{"id":704,"date":"2025-07-09T14:06:22","date_gmt":"2025-07-09T14:06:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dominiquepeysson.net\/?post_type=portfolio_item&p=704"},"modified":"2025-07-11T14:43:00","modified_gmt":"2025-07-11T14:43:00","slug":"biotic-game-1","status":"publish","type":"portfolio_item","link":"https:\/\/dominiquepeysson.net\/en\/project\/biotic-game-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Biotic Game #1"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\t\t\tBiotic Game \u2013 First Encounter \u2013 Mars 2024
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A work by Dominique Peysson<\/h4>\n

A project supported by the LaSIPS Label<\/a> of the\u2019Paris-Saclay University<\/a> and the laboratory LadHyX<\/a>, and by the Arts & Sciences Chair of Ecole Polytechnique. It was made possible with the help of researcher Gabriel Amselem<\/a>, thanks to him.<\/p>\n

The development of the microrobot was carried out during a residency at IS2M laboratory<\/a> at the University of Haute Alsace, initiated by Olivier Soppera<\/a>. Mobilized to help this research Olivier Soppera, Laurent Vonna<\/a> and Djamel Mohammed Bendimerad<\/a>. A residency made possible thanks to Isabelle Lefevre, in charge of cultural activities at UHA. Thank you to them.<\/p>\n\t

I am developing several \u201cbiotic games,\u201d which are similar to early arcade video games, but involve living microorganisms and micro-robots. A whole small world within microscopic cells, which the public can interact with, for better or for worse\u2026<\/p>\n

The micro-robot is animated by continuous movement. By manipulating the joystick, its movement within the cell is controlled. It then becomes possible to encounter the microscopic living beings found there, via the micro-robot that is moved according to our wishes. The two entities: the micro-robot controlled by us and the microscopic being, can then interact...<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\"BioticGame4\"\n\t

In Biotic Game #1 (first encounter), I give the audience the opportunity to interact with daphnia, in order to foster a sense of empathy toward them.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\"daphniaSpermbot\"\n\t

The imaginaries invoked relate to the incredible diversity of living beings and their ways of being in the world, at very small scales of size. Notably, the incredible array of metamorphic beings that we find around us, in different layers of the subsoil, or even inside our own bodies. Subterranean beings, too small for us to know. In this project, it becomes possible to interact with some of them using an intermediary: a micro-robot that is controlled with a joystick. It becomes possible for us to go and meet them, play with them, and create an interaction.<\/p>\n\t\t