Internes is a hardware device for augmented reality (AR), part of The Increase of Things series. It aims to question the increasing production of objects, as well as the relationship between space and technology, whilst leaving room for shortage and reflexivity in the urban environment.
Urbanization has been a continuous phenomenon for over a century. Its pace is now accelerating due large-scale transformation projects that residents are struggling to appropriate and envision. All over the world, cities are growing in line with giant urban planning projects. Promises of smart cities ring hollow as their implementation is so energy-consuming and stems from innovative growth that seems to be crashing against the phenomenon of climate change. The cities are being hollowed out from the inside by their own projects.
The aim here is to get an understanding of the transformations induced by cities and of augmented reality in order to question sculptural tradition, supposing it to be the precious symptom of the relationship between form and matter as it was developed in The West, and as it has influenced our use of the world. A matter of material, hollowness, molds, of what is added or removed, all ways of making our perception more sensitive.
Internes wishes to re-territorialize digital technology to no longer be everywhere, that is to say, to be nowhere, but in a new way of being present.
A proposal by Zinc and Seconde Nature.
Curated by Mathieu Vabre and Fabien Fabre.
Partners : Chroniques – Biennale des imaginaires numériques, European Commission – Creative Europe, Le Ministère de la Culture – CNC – Dicréam, Baugruppe – Hôtel Mercure Prado and Digitale Zone.
