Cyclomorphe is an interactive installation where pedaling activates analog projections. By operating a modified bicycle, the audience sets a scanimation mechanism in motion, revealing hypnotic optical animations.
This low-tech device, using an augmented overhead projector, transforms human energy into moving graphic landscapes. Each rotation of the pedals generates live kaleidoscopic patterns, creating a visual symphony that is unique to every participant.
Bridging the gap between a mechanical workshop and artisanal optical cinema, the work poetically explores the connections between body, machine, and image. Cyclomorphe reinvents visual creation through physical energy, offering an experience that is both playful and contemplative.
This project was created in collaboration with Jeanne Lallement, a management science researcher at the NUDD (Digital Usage for Sustainable Development) laboratory at La Rochelle University, based on her research into mobility.
Dylan Cote is an artist and designer based in Paris. His research focuses on experimenting with various media and techniques to generate forms that leverage the aesthetic potential of digital technologies while questioning their usage. Serving simultaneously as tools, mediums, and subjects, they help him construct contemplative spaces where anxiety blends with fascination—reflections of a body of work exploring contemporary technical imaginaries and the power dynamics driven by technocapitalist expansion.
Tanguy Clerc subverts the tools of yesterday and today. Often sonic and always in motion, his sculptures and installations strip objects of their productive roles to offer a free, contemplative, and sometimes narrative version of them. The obsolescence of our electronic and mechanical devices is the starting point for his aesthetic research. He stages these items to exploit their visual and acoustic properties through assembly and reactivation. By drawing from this heap of technical components, dismantling and reassembling these vestiges of the modern era, he proposes a slow reactivation of machine movement. These cyclical presences unfold like automatons born from the ashes of past technologies, questioning our relationship with reality. Tanguy Clerc developed his interest in machines and industrial production lines at the Le Mans School of Fine Arts, through sound research related to foley, video, and cinema.
