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This fall, for its inaugural project, “Cyber Flânerie I”, Orion3000 invited nine international artists to place their works in site-specific augmented reality locations in the Tuileries Garden at the DRP festival.
We would like to warmfully thanks all the artists : Excalibur, Hannes Hummel, Hermine Bourdin, Pierre Pauze, Sophie Lavaud, Soliman Lopez, Tamiko Thiel & /P, Valery Grancher, Washmachine, Stephan Breuer

Many thanks to for all the graphic design, AD, and the wonderful printed map of the AR parkour.

Founder of the project : Celine Shen and Yvonne Senouf
Project manager and mediation : Noemie Dalex
PR : Courage Kimber
Big up to all the team Orion3000!

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29th September - October 1st

"Cyber Flânerie" augmented reality promenade

DRP FESTIVAL - Jardins des Tuileries, Paris

© Pierre Pauze, xSublimatio

xSublimatio is a "merging" aesthetic digital drug experience on the Ethereum blockchain. The project is at the crossroads of art, science, and gaming. It is an interactive artistic experience that allows people to acquire digital and generative molecules and create digital drugs on the blockchain using NFTs.

xSublimatio is questioning the aesthetic potential of Web3, coding and artificial intelligence, in the era of mass digitalization of all aspects of reality. While the consumption of images and data on the Internet have now, become an addiction stimulating the release of feel-good hormones, this project uses technology to stage the representations of molecules (symbolizing our tangible reality) through the prism of drugs and water. Collectors can purchase these molecules which have been randomly selected from 64 different types generated by AI. To create their desired drug out of the 19 possible options, holders need to obtain the right combination of ingredients by trading or buying extra molecules.

Pierre Pauze is a French artist and filmmaker. His practice evolves as much in the field of contemporary art, cinema and digital arts. He has won numerous art awards, including the Agnes B prize in 2016, and the ADAGP digital art video art prize in 2019, and his work has been shown in museums around the world and on television, notably at the Centre Pompidou and the Monnaie de Paris, Luma Arles, La Villette, as well as in numerous international art biennials such as the Taipei, Chengdu and Macao Biennials. He is also active in the web3 field, co-founding the NFT laboratory Faction.art and xSublimatio. His work "follow the green rabbit" was the first NFT to be collected by a museum in France, at the Musée Granet.

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30th September - October 1st

"Cyber Flânerie" augmented reality promenade

DRP FESTIVAL - Jardins des Tuileries, Paris

© Hannes Hummel, Manekia Cycle, 1/4

Digital artist Hannes Hummel (Germany) takes the wanderers on a captivating journey through his series, Digital Bloom, where he skillfully merges organic structures and natural patterns in mesmerizing 3D motion projects, showcasing the enchanting link between botany and mathematics.

With his series, Digital Bloom, Hannes Hummel, a visionary digital artist, embarks on a mesmerizing journey, exploring the interplay of organic structures and natural patterns through his 3D motion project. His artistic expression revolves around symmetry, tessellations and logarithmic spiral shapes celebrating the marvels of nature.

With undeniable prowess, Hummel seamlessly fuses modelling techniques 3D scanning and AI tools, crafting intricate and harmonious scenes with a meditative quality. Inspired by the hidden connection between botany and mathematics, he translates the chaos of nature into numerical sequences, redefining the boundaries of digital art and leaving an incredible mark on the ever-evolving creativity of the Web3 ecosystem.

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30th September - October 1st

"Cyber Flânerie" augmented reality promenade

DRP FESTIVAL - Jardins des Tuileries, Paris

© Excalibur, AR Peacock

This work is a reinterpretation of the iconic Samaritaine mural of peacocks by Francis Jourdain, with a new perspective through contemporary pixel art. Originally, peacocks were creatures native to Asia and Africa and did not live in France, but they became a motif of Art Nouveau because of the Orientalism trend represented by Ukiyo-e.

Pixel flowers never wither. Just like our minds.

This work was exhibited at Samaritaine, in the neighborhood of the Tuileries Garden, in 2022.

EXCALIBUR are contemporary artists based in Tokyo and Kyoto, Japan. With the theme of real and virtual or its overlap called "Street, Ethernet, Field", they create art that transforms into social records, by alternating personal memories with stories and myths.

Show at
Samedi 30 septembre - 12h
Dimanche 01 octobre - 15h

Location : Tuileries Garden

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29th September - October 1st

"Cyber Flânerie" augmented reality promenade

DRP FESTIVAL - Jardins des Tuileries, Paris

© Hermine Bourdin, Dancing Goddess

Paris based sculptress; Hermine's artistic practice is inspired by the Neolithic period of ancient Europe, the Cucuteni-Trypillia, Vinca and Minoan civilizations. Her favorite material, clay, is a direct reference to the feminine matrix of the Goddess. Passionate by sculpture since a very young age, Hermine seeks to represent generous, proud sensual women, all imbued by a strong and protective tone. Once imagined, the shape is drawn before beginning a long dialog with the material, doing and undoing the work until each piece comes to life in a perfect balance of curves and movements. Then she starts the process of finishing touches giving to each piece this unique sensual texture.

Fascinated by dance, she asked Eugenie Drion, dancer at the French Opera, to perform using motion tracking technology, a Vicon suit. She then scanned in 3D her physical sandstone sculpture, remodelled it in 3D and rigged it. Eugenie Drion’s performance was then transcribed to the piece giving life to the sculpture in a unique and poetic way through dance. This artistic project is the marriage of sculpture and dance through new technologies.

Hermine Bourdin is a sculptress based near Paris. She has been passionate about sculpture since a very young age, and after working in illustration, graphic design, stop-motion animation, and design, she decided to pursue her passion and learn to sculpt under the guidance of various masters in stone, wood, plaster, and sandstone, her material of choice. Bourdin also uses digital tools as a new material for exploration and creation, allowing her to defy the laws of the physical universe through new technologies, liberating her of the static and gravity constraint of material work.