MAN-NAHĀTA
Computational growth across material and urban scales offers a framework for design through self-organization, enabling the generation of vast, diverse forms exhibiting characteristics like those that emerge through the biological growth processes found in Nature. In this project, we construct an oriented volume spanned by surface normals of the shape at every point. The value of the oriented volume drives the iterative deformation of the shape. Depending on the parameterization of this process, we can obtain distinctly different growing forms. Importantly, the emergence of these forms is driven only by the time evolution of a geometric operator acting on the shapes iteratively, thereby connecting geometry and growth through an algorithm. To form the Man-Nahata landscape, the buildings of the urban landscape are transformed through repeated morphological closing operations, where the field of influence follows a gradient from the center to the outskirts of a circular region.

Lightning Ride
“With Lightning Ride, it is now poles of technology, organics and mysticism that collide with  electricity as a connecting point. The video is produced from excerpts of “Taser Certifications”, a sort of ceremony authorizing in the United States the use of Tasers in the condition of being tased by someone else. Filtered with the Photoshop’s “oil painting effect”, slowed down and accompanied by a disturbing soundtrack, the succeeding images show us bodies and faces whose deformations and positions evoke a feeling of pain as well as a Christian ecstacy. Everything unfolds as if the miracle of electricity, symbol of the rationalization of the world, revived paradoxically an aspiration to transcendence, antipodes joining each other and disappearing in profit of a new map of possibilities.” (Sarah Ihler-Meyer)

Destructive observation field
The installation behaves like a living organism, it creates expanding and contracting forms that have a semi-organic appearance. During the course of the exhibition the deformations of the plate add up resulting in a more and more complex surface structure. The visible shapes will get more detailed and fragmented. The density of the stored information on the black plate increases. The characteristic visual appearance of the installation is the result of interference patterns, waves amplifying and canceling each other out in space, leaving complex traces of light and darkness.

Pétrole
L’idée principale de ce projet est de présenter aux visiteurs de l’exposition la possibilité de détruire tout objet qui pourrait se trouver sur leur personne, afin de le transformer en une composition sonore unique. L’installation se compose de cinq presses hydrauliques, capables d’écraser pratiquement n’importe quel objet (téléphone portable, paire de lunettes, écouteurs ou autre). En cours de destruction, un microphone spécial enregistre les sons émis lors de la déformation de l’objet et, en quelques minutes seulement, un algorithme informatique les transforme en un album de 20 minutes.

πTon/2
πTon/2 is a sound installation that intervenes in the continuity of the researches of Cod.Act on mechanical and sound organicity. It results from an experience on the deformation of an elastic form and its incidence on the evolution of a musical work. The object is a flexible ring closed on itself. It is set in motion by torsional engines located inside its body. πTon, by twisting and waving on itself, moves in a very natural and unpredictable way.

Oil
The main idea of this project is to present exhibition visitors with the chance to destroy any object that might happen to be on their person, in order to transform it into a unique sound composition. The installation consists of five hydraulic presses, capable of crushing practically any object (a mobile telephone, pair of glasses, headphones or whatever). In the process of destruction, a special microphone records the sounds made as the object undergoes deformation, and in just a few minutes, a computer algorithm transforms them into a 20 minutes album.

distortion
Human, ultra human or a poetic of deformation? Observing series “Distortions” by young photographer Hickey Heart (23 years old), is like taking a disturbing trip into our online lives 24h/24h, among small epiphanies, existential dilemmas and everyday solitudes.

Stairs
J’ai un diplôme en arpentage et j’ai étudié l’esthétique et la philosophie à l’Université. Franco Vaccari est mon mentor intellectuel et sa théorie de l’inconscience technologique mon credo. Je recherche ce que je suis inconsciemment incapable de voir dans la réalité, tout comme chez moi. Je parle avec mon appareil photo car il exprime un langage plus complexe. Chaque photographie révèle quelque chose que je ne savais pas. Chaque image est une révélation et révèle une nouvelle perspective. Je suis intrigué par ces épiphanies et je les recherche en jouant avec les déformations photographiques. Je dialogue avec de nouvelles réalités, de nouveaux sujets, et change constamment de position d’interlocuteur. La dialectique est rafraîchie chaque fois que quelqu’un regarde mes créations. L’épiphanie se reproduit et je vois quelque chose dans l’image dont je n’étais pas au courant. Mon travail est herméneutique, ambigu, ouvert. Je ne crois pas à l’immédiateté photographique. Il n’y a rien de stable dans la réalité et mon appareil photo a l’intention de capturer cette condition. Mes distorsions anamorphiques reflètent mon besoin existentiel de révélations. Ils m’offrent un moyen de regarder le royaume différemment. La photographie révèle de nouvelles perspectives, de nouveaux lieux, ouvrant des circonstances inattendues et révélant des personnalités inconnues. Les perspectives ouvrent des dialogues. Les dialogues posent des questions. Et j’explore leur complexité intrigante.