C’est du vent: a collaborative exhibition by Loraine Chassain, Laurent David, and Lionel Maes, presented by Melissa Ansel Gallery.

The HP C6602B is a blue inkjet cartridge with an integrated printhead, compatible with HP ADDMASTER IJ6000 POS (Point of Sale) printer models, and therefore intended for use in a "transactional printing system"—such as for tickets, receipts, and invoices. 

The HP C6602B is designed to perform mechanical back-and-forth movements controlled by software-driven motors, inside a black or white plastic housing, at a distance of less than 1 mm from the print media, which must not exceed 7.5 cm in width. 

And

Connect the HP C6602B to an InkShield electronic circuit—developed and published in 2011 by Nicholas C. Lewis—connected to an Arduino Uno microcontroller.  

Then

Keep it stationary, with the print heads facing upward, and launch a print job, that is, the ejection of ink droplets for each dot that makes up each letter of each word, for each level of the Beaufort scale—which has 12 levels—every 3 minutes.

Or

Hold it a few centimeters away from the paper and print continuously for a length of 15 meters, without line breaks.  

Choir was exhibited during the Chassepierre festival, from the 16th to the 17th of August. This version was conceived as a 25 minutes sound performance by 12 modules communicating together in a mesh network. The exhibition location was a cave in the middle of the small village, isolated from the rest of the festival. The starting point of Choir, Latos : talking network  was thought as a way to make the negociations between machines in a network audible. Here the negociations are still there but are less explicit; the focus has shifted to the potentialities of the sound performance in itself. The modules are singing together with a database of recordings I have made last October, during a residency in the village where I had the oportunity to record voices from visitors and Chassepierre residents. 

Collaboration with Laurent David in the recently published issue 39 of La Part de l'Œil. Method: sixteen pages | a four-hand layout | fourteen exhibition views, three methods and one multiple by Laurent David | one program, one multiple by Lionel Maes.

And, 600 times; start printing, place a sheet of paper under the nozzles at the precise moment the ink drops, stop printing.

Residency at Chassepierre for the development of Choir, from October 11 to 17, 2024. With the support of the CACLB and the Festival de Chassepierre. As part of this project, I developed a software to record the voices of local residents and visitors to the residency. These recording sessions took place at the end of each day during the residency and during the opening of the workshop. Choir will be presented at the next Chassepierre festival, in August 2025.

On October 2024, La machine n'est pas un artifice was exhibited in Paris at la Gaîté Lyrique as part of the "Ce qui nous rassemble : langues, langages et imaginaires" exhibition, curated by Dominique Moulon. The aphorism generation system, entirely rewritten for the occasion, is now based on semantic relations between words. From a static list of words, it follows a given sentence structure, getting new words from the cnrtl dictionary to establish aphorism's charateristic figures of speech.

All Work And No Play is part of a one-on-one exhibition curated by Patrick Carpentier at CCINQ gallery, Brussels, with I Would Prefer Not To by Alexandre Lavet.

From February 20 to April 02 2022.

Exhibition from September 24 to November 21, 2021 @ Constant
Rue du Fortstraat 5, 1060 Saint-Gilles | Sint-Gillis

La machine n'est pas un artifice is on view from July 4 to October 3, 2021 as part of the MI Museum, a project initiated by Le centre Daily-Bul & Co and La Grande Droguerie Poétique.

All Work And No Play has been selected for the "46 digital" exhibitions program of the CWB (Wallonia-Brussels Center), Paris. It will be exhibited from April 4, during the event "L'instant T, les heures mêlées" for the 40 years of the center, to May 16 2019.

A 30' lecture (in french) about Homeopape and its creation context during a DorkBot at iMAL on March 30, 2016 after a one month residency in which I developped a new version of the installation.