[ISEA2023] Artist Statement: Gaëtan Robillard — Critical Climate Machine

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.

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