Stéphane Degoutin and Gwenola Wagon

Cat Loves Pig shows animals interacting and moving on automatic vacuum cleaners. For them, the vacuum cleaner becomes an autonomous vehicle.

Cat Loves Pig questions the links between animal and mechanical species. For decades, numerous books and articles have questioned human-machine relations, the links between artificial intelligence and human intelligence, and so on. In the real world, in a way, cats have double-crossed us: they seem to be quietly maintaining relationships with various mechanical forms. Relationships that no doubt escape us. The films are projected from robot vacuum cleaners. The robot vacuum cleaner has become commonplace. Another standardized product has been added: the video projector. Together, they form a new object, a block that moves. When you put several of them in the same space, they collide and bump into each other, creating interactions. The projection device itself is born of a relationship between two technologies: the automatic vacuum cleaner and the video projector. It is projected in motion from the back of the robot vacuum cleaner, which cleans the exhibition space as it circulates randomly through it, with the projection moving from one wall to another. While the battery is recharging, the film is projected onto the wall opposite the vacuum cleaner.

Find out more on the project page