If “I is another”, who am I really? The Biennale Némo starts from a quote from Arthur Rimbaud to join the figure of Christopher Nolan, crowned master of time by the great family of cinema, and question our multiple personalities in the era of digital and fake identities. After exploring the forces of chance or the replacement of men by machines, the event plunges us here into a new existential questioning between dream and reality: what do digital arts, sciences and technologies bring to the multiplication of aliases to the time of the Internet, social networks, robotics or artificial intelligence? A vast question to which a group of artists, musicians and visual artists are trying to answer with the help of optical illusions and interactive experiences. Between parallel universes, deepfakes and other chimeras, British photographer Robbie Cooper tracks across the globe the real alter-egos hiding behind the characters of famous online games, while Donatien Aubert composes highly hybrid works in virtual reality. inspired by cybernetics. An experience in itself that should change our outlook on the world and on ourselves.

The Némo Biennale offers us a real stroll through the heart of CentQuatre in hypnotic universes, and questions us about the power of new technologies that are as alienating as they are liberating. Each room offers us a unique journey and a unique approach to digital technology. The works exhibited here question us like this flock of sheep with telephone faces which denounces the influence of digital technology on humans or even The exoform, the first work of space art. The work Ataraxie, developed by Maxime Houot, is particularly striking in its immersion: we are plunged into total darkness where only a play of lights captivates us. For 15 minutes, we are faced with a dance of red beams which becomes more and more frenetic in a shivering soundscape. If the artists pose hypotheses here regarding the evolution of digital technology and its consequences, a general pessimism emerges and a return to the past seems to be desired. A fascinating experience that shakes up our certainties.