Effet de Champ

Stéphane Bissières - 2021 kinetic digital art installation&performance The installation Effet de Champ explores the idea of ​​animating matter through virtual data to evoke artificial life. Through an experiment on nanofluids, electromagnetism and kinetic art, it is also a reflection on the forms of hybridization between mechanics and living things to develop a writing of movement by highlighting the relationships between data and kinetics. Under the effect of a magnetic field, the ferrofluid gives substance to the data it receives and can be “choreographed“. The containers give the illusion of a collection of captive organisms. The multiplication of motifs makes it possible to develop a minimalist ensemble choreography. This project seeks to create an illusion of artificial life, to provoke wonder and questioning in the observer, to give him the feeling of being a witness. The artist, also a composer, here transposes a musical writing mechanism to this kinetic creation by considering this writing in the form of algorithms rather than scores to make a “music for the eyes”.