Nathalie Delprat

Nathalie Delprat is a scientist and artist. She is a lecturer at Sciences Sorbonne Université and conducts her research at the Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire des Sciences du Numérique in Paris-Saclay, where she developed the Augmented Reverie paradigm.
She received the CNRS-Images prize for her ELEMENTA project in 2018 and her work was notably featured in the documentary Rêverie augmentée available on the CNRS-Images website, along with several of her publications.

Her residency is devoted to presenting her interactive installation RêvA and continuing to write the essay “Je est un nuage : rêverie augmentée et biopoétique”. This project revolves around putting into words and visual, musical or choreographic form a surprising experience of material hybridization of subject and image, based on an interactive, immersive installation in which the body virtually becomes wind, cloud, flame, rain or water bubble. This dynamic materialization deforms the body’s limits to the point of dispersing it in space. It can provoke sensations of floating, fragmentation or erasure of the self, raising many questions about the primary forms of imaginary space and the sensory, motor or emotional traces that can be reactivated in this way, as well as the role of emotions in the emergence of a sense of self. This exploration of primitive sensoriality through the malleability of the virtual medium cannot be envisaged without the contribution of artistic creation and gesture, in order to develop in a transdisciplinary way a mode of biopoetic knowledge with its own effectivity through and by the body.