April in Paris: Signs of Artificial Life along the Seine

The idea of blending art into city life is not new and has been associated with technology from the start. Our paper will consider programmed, generative art works in the context of two art historical antecedents, the Futurists in the 1910s and the art movement Fluxus in the 1960s. We will focus on a selection of installations in the streets of Issy, France, during the “Festival Premier Contact” organized by Le CUBE and curated by its Art Director, Florent Aziosmanoff (April 2005). The artists discussed will be laKitchen, Roland Cahen, Damaris Risch, Vincent Lévy, among others.