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Dylan Cote & Incogito [FR] – Earthsatz
The world, as it is shown to us by Google Earth, is intriguing… The imperfections of the shapes, the textures’ distorsions, the suspended time, are all attributes of a new kind of universe. A hybrid one, looking more like an algorithmic fiction than our tangible reality. Earthsatz tries to amplify the cold and oppressive poetry generated by this « pocket world », where life doesn’t exist and particles are replaced by pixels. Maybe we should try to contemplate it for what it really is : a fictional universe that mimics the one we are living in, developing its own autonomy.
Thanks to photogrammetry, we scanned some parts of the Google-generated world. We built 3D landscapes from them to play with in order to highlight their surreal characteristics. Earthatz is a wandering in this corrupted world, celebrating all its fictional, artificial and irrational aspects. As the landscapes are disintegrating and recomposing themselves, their roars are embodied in distorted and mechanical sounds. These heavy synth pads extend the figurative universe, being it’s intense echo in the spectator’s perceptual space.
Dylan Cote and Pierre Lafanechère
Dylan Cote and Pierre Lafanechère work respectively in Paris and Lyon (France). They met during their studies in interaction and graphic design. Mainly working with moving image and installation they use forms which deploy into physical or digital environment in order to serve an idea or a moment. This process includes the music field which they are also active within. They also pursue visual research by experiencing and diverting various techniques from their proper use, using the aesthetic potential of new media. Through motion design, code, sound creation, installation or light, they strive to set up poetical and critical spaces. Sometimes, it creates fragments of fiction which give us a view on current issues of techno social change.
Their work has been exhibited at Scopitone (Nantes), Nuit Blanche in Paris, YIA Art Fair Brussels, Paris Electronic Week, 12×12 festival, Blue \x80, and other alternatives events. They are both members of OYÉ, an art collective created in 2015. This association is made up of various artists, designers and researchers working together on audiovisual performance, digital installation, and live performing arts. Their visual creations for stages have been booked at Dour, Astropolis, Inasound, La Rodia, Le Plan, Paris Event Center, l’Aerosol… Dylan Cote & Incogito [FR]
