Opening on September 5th at the Théâtre de Vidy-Lausanne, a transgalactic electro-mechanical opera inspired by Alfred Jarry featuring live puppets of Superman and William Burroughs operated by Patrick Sims, vintage video game animations by Entter, music by Ata Ebtekar, a giant pinball machine built by Eric Zollikofer, and interaction design by Alex Posada.
I have the pleasure to announce that I was accepted as a PhD student and Research Assistant in the Media x Design Laboratory at EPFL, in Lausanne, Switzerland, in the context of a revolutionary new lab between arts & sciences, called SINLAB, focusing on performance and new technologies that was launched officially on February 14th 2012, at the Manufacture, with a dance performance by Chris Ziegler called «corpus pygmalion». I made a small video improvisation on the music of Andrea Valvini and the live glitches of Benjamin Efrati during the launch party.
In order to celebrate the end of the first term of the «Introduction to Programming» course
in video game coding at SAE Geneva, we went with the students to the Grand-Palais in Paris
to see the Game Story expo.
Participating in a workshop on Alternate Reality Games and New Narrative Frontiers with the mobile cinema game we are preparing for Rousseau 2012, in Lisbon at the ACM SIGCHI ACE 2011 conference.
Today is my first day of class, as an unaffiliated PhD student in the doctoral school of computer, communication and information sciences at EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland.
Performance du groupe de poésie électronique «infolipo» rattaché à l’Université de Genève, dont je fais partie, au cours duquel nous avons projeté de la typographie en mouvement sur les murs et sur des gens avec des pico-projecteurs mobiles alimentés sur batteries.
I was invited to give a talk at the Media x Design Laboratory led by Prof. Jeffrey Huang, at EPFL, on my research and previous work, where I expressed my intention to create a center for the study and research of Computational Cinema.
I presented a very short video at the «Ex-Werner» gallery/atelier on rue de Lyon in Geneva. It was presented as a loop, on a monitor.
I will be speaking on a panel at the Geneva Forum on Social Change organized by students of the International Organizations MBA program at the University of Geneva, on May 28-29, dedicated to Grassroots Innovation, about the potential of film, video game and new media technologies to transform society.
Du 22 février au 5 mars 2010, je serai à la Chartreuse (Centre National des Ecritures du Spectacle) pour une résidence de recherche, d’expérimentation, de conception et d’écriture, sur le spectacle «The Old Man of the Mountain» écrit par Patrick Sims, fondateur des troupes de marionnettes Buchingers Boot & Les Antiaclastes.
Cet opéra électronique futuriste est une interprétation moderne du vieux mythe des «Assassins», première organisation terroriste islamiste du XIème siècle, basée dans la forteresse d’Alamud, au nord de l’Iran actuel.
Nous prévoyons d’utiliser de la robotique sur scène, mais également des fresques vidéo interactives, contrôlées par des algorithmes génératives et des contrôleurs de jeu hackés.