Yells-Atreuma is a speculative prefiguration of man’s remediation of his environment, enabled by the physarum polycephalum (commonly called blob) as a medium of communication and connection.

The project in brief:

Yells-Atreuma is a set of sculptures combining a software entity (neural network), a biological entity (physarum) and a synthetic entity (3D prints). Each module represents a vital organ (heart, lung, kidney, spleen, etc.) brought into contact with a living organism, the physarum polycephalum, which will colonise its host. The very title of the work: ‘Yells-Atreuma’ is derived from a textual generative program. It is one of many poetic and lexical possibilities produced by a neural network whose essential ‘feeds’ consist of two distinct lists. One lists all known pathologies in the world, the other lists several mythological, sacred and occult figures. From these specific and intertwined lexicons, a new form of language is produced, activated, shaped by the physarum and its movements on the organs. The latter then produces a meta-language, stammering and, paradoxically, sometimes complex, evocative, opening onto hybrid imaginaries. Yells-Atreuma is part of the ‘Mycore’ cycle, which proposes a remediation of the human being via a transformation by the fungi kingdom.

Photophonia is an installation inspired by an invention by Alexander Graham Bell (1880) using light as a sound transmission channel. Rid of the decorum and the discourse on innovation, Photophonia leads back to a raw and crude idea of technology, which can be seized and transformed into a poetic and political gesture. 

The project in brief:

The installation uses the movement of two flashing lights as sound transmitters. The circular movement of the mirrors around the bulbs produces a hypnotic sound vibration. The reception, made possible by small solar panels connected to an amplifier, produces a noisy, raw and yet fascinating result. This protocol offers a potential of construction and propagation of small networks whose manufacture is accessible to everyone. The question of the codification of information underlies this creation, notably by articulating the politics of data and the plasticity of light, its universality and its ephemeral beauty…