APÉROLIVE: “LE BAR A JUSB D’ORANGES INFORMÉES” BY MAËL LE MÉE
Fridays 24 September and 1st October from 7pm to 8pm
Participative performance
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1 – Come along with a USB flash drive onto which you’ll have loaded your favourite song. 2 – Give the barman your flash drive. 3 – Look: a) the barman injects the selected MP3 into an organic orange thanks to two pairs of electrodes, to respect stereo. b) He records the music that has passed through the fruit. c) He squeezes the orange. 4 – You drink its nice, fresh and informed juice while listening to your music filtered through pulp! 5 – You may start again or move on to something else.
Le bar à jUSB d’oranges informées (The informed orange jUSB bar) is part of the FrUSBits & LégUSBmes (FrUSBits & VegetablUSB) initiative, a communication project between edible plants and computers, which aims at, eventually, connecting a vegetable garden to a computer, producing informed soup, chatting with a tomato in real time and also downloading the recipe for gratin dauphinois directly to a potato.
Mael Le Mée was born in 1977. Alongside his script-writing activity, he develops a multi-disciplinary work which ranges from plugging vegetables to computers, giving talks about cultural policies of the future, installing time machines to see what the weather was like to producing comfort organs. He is interested in the relationship between technology and the body, issues relating to simulation and the aesthetics of control.
www.mael-lemee.org
RENDEZ-VOUS WITH THE FUTURE / GUESTS: CLAUDIE HAIGNERÉ AND JACQUES ATTALI
Thursday 23 September and Tuesday 28 September from 7pm to 8pm
Public meeting, broadcast live on the Internet and followed by an online chat
FREE ACCESS
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On this occasion, admission to the Cube Festival will be free on Thursday 23 and Tuesday 28 September from 6.30pm to attend the meetings.
Under the patronage of Joël de Rosnay and co-hosted by Jean-Pierre Alix and Nils Aziosmnoff, the Rendez-vous with the Future are an invitation to debate with prominent futurologists and forecasters. Filmed and broadcast live on the Internet, they will also be relayed in real-time via Twitter, Facebook and IPhones. At the end of a 30-minute presentation, it will be the turn of the audience at Le Cube and Internet users to speak, as they will be able to ask their questions directly to the guest speakers. A participative and multi-platform event aimed at thinking collectively about the world of tomorrow.
THURSDAY 23 SEPTEMBER, 7PM: CLAUDIE HAIGNERÉ
Claudie Haigneré, the former minister delegate for Research and New Technologies then later for European Affairs, is the chairwoman of Universcience, the public institution behind the Palais de la Découverte and the Cité des Sciences et de l’Industrie. With a PhD in medicine, Claudie Haigneré is the only female astronaut to have been selected by the Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales (CNES, the French space agency). As such, she has taken part in several missions on board Soyuz spacecrafts, the Russian space station MIR and the International Space Station (ISS).
TUESDAY 28 SEPTEMBER, 7PM: JACQUES ATTALI
Jacques Attali – a lecturer, writer, honorary State Councillor, special advisor to the French President of the Republic from 1981 to 1991, the founder and first President of the London-based European Bank for Reconstruction and Development – is the CEO of A&A, an international consulting firm specialised in new technologies, and the President of PlaNet Finance, an international non-profit organisation assisting microfinance institutions. He founded Action Contre la Faim and the European programme Eurêka. Amongst other things, he has advised the Secretary General of the United Nations on the risks of nuclear proliferation.
The “Rendez-vous with the Future” are organised by Le Cube, the centre for art and digital creation; 1R2tchat, the expert in participative communication; Triple C, the clever communication agency; in partnership with JD2 , a commando squad for multimedia projects. www.rendezvousdufutur.com
« HOW I MET AN ARTIST »
Wednesdays 22 and 29 September WEDNESDAYS from 7pm to 8pm
Hosted by Florence Pillet, Art critic
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The Cube Festival brings together artists and the public for a convivial and privileged exchange. How does an art project come to be? What are the resources needed to carry out one’s work? How does a person become an artist? Many questions to be explored with the artists whose work is shown at the festival.
Wednesday 22 September : SOUND AND INTERACTIVE DESIGN
With Daan Roosegaarde, TeZ and Kaffe Matthews
Mercredi 29 septembre : LIVING ART – BEHAVIOURAL ART
With Hugo Verlinde and the Experientæ Electricæ collective
DIGITAL ART EXPLAINED… TO CHILDREN* AND ADULTS**
Saturdays 25 September and 2 October at 3pm* and 5pm** / Sundays 26 September and 3 October at 5pm**
Hosted by Alexia Guggémos, Art critic and journalist
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During the weekend, the Cube Festival encourages children and adults to come discover and learn about the concepts and stakes of digital art today. On Saturdays, from 3pm to 4pm, children will excel at this new form of art thanks to Alexia Guggémos, who will let them experiment with interactive works shown in the exhibition: learning and having fun at the same time. And on Saturdays and Sundays, from 5pm to 6pm, the focus will be on adults, who will journey through 60 years of incredible artistic adventure on a brief tour of digital art history, which the Cube Festival is fully part of…
* Digital art explained to children: Saturdays 25 September and 2 October from 3pm to 4pm (followed by snacks & drinks)
** Digital art explained to adults: Saturdays 25 September and 2 October and Sundays 26 September and 3 October from 5pm to 6pm
“4-HANDS IPHONE” ADAM & ATAU
Thursday 30 September at 7pm
Adam & Atau exploit a commonly available consumer electronics device, the Apple iPhone, as an expressive, gestural musical instrument. The iPhone can play music as a commodity, and this is the way most listeners interact with it. Adam & Atau reappropriate the iPhone and its advanced technical capabilities to transform the consumer object into an expressive musical instrument for concert performance. In a duo, with one in each hand, they create a chamber music, “4-hands iPhone”. The accelerometers which typically serve as tilt sensors to rotate photos in fact allow high precision capture of the performer’s free space gestures. The multitouch screen, otherwise used for scrolling and pinch-zooming text, becomes a reconfigurable graphic user interface akin to the JazzMutant Lemur, with programmable faders, buttons, and 2D controllers that control synthesis parameters in real time.
All this drives open source Pure Data (PD) patches running out of the free RJDJ iPhone app. A single advanced granular synthesis patch becomes the process by which a battery of sounds from the natural world are stretched, frozen, scattered, and restitched. The fact that all system components – sensor input, signal processing and sound synthesis, and audio output, are embodied in a single device make it very different than the typical controller + laptop model for digital music performance. The encapsulation in a self-contained, manipulable object take the iPhone beyond consumer icon to become a powerful, expressive musical instrument.
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Atau Tanaka works in the interaction and intersection between sound and digital technology with a visceral approach. He conducted his work at STEIM, as « Artistic Ambassador » for Apple Europe and as a researcher at Sony CSL Paris. Since 2007, he moved to the United States, where he is Director of Culture Lab Newcastle.
Adam Parkinson is interested in the embodied experience of music, exploring immersive bass tones and electrifying crackles. He regularly plays with harpist Rhodri Davies, vocalizer Gwilly Edmondez and turntablist Mariam Rezaei in music that incorporates textural improvisations, stuttering electronica and disco-pop.
