Your heart, this so particular organ that often gets excited, makes you feel effects that you cannot see. What if it was different this time? What if, this time, we could see it beat? What if he could decide to beat faster? Or inversely to slow down our blood flow? Tout passe is a behavioral artwork where the tridimensional translucent reflection of visitors enables us to see hearts beating and blood flowing through their bodies. Tout passe is a mirror augmented with cine-MRI and MR angiography that adapts to visitors’ cardiac pace, seize it and can play with it. Tout passe explores the influence of this avatar on our behavior by directly catching our physiology, where everything goes.
Mirror augmented with cine-MRI and MR angiography with infrared sensor, computer and LCD screens.
[Design] Ikse Maître
[Real-time graphics rendering] Matthieu Courgeon
[Drawings and 3D graphics] Sophie Larger, Gaele Misiak
[Music composition] Vincent Hulot
[Physiological signals] Adrien Duwat, Tim Schneider
[MRI data] Adrien Duwat
2025 – Tout Passe exhibited at BioMaps (Paris-Saclay University, CNRS, CEA, INSERM) – Being at the body | Résonances art-science
2025 – Tout Passe exhibited at BioMaps (Paris-Saclay University, CNRS, CEA, INSERM) – Being at the body | Résonances art-science
2025 – Tout Passe exhibited at BioMaps (Paris-Saclay University, CNRS, CEA, INSERM) – Being at the body | Résonances art-science
2025 – Tout Passe exhibited at Le sas, science-art-society group at Paris-Saclay
2025 – Tout Passe exhibited at BioMaps (Paris-Saclay University, CNRS, CEA, INSERM) – Being at the body | Résonances art-science
6) 2025 – Tout Passe exhibited at BioMaps (Paris-Saclay University, CNRS, CEA, INSERM) – Being at the body | Résonances art-science
BIO
Ikse|Xavier Maître is a physicist and researcher at the CNRS at the Multimodal Biomedical Imaging Laboratory in Paris-Saclay (BioMaps, CEA, CNRS, Inserm, Paris-Saclay University). His early research focused on the fundamentals of quantum mechanics and the mechanisms of quantum entanglement and decoherence. Today, he combines atomic physics and medical physics to develop new tools for exploring the human body. He coordinates the European innovation project V|LF-Spiro3D on 3D magnetic resonance spirometry.
Ikse Maître initiated the science-art-society group Le sas, within which he conducts art-science research based on unrestricted human-machine interaction. He develops art-science experiments and draws on shifts in reality to test our relationships with the world and engage the public. He also coordinates the work on immersive technologies for the European cultural heritage project Artcast4D and studies the keys to immersion in public space at the Forum des Images, through the installation Ariadne's Fibres.
