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The artists and ENSAPC students Alina Izmailova, Elouan Le Bars, Malone Perrotey and Hanieh Yekta present an installation resulting from the collective practices around Artificial Intelligence. This installation will be shown at POUSH as part of the Nord-Est, cartographie des résonances show (North-East, mapping resonances).
The students/ artists, in order to produce this collective work, got their inspiration from the video game Sands of self [1], currently displayed in the eponymous show at the Ygrec- ENSAPC Art Center. Sands of self is constituted of sand, of a long stroll amongst the dunes covering Cergy-Pontoise. Any player can virtually explore the city interacting with the Artificial Intelligence connected to this programme.
The installation, built on that video game and the recorded interactions with its players, renews its material impact on an uncertain and hazy temporality, on the traces of an absurd wandering, sometimes comic too in its parody of the increasing use of Artificial Intelligence to conceive new cities. The way the students/ artists have worked with A.I to create the objects, an architecture and the stories that emerge inside it (be they utopian, dystopian or just tropes derived from it all!) reflects their commitment to introduce errors, humour, doubt and sensitivity back within the tools themselves which tend to rationalise our relationship with the city.
1. Sands of self is a group show resulting from a joint course given by Guillaume Chevillon (ESSEC Metalab for Data, Technology & Society) and Jeff Guess (ENSAPC) with the guest artist Mounir Ayache, who suggested the creation of a video game using Artificial Intelligence in all the stages of its development.
Artists biographies
Alina Izmailova
Born in 1992 in Ùfa, Russia. Lives and studies in Paris.
She explores the combination of materials such as clay and found items. Alina focuses on the questions of the working of passing time using objects. She often stages outsider communities or, in opposition, office aesthetics. Nowadays, her practice deals with traumatic historical eras- the way objects become witnesses of human conflicts- so as to identify key moments in the present and to analyse its artefacts.
She studied geology and then worked in a workshop led by Sergey Bratkov at the Rodchenko Art School in 2022. Since 2022, she has been studying at the École Nationale Supérieure d’art de Paris-Cergy, France.
Her work was displayed in France: Ygrec-ENSAPC Art Center; Aubervilliers (2024), Microcredit Gallery; Paris (2023), Les Aveugles du Château, Ygrèves x ThunderCage; Paris (2023). In Austria: Atelier Moos; Vienna (2023), Angewandte Festival; Vienna (2023), Villa Beer; Vienna (2023), Summer Academy; Salzburg (2022). In Russia: Kerka gallery; Saint-Petersburg (2021), fftn Gallery; Saint-Petersburg (2021).
Hanieh Yekta
Born 2000 in Teheran, Iran.
Lives and studies in Paris.
Hanieh Yekta’s work includes films, videos, sound and installation. She falls into the documentary field as much as fictional and blends in old cinematographic techniques (vintage cameras, super 8 films or 35mm) with contemporary ones. Embracing the glitch aesthetic (data alteration creating bugs in images) she explores the border between reality and imagination.
She studied cinema at the Soore University in Teheran and continued her audiovisual and cinema studies in Iran. She is currently in the second year of her licence at the École Nationale Supérieure d’art de Paris-Cergy.
Her work was displayed in France: Ygrec-ENSAPC Art Center; Aubervilliers (2024 and 2023). In the United Kingdom: Pinewood Studios; Iver (2024). In Iran: Elahi Gallery; Rasht (2020), Nofel Loshato Theatre; Teheran (2019), Tehran Mostaghel Arthouse; Teheran (2018). In Russia: Interdoc Festival; Moscow (2020); In the United States: Experimental Edge Film & Art Festival; Tallahassee (2018).
Elouan Le Bars
Born in 1998 in Douarnenez, France.
Lives and work in Paris.
He studied computing and the philosophy of techniques at the University of Technologies in Compiegne and obtained a Master at the École Nationale Supérieure d’art de Paris-Cergy. Using video, installation and sound collages, he explores the interactions between science, video games and corporate culture.
His work was displayed in France: Festival Si Cinema; Caen (2024 Ygrec-ENSAPC Art Center; Aubervilliers, (2024), Neuvitec95; Paris (2022), Bétonsalon; Paris (2022), Rencontres Internationales Traverse; Toulouse (2021), Un festival c’est trop court ! Villa Arson; Nice (2020). In Greece: Athens Digital Art Festival (2023) ; In Italy: Asolo Art Film Festival; Asolo (2023). In Brazil: FILE Festival – Video Art; São Paulo (2023).
Malone Perrotey
Born in 2000 in Paris, France.
Lives and work in Paris.
He explores the dialectic and the symbolic of objects through play assembling and sculpting. On site, his installations, which lightly encroach the physical space with the virtual space, span the themes of melancholy, childhood and hyper consumerism. He joined the artists collective Fashion Dingo in 2022. Working on the world of fashion industry and its means of production/exhibition, the collective distorts its codes in favor of a participative and anticapitalistic vision, through performances that blend in costumes, music, stagecraft and video installations. He participated in particular in the musical creation of several theatre plays and regularly performs his compositions.
He is currently in the first year of his Master at École Nationale Supérieure d’art de Paris-Cergy which he integrated in 2020 and has previously studied fine arts at Université Paris VIII.
His work was displayed in France: Ygrec-ENSAPC Art Center; Aubervilliers (2024) Magélis Studios, Angoulême (2024), Ateliers de la ville en bois ; Nantes (2023), Festival de théâtre de rue (Aurillac Street Theatre Festival) ; Aurillac (2023), Coco Velten; Marseille (2023), Cyberrance; Romainville (2022), Le Houloc; Aubervilliers (2022). In Greece: KEIV Gallery; Athens (2022).
