Marguerite Humeau, Jean, An elephant watching the scene with a sense of wonder, 2016.
Marguerite Humeau, Jean, An elephant watching the scene with a sense of wonder, 2016.
Marguerite Humeau, Jean, An elephant watching the scene with a sense of wonder, 2016.
Marguerite Humeau, Pierre, An elephant engineered to be happy, 2016.
Marguerite Humeau, Pierre, An elephant engineered to be happy, 2016.
00 : 00 The History of Humankind, An artificial voice is beatboxing the origin of human language before joining a choir of 108 billion voices. This is the number of humans who have ever lived on Earth since the beginning of humankind, 100 000 years ago 00 : 00
Titre

Pierre, An elephant engineered to be happy

Date
2016

Dimensions
213 × 152 × 185 cm (Including metal stand) 83 7/8 × 59 7/8 × 72 7/8 in 238 × 240 × 225 cm (Including plinth and bench) 93 3/4 × 94 1/2 × 88 5/8 in

Matériau

Polyurethane foam, white paint, acrylic parts, nylon, endorphin powder, powder-coated metal stand, sound

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Titre

Pierre, An elephant engineered to be happy

Date
2016

Dimensions
213 × 152 × 185 cm (Including metal stand) 83 7/8 × 59 7/8 × 72 7/8 in 238 × 240 × 225 cm (Including plinth and bench) 93 3/4 × 94 1/2 × 88 5/8 in

Matériau

Polyurethane foam, white paint, acrylic parts, nylon, endorphin powder, powder-coated metal stand, sound

(Sound)

The death throes of a matriarch elephant trigger an evolving chorus of voices around her, moving through sadness, melancholy, nostalgia, joy, love and amazement - as if her passage towards death were awakening new forms of emotion, language and consciousness in the group.

00 : 00 The Death of Echo, 2016 00 : 00

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Sound

Voice synthesis, sound design, orchestration: Pierre Lanchantin (Machine Intelligence Laboratory, University of Cambridge); Voices: Gideon Wagner and Ghizela Rowe