Reactive Matter: Voxels Structure
Scenocosme : Gregory Lasserre & Anais met den Ancxt
Description
Reactive Matter: Voxels Structure is a sculptural, interactive artwork composed of several independent cellular robotic structures linked together. The structure’s bricks are like voxels with AI in a real physical space. The sculpture reacts like a living organism.
Each electronic cell perceives sounds and reacts to the intonation of voices and the duration of vocalisations. They emit different sound behavioural scenarios, rhythms and bright colours in response to stimuli from audiences and neighbouring cells. A sound stimulus influences the robotic bases between them and between neighbouring cells, like cooperative living organisms. The communications become visible with the chase effect of light and sonorous shifting inside the structure.
Information spreads, causing other sounds and colours to appear under certain conditions. When two pieces of information of the same colour energy cross into the same cell, they annihilate each other. The self-generation phenomenon here is inspired by cellular automatons and algorithmic principles of the “Game of Life” imagined by the mathematician John Horton Conway.
Affiliations
This project is presented at the WIP Festival with the support of Novembre Numérique 2026, as part of the festival’s collaboration with the Institut Français de Chypre.
Disclaimer
Artwork realised with the support of the VERTIGO project as part of the STARTS programme of the European Commission, based on technological elements “Programmable Matter” from the research lab FEMTO-ST / CNRS
Credits
Scenocosme : Gregory Lasserre & Anais met den Ancxt
Scenocosme
The artist couple Gregory Lasserre and Anais met den Ancxt have worked under the name Scenocosme since 2003. They live in the Rhone-Alpes region in France. Their interactive artworks blend technology with the living world.
Their works are exhibited in numerous museums, contemporary art centres and digital art festivals worldwide. They have exhibited their interactive installation artworks at ZKM Karlsruhe Centre for Art and Media (Germany), at Daejeon Museum of Art (Korea), at the Museum Art Gallery of Nova Scotia (Canada), at the National Centre for Contemporary Arts (Moscow), at the Contemporary Art Museum Raleigh (USA), at Bòlit Centre d’Art Contemporani (Girona) and in many international biennals and festivals: Art Center Nabi / INDAF (Seoul), BIACS3 / Biennial International of Contemporary Art of Seville (Spain), Biennial Experimenta (Australia), NAMOC / National Art Museum of China / TransLife / Triennial of Media Art (Beijing), Futuresonic (UK), WRO (Poland), FILE (São-Paulo), ISEA / International Symposium on Electronic Art (2009 Belfast, 2011 Istanbul, 2012 Albuquerque, 2013 Sydney), EXIT, VIA, Lille3000, Ososphere, Scopitone, Seconde nature (France) and others.