Biotic Game #1
Dominique Peysson is a visual artist and art researcher. She holds two doctorates, one in art and art history from Paris 1 and the other in physics, as well as an engineering degree from ESPCI. She conducted her research and taught at the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs (ENSAD), and later at the University of Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée. Promoting the fruitful encounter between contemporary art and science, she regularly exhibits her work in France and abroad and is the author of numerous publications, including the book The Image-Matter: Emerging Materials & Imaginary Metamorphoses at Dis Voir.
How can we develop empathy for the smallest living things? Through a biotic game, I explore the interactions between micro-robots and microorganisms. Preview at Safra'Numériques 2025 Festival, Safra'Numériques 18th to […]
Biotic Games is an ongoing research-creation project, supported by LaSIPS, and in partnership with École Polytechnique. I am working with the help of researcher Gabriel Amselem from LadHyx at […]
SecondSkin is a transdisciplinary project supported by the French National Research Agency (ANR). Several artistic projects are initiated based on the research conducted by the laboratories associated with SecondSkin: the […]
Click here “Life is a vapor… and then noting” by Olivier Goulet and myself, presented at the Si(non)oui festival on November 17, 2021. This performance is a vanitas. It begins […]
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Cloud study is currently on display for the Octobre Numérique festival in Arles!
A cloud image created from the painting "Landscape under a turbulent sky", which Vincent van Gogh painted in Arles in April 1889. The image is formed from drops which are composed of dew collected in a field like the one in the painting, during the summer of 2020.
Harvesting dew in the early morning near the city of Arles, using one of the methods recommended by alchemists. When atmospheric conditions were right to allow dew to collect overnight, the artist Dominique Peysson slid a cotton sheet over the grass and leaves to soak it up with this water coming directly from the clouds.