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Solo exhibitions

18-22 Oct 2017. Three works: a performance with Olivier Goulet La vie et une vapeur... et puis rien, the installation Trafic 3.0, a radioactive microfluidic work, the installation Etude de nuages radioactifs, Supported by the «Vocality in theater and opera» research programme of the Iris «Création, Cognition et Société» (EHESS). Exhibitions at the Opéra Comique in Paris for the opera Kein Licht, created by Philippe Manouri.

5 Jan-10 March 2017. Première Impression, solo exhibition of a body of five works on the notion of matter-DNA, funded by the Département de la Seine-Saint-Denis and the Région Ile-de-France as part of an artist residency from March 2016 to January 2017 at the Espace Jean-Roger Caussimon, Tremblay en France, in collaboration with the Lieu Multiple de Poitiers.

15 Nov-15 Dec 2016. Possibility of an island. Installation, sand and drops of water. Centre Jean-René Caussimon, Tremblay en France.

18 and 26 May 2016. Water Power. Performance, at Espace Mendès France in Poitiers and La Paillasse in Paris. In the shadow of water. Listening in the dark, for a mental image transmission.

04 Jan - 27 Feb 2016. Traffic. Microfluidic installation. Centre Jean-René Caussimon, Tremblay en France.

10-13 Dec. 2014. Water At Work, solo exhibition of eleven pieces at the gallery of Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, Paris.

Sept. 2013-June 2014. Hydrophily, interactive art&science installation, mist drawings, held for 10 months in the windows of the Espace Pierre Gilles de Gennes, 10 rue Vauquelin, Paris.

19 Nov 2013. Couleur métal, Performance installation for Les Invisibles, Apparition d'images de buée, Espace Pierre-Gilles de Gennes.

 

Group exhibitions

21 Sep 2019. DNA in plastics, presented for the Imagine Institute open house.

09-23 June. 2019. Goutte de cristal, installation for the Festival de l'Eau à Whattwiller (FEW), on the theme of the memory of water. Projection of videos in drops of water, continuous flow system, optical device.

28 June. 2018. Curation and organisation with Vera Broichhagen of Fifty-Fifty, an evening presenting eight performances by twelve artists at Les Grands Voisins, lesgrandsvoisins.org. Two performances presented by me in this context: Dans ta peau, a performance with Sylvie Maurin and Effet Mémoire with Vera Broichhagen.

15-16 Dec. 2017. Cloud study, installation presented for «Wanderer above the sea of fog», group show at Villa Belleville.

06 Dec - 02 Feb 2018. Study of radioactive clouds, for «Great Planet», Miksi Coworking, Cité Universitaire, Paris.

09 Nov 2017. Study of radioactive clouds, for ISC-PIF's inaugural Arts and Sciences day at TOTEM, Institut des systèmes complexes, Paris.

18-22 Oct 2017. Three works: a performance with Olivier Goulet La vie et une vapeur... et puis rien, the installation Trafic 3.0, a radioactive microfluidic work, the installation Etude de nuages radioactifs, Supported by the «Vocality in theater and opera» research programme of the Iris «Création, Cognition et Société» (EHESS). Exhibitions at the Opéra Comique in Paris for the opera Kein Licht, created by Philippe Manouri.

10 Oct-9 Dec 2017. Trafic 2.0 exhibited in Pau for the festival Machines Sensibles, Accès)s(
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3 May-3 June 2017. Exhibition as part of the PERCOLARIS collective, at the Arondit gallery, Paris IIIème. Personal works exhibited: DNA in plastics, Evolution is dyslexic, Protohistoric-Trafic, Cloud study.

5 Jan-10 March 2017. Première Impression, solo exhibition of a body of five works on the notion of matter-DNA, funded by the Département de la Seine-Saint-Denis and the Région Ile-de-France as part of an artist residency from March 2016 to January 2017 at the Espace Jean-Roger Caussimon, Tremblay en France, in collaboration with the Lieu Multiple de Poitiers.

12 Jan - 10 Feb 2017. Study of Nuage and Danser sous la Pluie, for the exhibition Aqua Mobilis (part 2), Galerie Passerelle, Campus de Jussieu, Paris 5ème.

07 Nov-11 Dec 2016. Study of Cloud and Dancing in the Rain, for the exhibition Aqua Mobilis (part 1), TIM Future Center, Venice, Italy.

15 Nov-15 Dec 2016. Possibility of an island. Installation, sand and drops of water. Centre Jean-René Caussimon, Tremblay en France.

10 Oct-15 Nov 2016. Cloud study. Installation. Re-use of silkscreen for an image of a cloud in drops of water. Photophore Festival. Centre Jean-René Caussimon, Tremblay en France.

20-23 September 2016. Points Singuliers, Five studies of folds highlighted, EnsAD, Paris Vème.

18 and 26 May 2016. Water Power. Performance, at Espace Mendès France in Poitiers and La Paillasse in Paris. In the shadow of water. Listening in the dark, for a mental image transmission.

04 Jan - 27 Feb 2016. Traffic. Microfluidic installation. Centre Jean-René Caussimon, Tremblay en France.

26-29 March 2015. Versal Unfolding, Performance-conference with Emmanuel Ferrand, during the colloquium of the GDR MePhy, Mechanics and physics of complex systems. ESPCI, Paris Vème and L'i-m-a-g-e E-s-t U-n O-b-j-e-t E-l-a-s-t-i-q-u-e, La Générale, Paris XIVème and at the Galerie Friches & nous, la paix, Paris XXème.

10-13 Dec. 2014. Water At Work, solo exhibition of eleven pieces at the gallery of Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, Paris.

Sept. 2013-June 2014. Hydrophily, interactive art&science installation, mist drawings, held for 10 months in the windows of the Espace Pierre Gilles de Gennes, 10 rue Vauquelin, Paris.

19 Nov 2013. Couleur métal, Performance installation for Les Invisibles, Apparition d'images de buée, Espace Pierre-Gilles de Gennes.

Dec. 2012-Jan. 2013. Group exhibition “Quartiers divers”, Rueil-Malmaison cultural centres.
June 2010. YI SANG I GNAS IY et le retournement temporel, performance on the scientific inspiration of the Korean poet Yi Sang, «Yi Sang à Paris» festival, at La Générale, Paris.

May 2009. Re-enactment of Alvin Lucier's Music for a solo performer at Saint-Merri church, Paris.

Oct. 2008. Histoires de poche, four videos presented on a large outdoor screen at the 5th arrondissement town hall as part of the Nuits blanches festival.

May 2008. Correlation Mobile, filmed performance and Histoires de poche, four videos produced for the pocket film festival, Centre Pompidou, Paris.

May 2007. Intégrateur de Marcel, exhibition among seven young artists for Upperloc!, Lil'art event, Les Lilas.

Publications (art)

Forthcoming (Oct. 2020). In formation & information in living materials, in «Design, Gestaltung, Formatività», anthology, Patricia Ribault, Cluster of Excellence Matters of Activity. Image Space Material.

June. 2018. Sciences et art : alibi scientiste ou voie pour les humanités ? in « Quel avenir pour les humanités?», l'Archicube, n°24. ENS Ed. (Paris). P.98-101

Dec. 2017. Première Impression, Catalogue of my solo exhibition consisting of five works presented in January-February 2017 at L'Espace Jean-Roger Caussimon, Tremblay en France.

Jan. 2017. Responsive Images and Hydrophily, in «Images Interactives : Arts, Sciences et Culture du visuel», edited by Jean-Paul Fourmentraux, La lettre Volée Ed., Brussels.

June 2016. Versal Unfolding, How a specific folding can turn crease and tear into transversal notions, Emmanuel Ferrand, Dominique Peysson, in “On Folding”, ed. Michael Friedman, Transcript Ed., Bielefeld.

Apr 2016. The material-image. Emerging materials & imaginary metamorphoses. Book by Dominique Peysson. Dis Voir Ed. (Paris).
Followed by The Image-Matter. Emerging Materials and Imaginary Metamorphosis, English translation by Vanessa Place, Dis Voir Ed. (Paris).

Dec. 2015 Les matériaux émergents à l'épreuve de l'art contemporain, in «Sciences et techniques. Une culture à partager» Culture et Recherche n° 132, 100 p., The Ministry of Culture's research magazine.

2013. Co-direction with Olga Kisseleva of [plastik ]-Art & Science issue #03, nano.

August 2013. Peysson Dominique, «Le nanomonde : une nouvelle « hétérotopie » ?», in the online journal [plastik ] Nano, n°3.

May 2012. Matérialiser sa pensée au seuil de l'intelligible, in “Technique et creation”. Toulouse Ivan, Danétis Daniel (dir.), Paris: L'Harmattan, 2012, (coll. «Eurêka et cie»).

2008. Inventer son chemin, petite fresque heuristique, in «Eurêka, le moment de l'invention», Toulouse Ivan, Danétis Daniel (dir.), Arts 8, Paris: L'Harmattan, 2008, (coll. «Eurêka et cie»).

1999-2009. Numerous publications in children's literature (text and images): eleven children's books, magazine illustrations, book covers, etc...

1991-1995. Scientific publications: one book chapter, eight publications in peer-reviewed journals (such as «Die Makromol. Chem.”, “Nonlinear Optics”, “Macromol. Chem. Phys.», «Liquid Crystals», etc.), eighteen presentations (conferences, symposia, etc.).

 

Organisation of conferences and study days (Art)

Coming soon. Co-organiser of a week of transdisciplinary reflection with physicist Benoît Roman on Animated Matter, in May 2021. A whole week in isolation for twelve internationally renowned researchers at the Fondation des Treilles, a place that encourages dialogue between creators and researchers. The expected outcome of the week will be the creation of a physical object, an international symposium and perhaps a book or exhibition.

21 June 2017. Interdisciplinary explorations around the living. Science and art at PSL. Art and biology workshop organised with Lia Giraud, Valérie Pihet and Perig Pitrou at ESPCI.

1 June 2017. Responsive Matter, art&science colloquium, Centre Pompidou, Paris, organised with Marie-Ange Brayer, Samuel Bianchini and Emanuele Quinz. 3D printing is reviving the relationship between matter and form, where matter only makes sense when it is informed and must be forgotten. But what about these new active, reactive and adaptive materials?

Jan.2017-Jan.2019. Life at work. Exploring the potential of bioart and biodesign, an active member with Ludovic Jullien and Lia Giraud of the programme directed by Perig Pitrou, supported by PSL. This project brings together players from various PSL institutions (art and design schools, natural science and humanities and social science laboratories) to explore the potential represented by the transfer of biotechnologies into artistic, craft and industrial practices developing in the fields of bioart and biodesign.

20-21 Sept. 2016. The FOLD, EnsAD-ESPCI-Humboldt University-MPI Podsdam Colloquium. Co-organiser with Benoît Roman (ESPCI, Paris), Michael Friedman (Humboldt University) and Peter Fratzl (dir. Du Max Plack Institute of Colloids and interfaces). The aim of the colloquium was to bring together two different disciplines: mechanics and morphogenesis of (bio)materials on the one hand, and philosophy on the other.

June. 2009-Feb. 2010. Changer de peau (Changing skin): Organisation of two events enabling artist-scientist pairs to be formed, exchanges to be set up (each putting themselves in the other's shoes), and a feedback session. Organised with Paris 8 and ESPCI, Paris.

31 May-1 June 2007. Eureka, the moment of invention, organisation with Ivan Toulouse of the colloquium with artists and scientists, May 2007, Université Paris 8 and ESPCI.

Interventions-communications in art

Coming soon (postponed due to coronavirus): Emerging materials put to the test by contemporary art, «Chemistry and Art», Journées de la Chimie, X, ENS, ESPCI.

Coming soon - postponed because of the coronavirus. Presentation of my work on DNA for «Le 21ème siècle, le siècle de l'ADN?», digital campus of Ionis Education group, Sup'Biotech.

2 March 2020. La matière EST forme, Galerie L'ahah, on the occasion of Ran Zhang's exhibition, Resolution of Traits, 25-27 March 2020, exhibition space #Griset, 4 cité Griset, Paris.

18 Feb. 2020. Jury for the SNSF Scientific Image Competition (SSIC) 2020, Bern, Switzerland.

27-30 Nov. 2019. Things to think about. When what we touch can touch us deeply, Arts & Science international conference, Musée national Marc Chagall, Université Côte d'Azur, Nice.

Nov-Dec 2019. Innovation workshops on SMART materials for LVMH Recherche.

24-25 Sept. 2019. Bio-mimesis versus biomimicry, joint presentation with Emmanuel Ferrand, for the Rencontres Techniques&Culture «Biomimétisme(s). Imitation of the living and modelling of life», Mucem, Marseille.

13 June 2019. Droplets as units of information, «Garden the sky water» international symposium, Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris.

11-21 June 2019. Art and science« creative workshops for LVMH Research, commissioned by Bruno Bavouzet, Chairman of LVMH Research. A brand new experience, establishing a first milestone for bringing together research and contemporary art within LVMH itself.

12 Dec 2018. Talk on the film Alone on Mars, by R. Scott, for the «Extraterrestrial Presences» cycle, Human lives in space, organised by Roland Lehoucq, Perig Pitrou and Jean-Sébastien Steyer at the Grand Action cinema, Paris.

12 Oct 2018. Keynote, Art and Matter: a Matter of Life, 55th Annual Technical Meeting of the Society of Engineering Science, Madrid, Spain (invited).

29 August 2018. Keynote, In formation & information in living materials, Solvay Workshop, Brussels, Belgium (invited).

27 June 2018. Organic machines, “Le sensible artificiel” study days, Maison des Sciences de l'Homme Paris-Nord.

15-16 Feb 2018. Information and in-formation in living material, for the workshop «Design, Gestaltung, Formatività», Humboldt University (Berlin) and Max Planck Institute (Potsdam), Germany (invited).

12 Oct 2017. The march towards organic machines, for the conference «The future of machines: between science and fiction?», festival Accè)s(, Pau.

16-17 Oct 2017. Living matter, for the colloquium La vie à l'œuvre. Nouvelles écologies, bioart, biodesign, at the Musée de la Chasse, Paris.

21 June 2017. Living. Les formes de l'information, for the workshop «Explorations Interdisciplinaires autour du vivant. Sciences and art at PSL», ESPCI , Paris.

1 June 2017. Opening and paper: Matière Liquide Responsive, for the «Responsive Matter» conference at the Centre Pompidou, Paris.

30 Apr 2017. Matière désirante, de la machine à la matière vivante, for the meetings: «Les machines utopiques», at the Gaité Lyrique, Paris.

10 Nov 2016. New skins. Une relation d'intelligence entre nous et notre vêtement, research seminar «Anthropologie des mondes de la mode. La main au regard de la machine. What remains for the hand?», EHESS, Paris.

9 June 2016. Data-matter and programmable matter: «Data Matters?» round table organised around Mathieu Briand's work Memories Memories, Espace Pierre Gilles de Gennes, Paris.

26 May 2016. Launch of the book L'Image-Matière in Paris. Round table with Manuela de Barros and Dominique Lestel, La Paillasse, Paris.

18 May 2016. Launch of the book L'Image-Matière in Poitiers. Round table with Perig Pitrou and Thierry Ferreira, le Lieu Multiple, Poitiers.

2 Apr 2016. Interview with Lia Giraud on ENS radio: TrENSmission on our art&science courses

23 March 2016. Carving Material Properties. The emergent materials in contemporary art. Lecture for the International Symposium on Two-Dimensional Layered Materials and Art: Two Worlds Meet, March 23-25, 2016, IMéRA, Marseille. Streaming webcast.

13 Feb 2016. Programming matter. Presentation-debate, Centre Jean-Roger Caussimon, Tremblay en France, as part of his artistic residency, in partnership with Lieu multiple, Poitiers.

4 May 2015. The courage of the researcher-explorer. A short illustrated chronicle of research by serendipity, Interférences_VIDA, coupled with a History and Philosophy of Science workshop, Université Pierre et Marie Curie (UPMC), Paris.

26 March 2015. Through the fold : Cross-pleated of philosophy, contemporary art and applied arts, colloquium Folding and creasing of thin plate structures, GDR MePhy, Mechanics and physics of complex systems. ESPCI, Paris Vème.

13 Nov 2014. Matière à deux temps : équilibre dynamique, Rencontre Recherche et création, temporalités, Labex ARTS-H2H, Galerie Rhinocéros et cie, 156 bd Haussman, Paris.

6 March 2014. The material IS the mechanism. Responsive materials and contemporary art. Dorkbot #46 (Doing strange things with electricity), Paris.

19-20 Sept. 2013. ABC. Moving Without Motors: the Artist and the Behavior of its moving Creatures. Moving Without Muscles (MWM) Conference, Grenoble Interdisciplinary Laboratory.

23 May 2013. Research in progress, for the Labex DEEP annual day, Institut Curie, Paris.

11 Apr 2013. Presentation at the Biomechanics, Microengineering, Nanotechnology seminar at the Centre for Research and Interdisciplinary (CRI), Université Paris Descartes.

21 Feb. 2013. Speech and debate for Mathématiques sensibles as part of "La science se livre" at the Cube, Issy-les-Moulineaux.

26 Jan 2013. The nanoworld: a new «heterotopia»? For the conference «L'art à l'échelle nanoscopique», Centre Pompidou, Paris.

9-10. Oct. 2012. Mental modulations, modus operandi, History on art and mental waves, for the «Neural interfaces: from thought to action» days, Stéréolux, Nantes.

May 2011. Two-way visit, art & science, about the exhibition «Qui a éteint la lumière ? MacVal / Exploradôme, Vitry sur Seine.
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March 2011. Percoler, talk on art and science at Universcience, Paris.

June 2010. YI SANG | GNAS IY and the reversal of time. Talk on the scientific inspiration of the Korean poet Yi Sang, «Yi Sang à Paris» festival, at La Générale, Paris.

May 2009. Les gestes de la mémoire, «Mobile Immobile» study day, Esthétique des nouveaux médias research team, Université Paris 8, Saint-Denis.

May 2009. Inventiveness described as the parataxical percolation of islands of structured thought within informality. Journées scientifiques de l'Université de Rennes2, «Technique et creation”, Rennes.

5 March 2009. Electro-encephalo-gramophonies, talk on the History of mental waves in art, for the Jeudis de Gakona, Brainwaves, Palais de Tokyo, Paris.

2008. Inventer son chemin, petite fresque heuristique, Colloque « Eurêka, le moment de l'invention », Paris 8 and ESPCI, Paris.