Artist Statement
Exhibition, Cité des sciences et de l’industrie, May 16 – 21
Gaëtan Robillard is an ISEA2023 selected artist
“Un ingénieur un projet” is a mediation system allowing the public of the Cité des sciences et de l’industrie to meet engineers, to discover their know-how and the scope of engineering sciences. In this context, the theme of “creative engineers” proposed on 20 and 21 May 2023, will show how creativity feeds the work of engineers and how the engineering sciences help in the design of works.
The public will also be able to discover the place of aesthetic design in industrial manufacturing processes. Ingenious installations accompanied by interventions and explanations by engineers/artists or designers and artists or designers/engineers will be offered to the public.
This data sculpture, coupled with a sound installation, illustrates the mechanisms of disinformation on climate change. Using an artificial intelligence algorithm, the sculpture classifies a stream of misleading information live. The more active the sculpture, the more misinformation about climate changes, the warmer the tone of the color. Gaëtan Robillard will show you the underside of this ingenious machine during the “Creative Engineers” weekend.
Critical Climate Machine
May 20 and Sunday May 21, 2023 from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. on the forum on level 1 of the exhibitions: Presentation of the “Machine-Climat” by Gaëtan Robillard
Critical Climate Machine is part of the MediaFutures project and has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 framework program for research and innovation.
IMAC student projects – Engineering school combining art and science
Swarm: Data, disinformation and climate
Swarm is a participatory research on climate denial, part of the continuation of the Critical Climate Machine project , an artistic environment designed to reveal online disinformation. Here, the result is a body of critical data in the form of a collection of haiku poetry.
With with Flavie Enrico and Eric Thiberge (IMAC second-year students), and Gaëtan Robillard, Andrea Sosa, Virginie Tahar, teacher-researcher at Gustave Eiffel University and La Plata University (Argentina).
Combimac: Exhibition on combinatorial literature
The project consists of the design of an exhibition and a website to present student texts related to combinatorial literature. The students will present the use of the site and the installations to handle oneself.
With Juliette Jeannin, Emma Veauvy, Grégoire Tinnes, Lucie Augier De La Jallet (IMAC second year students), and Virginie Tahar, teacher-researcher at Gustave Eiffel University, and Eduardo Berti, writer.
Machine Unlearning
As part of IMAC’s Algorithmic Aesthetics course, students examined the MobileNet machine learning model and created a visual method to reveal the model’s biases and uncertainties. Visitors to the Cité des sciences et de l’industrie will be able to test the method and the model using an interface programmed in JavaScript.
With first-year IMAC students, and Gaëtan Robillard, teacher-researcher at Gustave Eiffel University.
Infinite Loops
Here, students studied Craig Reynolds’ Boids algorithm to model a swarm of weather-mediated words. This project of animated and programmed images is part of a broader research on computer code and media and information literacy.
With first-year IMAC students, and Gaëtan Robillard, teacher-researcher at Gustave Eiffel University.
CoolLab: Generative Art Software
CoolLab is a generative art software that allows you to create impressive images with just a few clicks. The public will be able to create and print artistic images from this software themselves.
With Lou Couard, Tristan Debeaune, Wendy Gervais, Mattéo Leclercq, Romain Serres (second year IMAC students), and Jules Fouchy, computer science teacher.
In partnership with
Intelligent museum (new window)
Gustave Eiffel University (new window)
IMAG school website (new window)
ISEA2023 (new window)
Jacques Honvault (new window)
Media Futures Color (new window)US
- Gaëtan Robillard (FR) is an artist and a researcher (currently postdoctoral fellow) living and working between the Greater Paris and Montreal, Canada. He produces data art and media based installations engaging with mathematical research, climatology and cognitive sciences. audible and touchable. He teaches at IMAC, Paris https://robillardstudio.github.io https://www.ingenieur-imac.fr