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Do Robots Dream of Spring?
Ken Rinaldo: installations
From 19th September 2010 to 20th March 2011
Maison d'Ailleurs presents an exhibition of the works of american artist Ken Rinaldo, who specializes in installations that blur the boundaries between the organic and inorganic.
Ken Rinaldo’s art promotes communication between species. By creating immersive environments, the artist presents works to be experienced. He puts human beings in our rightful place, one that is integrated into vast systems, of which we are simultaneously the architects, the prisoners and the custodians. He shows us that our environment is an immense meeting place where worlds collide, a place of shifting borders, which he encourages us to explore.
Rinaldo succeeds in suspending the onlooker’s disbelief and inciting his or her wonder as only science fiction at the height of its inventiveness can. He goes beyond the clichés usually associated with robots and sets our imagination in motion. He makes his a process which is essential to the genre: he has used technologies which surround us and questionned them in a poetic way, instilling in us doubts as to whether robots really do await the arrival of better days.
New media artist, author and theorist Ken Rinaldo creates robotic, bioart and transpecies installations. His works are influenced by theories on living systems, artificial life and transpecies communication. His processes involve research and conceptualization, 3D modeling and animation, constructing and programming electronic and electromechanical systems. Works by Rinaldo have been commissioned and presented internationally and have received major awards, among which an Award of Distinction from Ars Electronica Austria in 2004 and the first prize for Avida 3.0 in Spain in 2001. Rinaldo is an associate professor in the Art & Technology program at the Ohio State University, USA.
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Espace Jules Verne
Discover the extension of Maison d'Ailleurs, devoted to the father of Extraordinary Journeys and his time.
This historical room in the old center of Yverdon-les-Bains now houses rare documents, extraordinary models, precious books, films and interactive works, an incredible poster-matic machine and much more!
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La Maison d'Ailleurs, musée de la science fiction, de l'utopie et des voyages extraordinaires est le seul musée du genre au monde. Fondée par l'encyclopédiste Pierre Versins en 1976, la Maison d'Ailleurs contient des collections exceptionnelles: aux 40'000 livres (en français, anglais, romanche ou ouzbek!, entre autres), dont certains anciens ou très rares, il faut ajouter 20'000 documents et objets rattachés à la science-fiction et à son imagerie (affiches, oeuvres d'art, jouets, disques, etc.).La Maison d'Ailleurs constitue ainsi un centre de recherche et de documentation de tout premier plan pour des universitaires, des étudiants ou des journalistes du monde entier, qui y viennent pour des thèses, des travaux de diplôme ou des recherches iconographiques. La Maison d'Ailleurs est également un musée grand public qui a accueilli plus de trente expositions temporaires durant les dix dernières années, explorant les principaux thèmes de la science fiction (voyage dans l'espace, jeux, utopie) ou proposant aux visiteurs de découvrir les grands créateurs dans le domaine (parmi lesquels H.R. Giger, John Howe ou Alejandro Jodorowsky).
La science fiction est un univers plus grand que l'univers connu... Elle invente ce qui a peut-être été, ce qui est sans que nul ne le sache, et ce qui sera ou pourrait être... Elle est avertissement et prévision, sombre et éclairante... Elle est le rêve d'une réalité autre et la réalisation des rêves les plus fous...
— Pierre Versins
Site officiel: www.ailleurs.ch
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The Maison d'Ailleurs (House of Elsewhere), Museum of science fiction, utopia and extraordinary journeys is the only public institution of its kind in Europe. Founded by French encyclopaedist Pierre Versins in 1976, the Museum owns a large, fabulous collection consisting of more than 50'000 books (in French, English, German and even Ouzbek, and many more), some of which are very old and/or rare. There are also nearly 20'000 documents and items related to science fiction and its imagery such as posters, toys, works of art and much more...
This makes of the Maison d'Ailleurs a top research center for scholars, students or journalists from around the world who come for their theses, personal research and/or image research.More than 30 temporary exhibitions were held at the Maison d'Ailleurs over the last 10 years, exploring the main themes of science fiction: space travel, games and utopia. Several exhibitions were dedicated to great artists like H.R. Giger, John Howe or Alejandro Jodorowski.
"Science fiction is a larger universe than the known universe... It devises what may have been, what may be without anyone knowing it and what will or might be.... Science fiction is warning and foreseeing, dark and enlightening... It is the dream of an alternate reality and the realization of our wildest dreams..." - Pierre Versins
Official website: www.ailleurs.ch
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