PROGRAM
4 : VILLES HYPNOTIQUES
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Sebastian
Dinter
Clarissa
vidéo, 4’ 10’’, 2001, Allemagne
Sebastien Dinter was born on 01.09.1977 in Marienberg
(Germany). He studied geography at the Technical
university of Dresden. Since 2000 he has been studying
visual communication at the Bauhaus University Weimar.
He directed several music videos and short films.
A video about observations on the rhythmic behaviour
of a landscape in ruins.
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Semiconductor
The Mini Epoch Series
Image de synthèse , 4’13’’,
Angleterre
Semiconductor is UK artists Ruth Jarman and Joseph
Gerhardt. They work with the computer as co-conductor
producing sound films / performances and installations.
Five site specific sound films: installed on 7"
widescreen LCD screens for Venice Biennial 2003
The Mini-Epoch Series is found animations of urban
planning during the next 2000 years; Landscaping of
cities yet to be conceived.
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Thomas
Béhuret & Thomas Fontin
Extension d’un vide
diaporama, 5’32’’, France
Born in 1976 in Nanterre, France, he lives in Montreal
as a photographer. Fascinated by the big city and
its inhabitants, his work currently focuses on the
standardization and anonymity that it can give rise
to.
A music enthusiast since he was a chidl (a trained
saxophonist, singer in a choral), it is in 1997 that
Thomas Fontin discovered "electronic" music
by way of the French underground techno scene. Alongside
his musical career, he completed a Master's in musicology
under the direction of Anne Sédès at
the université Paris 8.
Throughout this slideshow a hypnotic rhythm of images
carries one from abandoned industrial sites to forgotten
places of the city. The soundtrack here reflects peoples'
lack of interest for these urban deserts, the reminiscences
of which nonetheless continue to exist within each
one of us.
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Virginie
Laganière
Transit
vidéo, 2’08’’, 2003, Québec
Virginie Laganière is pursuing a Master's in
visual and media arts at the Université du
Québec à Montréal. Her work focuses
on the transformation of our apprehension of the natural
and urban environment in relation to the development
of devices that influence the perception of our environment.
Her practice is mainly presented as live video and
audio projection in real time and performance contexts,
as well as multi-channel and single-channel video
installations.
In this short single-channel video one can hear and
see samples recorded in periurban transition spaces
(highway lanes, rest stops, restaurans and truck stops.
This anonymous, interchangeable places without any
identity of their own, indetermined and without destination
certainly leave space for a flight, a drift of the
mind which can, in this way, question the possibilty
of the imagination in contexts that are overcoded
with information.
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Pierre-Yves
Bérenguer alias Orphaz
Aube
vidéo, 7’30’’, 2003, France
Artistic director, composer, musician and producer,
Pierre-Yves Bérenguer was born March 26, 1976
in Montpellier. In 1981 he studied to become a guitarist
in Antibes, he took classes in drama at the Théâtre
de Beauvais (1985/1988), studied philosophy at the
l’Université de Chambéry, and
studied percussion (190/1993). From 1995 onwards he
has dedicated himself to sonic experimentation made
possible by digital technologies, and to the different
collaborative modalities between image and sound.
The video is an excerpt of act III of the multimedia
show [MINO]TAURE. The narrative of the work and its
21st century trnasfiguration in the heart of the subway
labyrinth are influenced by several authors.
Artistic Direction : Pierre-Yves Bérenguer
Realisation : Cécile Babiole
Music : Pierre-Yves Bérenguer
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Chris
Wainwright & David Bickerstaff
Channel 14
vidéo, 7’30’’, 2004, Angleterre
David Bickerstaff:
Working with new technologies and lens-based media,
David works and lives in London and has exhibited
in the UK and internationally. He is the founder of
atomictv.com and creative director of newangle.co.uk.
Chris Wainwright:
Lives and works in London and is Dean of Art at Central
Saint Martins, The University of the Arts London.
His photographic work is in many major collections
and he exhibits photo and film works internationally.
David Created Atomictv in 1997 as an umbrella organization
for developing digital art works that include multi-screen
video installations, internet commissions, multimedia
and single-screen projects. His works have been shown
in Britain and internationally. Chris Wainwright is
an artist, curator and Dean of the School of Art at
Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, at
the London Institute, and vice-president of ELIA (the
European League of Institutes of Art).
Running through London's centre is the once majestic
river Thames. It is no longer a vital trade route
as its wharfs, warehouses and factories are now making
way for exclusive leisure and residential conversions.
Under and over the river are bridges and tunnels joining
the the two banks of this wide and depopulated flowing
stretch of water. The river's calm is however misleading
as this is a landmark in decline where adjoining space
is either contingent or exclusive and human presence
is speculative.
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Michael
Koon Boon Tan
Night Watch
vidéo, 4’, 2003, Singapour
As a multi-disciplinary artist, Michael creates installations
and interventions. The motivation behind his art is
to communicate shifts. Shifts are moments resonating
from his encounters with environments, conditions
and people that rouse him to respond. Reacting to
oblivion consciousness of society, his works look
at familiarity and question it. His works have been
shown in Hong Kong, Korea, Singapore, Thailand, U.S.A.
and U.K. and Vietnam.
In the absence of the days crowd, the almost empty
cabin space of the night transit train presents an
unfeeling and cold environment, resonating the condition
of transience and illustrates the phenomenon of "Non-places".
Night Watch probes the social and psychological aspect
of void in urban spaces while inviting us to examine,
in context of the projection space, the notion of
the passenger and destination
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Michel
Simonsen
L’espace oublié
vidéo, 11’52’’, 2004, Québec
Michel Simonsen was born in Montreal in 1976. He has
alternately wanted to be a paleontologist, private
investigator, goalkeeper. Instead he worked as a street
vendor, night cashier, gas station attendant, signaler
on a race track. He views the future with calm.
Yic Nabo is a happy and somewhat reckless nutcase
who has been exploring a huge abandoned factory in
downtown Montreal for some time. He invites us to
visit the inside. Follow the guide. |
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