For the eleventh Café des Sciences, they have invited Andreas Gysin, a designer from Lugano, Switzerland and the current resident artist at Chronus Art Center.
Born in 1975 in Zürich, Switzerland, Andreas Gysin is part of a duo with Sidi Vanetti: together they work on design and research projects without a particular purpose since 2000. The visual characteristics and configurations (color, form) and the internals (mechanics, electronics) are the center aspects of his signature work, which began in 2007 by designing and programming a custom-built split-flap display. Later this approach extended to other signage systems and objects, kinetic and static. An important aspect of the work is the displacement and the reconfiguration of these informative elements, removing the original function but enabling a different and new reading of the forms.