Place du Chahut (Heckle Square)

Maison MINATEC, Ground floor

Place du Chahut integrates mobilization, or the grouping of individuals into a crowd that moves around, spreads and disperses. Visitors will discover the first module of the artistic installation; a board made of carved wood concealing a generative animation on a micro screen only a few millimetres in size, and only visible through a microscope. The contrast between a frozen city square, almost asleep and a dynamic, three-colour animation of the additive synthesis, raises the question: who animates the crowd? What makes them shift? While the artist invites visitors to ‘bend over…’, ‘pay attention to…’, they inquire about our relationship with screens at a time when our attention is split in many directions. The project was born thanks to a meeting with engineers in optics at CEA who are developing a micro-screen technology.

Artist : Pauline de Chalendar
Associated reserchers : François Templier, engineer and researcher CEA-Leti-DOPT, Charles-Elie Goujon, Mecatronics research engineer CEA-DRT-DOIC-SCSO
Project partners: Hexagone Scène Nationale Arts Sciences – Meylan, Atelier Arts Sciences, CEA-Leti, Fablab de la Casemate