FOUNDATION 2008 MEMBERS Jonathan Blanchet, Juliette Champain, François Chay, Cyril Diagne, Erik Escoffier, Nicolas Guichard, Béatrice Lartigue, Tobias Muthesius & Pierre Thirion. BIOGRAPHY Lab212 was founded in 2008, by a group of friends who all graduated in Interactive Design at the School of Visual Art les Gobelins in Paris. In 2015, they are Ambassadors representing the artistic field at the Assises de la Jeune Création, for the French Ministry of Culture and Communication. STATEMENT “Encoding the evanescent relationships between physical and virtual worlds as strings of bits and bytes written in ones and zeros, the French artist collective Lab212 draws on science, videogames and music to build poetic and playful sensory experiences. Using craft and technology to ignite imagination and convey emotions, day-to-day human gestures are magnified to reach the inaccessible, the shifting of the gaze reveals the imperceptible.” Caroline Hirt, Curator EXHIBITIONS Over the past ten years they have exhibited all over the world, from Tokyo to New York. Their works were exhibited at the Barbican Centre (London), the V&A Museum (London), the Miraikan Museum (Tokyo), the Museum of Digital Art (Zurich), La Gaîté Lyrique (Paris). AWARDS Their works have won several international awards, including from the Sundance Film Festival (New Frontier Selection), Ars Electronica (Interactive Art Honorary Mention), the Barbican Centre x Google (International Media Art Prize), the Lumen Prize (Performance Award), European Street Design Challenge (First Prize). CONTACT [email protected]