Robotic installation

During the day, a city-wide trail of installations combining visual arts and new technologies is proposed. Accessible alone, with friends or family, this curious excursion is an invitation to dream with eyes wide open. Particular attention is given to welcoming the audience, thanks to the presence of a mediator, or contents and tools enabling visitors to discover the installations in a different way.

Taotie, Thomas Garnier

Robotic art and architecture | Automated installation

Taotie is an automated installation that revisits phantasmagoria (projected shadow theater popular in the 18th century) in the age of digital technology and logistics platforms.

Instead of depicting ghosts and apparitions, it shows a robot equipped with a light which, by moving randomly, makes its environment evolve. Made up of 3D-printed sculptures, the installation evokes both contemporary storage spaces and urban landscapes. Thomas Garnier explores the impact of total automation, taking the example of “darkfactories”, factories operating without light or human intervention.

Thomas Garnier‘s Taotie is an immersive installation that questions these new time-spaces, disconnected from our biological rhythms. The work presents a world of illusions in perpetual reconfiguration.

From 16:00, the Théâtre du Vieux St-Étienne begins its transformation for the Electronic Sessions. Sound tests will be carried out and may alter the visitor’s experience.

DISTRIBUTION:
Crossed lab: Production
Sylvain Garnavault, Nicolas Guichard: Technical team
With the support of the Centre National du Cinéma, the Rhône-Alpes Region and the Fernand Léger Gallery.