Grégory Lasserre & Anaïs met den Ancxt are also known under their artist name Scenocosme.
They live and work together since 2003 as contemporary artist of the movement digital artist.
Biography
Anaïs met den Ancxt (born in 1981, in Lyon, France) graduated from the Art School of Lyon and the Design Art School of St Etienne.
Grégory Lasserre (born in 1976, in Annecy, France) has a master's degree in multimedia (Department of Visual Arts / Digital Arts from The University of Valenciennes), an engineer diploma in computer sciences (Avignon) and a diploma in Electronics (Annecy).
Their artworks consist mostly of sound and visual installations. They develop the software and technologies of their interactive artworks. Their digital art works are characterised by the introduction of natural elements in their technological art installation. They are also interested by the living bodies and the influences of energy as sources of sensitive interactions : like electrostatic energy and heat. Their installation "Akousmaflore" is a sensitive garden with real plants. Each plant is interactive and react to the human touch by different sounds. Their artwork "Kymapetra" is made with minerals turned into touch-sensitive sensors . These artists use also water and wood as elements capable to generate tactile, visual and sound sensory interactivity. Their interactive installations involve the audience socially and physically. The installation "Lights Contacts" invites the spectators to touch the others' skins and bodies to produce sounds and lights. The immersive installation "SphèrAléas" is an interactive geodesic space for ten spectators. Inside, they are invited to experiment and create together visual and musical performances in real time.
Art works (selection) 2004 : SphèrAléas, immersive and interactive installation 2006 : Alsos, interactive installation reacting to the light. 2007 : Akousmaflore, interactive installation with real plants 2008 : Kymapetra, mineral interactive installation 2010 : Lights contacts, interactive installation with human body 2011 : Fluides, liquid interactive installation 2011 : Souffles, interactive installation reacting to human breath 2012 : Ecorces, interactive installation reacting to the human heat 2013 : Matieres sensibles (Sensitive matters), Sound Sculpture on wood, interactive marquetry 2014 : Metamorphy, interactive installation 2015 : Matière Noire / Dark matter, interactives installations 2017 : Inspirations : interactive installation with clay 2017 : Cogito ergo sum : interactive installation with salt 2017 : Membranes : interactive installation with leather 2019 : Kryophone : interactive installation with ice 2019 - 2020 : Reactive matter : interactive installation made with Programmable matter : Claytronics 2021 : Iris : interactive installation with gaze 2022 : Vibrisses : interactive installation with feathers
Collections (selection) ZKM Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe (Germany) Fonds régional d'art contemporain : FRAC Alsace (France) Fond d'art numérique de la ville de Garges-lès-Gonesse (France) Dak Nong Museum - Gia Nghia (Vietnam) Musée d'Art et d'Industrie (fr) - Saint-Étienne (France) Musikantenland Museum - Thallichtenberg (Germany) Château de Ranrouët - Herbignac (France)
Exhibitions (selection)
ZKM Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe (Germany) (2009 : "YOU[ser] 2.0") - curator : Peter Weibel (2012 : "Sound Art. Sound as Medium of Fine Art") - curator : Peter Weibel (2015 : "Exo-Evolution and Re-tooling") - curator : Peter Weibel (2016 : "CODE_n exhibition") / curator : Peter Weibel (2018 : "Art in Motion. 100 Masterpieces with and through Media. An Operative Canon") - curator : Peter Weibel (2020, 2021 : "Writing the History of the Future") - curator : Peter Weibel
- Basel (Switzerland) (2015 : "Critical Make - turning functionality") - curator : Sabine Himmelsbach (2022 : "Earthbound - In Dialogue with Nature") - curator : Sabine Himmelsbach
International Biennial of Contemporary Art of Sevilla : - "Youniverse" - curator : Peter Weibel - (Spain) (2008) International Biennial of Contemporary Art of South America : Bienalsur (Argentina) (2017) International Biennial of Media Art : Experimenta - curator : Jen Mizuik - Melbourne (Australia) (2009, 2012) International Biennial of Media Art : Digital Culture - curators : Iury Lech, Valeriy Korshunov - Kiev (Ukraine) (2021) International Biennial of Media Art : WRO / Wro Art Center - Wroclaw (Poland) (2009) International Bienal de Arte Digital - Rio de Janeiro (Brasil) (2022) International Triennial of Media Art - TransLife - NAMOC | National Art Museum of China - Beijing (China) (2011) International Media Art Festival : Cyfest - "Cosmos and Chaos" - Saint Petersburg (Russia) (2021) International Media Art Festival : Microwave International New Media Arts Festival - (Hong Kong ) (2016) International Media Art Festival : FILE | Electronic Language International Festival - São Paulo (Brasil) (2014, 2016) International Media Art Festival : INDAF - "Tomorrow city" - curator : Dooeun Choi - Songdo (South Korea) (2010) Triennale Banlieue ! - Maison des arts de Laval - "Interrègnes" - curator : Marie Perrault - Laval (Canada) (2022) Biennale d'art contemporain : Sélest'art - Sélestat (France) (2019) Biennale Internationale Saint-Paul-de-Vence - curator : Catherine Issert (France) (2021) Biennale ArtFareins / Château Bouchet - curator : Jacques Fabry - Fareins (France) (2014, 2016, 2018, 2021 ,2025) Biennale d’art contemporain Alios - La-Teste-de-Buch (France) (2013, 2015) Biennale Experimenta / Arts et Sciences - Grenoble (France) (2013, 2020) Biennale CAFKA - Contemporary Art Forum - curator : Gordon Hatt - Kitchener (Canada) (2016) Bienal de Arte Digital - Rio de Janeiro (Brasil) (2023)
International Symposium of Electronic Art - ISEA International ISEA 2009 Belfast - Ormeau Baths Gallery - curator : Kathy Rae Huffman - Belfast (Irland) (2009) ISEA 2011 Istanbul - "Uncontainable" - curator : Lanfranco Aceti - Istanbul (Turkey) (2011) ISEA 2012 Albuquerque - 516 Arts artspace - "Machine Wilderness" - Albuquerque (USA) (2012) ISEA 2013 Sydney - Powerhouse - "Museum Speak to Me" - curator : Jen Mizuik - Sydney (Australia) (2013) ISEA 2016 Hong Kong - "Cultural R>evolution" - curator : Kyle Chung - (Hong Kong) (2016) ISEA 2020 Montreal - "Why sentience ?" - Montreal (Canada) (2020) ISEA 2024 Brisbane - "As Above, So Below" - Brisbane (Australia) (2024)
Symposium d'art/nature - Moncton (Canada) (2012, 2016) Symposium Sound Symposium - International festival of art - St John's (Canada) (2013) Symposium Simpósio Internacional Natureza : Arte e Ciência - curator : Rodrigo Minelli - Belo Horizonte (Brasil) (2013)
Museum : MOCAD - Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit - Detroit (USA) (2019) Museum : CAM Raleigh | Contemporary Art Museum of Raleigh - curator : Elysia Borowy-Reeder (USA) (2012) Museum : Telfair Museums of Art / Jepson Center for the Arts - curator : Harry DeLorme - Savannah (USA) (2023) Museum : Rubin Museum of Art - "The Power of Intention" - curator : Elena Pakhoutova - New York (USA) (2019) Museum : Daejeon Museum of Art - curator : Minkyung Kim - Daejeon (South Korea) (2012) Museum : MAK - Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna (Austria) (2017, 2018 : "Aestetic of Changes" - curator : Peter Weibel ) Museum : Museum Sinclair-Haus - "Among Plants" - curator : Moritz Ohlig - Bad Homburg (Germany) (2025) Museum : MONA - Museum of Old and New Art - "Utopia Now" - curator : Jen Mizuik - Tasmania (Australia) Museum : Centre Pompidou - Paris (France) (2017, 2019) Museum : Art Gallery of Nova Scotia - curator : Sarah Fillmore - Halifax (Canada) (2011) Museum : Dak Nong - Gia Nghia (Viet Nam) (2019 : "Explorasound") Museum : MUDAC - Museum of Contemporary Design and Applied Arts - Lausanne (Switzerland) (2012, 2020) Museum : Ianchelevici - La Louvière (Belgium) (2012) Museum : LaM - Lille Métropole Musée d'Art moderne, d'Art contemporain et d'Art brut - Villeneuve d'Ascq (France) (2019) Museum : - curator : Daniel Spoerri - Hadersdorf-am-Kamp (Austria) (2017) Museum : New Orleans Jazz Museum - New Orleans (USA) (2019, 2022) Museum : Musée de Vence / Fondation Émile Hugues - Vence (France) (2022) Museum : - "Hortus 2.0" - curator : Véronique Baton - Avignon (France) (2017) Museum : - "Verdures : du tissage aux pixels" - Clermont-Ferrand (France) (2017) Museum : Musée de Millau et des Grands Causses - Millau (France) (2014, 2015, 2016, 2019, 2020) Museum : - Chambéry (France) (2014) Museum : Musée départemental de la Bresse - "Art contemporain au musée" - Saint-Cyr-sur-Menthon (France) (2013) Museum : - Saint-Brieuc (France) (2009, 2010) Museum : Musée des Marais Salants - Batz-sur-mer (France) (2025) Museum : Palais de la Découverte / curators : Floriane Perot and Sophie Radix - Paris (France) (2025, 2026)
Fondation Claude Verdan - Lausanne (Switzerland) (2011, 2017, 2018) Fondation pour l'Art Contemporain Claudine et Jean-Marc Salomon - Annecy (France) (2016)
Art Center : NCCA | National Centre for Contemporary Arts - Moscou (Russia) (2015) Art Center : Villa Romana - curator : Angelika Stepken - Florence (Italia) (2009) Art Center : Bòlit Centre d'Art Contemporani - "Nat[u]ra rumors" - curator : Rosa Pera Roca - Girone (Spain) (2011) Art Center : Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity | Convergence - international summit on digital art - Alberta (Canada) (2014) Art Center : Artengine - curator : Remco Volmer - Ottawa (Canada) (2019) Art Center : Eastern Edge Gallery - St John's (Canada) (2012) Art Center : Eyebeam (organization) - "BioRhythm: Music and the Body" - New-York (USA) (2012) Art Center : Watermans Arts Centre - curator : Irini Papadimitriou - Brentford-London (UK) (2011) Art Center : The Ancient Bath / 'Art Today' - curators : Emil Mirazchiev, Ilina Koralova - Plovdiv (Bulgaria) (2018) Art center : Artechouse - Washington (USA) (2019, 2025) Art center : Wonderspaces - Philadelphia (USA) (2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023) Art center : OCT Shenzhen - "Augmented Senses" - curator : Charles Carcopino - Shenzhen (China) (2011) Art center : OCT Shanghai - "Augmented Senses" - curator : Charles Carcopino - Shanghai (China) (2011) Art center : LICA - Lancaster Institute for the Contemporary Arts - curator : Drew Hemment - Lancaster (UK) (2009) Art center : La Gaîté-Lyrique - Paris (France) (2012, 2013, 2016) Art center : Utsikten Kunstsenter - Kvinesdal (Norway) (2009, 2012) Art center : Labanque - curator : Philippe Massardier - Béthune (France) (2017) Art center : Galerie Le Manège / Institut français de Dakar - (Senegal) (2019) Art center : Les Églises - Chelles (France) (2019) Art center : Les Réservoirs - Limay (France) (2006, 2015) Art center : Le Labo - Toronto (Canada) (2011) Art center : Galerie du Beffroi - "Jardin des sens" - Namur (Belgium) (2018) Art center : Centre d’art île Moulinsart - Fillé-sur-Sarthe (France) (2018) Art center : Centre d’art d'Enghien-les-Bain - Enghien-les-Bain (France) (2010, 2011, 2012) Art center : Centre d’art contemporain Fort du Bruissin - "Vivant Numérique" - curator : Igor Deschamp - Francheville (France) (2015) Art center : Centre d’art contemporain Boris Bojnev - Forcalquier (France) (2012) Art center : Centre d’art contemporain Les Capucins - Embrun (France) (2012)
Centre culturel de rencontre - Château de Goutelas - "Nouvelles faunes" - curator : Grégory Diguet - Marcoux (France) (2021) Centre culturel de rencontre - Parc Jean-Jacques Rousseau - Ermenonville (France) (2013) Centre culturel de rencontre - Abbaye de Noirlac - curator : Paul Fournier - Noirlac (France) (2011) Centre culturel Pauline Julien - curator : Marie-Eve Bérudé - Trois-Rivières (Canada) (2020) Centre culturel Passage Sainte Croix - Nantes (France) (2020)