Biennale Nemo
Centquatre, Paris, FranceCurator: Gilles Alvarez and José-Manuel Gonçalvès
Artists: Donatien Aubert, Anne Bourassé et Mounir Ayache, Tatsuru Arai, Christian Delécluse, Caroline Delétoille, Aurore Young et Céline Boisserie-Lacroix, Bruce Eesly, Thomas Garnier, Riccardo Giovinetto, Libby Heaney, Inook, Ismaël Joffroy Chandoutis, Markos Kay, Marc Lee, Rachel Maclean, Valentine Maurice, NeoConsortium, Obvious, Phygital Studio, Matthieu Poli, Kaspar Ravel, David Rokeby, Andy Thomas, Peter Van Haaften, Michael Montanaro et Garnet Willis, Éric Vernhes, Cecilie Waagner Falkenstrøm, Beatie Wolfe
Biennale Nemo, Paris
The Lost Illusions Rediscovered — New Utopias in the Digital Age
The Némo Biennial is dedicated to digital arts, audiovisual and live performances linked to new technologies, and the relationship between arts and sciences
In a world transformed by digital technologies, illusion emerges as a critical, speculative, and poetic tool. By intertwining artificial intelligence, regenerated nature, and optimistic science fiction, the exhibition explores—through around thirty works—both old and new utopias.
Immersive paintings whose characters begin to sing, voices that morph into landscapes, plants that generate images, and fictions that resurrect the past while visualizing the future… Each work presented pushes the boundaries of perception and reality, unveiling alternate worlds where humans coexist with nature and machines.
Between science and myth, memory and data, the artists explore our relationship with the living, with technology, and with imagination. Here, utopias are no longer futuristic promises, but hybrid spaces, oscillating between nostalgia and speculation. They are illusions we believed lost, now revealed by the digital realm—in another world, our own!
Exhibited Artwork
Speculative Evolution
Mobile App as Interface for Net-Based InstallationsDue to the threatening predictions of species extinction and global warming, scientists and farmers are increasingly relying on technologies such as genetic engineering, synthetic biology and machine learning. Speculative Evolution imagines a speculative ecosystem 30 years from now, where artificial intelligence and biotechnologies work together to create and optimize species to withstand the increasingly more …
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