Presentation of the project:
This is the project of a residency which aim is a single interactive and participative modular installation that encompasses a variety of feedback methods :
we would like to experience the combination between video feedback, audio feedback, neuro-feedback, human feedback, analog-fashioned feedback by experimenting with lights, shadows and any processes and ideas that can materialized into forms the notions of interaction, reciprocity and iteration that we can find anywhere around and within us, due to the fractal nature of the Universe.
It will be a collaborative work, where everybody will join in the brainstorming. The purpose of the residency is not only the final object, but the way to reach a common goal at several brains and hands, sharing our skills and ideas, reflecting about the cybernetic notion of feedback and through an ethical and political point of view, questioning ourselves about technology in our world, its mode of production, what can be the way out, is there any and what for? etc.
The project aims to offer to participants the space and time to create, experiment, reflect and discover an original way of creating that implies the connection of all the creations in one.
We will provide gears such as BCI's, Kinects, film making and projection gears, but feel free to bring with you the tools you like to work with.
We would like to gather different perspectives and to create bridges between everyone's practices through the organization of small workshops all along the residency, that will allow us to connect our skills, to share our knowledge and to build one installation all together.
When the project has been written and even way before, we - Rosalie, Hélène and I, as members of Synaps Audiovisual collective (the project holder organization) - were willing to propose this way of organization:
About the organization, it would be interesting to strive to a collective self-organizing, trying our best to take decisions in an horizontal way, avoiding the most we can voting because we would like to develop and improve our capacity to debate and experience positive and fruitful conflicts by managing the power balance collectively as well as personally.