ADELIN SCHWEITZER
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ABOUT

Adelin Schweitzer is a French contemporary artist, director and performer renowned for his technological detour and iconoclastic use of Extended Realities (XR). His creations go against the techno-solutionist ideology and belief in a technology capable of resolving all social, economic and environmental issues. They question the mutations that these imaginaries bring about in the social and political body. By inviting the public to experience these works, the artist develops a form of self-defense manual, unusual and mischievous, enabling us to rethink a society that has been nibbled away by technology.

Spectacular and sometimes absurd, his corpus is a call for collective debate on the structures of power in place. It poses essential questions: What remains of us once an immersive experience is over? What does it do to our bodies? Do we want to live in this virtualized reality? The appearance of his works is the antithesis of the cold, uncluttered design of the devices marketed by the tech giants. In fine, these paranoid, miraculous machines, designed by the artist himself from his hackerspace in Marseille, borrow their aesthetics from pop culture, especially from science fiction.
He is a graduate of the École Supérieure d’Art d’Aix-en-Provence (2004). His career as an artist now totals more than twenty works. His installations and performances have been programmed in France (Chroniques biennial, ]interstice[ festival in Caen, Les nuits de l’Ososphère in Strasbourg) and internationally (Ars Electronica, ARCO Madrid, Liverpool European Capital of Culture 2008, Marseille-Provence European Capital of Culture 2013, PatchLab in Kraków, SAT in Montréal). He is a speaker at key events of the XR sector (NewImages, Realities in Transition), in art schools (ESAM Caen/Cherbourg, TALM Tours/Angers/Le Mans) and in higher education (Creative Campus in Cagliari, with Sardegna Teatro).

Adelin is also the founder and artistic director of les laboratoires deletere, a studio for production, distribution and transmedia experimentation founded in Marseille in 2017.

PRESS
Neural n°77, interview by Alessandro Ludovico (2025)
XRmust, Le test Sutherland (2025)
HACNUMedia, Rêves immersifs ou drones autonomes ? (2025)
Fisheye Immersive, Une création DIY est-elle possible ? (2024)
Zone Occupée, Où est mon corps ? (2024)
XRmust, Un état altéré de la conscience (2024)
Observatoire des politiques culturelles, Métavers : le flou artistique (2024)
Fisheye Immersive, Réhabiter le monde (2024)
Gli Stati Generali, Prototipi festival, Cagliari (2024)
The Quietus, L.E.V. Madrid live review (2019)
Makery, les laboratoires deletere (2019)
Libération, Dans une tête d’oiseau (2016)

DOWNLOADS
Portfolio (PDF)
Press book (PDF)

LINKS
Les laboratoires deletere
VESM, the fictional company behind the Sutherland test