Phosphene

Phosphene is a film for closed eyes and spatial sound. It uses a projection on the audience’s eyelids, a multichannel sound setup and a motorised hyper-directive loudspeaker.

Inspired by dreams, neurosciences and hypnosis, the project aims to explore varieties of inner spaces.
It is an attempt to reach those territories we might tend to forget or deny, between the surface of the senses and our interpretation of reality, in the depths of imagination, illusions and doubts.

The experience invites to co-create a subjective film made by the setup's signals and their understanding by the viewer. The composition triggers sensorial phenomenon (psycho-physic) and activates mechanics of our perceptive system which tries to decipher a coherent reality. In a bidirectional dialogue of projection and injection, the viewer filters, transform and apply its own inner intimates materials (memories, imagination) on the signals that reaches him. The performance invites to collectively dive into those inner meanders and to reconsider our reality making processes.

Phosphene has been developed in the ArtScience Interfaculty (The Hague, NL), laureate of the "Digital Arts, Sound Art & New Writings" residency at Château Éphémère (FR), and received the "Technology & Society Award" by Waag Future Lab (Amsterdam, NL)
The project has been showed in various contexts and fields such as expanded cinema (OFNI, Poitiers), experimental music (Vortex, Geneva), digital arts (36 degrés, Paris ; Le Cube Garges) and Art Science (Waag, Amsterdam). It has been presented in relation to topics of immersion, human psyche, alternative mode of visions (untutored eyes, impaired) and has been created in parallel of a research on dreams, human perception and political implications of our meaning making processes.