EXHIBITIONS
AT LE LABORATOIRE
Le Laboratoire is a contemporary art and design center where artists and designers experiment at frontiers of science. Founder David Edwards instigates and curates collaborations ("experiments") between leading international artists and scientists, and these collaborations produce original works which are exhibited at Le Lab. We invite the public to experience these experiments for free. We hope to showcase the creative process that drives innovation and value in culture, industry, society, and education as a fusion of art and science producing tangible –– if experimental –– art and design outcomes.
Tours of exhibitions at Le Lab are facilitated by Gallery Interpreters. During your visit, these guides will lead you on a personalized tour to provide background and contextual information about the exhibition. Our Interpreters study each exhibition extensively, and –– as they are typically able to spend time with the collaborating artists and scientists –– bring an insider's perspective to the work and process. Questions and conversations are welcome!
EXP 27 Phase 2: Quilting ++
Oct 11 - Dec 18
EXP 26: Sparking the Grassroots Aesthetic Movement
Jan 30 - April 16, 2018
EXP 25: THE LONG NOW
October 5 - December 16, 2017 - Le Laboratoire Cambridge - Café ArtScience
THE CURRENT EXHIBITION INVOLVES NUDITY: VIEWER DISCRETION IS ADVISED
The Long Now is the 25th experiment of Le Laboratoire.
The Long Now explores the elasticity of time, and particularly the aesthetics of stretched time. The opportunity for this show came by way of Le Lab founder, David Edwards, who saw that a prior work of mine, Figure Studies, which he commissioned in 2012, and elements of a new work by the artist/inventor Danny Hillis, might be placed in dynamic relationship to each other.
Years ago, Hillis expressed his dream of a clock that would last 10,000 years. This dream eventually became The Clock of the Long Now. Through philanthropic support, including a generous gift from Jeff Bezos, The Long Now Foundation has over the last decade been building with Hillis this massive clock into a mountain in Western Texas.
Le Laboratoire Cambridge proposes 5 unique screenings of Restless Creatures this fall.[Oct 5, 19, Nov 2, 16, 30]
To reserve your ticket: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/screening-restless-creatures-wendy-whelan-followed-by-a-surprise-cocktail-at-cafe-artscience-tickets-38026568490
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EXP 23: LIFE IN PICOSECONDS
March 3 - June 10, 2017 - Le Laboratoire Cambridge
Life in Picoseconds, the 23rd experiment at Le Laboratoire, is a collaboration between French design team Millimetre, video artist and scientist Charles Reilly, artist Daniel Faust, artist and researcher Anna Ondaatje, and Le Laboratoire founder David Edwards. Integral to the Life in Picoseconds experience is an extraordinary new form of digital representation, the Atom Screen. With the Atom Screen, still and moving images appear on swirls of particles that move in chaotic and prescribed ways between glass panels, producing unusual, abstract, and realistic representations that convey emotive, artistic, and scientific impressions.
September 29, 2016 – January 7, 2017 – Le Laboratoire Cambridge
Internationally known for his transformable structures, Chuck Hoberman presents an experience of transformable space and aesthetic possibility with 10° — Le Laboratoire’s 22nd experiment. Taking Hoberman’s work in a new direction, 10° is a large-scale installation of four kinetic sculptures that can be transformed by guests through hands-on play.
April 22, 2016 – July 1, 2016 – Le Laboratoire Cambridge
September 18, 2015 – January 2, 2016 – Le Laboratoire Cambridge
The Trouble with Jellyfish is a contemporary art installation by Mark Dion. Across the world’s seas, jellyfish blooms of impressive magnitude are signaling ecological disturbances and a dramatic deterioration of the marine environment. While these troubles are beginning to garner public attention, what...
December 2, 2015 – December 5, 2015
Birdly is a virtual reality simulator that explores the experience of a bird in flight. Flying is one of the oldest dreams of humankind. Birdly captures this dream by simulating the experience of being a bird from a first person perspective. Unlike a common flight simulator you do not control the machine with...
April 17, 2015 – August 16, 2015 – Le Laboratoire Cambridge
2014-2015 Le Laboratoire Paris and Le Laboratoire Cambridge
Exp 17: Culture Labs
Fall 2013 – Le Laboratoire Paris
Over the last decade, artists, designers, and scientists have collaborated in widely varying circumstances. Through their original and sometimes provocative projects they have explored questions at once critical to an understanding of contemporary society and hard to explore along disciplinary lines...
Exp 16: The Olfactive Project
May 17, 2013 – September 15, 2013 – Le Laboratoire Paris
The Olfactive Project, created by an international team of artists, scientists, and designers including the founder of Le Laboratoire David Edwards, the master perfumer Olivier Pescheaux from Givaudan, the coffee master from Toby Estates in Australia Ryan Spinoglio and the artist Carsten Nicolaï, helps us realize the dream...
Exp 15: Figure Studies
October 5, 2012 – January 6, 2013 – Le Laboratoire Paris
For its 15th experiment, Le Laboratoire presents Figure Studies by American artist David Michalek. The work applies the technology of high-speed HD video toward capturing scenes and subject matter reminiscent of the famous Eadweard Muybridge and Etienne-Jules Marey photo-studies of human movement...
Exp 14: WA|HH
May 4, 2012 – July 22, 2012 – Le Laboratoire Paris
Exp 11: Cellbag In Labstore
September 24, 2010 – January 30, 2011 – Le Laboratoire Paris
Exp 8: The Collective Brain
October 9, 2009 – January, 4 2010 – Le Laboratoire Paris
Exp 7: Clouds of Flavors
October 9, 2009 – January, 4 2010 – Le Laboratoire Paris
Exp 6: While I Sleep
February 13, 2009 – May 4, 2009 – Le Laboratoire Paris
As part of its next exhibition/experiment, Le Laboratoire has invited the Indian artist Shilpa Gupta to explore a universal theme: fear. A theme unfortunately most present indeed given the recent terrorist attacks in Mumbai. This project, prepared with the psychologist Mahzarin Banaji (Harvard professor) explores the power of images as expressed by the behavior of individuals...
Exp 5: V≠L
October 11, 2008 – January 12, 2009 – Le Laboratoire Paris
Le Laboratoire is pleased to present, for the first time in Europe, a personal exhibition of the Japanese artist Ryoji Ikeda, a major figure of the sound and visual electronic scene. From his correspondence with the American mathematician Benedict Gross, he has conceived a work where the definition of the sublime blends with the immateriality of infinity. Welcome to a world of millimeter precision...
Exp 4: Within Thierry Marx's Sphere
October 11, 2008 – January 12, 2009 – Le Laboratoire Paris
Exp 2: Bel-Air
October 19, 2007 – January 6, 2008 – Le Laboratoire Paris
Drawing on experimental observations of Nasa scientists, Mathieu Lehanneur and David Edwards have created a new form of air filter that passes dirty air past absorptive surfaces of plants, thereby improving the capacity of plants to absorb noxious gases and particles, and, in a sense, render plants “more intelligent"....
