Artists Statement
Exhibition usb #5 window(s) on course. St-Pierre-le-Puellier collegiate church and ÉSAD Orléans gallery, Orleans. March 30 – May 28, 2023
MOA is an AR narrative for smartphones. Adapted from Les Furtifs d’Alain Damasio, it makes you dive in the City as the novelist imagined it. The walls and reality are as grey as we know them but they’re covered by an AR layer that changes everything. Public spaces are invaded by surveillance and marketing. Your MOA assists you and tracks you very softly.
My Own Assistant is an interactive story in augmented reality. You are propelled into 2040. You have entrusted your life to an artificial intelligence that knows you by heart. Decisions, relationships, purchases, everything has become simple. It guides you gently in all the demands that unfold around you.
DreamTeam: with Alain Damasio, Marie Blondiaux, Franck Weber, Frédéric Deslias, Charles Ayats
Project Type: AR novel Experience
Producer: Red Corner, http://red-corner.fr
Studio: Small, https://www.small-studio.io
Helper: CNC – France TV – La Volte – Forum des Images – Normandie Images
Length: Around 15′
Launch: Septembre 2020
MOA on Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=fr.francetv.innov.moa
MOA on iOS: https://apps.apple.com/fr/app/moa-my-own-assistant/id1515905833
Source: https://charlesayats.fr/project/moa-my-own-assistant
- Charles Ayats is an author, a film director, and an interactive and immersive experience designer. A winner of the Haiku Interactif Arte/ONF call for projects with “Phi”, he is interested in outreach projects, whether in the form of interactive documentaries (Pas si bêtes les Animaux, Tati Express, Check-in, …), or video games, as with Type:Rider, a playful triptych about the history of typography, which he co-directed in 2013. He leads a team of professionals, creating interactive works and game design. Source: https://www.labiennaledelyon.com/en/les-artistes/details/charles-ayats
https://charlesayats.fr - Born in Lyon, France, in 1969, Alain Damasio has been prancing on the peaks of make-belief since the 2004 publication of his second book, La Horde du contrevent, which was awarded the Grand Prix de l’Imaginaire. He explains his predilection for polyphonic tales and for physical work, the physiology of language, by a vital need to inhabit multiple bodies, and to let himself be inhabited. Source:
https://newimages-hub.com/en/festival/guests/alain-damasio - Frédéric Deslias is a director, jack of all trades, composer and digital artist. Born in 1978, Frédéric studied electronics then joined the University of Caen (France) in Performing Arts. In 2002, he founded the company Le Clair Obscur which he directs and has devoted himself exclusively to it since 2009. Trained at IRCAM, he is open to code, image, light, installation, synesthesia, interactivity, therapy.Source: www.leclairobscur.net