The event took place on the 9th floor of the Institute, in the historic Salle du Haut Conseil, where Gysin unveiled a piece commissioned for the occasion and the space. Lattice was hence inaugurated and unveiled in exclusivity to our guests: displayed in 5 LED screens standing as monoliths on one side of the room, the artwork mirrored the mushrabiya-inspired apertures of the building first imagined by the architect Jean Nouvel. A combination of tradition and modernity, digital and architectural design, where the hypnotic algorithms of Gysin, accompanied by an electronic DJ, shape shift in an infinite dance on the tailor-made 3 meters screens.

The piece will be acquired and enter our digital art collection.

The artist duo, Operator, which artworks are part of the Valenium Art Collection were in Geneva for an exclusive exchange and presentation of their different series and artistic process, as well as a special evening dedicated to the unveiling of the first X-ray Machine at the Musée d’Art et d’Histoire de Genève.

The X-ray Machine which joined the Valenium collection, was unveiled in a ceremony that took the form of a “privacy dinner”, a series of events the duo has held throughout the world – inviting selected guests and collectors to dive into their practice, where the dinner itself becomes an experience shaped by their vision and artistry. An exhibition of the duo’s Human Unreadable works, and exclusive sneak-peeks including print copper plates, a live-drawn method used to represent the duo’s concepts and creative process was also held in the museum.

The X-ray Machine, first of its kind, is a new method to display the Human Unreadable series, without the use of screens— but instead through a dynamic sculpture. Viewable from all sides, the X-ray Machine generates hundreds of images, reveals what is below the surface, and acknowledges the underlying choreographic score which created the piece, quietly hiding behind it.

Ania Catherine and Dejha Ti, the former a choreographer and dancer, the latter a HCI Technologist, combine their focus in large-scale conceptual works. Operator’s practice has been exploring the topic of privacy, surveillance capitalism, and extractive technologies through on-chain art with collections such as Human Unreadable or the Privacy Collection.

Sculpture, steel, digital artwork, generative biological art, 2023

By Agoria, digital artist, DJ, composer and music producer and Johan Lescure, artist.

In 2024, from February 13 to March 10, Agoria was invited to a special exhibition around Bioregenerative AI at the Musée d’Orsay. Titled { Le Code d’Orsay }, this special production, inspired by the museum’s collection and the artist’s creative practice of using algorithms, AI and data from the living world. A combination that culminated in the presentation of two pieces, one of which, Σ Lumina, was created with the support of Valenium.

Σ Lumina merges the digital and physical, and invites the visitors to immerse themselves in a participative experience that culminates in the minting of a unique digital piece through the Tezos blockchain.

Agoria and Johan Lescure produced a sculpture that allows participants to scan a QR code, hidden within its shadow. A key that opens the door to a one-of-a-kind experience: a breath on the microphone of their smartphone activates a digital piece. Unique. A memento of the moment, frozen in time by live minting.

More information: https://www.musee-orsay.fr/en/whats-on/exhibitions/agoria-le-code-dorsay