Samuel Bianchini et al., 2019—2025
installation, generative music, AI, acoustics
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A soft robotic object that inflates and deflates its textile body with air, as if it was breathing. The object produces its own breathing waves through GANspire, a generative deep learning model. An infra-red camera monitors the audience’s breathing to synchronise the object’s breathing wave. An evolving drone music recorded with respiratory care practitioners provides the audience with an appeasing atmosphere to breathe within. The parabolic installation diffracts the sound and light waves coming from and through the object and the audience.
Designed collaboratively with respiratory carers.
Year
2019—2025
Events
Exhibition @ Hôpital Pitié-Salpêtrière, Paris, FR (Jan-Jun.2025)
Credits
Project carried out as part of the Nouveaux commanditaires initiative, supported by the French Ministry of Culture and the Fondation de France, with a group of sponsors made up of current and former members of the R3S Department (“Respiration, Réanimation, Réadaptation respiratoire, Sommeil”) at Hôpital Pitié-Salpêtrière (Dr Maxens Decavèle, intensive care physician; Ms Irina Goriounov, clinical psychologist; Dr Antoine Guerder, pulmonologist; Ms Sophie Lavault, research engineer and clinical psychologist; Pr Capucine Morélot-Panzini, pneumologist; Ms Marie-Cécile Nierat, research engineer; Ms Nathalie Nion, senior health executive; Pr Thomas Similowski, pneumologist) accompanied by Dr Laure Serresse, palliative care physician, Mrs Christine Welty, General Manager of the Groupe Hospitalier Universitaire AP-HP- Sorbonne Université, Father Frédéric Louzeau, former chaplain of the St-Louis de la Salpêtrière church, and Dr Claudine Peiffer, respiratory physiologist.
Artist and artistic, scientific and technological team: Samuel Bianchini with the artistic collaboration of Hugo Scurto and Victor Audouze (music design), Corentin Loubet (object design), Maude Guirault (textile design) in collaboration with Aska Yamashita (artistic director of Atelier Montex), Atelier Montex (embroidery) and the scientific and technological contributions of Thomas Similowski (respiratory neurophysiology), Philippe Gauthier (computer science for interaction), Baptiste Caramiaux and Hugo Scurto (AI / machine learning), Kanty Rabenorosoa, François Marionnet, Pierre Roux and Maude Guirault, with the collaboration of Sylvain Hernandez, Alexis Lefèvre, Mehdi Salah and Vincent Tissot (robotics). Stage manager: Simon Paugoy. Satellite dish production: ARRK. Assistant: Laura Fernandez.
Musicians and performers: Souffle: Minh Boutin, artist and musician, Mathias Minne, actor and author; Cello: Dr Marta Fornasari, general practitioner; Violin: Dr Lara Joslove, intensive care physician; Grand-orgue de l’église Saint-Louis de la Salpêtrière, Paris, 1709, 1861, 1977-9: Père Frédéric Louzeau; Flute: Dr Iseline Peyre, music therapist.
Mediation and production: 3CA – Mari Linnman
Project supported by Fondation de France, Groupe Hospitalier Universitaire AP-HP- Sorbonne Université, Fondation du Souffle, Institut Universitaire d’Ingénierie en Santé de Sorbonne Université, Région Île-de-France, Société Löwenstein Medical France, Mr. Picciotto’s personal patronage, and La Chaire Beauté.s de l’Université PSL for the first exhibition of the work.
Partners: École des Arts Décoratifs – Université Paris Sciences et Lettres | Institut FEMTO-ST (Franche-Comté Électronique Mécanique Thermique et Optique – Sciences et Technologies) – UMR 6174 | ISIR (Institut des Systèmes Intelligents et de Robotique) – UMR 7222 Sorbonne Université – CNRS | Unité Neurophysiologie Respiratoire Expérimentale et Clinique – UMRS 1158 Sorbonne Université – INSERM | Atelier Montex, embroidery house.
Acknowledgements: Nicolas Bernon, France Beuque, Olivier Bienz, Sabrina Blaise, Clément Bricard, Yannick Broder, Adrien Bucheton, Édith Buser, Thibaut Cocatrix, Korotoumou Doumbia, Ozgun Kilic Afsar, Bertrand Guessant, Thomas Jeannin, Julien Klein, Louise Lasalle, Guillaume Laurent, Olivier Lehmann, Patrick Lhermite, Barnabé Louche, Emmanuel Mahé, Pauline Maisani, Ysalis Mallédant, Aurélie Mosse, Marine Moulin, Oussama Mubarak, Elio Nika, Damilare Samuel Ojo, Olivier Pasquier, Luis Antonio Pereira De Sousa Junior, Jean-Claude Petit, Catherine Podsadny, Christophe Pornay, Johann Roberjot, Margaux Robilliard, Patrick Rougeot, Guillaume Teneau, Judicaël Touron, Cécile Vivien Leal, and the Société des Nouveaux commanditaires.
