Come early for the opening day
Opening of the exhibition illusions rediscovered from 2:00 PM to 7:30 PM
Mixed reality performance We Who Live Under Heaven from 2:00 PM to 6:30 PM (on-site booking)
Immersive installation Flock Of from 2:30 PM to 7:00 PM
Free entry
During the opening night
Immersive installation Flock Of from 8:30 PM to 10:00 PM
Audiovisual performances from 7:30 PM to midnight
Free with reservation (reservations open on 09/11)
Following a festive day with free admission to the exhibition opening at CENTQUATRE-PARIS, along with two exceptional immersive installations, the inauguration will continue into the night with cosmic live audiovisual performances. An electric evening that will give you a full charge of energy for the three months of digital utopias ahead!
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Max Cooper
3D/AV Live
The ever-brilliant electronic artist Max Cooper is back with his latest audiovisual experience and a new album entitled On Being. Created in collaboration with Architecture Social Club, 3D/AV Live is his most ambitious and spectacular live show to date. It’s a unique musical and visual performance featuring projections, lights and lasers that combine to create ultra-dynamic images with which to interact.
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Pierre-Luc Lecours and Ida Toninato
Homeostasis
Composer, sound and video artist Pierre-Luc Lecours, and Ida Toninato, a saxophonist and composer, bring together the acoustic and electronic worlds: baritone saxophone, modular synthesizer and real-time video. The result is a gripping audiovisual creation with sounds that fuse and contrast.
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Franck Vigroux and Kurt d’Haeseleer
Thirst
Composer Franck Vigroux has partnered with Belgian artist and artistic director Kurt d’Haeseleer on an all-new sound and visual experience. Evolving and transgressing, the abrasive electronic music and multi-screen projection form a road movie for the senses, with the best of what artificial intelligence can offer.
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We Who Live Under Heaven
The Performance Corporation
Adventurers in the world of immersive technologies, The Performance Corporation is a creative company that fuses opera, electronic music, theater, and mixed reality. The focal point of the experience is the mournful song of a being held in captivity – composed by Roger Doyle, the father of electroacoustic music in Ireland, directed by Jo Mangan and performed by countertenor Morgan Crowley with mixed reality design by Ciara Del Grosso Bates – which invites audiences to imagine a world where connection transcends difference.
3:00 pm, 4:00 pm, 5:30 pm & 6:30 pm
+ Bonus: also on Sunday, with a ticket for the exhibition
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Flock Of
Bit.studio
Bit.studio has created an experience that redefines what is real and imaginary: a contemplative, monumental installation featuring flying fish. Inspired by the synchronized movements of aquatic creatures and collective dynamics in the living world, the work leads us on a poetic contemplation of nature and its mysteries.
Saturday, free admission, from 2:30 pm to 4:00 pm, from 5:30 pm to 7:00 pm, and from 8:30 pm to 10:00 pm + Bonus: also shown on Sunday, from 2:30 pm to 4:00 pm, and from 5:30 pm to 7:00 pm, with a ticket for the exhibition
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illusions Rediscovered
New utopias in the digital age
In a world revolutionized by digital technology, illusion can take on a critical, speculative and poetic role. The thirty-some works in this exhibition explore utopias old and new, weaving together artificial intelligence, regenerated nature, and positive science fiction.
Each work pushes back the limits of perception and reality, revealing alternative worlds where humans coexist with nature and machines. We discover immersive paintings depicting figures that break into song, image-generating plants, and fictions that revive the past and visualize the future.
The artists ponder the relationship between the living world, technology, and imagination, connecting science and myth, memory and data. The utopias found here are not futuristic visions but hybrid spaces that oscillate between nostalgia and speculation. Thought to be lost, these illusions are revealed by digital technology in another world – our own!
