Source : C. Wainwright & D. Bickerstaff
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PROGRAM 4 : VILLES HYPNOTIQUES


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.



  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.

  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.


  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.


  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

  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.


  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


  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.
 

Videos : General Program

1 : Le sable au corps
2 : Sous le soleil exactement
3 : Non-lieux
4 : Villes Hypnotiques
5 : Jeux de vidéos
6 : Arrêts sur mirages
7 : Nomadisme
8 : Un désert intérieur

Special Program : Les déserts de Bill Viola

Video Program
by Graciela Taquini :

Horizonte - Argentine
Desierto - Argentine

Video Program by
Lisa Steele & Kim Tomczak :

Deserted Streets At Midday. Unrest, Not Yet Visible

     

DESERT : 6th MANIFESTATION INTERNATIONALE VIDÉO ET ART ÉLECTRONIQUE
MONTREAL - SEPTEMBER 20 TO 27, 2004 - PRESENTED BY CHAMP LIBRE