Scenocosme: Rencontres Imaginaires

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Scenocosme, "Rencontres Imaginaires"

Scenocosme, "Rencontres Imaginaires"

Insert yourself into the frame in Rencontres Imaginaires, a series of interactive behavioural video works. As a viewer, you are invited to engage in imaginary encounters with “virtual friends” in real-time through a digital kiosk and large-scale projection. The pre-recorded videos of “virtual friends” prompt you to react to their gestures, perhaps allowing (or not allowing) them to touch your hands, look at you, or pass you an object. Referencing and recalling the first tricks of cinema by filmmakers like Georges Méliès over a hundred years ago, this artwork uses techniques of illusion to encourage play in public space.

Rhône-Alpes artists Anaïs met den Ancxt and Grégory Lasserre collaborate under the name Scenocosme. During a residency at the Gallery, Scenocosme will create new videos here in Surrey. If you would like to participate in one of the filming sessions to become a “virtual contact”—creating new virtual hand and face behaviours for someone to interact with at UrbanScreen—email artgallery@surrey.ca.

Join the artists for a preview of their exhibit at UrbanScreen on Friday, September 16 at 8pm.