A digital Art festival is arriving at the gates of Paris, for the first edition of Vincennes, Château de Lumières. From October 18 to November 2, 2024, this nighttime event invites us to stroll among immersive and interactive works of art before attending a monumental projection in the courtyard of the Château de Vincennes. Discover the details that await us during this unusual meeting.
For this fall, a new Digital Art festival is arriving at the gates of Paris. We will meet in the charming city of Vincenneson line 1 of the Paris metro. Located on the edge of the eponymous wood, this town in Val-de-Marne where life is good is particularly known for its emblematic monument: the Château de Vincennes. This is at the heart of this artistic animation that awaits us from October 18 to November 2, 2024.
Vincennes, Château de Lumières, is the name of this luminous festival which highlights thedigital art in Vincennes. For 12 evenings, from 6:30 p.m. to 11 p.m., the city becomes an artistic scene. Amateurs and the curious are then invited to wander among the digital works of art, sometimes interactive.
” Entering the Château via Avenue de Paris, at the foot of the metro, visitors are presented with 18 monumental works. This walk through a luminous path offers an initial immersion, guiding the public through a journey where each installation tells a story, awakens an emotion, questions our relationship to time and space.” This is how we are described as the experience to expect. This 11-step journey includes creations of Jeremy Bellotartistic director of publishing, including Unfold, Le Miroir de l’âme and Bouncing light. Also included in the casting Atelier Sisu et Nicolas Paolozzi through their respective works Evanescent and Resonance. We appreciate this contrast of seeing this place steeped in history invested by contemporary art.
The highlight of the spectacle is admiring from the royal court, the Château de Vincennes where we attend a projection monumentale on the facade of the Historical Monument through a sound and light show lasting around twenty minutes entitled “Journey through the centuries“. He then prepares to tell us the history of the castle in the voice of André Manoukian on a soundtrack that he composed in tandem with One One. This is both an artistic and educational interpretation of the History of the Château de Vincennes where the story of an eventful past and more contemporary sequences of contemplation intertwine.
In total, more than fifteen international artists await us: Josselin Fouche (France), Nicolas Paolozzi (France), Hyojung Seo (South Korea), Jeremy Bellot (France), Sabrina Ratté (Canada), Rank SSS (Algeria), Victoria Fard (Canada), Jenny Jiang (UNITED STATES), Zoé Osborne (Barbados / Canada), Hanne-Lizé (South Africa), Diana Lynn Vandermeulen (Canada), Sky Goodman (UNITED STATES), Artpoint / Julie Corver et Laurie Bonin (France), Great idea / Nicolas D’Ascenzio (France), Atelier Sisu (Australia), Studio Daao / Anne Sophie Acomat (France).
In detail, the route of the first part preceding the monumental projection during this promising event is structured as follows:
Step 1: Liminal Radiation by Josselin Fouché
“This light animation is a unique experience where the light itself becomes a structure in constant evolution. Playing with the volumes, the laser highlights the lines and illustrates the nobility of the entrance door to the Château de Vincennes.”
Stage 2: Evanescent from the Atelier Sisu
“Evanescent is an immersive architectural work by Renzo B. Larriviere and Zara Pasfield of Atelier Sisu. These luminous inflatable spheres evoking giant soap bubbles constitute an enchanting installation that recalls fragility and ephemerality while echoing the timeless history of the Château de Vincennes.”
Step 3: Squarecoded by Ses Hyo-Jung
“SquareCoded offers several projected video animations. The artist uses coded algorithms to generate images and shapes. This approach allows him to develop unique and dynamic visual shapes that can evoke different emotions.”
Step 4: Gravity by Jérémie Bellot
“The Gravity installation emits light waves from a central point, propagating in concentric circles. These luminous spheres, pulsing like heartbeats, recall the incessant rhythm of history, sometimes glorious or tragic, its discoveries and its mysteries .”
Step 5: Augmented Virtualities by Sabrina Ratté, Rank SSS, Victoria Fard, Jenny Jiang, Zoé Osborne, Hanne-Lizé, Diana Lynn Vandermeulen, Sky Goodman
“An exhibition within an exhibition with 8 female artists brought together in an interactive installation proposed by Artpoint (as guest curator). Augmented Virtualities presents a selection of emblematic works by key international artists in the field of digital arts. “
Step 6: Lotus by Nicolas Paolozzi
“The emblematic Lotus by Nicolas Paolozzi will be presented at the Château de Vincennes. The light installed on the structure of the plant is diffused by its large leaves, creating a relaxing evolving atmosphere. The dimensions of the work reverse the scale ratio: l “Man here is the size of an insect immersed in immense nature.”
Step 7: Jérémie Bellot point cloud
“Nuage de Points is an original creation by Jérémie Bellot, a holographic cube made up of 3000 luminous stars. Visitors are invited to cross the work to live a completely immersive experience.”
Step 8: Helicoled from the Super Idée and Cadillac studio
“The Helicoled installation is a light generator inspired by the flying propeller from the Toys in Space program of 1985. It is made up of a 3 to 4 meter mast around which flexible neon lights are arranged in a circle; cranks will allow the public to control the neon lights at the top of the mast according to the force exerted on them.”
Step 9: Bouncing Lights by Jérémie Bellot
“Innovative digital art installation, combining the poetry of light with an interactive immersive experience. Within this artistic creation, luminous discs equipped with movement sensors react in real time to the interactions of the public, giving birth to a luminous ballet unique and captivating.”
Stage 10: Nexus Dream by Anne-Sophie Acomat of DAAO Studio
“The Nexus Dream light installation is an inflatable structure 30 meters in diameter, as gigantic as it is aerial, which breathes thanks to projectors which illuminate it from the inside.”
Step 11: Dichroid Moon V2 by Jérémie Bellot
“Dichroic Moon is a geode, whose light plays like a stained glass window. This allegory reminds us that, just as the moon does not emit its own light, but reflects that of the sun, we too are dichroic beings: we transform into response to our environment and to others.”
The city of Vincennes also specifies that the event was designed to limit the carbon footprint of this artistic event organized jointly with the Center of National Monuments and the Historical Defense Service of the Armed Forces : “The lighting will be LED and the video projectors will use laser technology for controlled energy consumption. On site, food stands will be offered with organic and local products.”.
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