It's that time of year again, when the French city of Lyon goes digital. Last Wednesday, the Mirage Festival, a Dolus & Dolus initiative, began its annual tech-focused five-day celebration. Expanding on its content annually, both in terms of quantity and quality, the festival provided attendees with a wide range of programming that fulfilled its mission: to question the boundaries between art and technological innovation.
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Debates, discussions, and workshops on one side, well-curated screenings, exhibitions, and performances on the other, all exploded the festival’s 4th edition theme, "Techno-fiction," deconstructing the contemporary, apocalyptic-yet-fictive human vs. machine collision. Renowned creators, technologists, and forward-thinkers teamed up to tackle this dystopian ideal, resulting in a cutting edge overview of the digital cultural landscape and investigating how innovative technologies can be used as both a creative tool—and a weapon for understanding.Thus, the festival delighted curious art aficionados and industry heads alike by showcasing media art classics like Seismik by Herman Kolgen and Soft revolvers by Myriam Bleau alongside a bunch of never-seen-before works.“Mirage Festival has commissioned and premiered new projects this year like the performance The Mirror and the Mask performed by Pierce Warnecke and Yair Glotman,” Jean-Emmanuel Rosnet, artistic director and co-founder of the festival tells The Creators Project. “Herman Kolgen has presented a new installation, H-Phase, where an organ played harmonically thanks to wind data, and Olivier Ratsi has presented a new installation at the Fine Art Museum from his Echolyse series, called Pêle-Mêle, produced by Tetro+A, a new creative partner of Mirage Festival,” he adds.We asked the festival team to send us a few highlights—check out the images below to see what they came up with:
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