Art Tease

Art Tease :: ICRA-X 2020 :: Day 2 of 4, at https://www.icrax2020.org Art Tease presents “Dear” by artists Sun Yuan and Peng Yu, a work shown at the 2019 Venice Biennale. The Beijing-based Chinese duo became known internationally for bold, provocative work with a staging that is often visceral and unsettling, and the involvement of the audience is a constituent part of their recent pieces.

With this work, whose force is as much material as it is symbolic, the artists offer an apparatus drawn from a robotics of the future — soft robotics — for an interactive experience to be discovered online. Credits: ICRA-X Robotics & Art Program, a Reflective Interaction Research Group project as part of ICRA 2020, the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation.

Chair of the ICRA-X Robotics & Art Program: Samuel Bianchini (Reflective Interaction Research Group / EnsadLab, École nationale supérieure des Arts Décoratifs). Co-curated by Emanuele Quinz and Xiaoying Juliette Yuan, J. Yuan & Associates. Dear, by Sun Yuan and Peng Yu (2015). Web apparatus: Reflective Interaction Research Group under the direction of Samuel Bianchini.

Video streaming and artwork interaction engineering: Colin Bouvry. Web and interaction development: Didier Bouchon. Graphic design: Arp is Arp studio, Dimitri Charrel. Interaction design and web integration support: Alexandre Dechosal. Communication manager: Gwenaelle Lallemand. Assistant to the artists: Linda Liu. Contractual and financial management: GL Events.

With thanks to Stéphane Régnier, Sinan Haliyo, Victor Padial, Léo Quénéhervé and Hugo Scurto.