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# UVA at La Gaîté lyrique
- URL: https://www.protein.xyz/uva-at-la-ga-aet-lyrique/
- Published: 2011-02-15T13:17:15.000Z
- Updated: 2016-05-24T15:17:17.000Z
- Description: United Visual Artists upping the awesome.
- Author: Protein
- Tags: Seeds, #protein, #Import 2024-06-11 13:15

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Our friends at [United Visual Artists](http://www.uva.co.uk/?ref=protein.xyz) have created a series of responsive installations for the opening of [La Gaîté lyrique](http://www.gaite-lyrique.net/?ref=protein.xyz) in Paris that’ll have you feeling real surprised by the all-seeing building. There’s a disembodied intelligence that turns from benign, nurturing and seductive to menacing or frightening at any time depending on how you react as a visitor. There’ll be some installations that focus on being playful and flattering, putting the visitor in the spotlight as if they were a celebrity, while some others will see you being scanned into a database, categorised and ultimately found to be insignificant.

As usual, UVA have upped the awesome while also presenting to us an interesting concept - an experience that simultaneously celebrates and critiques the brave new world of the Digital, the ideal that it’s moving us towards utopia. Inspirations for the installations include [Jeremy Bentham’s ‘Panopticon’](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panopticon?ref=protein.xyz), very apt.  
  
[La Gaîté lyrique](http://www.gaite-lyrique.net/?ref=protein.xyz) opens next month, check it out from 2nd to 6th March.