{"id":4338,"date":"2024-03-31T16:28:12","date_gmt":"2024-03-31T15:28:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/toshareproject.it\/artmakerblog\/?p=4338"},"modified":"2024-03-31T16:28:12","modified_gmt":"2024-03-31T15:28:12","slug":"christa-sommerer-laurent-mignonneau-the-artwork-as-a-living-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toshareproject.it\/artmakerblog\/christa-sommerer-laurent-mignonneau-the-artwork-as-a-living-system\/","title":{"rendered":"Christa Sommerer &#038; Laurent Mignonneau. The Artwork as a Living System"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"arve\" data-mode=\"normal\" data-oembed=\"1\" data-provider=\"youtube\" id=\"arve-youtube-ffezx-hu4wg69e07ccc5948b877978214\" style=\"max-width:900px;\" itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/VideoObject\">\n<span class=\"arve-inner\"><br \/>\n<span class=\"arve-embed arve-embed--has-aspect-ratio\"><br \/>\n<span class=\"arve-ar\" style=\"padding-top:56.200000%\"><\/span><br \/>\n<meta itemprop=\"embedURL\" content=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/FFEZx-hU4Wg?feature=oembed&amp;iv_load_policy=3&amp;modestbranding=1&amp;rel=0&amp;autohide=1&amp;playsinline=0&amp;autoplay=0\"><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen class=\"arve-iframe fitvidsignore\" data-arve=\"arve-youtube-ffezx-hu4wg69e07ccc5948b877978214\" data-src-no-ap=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/FFEZx-hU4Wg?feature=oembed&amp;iv_load_policy=3&amp;modestbranding=1&amp;rel=0&amp;autohide=1&amp;playsinline=0&amp;autoplay=0\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"505.8\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-presentation allow-popups allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/FFEZx-hU4Wg?feature=oembed&#038;iv_load_policy=3&#038;modestbranding=1&#038;rel=0&#038;autohide=1&#038;playsinline=0&#038;autoplay=0\" width=\"900\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>ZKM | Karlsruhe<br \/>\nSat, May 07, 2022 &#8211; Sun, July 31, 2022 <\/p>\n<p>The interactive installations in the exhibition tell the story of almost 30 years of artistic work by the Austrian-French artist duo Christa Sommerer and Laurent Mignonneau.<\/p>\n<p>The exhibition \u00bbThe Artwork as a Living System\u00ab provides an overview of the work of the Austrian-French artist duo Christa Sommerer and Laurent Mignonneau since the early 1990s. Moving between the subject areas of natural science, technology and art, Sommerer and Mignonneau pioneered the \u00bbArt of Interface\u00ab, in which innovative technical interfaces enable physical interaction between simulative visual worlds and the world of natural sensory organs. Very early on, they also used algorithms to represent not only the forms of the living, but also their evolution and growth. In fourteen installations, which are created only through the actions of the audience, man-made artificial systems are shown that exhibit behavior like natural living organisms. Technical devices originally designed by the artist couple produce virtual realities and immersive environments beyond the previous horizon of experience. Their works, now almost classics of digital art, open a new horizon in which artworks act as living systems. Few artists have shaped the transition from the moving image media phase to the living image media like Sommerer and Mignonneau.<\/p>\n<p>Their media-art works, based on scientific findings, open up the possibility of exploring the growth of plants or the behavior of tiny computer-generated creatures such as flies and beetles and their embedding in complex ecosystems. Works such as \u00bbInteractive Plant Growing\u00ab (1992), \u00bbA-Volve\u00ab (1994), or \u00bbPortrait on the Fly\u00ab (2015), which are in the collection of the ZKM | Karlsruhe, simulate living systems in which touching real plants or moving in front of a screen generates transformations in digital space. The augmented reality installation \u00bbAR[t]chive\u00ab (2022), presented for the first time in the exhibition, allows visitors to explore in AR Sommerer and Mignnonneau&#8217;s archive.<br \/>\nThe exhibition is a co-production of ZKM | Karlsruhe, O\u00d6 Landes-Kultur GmbH, Linz and iMal, Brussels. The exhibition is accompanied by a scholarly publication in English edited by Karin Ohlenschl\u00e4ger, Peter Weibel and Alfred Weidinger in the Leonardo Book Series in collaboration with MIT Press.<br \/>\n&#8212;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ZKM | Karlsruhe Sat, May 07, 2022 &#8211; Sun, July 31, 2022 The interactive installations in the exhibition tell the story of almost 30 years of artistic work by the Austrian-French artist duo Christa Sommerer and Laurent Mignonneau. 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