Cécile Babiole FR & Jean-Marie Boyer FR
COPY THAT
Interactive installation
Exhibition “ Fabulations — Reclaiming Our Voices, Reinventing Language ”
October 30 through January 17, 2027
Wednesday through Sunday, 11:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m.
21 bis, Mirabeau – Departmental Cultural Center
Aix-en-Provence
Credits
Co-production: Abbaye de Maubuisson
“Copy that” is an English expression that means “message (clearly) received” in slang used in amateur radio, CB, and military communications.
The installation sets up a transmission system that allows short text messages to be sent and received between two radios, enabling a form of chat between two participants simultaneously. The original system is one-way: from the radio station to the listeners; here, the artists transform it into a means of two-way communication.
In this sense, this play invents a fictional chapter in the history of the media by creating a novel and functional text-based chat service—albeit one that is slow and has limited reach.
This work is part of the critical reflection on the history of technology that artists are accustomed to engaging in.
Cécile Babiole
Cécile Babiole has been active in the field of music and electronic and digital arts since the 80s. Her creations combine visual and sound arts in installations and performances that question technologies with irony and singularity. Her latest work focuses on language, its transmission, dysfunctions, reading, translation and algorithmic manipulation. In 2016, she co-founded the Roberte la Rousse collective, a cyberfeminist group working on language, gender and technology. She is a member of the artist-curator collective “Le sans titre”.
She is also an exhibition curator. Her latest exhibition: Hadaly et Sowana, cyborgs et sorcières at L’Espace Gantner, Bourogne (2019-2020). Her work has been exhibited internationally: Centre Pompidou, Gaîté Lyrique – Paris, IMAL – Brussels, Mutek, Elektra – Montreal, Fact – Liverpool, MAL – Lima, NAMOC – Beijing, … and awarded numerous prizes and grants: Ars Electronica, Locarno, Prix SCAM, Bourse Pierre Schaeffer, Bourse Villa Médicis hors les murs, Transmediale Berlin, Stuttgart Expanded Media Festival…
Jean-Marie Boyer
Jean-Marie Boyer is an artist-developer specializing in the creation of installations, performances, and interfaces that draw equally on the codified systems of artistic representation (painting, architecture, countercultures) as to human and physical phenomena (geopolitics, socioeconomics, finance), sensory perception, and cognitive systems. He is a founding member of the RYBN collective.
