Report from the 19 June 2023

PALAIS AUGMENTÉ 3, FESTIVAL DEDICATED TO ARTISTIC CREATION IN AUGMENTED REALITY AND IMMERSIVE CULTURAL INNOVATIONS

3 June 2023KAIJA SAARIAHO OBITUARY 20 June 2023THE PARIS OPERA AND THE ARSLA, TOGETHER FOR 21 JUNE 2023.

Palais Augmenté, the first festival dedicated to artistic creation in augmented reality and immersive cultural innovations, is back for a third edition with the common theme of the avatar, virtual bodies and their relationship to physical, political and social bodies.

The festival, an initiative of Fisheye and the Rmn - Grand-Palais, aims to take stock of technological innovations in culture. This year's programme includes a series of original works in augmented reality created by international artists and accessible from your smartphones, interactive digital experiences in spaces called "labs" and a public agora, tackling themes linked to contemporary digital creation.

The artists on show: Liu Bolin (born 1973, China), Lu Yang (born 1984, Japan), Salomé Chatriot (born 1995, France), Tobias Gremmler (born 1970).

Institutions present: Opéra National de Paris, Chaillot Théâtre National de la Danse, Universcience, ISEA, Palais des Beaux Arts de Lille, Grand Palais Immersif, Francetv, Gobelins PARIS, ECAL - Ecole Cantonale d'Art de Lausanne, EDF, ENSAD.

HYPNO (360° DOME) - by the Paris Opera

In HYPNO, Marie Amachoukeli is replaying the meeting between Mesmer, forerunner of the modern practice of hypnotism, and Mozart. These two geniuses’ works are invoked throughout this one-of-a-kind visual travel. Alongside elements from the Austrian composer, the artist Flavien Berger adds to the sensory frescos, created thanks to the latest digital design techniques, a contemporary musical artwork to lead spectators into a collective and hypnotic trance. You will be invited to an ecstatic journey, where the stimulation of the senses suspends the activity of consciousness.

^{A Pelleìas Films production.}