Agoria: a mysterious digital work at the Musée d’Orsay
A leading player in digital art, DJ and composer of electronic music, Sébastien Devaud, known as Agoria, focuses his approach around the border between the physical and the digital, the living and the coded. Establishing himself as one of the most active artists in the world of the web, the artist develops his artistic practice through artificial intelligence and algorithms, by surrounding himself with scientists, in order to design works in the era of time combining art, music and science.
Finding an echo with famous museum institutions such as the Musée d'Orsay which wishes to explore the link between his personal collections and this experimental art, the work of this technological genius is currently highlighted through a digital exhibition of exception !
In total, the artist presents two works in collaboration with Johan Lescure, created in response to the collections: the first, Σ Lumina, is a participatory and experimental sculpture, generating a QR code which can be activated and then stored for free on each person's phone. participant, by creating an NFT. As for the second, it is a reinterpretation of Gustave Courbet’s L’Atelier du Peintre, emphasizing more than ever the link between art and science and bringing the painting to life.
Did you know?
Agoria created the original soundtrack for Olivier Van Hoofstadt's 2008 action and crime film Go Fast.










