ART SENSITIF RESSOURCE CENTRE

Mains d’Œuvres is an alternative creative space open to contemporary research in the fields of arts and society. This venue dedicated to residency programmes, public events and experimentation aims at welcoming emerging artists from all disciplines, as well as associative and citizen projects. The place is open to whoever seeks synergies and ties between inventive arts forms and society and who places the artist at the core of the community.

The Art Sensitif Ressource Centre (CRASlab) was create in 2005 at Mains d’Œuvres. This is a resource and research media lab that welcomes public wishing to learn and test real-time interaction technologies applied in Art. This is a « pilot » open-source project, with a potential to be reproduced in others cultural and educational venues. Artists, students, teachers, developers and amateurs can learn about real time technologies and interactive arts : which hardware and software solution are the most appropriate for a project ? How to find resources or possible partners ? How to find info or have access to scientific studies ? The CRASlab is also a place where one can understand aesthetics and technological issues related to interactive arts and real time technologies. The CRASlab offers a three-folded pannel of activities : a show-room for experiencing interactive technologies (with many sensors, actuators and real-time multimedia platforms), a regular training program on exclusively free hardware and free software (such as Arduino, CUI, Processing and Pure Data) and a research & development laboratory. The lab is meant to be an exchange and teaching platform of resources.


Centre de Ressources Art Sensitif, juin06
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The CRAS is a collaboration between Mains d’Œuvres, and Art Sensitif (a non profit organisation created by Jean-Noël Montagné in 1999). The organisation was in residence at Mains d’Œuvres from 2003 to 2006 and focuses on open source hardware, open source software and open source contents for artistic creation http://www.artsens.org/ Art Sensitif welcomes artists, students, teachers and researchers around esthetics and technics related to real time interaction in art Art Sensitif projects : festival http://www.estivenumerique.org/ Open hardware projects : http://www.oswash.org/ - http://www.bricophone.org/ - http://www.fluxtation.org/

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