CHRONICA Residency | OPEN LAB, Yann Deval & Barbara Mydlak, BLANCO, Ghent, Belgium

Location: Lammerstraat 31, Ghent, Belgium
When: 04-24 August
Open on Fridays: August 8, 15, and 22, 2025, from 11:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m.

More information:
NUCLEO | CHRONICA Residency
UITINVLAANDEREN | CHRONICA Residency


Documentation of the double-sided interactive projection created during residency by Barbara and Yann, recorded at BLANCO Lammerstraat 31 in Ghent, Belgium in August 2025
Video, animation, photography: Barbara Mydlak & Yann Deval
Music and mapping: Yann Deval
Images and screen: Barbara Mydlak

With special thanks to NUCLEO and all visitors.

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CHRONICA is a collective, interactive ritual that links traditional papermaking techniques and contemporary augmented reality technologies to explore themes of illness and healing processes.
CHRONICA is produced by Dark Euphoria (FR)

Support & Partners:
With the sup­port of the Centre nati­o­nal du ciné­ma et de l’ima­ge ani­mée / CNC (FR)
Magelis, with the sup­port of the Département de la Charente in part­ner­ship with the CNC (FR)
École nati­o­na­le du jeu et des médi­as inter­ac­tifs numé­ri­ques du Cnam / CNAM-ENJMIN, Angoulême (FR)
NUCLEO (BE)

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YANN DEVAL
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Yann Deval is a music-composer, interactive and motion-designer. After graduating from Panthéon-Sorbonne University in Paris with a degree in film history and studying audiovisual post-production in Cannes, he moved to Belgium (Ghent and Brussels) in 2006, where he developed his activities as motion-designer, music composer and interactive designer, notably with the REANIMATION collective.
He is a creator of VR/AR experiences (design, programming and music) with the installations/performances CHRONICA, IMMERSIO, ATLAS (performed at Ars Electronica, Venice Biennale of Architecture, EU@SXSW Austin, IRCAM Centre-Pompidou Paris...). Deval's work has been supported by e. g. STARTS Residencies 2017, Performance Augmention Lab (Oxford Brookes University), Kaohsiung VR FILM LAB, iMAL Brussels.
His visual work has led him into the field of musical composition for images. A multi-instrumentalist equipped with a varied instrumentarium (over 50 acoustic, electric, electronic and computer instruments), he composes for audiovisual fiction, XR, documentary, theater as well as personal music performances.
Yann Deval regularly shares his knowledge of XR, photogrammetry and motion-design in art-science workshops (with Gluon Brussels, Oxford Brookes University and many others).

BARBARA MYDLAK
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Barbara Mydlak is a Polish artist who lives in Ghent and works internationally. She studied archaeology at the University of Warsaw and visual arts at the Strzeminski Academy of Art in Lodz. She completed the Interdisciplinary practice-led Doctoral Studies and obtained a PhD in Fine Arts at the Abakanowicz University of Fine Arts in Poznan, Poland.
Barbara Mydlak creates multidimensional cycles of works that usually evolve and expand over the span of many years. Her exhibitions often take the form of dynamic, performative laboratories — spaces where she restores aged objects, documents their transformative processes, and creates new works. Inviting direct interaction, Mydlak’s multisensory installations combine different scents, flavours, textures or sounds.
Her works are related to autobiographical stories, methods of forgetting specific memories and traumas, as well as rituals, mostly associated with illness, healing, acceptance of loss, death and the process of decay. Handmade paper installations she creates have an ephemeral element, they are made of perishable and vulnerable to destruction waste plant material that can be transformed and reused.