Services
Services are available for artists and designers seeking implementation of custom electronics, programming, and robotics development in their work. Past services and collaborations are presented here below. For more information, please write to hello@jasoncook.fr
Stéphane Kouchian
Festi’Petits - Médiathèques Montpellier - 2024
An electronic playground for toddlers rendered for the MO.CO Montpellier contemporary art museum and the Médiathèques of Montpellier. At the artist’s request, I designed, programmed and installed multiple electronic installations for sound, lights and motorized interactivity. The installation was prepared for touring multiple sites across the city of Montpellier.
ORLAN
ORLANoïde - 2023
In collaboration with Raspiaudio, we were approached by the artist ORLAN to introduce artificial intelligence for her humanoid robot to interact with the public at the occasion of a solo exhibition at the SESC in Sao Paulo, Brazil. The robot now understands and speaks 3 languages, English, French and Portuguese. Spectators are welcome to press a button and ask any question they please.
Philharmonie de Paris
Boules de Temps - 2023
A project in collaboration with Raspiaudio. At the request of Paris Philharmonic’s museum extension for children, we designed a reliable solution for managing time limits for visitors. The solution was that each new group entering the museum would be addressed by color. Each visitor of the group would wear a ball of light programmed with the assigned color. When the time limit is reached, each individual ball would blink faster. This is the signal that time is up. As the product requires constant recharging and reliability over long periods of wear and tear, we decided to design a custom PCB. The object was then produced in multiple of 60 units.
Arash Nassiri
Nardo Grey - 2023
In the winter of 2023 I was approached by the artist Arash Nassiri to develop a small-sized system for video playback on very tiny RGB screens (ST7789). After attempting multiple methods on a Raspberry Pi, we decided to minimize the platform further with an ESP32-S3 programmed under microPython. This device gave us enough embedded flash and memory to create the effects sought by the artist. Nardo Grey uses multiple circuits displaying varied animated GIFs. The work was exhibited the summer of 2023 at the Octo Productions gallery in Marseille (FR).
Sonja Baumel
Being Encounter - 2017
In 2017 I was invited to Amsterdam by the artist Sonja Baumel to develop the electronics, motor integration and interactivity for her project Being Encounter. The installation was presented at the Nordic Biennial of contemporary art in Moss, Norway. The theme for the Biennial was “Alien.” Visitors were invited to crawl beneath a reflective dome surrounded by vibrating globules. The experience was above all tactile and ephemeral.
Guillaume Perret
sound sensitive light - 2015
Guillaume Perret, renowned saxophonist in France, commissioned me the summer of 2015 to render his saxophone electronically sensitive when he plays live. I designed a battery-powered circuit that could be installed on the side of the instrument. High power LEDs were installed inside the bell of the instrument. The musician can change the color of the light as he wishes. A microphone sensor captures only the sound when he is playing the saxophone.
Zimoun
36 Ventilators, 4.7m3 Packing Chips - 2014
Following multiple exchanges with Swiss artist Zimoun, in 2014 Project Tonus was developed as a monumental work of sound and visual texture using dozens of large fans to animate styrofoam confetti in a full open space at the Museo d’Arte di Lugano in Switzerland. The final result ressembled a sort of “plastic storm.” The video featured below gives a glimpse of the studio process by which was created a high fidelity control system capable of precise animations of over 100 consumer electric fans.
Antonin Fourneau
Water Light Graffiti - 2013
Water Light Graffiti is a project that aims to create a high-resolution material, made of thousands of water-reactive LEDs. When applied to the frame of any individual LED, water creates an electrical bridge providing the power required to light up the LED embedded under the surface. By applying more or less water the LED varies brightness accordingly. Antonin Fourneau was invited in residency at my studio in Paris to produce the work. I provided the studio structure and resource management to help realize the first and second version of the project.
France Dubois
Extrasystole - 2011
RATP - Nuit Blanche
At the occasion of the Nuit Blanche 2011 the funicular tramway at the Sacré Coeur of Montmartre was transformed to pulsate with red light to imitate the heart rate of a runner who would have taken the stairs to reach the highest point in Paris. The pulsing red light, at the steady rhythm of a heartbeat accelerates sharply as the funicular ascends with passengers aboard, and remains for a moment at it's heightened rate, then gradually slows down during the descent.
Julien Levesque & Albertine Meunier
(X) Crossings - 2011
Using an antique barometer, the device was repurposed to track and record the distance between two people over a given period of time (in this case, the distance between Albertine Meunier and Julien Levesque). A micro-controller was installed to connect to the internet, to interrogate the GPS position of the phone of each individual. A calculation was then made to determine the distance and make a logarithmic translation in order to record it physically on a roll of paper.
Jonathan Villeneuve
Mass Movement - 2010
While living in Montreal I had the occasion to collaborate with artist Jonathan Villeneuve. The project was above all an opportunity to practice PCB design. 5 rails porting wheat grass were prepared to behave as if they were in a field, blowing in the wind. We used stepper motors on each rail with a custom electronic system to synchronize movements between each rail.
Jean-Pierre Gautier
Stressato : Samurai Serpents - 2010
While living in Montreal I had the occasion to work with artist Jean-Pierre Gautier. In his installation Stressato : Samurai Serpents I was assigned to implement an interactive stepper motor system, programmed to move erratically, depending on the presence of spectators within proximity of the work. The result is multiple shower pipes twisting upon each other and knotting up, visually behaving much like snakes.
