Living species are disappearing. Others, artificial, seem to emerge. Some, mutants, settle. There are terrestrial species and others that are extraterrestrial: human and other than human in spaceships, robotic on other celestial bodies, in the solar system and beyond, and maybe even unknown species somewhere in this "elsewhere" that is the universe. The living and the artificial intertwine to draw a future that science fiction explores but of which a possibility is occuring. This LASER tells stories of species ...

Event Info

Thursday, November 18, 2021 at 19:00. Find your timezone here

Free entry on registration (https://tinyurl.com/3xnu8uu4) Mask wearing and health pass is mandatory.

Website: http://www.olats.org/

Programme

> France Cadet (artist) // "Mutations" around the project Leçons de choses 2.0

On a set of school posters that were used to teach botany, zoology and civics, France Cadet makes changes with invisible UV inks, highlighting the rapid changes in our world. Equipped with UV lamps, the audience, like a modern-day explorer, accesses an updated version of these ancient lessons and the resulting paradigm shifts.

She has created a gallery of extinct species, a set of portraits of historical figures who have played against the machine, notably in puzzle games such as chess or the game of Go. Finally, a series of self-portraits of the artist reveals the omnipresence of algorithms. It portrays a hyper-connected society, a world of machine-delegated control, revealing the prowess and setbacks of AI in the service of human surveillance.

The presentation of France Cadet will be accompanied by a "pop up" exhibition.

> Frédéric Deslias, director, composer and digital artist, Norbert Merjagnan, science fiction writer (project supported by La Diagonale Paris-Saclay) // "Towards infinity and beyond ...", around the project #COLONIE.S

Diverting a science fiction cliché to reinvent an ecological fable in which we are the protagonists, #COLONIE.S takes up the narrative logic of the multi-player video game, relying on geolocation devices: wifi, ibeacons beacons and NFC object tags. The protagonists are guided by an A.I. voice assistant and via a user interface developed on a smartphone to discover and perform the story. Inhabiting on another planet, welcoming like an Earth Bis or more hostile like Mars, finding in the cosmos living creatures different from us or a little like us. Inhabiting the Earth, but otherwise: #COLONIE.S is an extraordinary immersive show that changes the way we look at our planet in the light of exobiology and exoplanets.

> Moderation: Annick Bureaud

Programme created by Leonardo/ISAST (www.leonardo.info), LASER (Leonardo Art Science Evening Rendez-vous, www.leonardo.info/laser) is a sharing of experiences around art-science projects in semi-formal meetings, outside the institutional framework.

SPONSORS:

LASER Paris is co-organized by Leonardo/Olats and La Diagonale Paris-Saclay (http://www.ladiagonale-paris-saclay.fr), in partnership with the Cité internationale des arts (https://www.citedesartsparis.net/, the TEAMeD Research Team (https://teamed.univ-paris8.fr/) of the University of Paris 8 Vincennes-Saint-Denis and the ArTeC University Research School (https://eur-artec.fr/), with the support of the Daniel and Nina Carasso Foundation (https://www.fondationcarasso.org/) and the program Investissements d'Avenir.

The Leonardo/ISAST LASERs are a program of international gatherings that bring artists, scientists, humanists and technologists together for informal presentations, performances and conversations with the wider public. The mission of the LASERs is to encourage contribution to the cultural environment of a region by fostering interdisciplinary dialogue and opportunities for community building to over 40 cities around the world. To learn more about how our LASER Hosts and to visit a LASER near you please visit our website. @lasertalks