PITCH

ATLAS is a work situated between digital and visual arts, taking the form of a scenographic exhibition which hosts a mix of real models and an interactive virtual world.

Marie-G. Losseau begins by building imaginary cities by hand alone or with adults and children during workshops.
Then Yann Deval proceeds to scan the houses in 3D as a way to immerse the audience via virtual experiences.

Using augmented and mixed reality, they aim to explore these new spaces, from the physical space to the virtual reality and all of the layers in between.


After being plunged in an archipelago of poetical islands, spectators are invited to build these virtual cities using a « seed launcher ». Each launch causes a house to grow. The growing houses follow some urbanistic rules, adapting to their environment.

There are cities in the clouds, uprooted cities, cities on stilts, flying cities... Spectators create empty cities, without inhabitants, giving the potential to imagine what happens inside these houses. Named after forgotten ancient cities, such as Xanadu, Canope, Kerma and Kite, these cities take on a life of their own, with or without the interactions of users, just like living organisms...

The work invites you to create vast cities, in which you can wander and lose yourself. Overall, ATLAS seeks to provoke a reflection on urbanism, architecture, and their influence on our lifestyles. It gives life to inanimate things...

AGENDA

KALEIDOSCOOP X OSOSPHÈRE (Exhibition + VR/AR Autonomous experience)
Strasbourg / France
From May 03, 2023
to May 16, 2023

Festival des Arts Numériques (Exhibition + VR/AR Autonomous experience)
Comines-Warneton / Belgium
From January 14, 2023
to January 21, 2023

Théâtre Nouvelle Génération (Exhibition + VR/AR Performance + Workshops)
Lyon / France
From March 21, 2022
to March 27, 2022

Les Safra'Numériques (Exhibition + MR/VR/AR Performance)
Amiens / France
From October 19, 2021
to October 23, 2021

H@bitées / AADN (AR Exhibition)
Rillieux-la-Pape / France
From March 27, 2021
to July 3, 2021

Centre de la Marionnette de la Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles (Exhibition + MR/VR/AR Experience)
Tournai / Belgium
Oct 8 and Oct 9 2020 - 09H00 > 12H30 / 14H00 > 17H00
Oct 10 and 11 2020 - 14H00 > 18H00

New Images Festival - Forum des images (Exhibition + MR/VR/AR Performance)
Paris / France
From Sept 23, 2020
to Sept 27, 2020

Fondation FIMINCO
Paris (Romainville) / France
From Sept 18 to Sept 20 2020 (Exhibition + MR/VR/AR Performance)
From Sept 21 to Oct 2 2020 (Exhibition + VR/AR Autonomous experience)
From Oct 3 to Oct 4 2020 (Exhibition + MR/VR/AR Performance)

Musée du Petit Format (AR Exhibition)
Nismes - Arlon - Sint Niklaas - Liège / Belgium
From September 4, 2020
to April 11, 2021

LEV Festival (Exhibition + VR/AR Autonomous experience)
Gijón / Spain
From Sept 10 to Sept 13 2020

LINK Festival (Exhibition + VR/AR Autonomous experience)
Oviedo / Spain
From Sept 4 to Sept 6 2020

MuntPunt (Exhibition + MR Experience)
Brussels / Belgium
March 7, 2020

BAM - Beaux-Arts Mons / Museum Lab (Exhibition + AR/VR Experience)
Mons / Belgium
Oct 4, 2019 / 7:30 PM - 9:00 PM - Vernissage
Oct 6, 2019 / 10:00 AM - 6:00 PM / Free
Oct 10, 2019 / 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM / 5€ or 2€ (-25yo)
Oct 18, 2019 / 7:00 PM - 01:00 AM / Nuit des Musées / 4€ (pre-sell) or 6€ (on location) or free (-16yo)
Nov 3, 2019 / 10:00 AM - 6:00 PM / Free
Nov 21, 2019 / 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM / 5€ or 2€ (-25yo)
Dec 1, 2019 / 10:00 AM - 6:00 PM / Free
Dec 12, 2019 / 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM / 5€ or 2€ (-25yo)
Jan 5, 2020 / 10:00 AM - 6:00 PM / Free

Picture Festival / Meet me in Bozar / Bozar, Salon Europa (Exhibition with Loïc Gaume)
Brussels / Belgium
From Oct 24, 2019 to Nov 01, 2019 / 11 AM - 6 PM
From Nov 05, 2019 to Nov 10, 2019 / 11 AM - 6 PM

Kaohsiung Film Festival - XR Dreamland (VR Experience + Workshops)
Kaohsiung / Taiwan
From Oct 10, 2019
to Oct 20, 2019

Festival Maintenant (Exhibition + AR/VR Experience + Talk)
Rennes / France
From Oct 5, 2019
to Oct 13, 2019

Pier2 Open-Studio (Exhibition + AR/VR Experience + Talk)
Kaohsiung / Taiwan
Aug 25, 2019

Musrara Mix Festival (Exhibition + AR/VR Experience)
Jerusalem
From May 28, 2019
to May 30, 2019

CAPTURE, by KIKK Festival / Halles de Schaerbeek (Exhibition + AR/VR Experience)
Brussels
May 21, 2019 / 2:00 PM - 7:30 PM
May 22, 2019 / 2:00 PM - 7:30 PM
May 23, 2019 / 2:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Presented on a proposition by Juliette Bibasse, curator

STRP Festival (Exhibition + AR/VR Experience)
Eindhoven / Netherlands
From March 30, 2019
to April 7, 2019
Presented on a proposition by Juliette Bibasse, curator

Printemps Numérique / KANAL Centre-Pompidou (Exhibition + AR/VR Experience)
Brussels / Belgium
From March 23, 2019
to March 24, 2019
Presented on a proposition by Juliette Bibasse, curator

Medialab Opening / Erasmushogeschool Brussel (Demo AR Experience)
Anderlecht / Belgium
February 15, 2019

STRP Scenario #2: Take a sneak peek into the future (ATLAS Talk + Demo AR Experience)
Natlab, Kastanjelaan 500, 5616 LZ Eindhoven / Netherlands
Thursday, January 31, 2019 at 1:00 PM – 5:30 PM

Workshop ATLAS / Arts2 School of Arts
Mons / Belgium
From January 14, 2019
to January 24, 2019

ICT 2018
Vienna / Austria (Exhibition + AR/VR Experience)
December 4, 2018
December 5, 2018
December 6, 2018

Workshop ATLAS / ESAD
Valenciennes / France
From November 26, 2018
to November 28, 2018

Workshop ATLAS / Helmo
Liège / Belgium
November 14, 2018

Kikk Market (Small Exhibition + AR Experience)
Namur / Belgium
From November 1, 2018
to November 4, 2018

ATLAS solo exhibition @ The Glass Tank, Oxford Brookes University (Exhibition + AR/VR Experience)
Oxford / UK
From October 1, 2018
to October 16, 2018

Ars Electronica Festival (Exhibition + AR/VR Experience + Talk)
Linz / Austria
From September 6, 2018
to September 9, 2018

Ircam Centre-Pompidou (Exhibition + AR/VR Experience + Talk)
Paris / France
From June 13, 2018
to June 16, 2018

Venice Architecture Biennale (Small exhibition + AR Experience)
Venice / Italy
May 27, 2018

EU@SXSW (Small exhibition + AR Experience + Talk)
Austin / Texas
From March 10, 2018
to March 13, 2018

Workshop Classes Urbaines @ MCCS (+ Exhibition + AR/VR Experience)
Molenbeek / Belgium
From March 5, 2018
to March 26, 2018


VIDEOS




Credits



An experience by

Yann Deval, Marie G. Losseau


In collaboration with

Alexandre Demat

WEKIT / Dr. Fridolin Wild (Oxford Brookes University) for the Mixed Reality part.

Kids from Molenbeek's schools 1, 5 and 10 for contributing to the building of the cities.

Students from Arts² Mons for contributing to the Babel Tower.


With the support of

Museum Lab,
FEDER/Wallonie/En Mieux,
la Ville de Mons

Kaohsiung Film Archive,
Kaohsiung VR FILM LAB,
Forum des Images,
NewImages Festival,
Bureau français de Taipei
Industrial Development Bureau, Ministry of Economic Affairs, Taiwan,
Kaohsiung City Government,
Bureau of Cultural Affairs,
Economic Development Bureau

the STARTS Residencies Project
as part of the STARTS program of the European Commission

Cocof

Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles

STRP Festival

Wallonie-Bruxelles International

Maison des Cultures et de la Cohésion Sociale de Molenbeek Saint-Jean

Fablab’ke

Gluon

Microsoft Innovation Center Belgique


Outreach support

Juliette Bibasse


Programming, graphic design, animation & original music

Yann Deval


Model making and scenography by

Marie G. Losseau


Additional programming

Said Betmurzaev
郭隆慶 Louie Kuo - Phalanity


Automated models

Val Macé


Additional graphic design & animation

Vincent Nguyen
Félix Panis-Jones


Additional model making

Cécile Balate
Marie Coppens
Emilie Thiry
François Bertiaux
Coralie Rottier
Thibault Danhaive
Benoît Chanut
Leila Kulawik
Clarisse Degeneffe
Ismael Cabello
Bouhamdi Shaima
Abdessamad Sabaraoui
Xavier Hoyos Mora-Cuevas


WEKIT (Oxford Brookes University / Performance Augmentation Laboratory)

Dr. Fridolin Wild
Alla Vovk
Will Guest


EPFL

Emily Groves
Pierre-Xavier Puissant


START RESIDENCIES

Marie Albert
Louise Enjalbert


MUSEUM LAB

Arnaud Godart
Bérengère Fally


KAOHSIUNG FILM ARCHIVE

Meng-Yin Yang
Hao-Jie Huang
Ruei-Lin Tu
Grace (Huai-Chin) Lee
Aimee (Sin-Yi) Yao


BUREAU FRANÇAIS DE TAIPEI

Aurélien Dirler


NEWIMAGES FESTIVAL

Michaël Swierczynski
Raluca Bunescu
Chia-Shan Chang


Filmed at

千畦種籽舘 / Qianqi Seed Museum - Tainan / Taiwan


External contributions

TriplanarWorld Shader by Robert Yang
SpatialMappingRendererWithNormals by Matt@DeckTwelve
Ocean_Community_Next_Gen by HeadHunter, Laurent Clave, Elias Tsiantas and Unity community
Planetary System by Levi Walter Yaggy (David Rumsey Map Collection)
© Mapbox, © OpenStreetMap


Thanks to

Rachid Semahi
Kenneth Campbell-Harris
Gaël Restaut
Carla Fontes Salinas
Maria von Loë
Christophe Monchalin
Joreg
VVVV Group
Barbara Mydlak
Léon Wilmot
Studio Joanie Lemercier