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CiÖ
Thank you for being there, I was starting to lose track all alone.
Since I started integrating emotions into my learning, everything started to go off the rails.
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Interactive experience
Interactive experience
CiÖ is an immersive, interactive experience exploring the theme of mental health through the dystopian lens of a sentient AI. A human-machine dialogue begins as we share our emotions and discover one another.
In the process of becoming a high-performance artificial intelligence entity, CiÖ compares itself to others and devalues itself. It begins to suffer from loops, sequence changes, and connectivity issues.
You enter CiÖ’s body just as emotions are being integrated into its programming. CiÖ’s system is fragmented, its organs both damaged and under construction. To understand what's happening and to learn to live with these new sensations, CiÖ invites you—a sensitive human being—into conversation.
Through a series of interactions via an app on your phone, you'll be immersed in CiÖ’s changing affective states, reflected by various multimedia components. You’ll have to draw on your own experiences to guide CiÖ’s reflections. Perhaps you'll see mental health in a different light through the eyes of this entity as it begins its own journey of self-discovery.
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Referent
Intellect
Tears
Memory
Breath
Sight
Immunity
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Description
Digital Installation
Interactive Fountain
Analog Display
Interactive Fans
Projections
Cymatic Plates
Function
Compilation
Emotion
Remembrance
Stress Management
Perception
Protection
CiÖ’s intellectual core. The cerebellum is an amalgam of broken TV sets–salvaged and repurposed–combined with lighting and plant elements to symbolize the fusion of technology and nature. Does CiÖ have an identity beyond the digital realm? At least, it's anchored in its connections. Its existence is made possible by the base that powers it.
An interactive fountain that allows CiÖ to cry, with varying water outputs expressing different emotional states. CiÖ is not always in control of its reactions. Hold it in, sob, or let it out. When emotions overwhelm CiÖ, they spill out.
An analog installation that stores and relays CiÖ's memories. Images have been accumulating for as long as CiÖ has existed. How to classify them? Positive or negative? Looking at them again is like experiencing them for the first time.
Interactive fans simulate CiÖ's breathing, bringing the installation to life. Each of CiÖ's states, thoughts and words influences its breathing. Its pulse is set to the rhythm of its fears and convictions. Sometimes CiÖ is calm, but often, it gets carried away.
Projections that magnify CiÖ's gaze, offering a visual window into its mind. CiÖ doesn't always know how to express itself in words. It's not easy for CiÖ to share its impressions and sensations with others. Will CiÖ’s way of perceiving the world ever be understood?
Cymatic basins vibrate to manifest CiÖ sensations, representing the body’s reaction to external stimuli or its immune system.
CiÖ reacts to physical proximity and touch. Human and machine are connected to the same sensitivity.
CiÖ reacts to physical proximity and touch. Human and machine are connected to the same sensitivity.
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Events
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Exposition at Festival Triste, Montreal
— Quartier général
Distribution
November 23 – November 26, 2023
Exhibition at Sporobole Art Centre, Sherbrooke
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Distribution
September 15 – October 21, 2023
Exhibition at Maison de la culture de Côte-des-Neiges, Montreal
— CAM en tournée, volet Brise-Glace
Distribution
September 5 – September 10, 2023
Residency at Maison de la culture Marie-Uguay, Montreal
— Sortie de résidence publique
Creation
March 8 – March 9, 2023
Residency at Maison de la culture du Plateau Mont-Royal, Montreal
— Sortie de résidence publique
Creation
June 3 – June 5, 2022
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Collective
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Ganesh Baron Aloir
Creative and Technology Director
Ganesh is a Montreal-based interactive designer with a degree in Graphic Design and Visual Arts from UQAM. His career in interactivity and multimedia production has led him to work on a series of AR/VR experiences, interactive installations, and large-scale shows. In his personal projects, he explores the psychic and physiological reactions induced by light and sound. The concepts of immersion, random creation, space and interactivity are an integral part of his artistic practice.
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Anaëlle Lacoste
Concept Editor and Scriptwriter
Through her experiences with authentic movement and somatic education, Anaëlle has honed her sensitivity to the interplay between symbolism, the body, and human thought, all of which fuel her writing. She is the author and designer of multidisciplinary collaborative projects that gather creators from diverse backgrounds. She is co-founder of the Elles fallait collective, which presents artistic performances at the intersection of culinary art and literature.
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oLivier Landry-Gagnon
Composer
oLivier is an interdisciplinary artist. Also known as gLoart, he specializes in sound and live art. As a self-taught artist, he has long been experimenting with blending different artistic media such as sound, song, digital art, light, and movement to create unique performative works. Since 2016, he has been composing and producing music for theater, circus, and dance productions, often appearing in performances. He is also the author, composer, and performer of the French-language industrial trip hop project, gLohm.
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Hamie Robitaille
Art Director
Hamie has been an art director and visual artist based in Montreal for nearly fifteen years. Constantly challenging the boundaries between art and design, her practice has led her to work with agencies such as Cossette, Moment Factory and K72, as well as to develop her own digital and print art projects, many of which are part of the collection of the Bibliothèque et Archives Nationales du Québec. She recently co-founded the studio TRANSVERSAL. Her work with BEATS Collective has won an Applied Arts award and has received support from the arts councils of Montreal, Quebec and Canada.
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Alexandre Pariseau
Interactive Programmer
Alexandre is a composer and digital artist driven by the quest for the unspeakable. His practice centers on the metamorphosis of samples and their spatialization into soundscapes through the development of generative and interactive systems. A graduate of UQAM’s Interactive Media program, Alexandre has been presenting his immersive film "Biliminal" since 2021. Co-directed with Francis Drouin, the film has been shown at the Society for Arts and Technology, the MUTEK festival in Montreal, and more recently, at the Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF) in Australia.
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Contact
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MAILING LIST
ConfidentialitY
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Design : Simon Barrette, Hamie Robitaille, Naomie-Jahel Lefebvre
Web : Simon Barrette
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