitive dynamics at the origin of art and biology.

Scenography and/or symbiosis

Other event

15 May 2023 - at 09:00

BnF

Franck Ancel with the collaboration of Federico Biggio (Paris 8/Paragraphe) are organising a study day on the research and achievements of Jacques Polieri (1928-2011) "creator of modern scenography", with the aim of studying contaminations and hybridisations as a symbiosis between experimental scenography and other scientific fields.

ISEA2023 projections

Exhibition

15 May 2023 - 18 May 2023 - at 17:00

Le Cube Garges

Le Cube Garges invites you to discover a selection of films by ISEA2023 laureates: Disnovation.org, Lina Dovydėnaitė and Dasha Ilina. Three artistic creations offer a diverse range of perspectives on the role of technology in our lives, from speculative futures to critical reflections on our present reality. Through these films, we are invited to engage in a dialogue about the possibilities and limitations of technology, and to consider how we can create a more symbiotic relationship between humans and machines.

Art and/or Game: Symbiosis or Dissonance?

Exhibition

16 May 2023 - 20 May 2023

Centre Culturel Canadien

Art and/or Game: Symbiosis or Dissonance? looks at how experimental games seek to resist the hegemony of the international digital games industry by stretching the game form expressively and critically.

Common Datum

Exhibition

16 May 2023 - 21 Aug 2023

Goethe-Institut Paris

Common Datum is an environmentally reactive, hygroscopic sculpture enabling a material based interspecies dialogue. The work continuously absorbs humidity from the gallery – generated through the breath of the audience - feeding a series of plants. Common Datum is situated across digital craft, environmental, and participatory art.

Creative engineers

Exhibition

16 May 2023 - 21 May 2023

Cité des sciences et de l'industrie

"Un ingénieur un projet" is a mediation system allowing the public of the Cité des sciences et de l'industrie to meet engineers, to discover their know-how and the scope of engineering sciences. In this context, the theme of "creative engineers" proposed on 20 and 21 May 2023, will show how creativity feeds the work of engineers and how the engineering sciences help in the design of works.

Focus Québec - Symbiosis

Exhibition

16 May 2023 - 21 May 2023

Forum des images

As a recognized actor in the field of digital creation, Québec participates in the dissemination of contemporary digital art internationally. For ISEA2023, ELEKTRA presents the Focus Quebéc event dedicated to a selection of works by Quebec artists of international scope. Opening Tuesday, May 16 at 7 p.m. at the Forum des images.

Hacnum selection ISEA2023

Other event

16 May 2023 - 21 May 2023

In various locations / Dans divers lieux

Hacnum represents nearly 400 French actors and artists in the field of hybrid and digital arts and is committed to promoting innovative artistic projects that use new digital technologies while respecting the plurality of the forms, writings and themes addressed.

ISEA2023 Exhibition

Exhibition

16 May 2023 - 21 May 2023

Forum des images

At the Forum des images, for the duration of the Symposium, a thematic display will showcase works from the ISEA2023 selection, by Vidya Kelie, Ugo Arsac, the deeptech mentalista studio, Sunjeong Hwang and disnovation.org.

Le Rayonnement du Corps Noir

Exhibition

16 May 2023 - 20 May 2023

Galerie Sator

Cosmorama observes the world as it does not appear. Conceived like a journey from our close environment to the distant and unknown horizons of the cosmos, it reveals an imperceptible stratum of the light spectrum. The film questions our common perceptions and representations, it reintroduces notions such as the unknown, the uncertainty and oddity in our relationship with the world.

Micro-Folie at ISEA2023

Other event

16 May 2023 - 17 May 2023

Forum des images

ISEA2023 and the Cube Garges have partnered with the Micro-Folie network. In a logic of decentralization and democratization of culture, this project led by the French Ministry of Culture is open to local authorities and networks of the French Institute all over the world and offers access to a digital museum.

Southern Winter Exhibitions 2023

Exhibition

16 May 2023 - 15 Aug 2023

Hangars Numériques

Hangars Numériques is an overseas partner of the 2023 Southern Winter Arts Program and will host three new exhibitions.

Symbiosis

Exhibition

16 May 2023 - 27 May 2023

Galerie Abstract Project

Through their interactive installation Empreintes Sonores, artists Jean-Philippe Coté and Victor Drouin freeze sound in space. Here, it is up to the viewer to explore the granularity of the audio content through their movements in the gallery space. In this way, the artists attempt to free sound from its a priori ephemeral nature, allowing it to dissolve, step by step, into the ambient sound context.

Symbiosis, artport x ISEA

Exhibition

16 May 2023 - 21 May 2023

Forum des images

The ISEA International Symposium and the Whitney Museum of American Art's artport website, an online gallery space for commissions of net art, have teamed up for the 28th edition of the symposium in Paris.

Symbiotic Rituals — AI, Kombucha, and Cyberfeminism

Exhibition

16 May 2023 - 21 May 2023

L'École des Arts Décoratifs

The exhibition aims to think simultaneously about spirituality, technology and living together. It aims to build and make visible alternative tales to the mechanisms of predation and control. It aims to make perceptible our codependencies from the microbial to the planetary scales.

Cargo - Anne De Giafferri & Christian Delecluse

Exhibition

16 May 2023 - 21 May 2023 - at 14:00

La Station - Gare des Mines

Cargo is an immersive sound experience that immerses audiences in a multitude of narratives and landscapes and takes them on a singular journey to meet the figures of mobility in the Mediterranean.

More than planet: Ocean-Space-Ocean edition

Other event

16 May 2023 - 17 May 2023 - at 14:00

Délégation Wallonie Bruxelles

The European project "More-than-Planet" (2022 - 2025) gives voice to the imaginaries of planetarity, starting from the observation that it is urgent to re-examine the way people understand and represent the environment. This edition will bring together artists and researchers to question the role of the oceans in planetary balances and the perspectives offered by marine biodiversity in the ecological transition.

Symbiosis and Humanity(s)

Exhibition

17 May 2023 - 27 May 2023

MSH Paris Nord

In dialogue with the sciences, experimental creation broadens our knowledge of the world. The MSH Paris Nord welcomes works that give us the opportunity to see and hear new relationships between humans and non-humans, and that question our understanding of our own identity as an autonomous species.

The Traveling Plant: A Peripatetic Tour of the Nelson Mandela Garden in Paris above ISEA2023

Performance

17 May 2023 - at 12:00

Forum des images

Initiated in 2020, The Traveling Plant (TP for short) started its voyage in the Kepler's Garden of Ars Electronica before going to Barcelona and Evora in 2021. In 2023, TP is thrilled to discover the Nelson Mandela Garden in Paris under the guidance of artist Eva-Maria Lopez to uncover a new understanding of the life in this garden and this specific designed urban environment.

Analysis, theory & politics of care (in Electronic Arts)

Other event

17 May 2023 - at 14:30

Mains d'Œuvres

Researchers from academia and knowledge hubs in Europe and Internationally will discuss topicalaffairs and collaborate with early career researchers to facilitate knowledge exchange and cross-border collaboration in order to develop an understanding around the research topic of criticalcommunity care and creative technologies.

inLAND

Performance

17 May 2023 - at 20:00

La Muse en Circuit

Passages, crossings and metamorphoses weave the odyssey of InLAND | come back in broad day. These universes are explored live as a 3D video game in which we wander. This exploration is carried out on site or remotely with Discord gamer tool.

Immaterial Display

Other event

18 May 2023 - 21 May 2023

Forum des images

Designed as an interactive installation, Immaterial Display immerses its visitors in a multi-layered journey that expands on their own actions and is therefore always unique.

Art and/or Game: Symbiosis or Dissonance?

Other event

18 May 2023 - at 19:00

Centre Culturel Canadien

To what extent we can talk about symbiosis between art and experimental games? Where are the tensions, and are they productive? Similarly, what is the relationship between experimental games practices and the broader games industry?

3rd Summit on New Media Art Archiving (SNMAA)

Other event

19 May 2023 - 20 May 2023

Forum des images

ISEA2023 hosts the Third Summit on New Media Art Archiving (3rd SNMAA) on May 19 & 20.

ITZAN - Travelling through time

Exhibition

19 May 2023 - 22 May 2023

MAIF Social Club

The MAIF Social Club's exhibition Le Chant des Forêts presents an additional immersive work, a journey through time into the Mayan forests. ITZAN is a short film that accurately represents the evolution of the population, vegetation and climate over 6,000 years.

ISEA2023 Education Forum

Other event

19 May 2023 - at 10:45

Forum des images

The aim of the ISEA2023 Education Forum is to explore and present dual degree programs promoting interdisciplinary synergies and conceivable symbiotic correlations between available programs in art & science & tech studies around the globe.

Spatial Rhythm(s)

Performance

19 May 2023 - at 19:00

Conservatoire National Supérieur d'Art Dramatique

Three isolated bodies inhabit a rhythmed scenic space. The hybrid scenography consists of a physical triptych staircase, as its virtual version is gradually being revealed and radically transformed. Step by step, from loneliness to co-presence, the performers embody the expansion of their environments and the staircase symbolizes a movement towards a form of symbiosis.

Focus Québec - Inferno

Performance

19 May 2023 - 20 May 2023 - at 20:00

Le Cube Garges

Inferno is a participative robotic performance, an absolutely unique show. In this 75-minute involuntary choreography for 2 x 24 participants, the latter wear an exoskeleton that allows the artists to control their movements in synchronization with the music.

Balade sentimentale augmentée du Bas-Belleville

Other event

20 May 2023 - 21 May 2023

La Maison des métallos

Born from a collection of life and exile stories of the Belleville citizens, Judith Depaule, hérétique and la Maison des métallos have imagined a non-optimized digital artwork to discover this famous parisian neighborhood differently. The artwalk proposes to drift through the area, alone or in pairs, to discover the intimate and the minute that make it up. Along the way, hidden treasures await you...

Water Organoids

Performance

20 May 2023 - at 13:30

Maison du Geste et de l'Image

Water Organoids is a performance that uses an "immersive microscope" to film and project an invisible reality of self-organizing water structures. Emerging artistic and natural forms are indiscernible in experiments executed in front of the audience using pipettes, syringes, tweezers, and motors.

Art, Technology and Research

Other event

20 May 2023 - at 18:30

La Topographie de l’art

With Donatien Aubert, Samuel Bianchini, Marie Lelouche and Marion Roche. Moderation: Dominique Moulon. On the occasion of the exhibition La Fusion des Possibles.

ISEA2023 closing evening

Exhibition

21 May 2023 - at 16:00

La Station - Gare des Mines

Last event of the ISEA2023 Symposium at La Station - Gare des Mines with a program of sound installations and spatialized concerts.

Nobody Sees Us: Rewiring Our Communication Systems

Exhibition

23 May 2023 - 30 May 2023

IESA Gallery

With artworks by Kate Geck, Mark Farid, the exhibition, Nobody Sees Us: Rewiring Our Communication Systems explores the hidden structures of communication networks and the ways in which they can be rebuilt, reconstructed, and reshaped through the digital medium.

Blaise Pascal et les jardins

Exhibition

26 May 2023 - 11 Jun 2023

Chapelle de l'Oratoire - Clermont-Ferrand

A series of embossed drawing boards representing the French gardens of Le Nôtre on which shrubs and flora are displayed in augmented reality. A visitor - Blaise Pascal - seems to measure the hold he had on these innovative creations of his time and on man's dominant relationship with nature.

Nuit Blanche 2023

Exhibition

03 Jun 2023

Point Éphémère

For Nuit Blanche 2023, Point Éphémère presents the installations of three ISEA2023 winning artists. Dasha Ilina, Yoon Chung Han and Anne Marie Maes are three artists from diverse backgrounds. Although their practices vary, they share a reflection on questions of technology, biology and science.

Psych.e

Exhibition

06 Jun 2023 - 18 Jun 2023

36 degrés

36 degrés and the Galerie Charlot are planning a new exhibition experience inspired by mystical themes, spiritualism and diverse realities. In a unique space in front of the Grand Palais, we will provoke an encounter with the public, technology, science and spirituality through numerous works and workshops.

ISEA2023 at Tetris!

Exhibition

14 Jun 2023 - 24 Jun 2023

Le Tetris

The two projects exhibited at Tétris explore, each in their own way, the evolution of our ecosystems and our relationship with them.

ISEA2023 diffusion

Exhibition

15 Jun 2023 - 15 Sep 2023

Digitale Zone & Musée Dehors

As part of the exhibition REVOLUTION V52, proposed in the public space in Caen and Marseille through two display cases, two winning works from ISEA2023 will be exhibited: Synthetic Landscapes by Varvara & Mar and Face of Universe by Tatsuru Arai.

Festival régional des arts hybrides et des cultures numériques

Exhibition

19 Jun 2023 - 30 Jun 2023

Le 108

For this new festival of hybrid arts and digital cultures, Labomedia invites you to explore symbiotic futures through a rich programme of concerts, workshops for young and old, conferences and round tables as well as an exhibition in the form of a cabinet of digital curiosities.

Lab ISEA - Palais augmenté

Exhibition

23 Jun 2023 - 25 Jun 2023

Grand Palais Éphémère

For its Lab on the Palais Augmenté, ISEA2023 and Le Cube Garges put forward the theme of Symbiosis. This Lab will allow to discover in virtual reality the augmented catalog of ISEA2023, and works by Xenoangel (Marija Avramovic & Sam Twidale) and Damara Inglês.