Paris Design Week, 12-18 Sept. 2011
Cité de la Mode et du Design, Paris
Glitch Fiction is the false error, the point of chute, the wormhole in the timeline, the what could have been? At the edge between science fiction and reality, a series of thought-provoking, participative and speculative design projects will be revealed.
From 12th to 18th September, Glitch Fiction will land in Paris for the very first Paris Design Week. Visit us at la Cité de la Mode et du Design to witness a chaotic Black Swan unfold, to feel the spitting heat of ash hit your high-heels in your living room, to have a machine generate your fairytales, to get caught in a thunderstorm of fish, to see your eyes, lips and skin lost in the fragments of others, to explore a new techno-social landscape through your ears or to imagine scientific rituals not yet explored.
Come, test out and experience the fringe of design for yourself. Glitch Fiction mixes activist and experimental designs in a real office of wonders. Dreams, nightmares, near realities and hyper fantasies meet in the middle to explore the implications of current and emerging technologies through the presentation of fictional scenarios, parallel worlds, extrapolated tangents, cautionary tales and design fictions.
Inspired by science and technology the following proposals use design as a medium to speculate, be critical and stimulate debate around our human relationship to science and technology in our current, alternative and imagined future everyday lives.
Voici Glitch Fiction, point de chute, court-circuit dans l’histoire, ou l’avenir qui aurait pu être ?
Visitez Glitch Fiction pour assister aux conséquences inattendues d’une crise financière, sentir la chaleur d’un volcan d’appartement brûler vos talons ou encore découvrir un fabuleux générateur de contes de fées. Retrouvez-vous au milieu d’une pluie de poissons, observez votre portrait se recomposer et se mêler aux visages des autres visiteurs, faites l’expérience de nouveaux paysages sonores et imaginez avec nous de nouveaux rituels scientifiques.
À travers la présentation de scénarios fictifs, de mondes parallèles et tangents, Glitch Fiction propose un lieu où se rencontrent rêves et cauchemars, mondes impossibles et hyper-réalités pour explorer les conséquences de la recherche scientifique et des technologies émergentes.
Glitch Fiction utilise le design à des fins spéculatives et critiques pour nous permettre de débattre et d’envisager les bouleversements de notre vie quotidienne, présente, future ou imaginaire.
Gunnar Green – www.thegreeneyl.com
Bernd Hopfengaertner – www.berndhopfengaertner.net
Studio Good one – www.studiogoodone.com
Xavier Poultney – www.xavierpoultney.com
Austin Houldsworth – www.austinhouldsworth.co.uk
David Benqué – www.davidbenque.com
Nicolas Myers – www.myers.fr
Nitipak Samsen – www.dotmancando.info
Ilona Gaynor – www.ilonagaynor.co.uk
Zoe Papadopoulou – www.zoeworks.co.uk
Liam Young – www.tomorrowsthoughtstoday.com
Nelly Ben Hayoun – www.nellyben.com
Good Wives and Warriors – www.goodwivesandwarriors.co.uk
An exhibition coordinated and managed by Nelly Ben Hayoun Studio
Visual Design and website by Nicolas Myers
and David Benque
contact@glitchfiction.com
Gunnar Green – www.thegreeneyl.com
Bernd Hopfengaertner – www.berndhopfengaertner.net
Studio Good one – www.studiogoodone.com
Xavier Poultney – www.xavierpoultney.com
Austin Houldsworth – www.austinhouldsworth.co.uk
David Benqué – www.davidbenque.com
Nicolas Myers – www.myers.fr
Nitipak Samsen – www.dotmancando.info
Ilona Gaynor – www.ilonagaynor.co.uk
Zoe Papadopoulou – www.zoeworks.co.uk
Liam Young – www.tomorrowsthoughtstoday.com
Nelly Ben Hayoun – www.nellyben.com
Good Wives and Warriors – www.goodwivesandwarriors.co.uk
An exhibition coordinated and managed by Nelly Ben Hayoun Studio
Visual Design and website by Nicolas Myers and David Benque
contact@glitchfiction.com