

Created in Paris in December 2001

Circulez Y’a Rien A Voir is a sound and image interactive installation in public space, conceived to be set up in a passing by area such as a shopping window in a street. The english translation of the title could be : "move along now, there’s nothing to see", something policemen say to scatter people away.
The installation is a kind of a surveillance device that allows the passer by to generate images and sounds by his mere moves in front of the projection space. The movements of the people, captured by a camera are converted into graphic patterns and sound modulations. If nobody is passing by, there is no sound nor image.
Every visitor can, as one pleases, roam, dance, stamp, run, or simply wave the hand and experiment his own way of activating images and sounds.
The installation was first shown in Paris december 2001 in the shoping window of a grocery, within the collective exhibition "+/- l’Epicerie", curator : Leonor Nuridsany.Then it has been show in many different contexts :
in the shopping window of a web coffe shop in Potsdamer Straße 2/ Berlin-Mitte, 2003 Transmediale festival,
in the SAT window (Saint-Laurent street) in Montreal, during 2003 FCMM festival,
in the former IKEA window at 2004 filmwinter festival in Stuttgart,
in Strasbourg Ososphere festival, October2004.
in the window of O3ONE gallery window in Belgrade, Dis-Solutions / Dis-Patch festival october 2004
in the window of ARHITEKTUURI- ja DISAINIGALERII Pärnu mnt. 6, Tallinn Estonia February 2005
in the window of Galería ARTCO Lima Peru - VAE festival August 2005
in the Culture Space in the Cannebiere street in Marseille Festival RIAM November 2005
2006 Ekaterinburg (RU) 24- 28 May 2006
Urban Screens Festival Manchester UK 11-14 octobre 2007
The installation received an honorary mention in 2003 Transmediale festival and 2004 FilmWinter and Expanded Media Festival in Stuttgart .
