EXHIBITION

• Artist-in-Residence: EXEO

Exeo—an INAC initiative supported by Léti/DTBS, Liten/INES, and Arc-Nucléart—began on November 16, 2009. Exeo is an artist-in residence program at the CEA’s labs. Visual artist Valérie Legembre, who invented the Peau-de-photo® photographic process, has immersed herself in the laboratory environment, working side-by-side with researchers and technicians. Her mission is to gather raw material—the words and images of scientific research—to create an exhibit to be displayed in places of art and science starting in December 2010.
www.resi-exeo.fr
 
 

• Innovation in Use

Immerse yourself in the city of the future at the 5th IDEAs Day exhibit.
Discover an innovative new public lighting system invented by students at ENSCI (l’Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Création Industrielle). Their ingenious design uses the latest technologies and minimizes environmental impacts.
Or, try your hand at “Lupin,” an intelligent public lighting system designed for bicycle paths. This CEA-Leti development switches the individual fixtures on and off in a “wave” pattern to save energy, integrates urban traffic signals for enhanced safety (particularly at intersections), and provides automatic dynamic metering (most utilities currently use manual metering and magnetic loops). The design emerged in response to the Veloce bicycle-use study and concerns expressed by local government in Grenoble. The project is designed to illustrate the concept and show how it works via a demo system of ten communicating light fixtures with 96 “warm” LED lamps each, autonomous solar-powered light sensors, and a  ZigBee communication network to tie it all together.
Enter the imaginary world dreamed up by architecture students at ENSAG (l’Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Grenoble) during the “Big Scale, Small Objects” workshop and discover all of the things communication networks could do in tomorrow’s cities.
Continue your visit with EZ3kiel’s Mécaniques poétiques [Mechanical Poems], a unique encounter between innovation and the arts. At the crossroads of several disciplines, the forceful installations draw upon the artistic meanderings of an independent music group and the technological research of CEA-Grenoble labs. The resulting blend defies categorization and opens new doors to the group's artistic universe. This unique exhibit will feature installations produced during EZ3kiel’s residency at the Atelier Arts-Sciences, an unusual fusion of theater and scientific research formed by the Hexagone National Theater and the CEA-Léti international research center. Participants in the residency:EZ3kiel: Designer and artist Yann Nguema; CEA-Grenoble: Roland Blanpain, head of microsystems and communicating objects department; Angelo Guiga, technician and head of project; Dominique David, researcher; Laure Péris, engineering intern; Sylvain Baquet, research engineer; Antoine Robinet, research engineer; Thierry Thomas, research engineer; Jean-Yves Castellan, in charge of scale models; Laurent Jouanet and Jean Rémi Savel, technicians; Michel Blanc, engineer; Yves-Armel Martin, director; Christophe Monnet, in charge of production, ERASME.
(www.atelier-arts-sciences.eu)