fields of research:
colour – time – language – possibility

towards:
an archive of colour
an architecture of time
a combinatorium of languages
a library of possibles and probables

artworks
painting, writing, calculating, transcoding

installations
available, archive, in progress

public art
public space, indoor, ongoing, proposals

ARTISTIC WORKSHOPS

Workshops accompanied many of LAb[au]’s artistic projects and exhibitions as spaces for experimentation, discussion and knowledge exchange. Rather than offering conventional technical training, they invited participants to explore how language, perception and rules can become artistic material. Conceived for museums, festivals and educational institutions, they opened the studio’s artistic methods and conceptual foundations to collective experimentation.

2023–1999

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Binary encoding, language as an artistic medium

SMArt, interfacing and programmable matter

Dynamic Architecture, generative and responsive urban systems

liquid space, audiovisual environments and spatial interaction

MetaDeSIGN, between methodology and conception

Language and code → interfaces and matter → architecture and systems → audiovisual environments → methodology and conception

2023 : Zeit Zeichen, binary coding for children
Kunstmuseum Heidenheim, Heidenheim, Germany

2022 : yes, no: perhaps, binary coding for children
Industries Magnifiques, Strasbourg, France

2019 : If Then Else, artistic coding

Casino Luxembourg – Forum d’art contemporain, Luxembourg

2015 : SMArt, coding and electronics as artistic practice
ACT Center, Asia Culture Institute (ACI), Gwangju, South Korea

2015 : SMArt, coding and electronics as artistic practice
KIKK Festival, Namur, Belgium

2015 : The Art of Words, language as an artistic medium
Almaty, Kazakhstan

2014 : The Art of Motion, from motion to emotion, conceptual think tank
Almaty, Kazakhstan

2013 : Dynamic Architecture, responsive and interactive environments

Strelka Institute, Moscow, Russia

2009 : Interactive Environments, architecture and digital space
TU Delft, Hyperbody Research Group, Delft, The Netherlands

2007 : liquid space 05, building audiovisual environments
CTM Festival, Berlin, Germany

2006 : Polygon Den[c]ity, generative urban systems
Academy of Fine Arts, Lyon, France

2006 : particleSynthesis, generative sound environments

Artefact Festival, STUK, Leuven, Belgium

2006 : liquid space 04, co/ordinate space
TENT / Witte de With, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

2005 : liquid space 03, feedback loop systems
De Brakke Grond, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

2004 : liquid space 02, designing with numbers
Matrix Art Project, Brussels, Belgium

2003 : liquid space 01, deSIGN forms
Art Centre Nabi, Seoul, South Korea

2003 : H2PTM workshop, dance versus architecture
Université Paris 8, Saint-Denis, France

2003 : INDESEM ’03: Fast Forward, A Driving Perception
TU Delft, Delft, The Netherlands

2003 : Polygon Den[c]ity, generative urban systems
New Museum, New York, USA

2002 : MetaDeSIGN, sonic space
University of Art and Design, Halle (Saale), Germany

2002 : sPACE, architecture and mediated environments
Antwerp Design Seminars and Lectures
Henry van de Velde Institute, Antwerp, Belgium

2002 : sPACE, architecture and mediated environments
MadreTTor Festival for Media Art, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

2001 : MetaDeSIGN, between methodology and conception
Art.image, Graz, Austria

2001 : Cartographies structurelles et conceptuelles
École des Beaux-Arts de Valence, France

1999 : Atelier design numérique, digital design workshop

École de Valenciennes, France