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18/3/2014

Videoformes

Different venues, Clermont-Ferrand

Since 1984, Videoformes is a permanent observatory of the evolutions of video & digital arts : a place for presentation and meetings for artists, professionals and audience.

Since 1986, Videoformes annually has been organizing an international video and digital art festival. This event highlights the quality of the works and artists presented in the festival through exhibitions, lectures, screenings, performances, debates and meetings. Famous and/or young artists get to meet around multimedia installations, cinema and video films, performances, Web Art, live video and music performances (V-Jaying, D-Jaying), etc.

Since 1993 Videoformes has been running an alternative gallery (Galerie de l'art du temps/Chapelle de l'Oratoire), and a quarterly magazine about contemporary art and new technologies (Turbulences Vidéo).

In 2003, Videoformes initiates a policy of artists in residency.

Videoformes is now engaged in the development of Digital Video Archives, one of the most important video and electronic art collection that has been put together in over twenty years.

EXHIBITIONS:

Bill Viola (USA)
Inner Passage (2013)

Inner Passage chronicles a brief moment in one man’s solitary journey into the Mojave Desert of Southern California. It is an inner as well as an outer journey. In this landscape, the physical body confronts extremes of endurance in the form of scorching heat, numbing cold, blinding light, impenetrable darkness, infinite distance and forced confinement. It is also where the metaphysical extremes of loneliness, isolation, stress, anxiety and fear meet the forces of overwhelming beauty, mystery, wonder and ecstasy. Between these two states lies the present moment, with all it’s uncertainty and promise.

A man appears as a faint dot on the distant desert floor, and proceeds to move in a straight line toward us. As he gets closer he walks directly into the camera, blacking out the image. The screen goes dark, but it soon comes to life in an intense, jumbled cascade of images and fragmented sounds, that builds in intensity and frequency. When these begin to fade, a solitary light illuminates the path and the man finally emerges from the darkness into the light. He walks away and out onto the desert floor once more, eventually disappearing into the far distance.

(Inner Passage is an homage to British artist Richard Long)

Chapelle de l'hôpital général
Rue Sainte Rose - 63000 Clermont-Ferrand
Tuesday to Sunday 10am-6pm

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Clémence Demesme (France)
La chair et les volcans (Work in progress)

Creation in reesidency at Lycée Lafayette in Brioude. With the support of DRAC d’Auvergne and in partnership with CRDP de l’Académie de Clermont-Ferrand.
Currently an artist in residence at the high school Lycée Lafayette in Brioude, Clémence Demesme is working on a fiction project that is being developed using real elements and scenery. The environment, city, and high school become sources of inspiration for the young director, and are an essential contribution to the development of the project.
“The Flesh and the Volcanoes" will modestly approach the difficult subject of isolation and harassment at school, but also speak about weapons and refuges that an adolescent creates to confront the surrounding world.”
In a more contemplative form, the artist will propose an introduction to the world of film through her scenery and characters.

Clémence Demesme is a French photographer and video artist who was born on March 9, 1988 in Avignon.
Early on, she left school to teach herself different shot-taking techniques, becoming self-sufficient in her world and swaying between real obsessions and pure fiction.
At 19, her first videos were noticed at the Vidéoformes festival (Clermont-Ferrand), and then won an award at AVIFF (Cannes) several years later (The goldfish’s nightmare in 2009).
Today, whether through photography or moving images, the 25-year-old artist, even though attached to the plastic emotion of the image, is setting off to explore the narrative systems usually distinctive to fiction such as the construction of a character, or story.
Currently a resident artist at Lycée Lafayette in Brioude, Clémence Demesme is working on a film project made from elements and real scenery.

Young public screenings - Thursday April 3
VIDEOFORMES and the CRDP of the Académie de Clermont-Ferrand open their doors to schools. They will present a programme with a selection of movies received on the occasion of the international competition for video art creation. The collected movies will be divided into three specific programs : Primary School, Secondary School, High school.
9 am : Primary School program (artists videos) and the One Minute competition videos - Primary School category
10 am : Secondary school program (artists videos)
11 am : One Minute competition videos – Secondary school category
2 pm : High school program (artists videos)
3 :30 pm : One Minute competition videos - High school category

After the projections, students can vote for their favourite film as part of the Prix du Jeune Spectateur that will be awarded to an artist thanks to the support of the Crédit Agricole Centre France.

CRDP de l'Académie de Clermont-Ferrand (Centre régional de documentation pédagogique)
15 rue d’Amboise - 63000 Clermont-Ferrand
Monday to Friday 9am-5pm

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Jean-Charles Eustache (France)
Personnal exhibition with 10 paintings

Jean-Charles Eustache’s strange and cinematographic universe marked by melancholy is to be found in this new series of ten small paintings. Facing his paintings, we find ourselves as exposed to an extract of a story, a movie scene, a crime scene; as looking through a foliage, over a hedge, through a keyhole or a photo lens. These images spread through and imprint themselves on our retina. His precious paintings, in which he introduces a new mate aspect, are marked by his multicultural influences, beliefs and show his great knowledge of painting and attraction for different movements of early 20th century – expressionism, nabis – realists, American regionalists. The size of his paintings is important, Eustache has succeeded into finding the right format, as if he was carrying images with him, pieces of memory.
“What can I say about these new paintings other than they go on with their slow process of dissolution of the reality (at least of its appearances). It is indeed the theme of forgetfulness that wanders around these paintings. Here, it is the partial disappearance in the landscape of a body or an object, there it shows in a kind of combustion that disrupts and eats the motif up, like time cancelling our dearest memories.” Jean-Charles Eustache, 2014

Samuel Rousseau (France)
Soubresauts du monde

Galerie Claire Gastaud presents the fourth Samuel Rousseau’s exhibition.
Samuel Rousseau is an eclectic artist. Photographer, video director, he cultivates the interdisciplinarity. Full of invention, his pieces are scultpures, video, and installations. Samuel Rousseau produces pieces full of poetry that hijack objects of every day and inserts a specific video image. The originality of his work is based on his way of melting very sophisticated technologies with objects that come from a popular and basic production – bottles, tarpaulin, jerrycans, tyres...-. Samuel Rousseau is a nondescript artist, always eager to test, attacking derisively our perceptive habits. Thus, the vulgar gets in collusion with the artistic. Samuel Rousseau likes to charge the absurdity of our existences with a rare dose of poetry. Always between tragedy and comedy.
« It is rare to see a strong central theme emerging at the beginning of such varied and diverse work. Samuel Rousseau is an artist in the fullest sense of the word, who describes himself as having no fixed direction. That may well be true, but what does it really mean? He possesses an aura of mystery and a directness which seems to engender an uncomplicated sense of relevance and a clear vision of the world around us. where the cumbersome techniques or obscure concepts of so many artists complicate reality, Samuel Rousseau purges, stripping away the layers to reveal to us the most minute chinks in banal everyday subjects, which he then then elevates beyond the realm of banality » Gabriel Tornabene

Galerie Gastaud
4/7 rue du Terrail - 63000 Clermont-Ferrand
Tuesday to Saturday 2pm-7pm
www.claire-gastaud.com

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LA GALERIE DES ECOLES
VIDEOFORMES 2014 and the CROUS present various video programs created during higher education courses : art-school, universities, post degree, etc. Such productions are constantly progressing in quality and in quantity. They are exposed at the Galerie Dolet.

DMA Cinéma d’animation
The two years Diploma in Art and Crafts Cinema Animation option can be attended if in possession of a Design and Applied Arts Diploma or after one year of refresher course.
At the end of their training, students will have created various videos among which an animation short film.
http://dma-cinemadanimation-descartes.blogspot.fr/

Mahatma Gandhi Institute
The Mahatma Gandhi Institute, Arts High school in Mauritius, realized several videos during a video art workshop under the supervision of Gabriel Soucheyre and MarieSylviane Buzin in May 2013.
http://www.mgirti.org

ESADHaR (Design and Applied Arts High School - le Havre Rouen)
Students collaborated at the « Cage Suite » project organized by their teacher Stéphane Trois Carrés. This research project, resulting from a random video editing, is a tribute to John Cage 4’33’’.

Galerie Dolet (CROUS)
25 rue Etienne Dolet - 63000 Clermont-Ferrand
Monday to Friday 8am to 4pm

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Julien Piedpremier (design and visual creation)
Sous le toit du monde - Label 2 DIGITS

Installation produced in residency at VIDEOFORMES with the support of DRAC d’Auvergne.
An immersive and interactive installation that gives the spectator the opportunity to take part in a ludic and collaborative experience.
The vault of the heavens reveals itself to us and proposes interaction with the planets that make it up via a tablet. These planets are made with boxes containing video messages put online in a photo booth on the sides of the installation.
It is also possible to simply gaze at the starry sky in movement, basking in an original musical composition. The objective of the visual creation by Julien Piedpremier is to immerse the spectator, moving beyond the screens that we habitually use. It is a world “outside the walls”, suspended in mid-air, where the starry canopy interacts with the spectator and encourages participation in the creative process.
A mobile structure of about five meters a side which was designed by Catopsys will enable the spectator to experience 360 degrees of sound and images.
The sound environment is designed by Patrick Marcland.
Student participation in the workshop “Voix à part entière” (Voices in their own right) in the SUC are supervised by Marie-Sylviane Buzin.
Born in Clermont-Ferrand in 1975. He was a student of Henri Guibal and Jean Nani during his time at the Clermont-Ferrand School of Fine Arts, from 1996 to 1999. They helped him sharpen his perception of colors. He learned about projected images and projection material with Olivier Agid at architecture school in Clermont during the Ateliers Nuit (Night Workshops). He participated in the Vidéoformes festival in 1998 and met Miguel Chevalier with his installation Turbulences Numériques (Digital Turbulences), as well as Laurent Mignonneau with Interactive Plant Growing. These encounters greatly influenced him. In the year 2000, the digital tool and its multiple spheres of activity led him to learn from Michel Bret and Edmond Couchot in the Art and Technologies of Images in the University of Paris. He continued his studies in the digital arts, earning a doctorate under a CIFRE contract in the Parisian company SSF. He defended his dissertation in 2005 with the subject “The Great Images” under the supervision of Hervé Huitric. Throughout his university years, he had many opportunities to create with IRCAM composers, notably Alain Bonardi with whom he designed several video art installations including Alma Sola, presented at the Cube in Issy-les-Moulineaux and at the Palais de Tokyo. He also met Laurence Marthouret (dancer and choreographer) Patrick Marcland (composer) with whom he has participated as a visual artist in Monade or Meltem. Julien Piedpremier is currently the artistic director in the young company Catopsys based in Clermont-Ferrand.

Jacques Perconte (France)
Puys - Label 2 DIGITS

Installation produced in residency at VIDEOFORMES with the help of Clermont Communauté, and the support of DRAC d’Auvergne.
Tens of thousands of years ago, telluric powers formed the lands of Auvergne. A distinctive energy emanates from the “Puys”. The land fans out. Time is different, suspended. It’s a relative data point. This series of generative films explores the possible modulations of these magical images. And from the captured colors emerges a quantity of tonalities that bring forth all the seasons of these landscapes.
Born in 1974 in Grenoble (France), Jacques Perconte lives and works in Paris. He is well known as one of the pioneers of French internet art. He is among the first artists to have worked on compression codecs. Jacques made his debuts with internet and video art. His first films date back from 1995 and his first internet artworks from 1996. The website technart.net is the core of his work, showcasing all his activities (notes, articles, performances... the web is endless). He frequently works with other artists, including Michel Herreria (painter), Didier Arnaudet (poet), Marc Em (musician), Hugo Verlinde (film maker), Léos Carax dans Holy Motors, Jean-Benoit Dunckel, Julie Rousse, Eddie Ladoire, Simonluca Laitempergher, Hélène Breschand, Jean-Jacques Birgé, Vincent Segal, Antonin-Tri Huang et Jeff Mills.
Even though his works become less and less theoretical, the relation between form and substance remains crucial. Jacques Perconte works on the forms of fiction on various medias as well as a formal research, focused on the body and the landscape.
Jacques Perconte apparently has a good knowledge of his technology, which serves him when dealing with frame and color. He tries to transform digital technology into a new media, which can be esthetically as rich as any other classical art.
www.jacquesperconte.com

Scenocosme (France)
Rencontres imaginaires (Imaginary meetings)

Supoort and coproduction : AADN - Arts et Cultures Numériques, Salle des Rancy
Rencontres imaginaires (Imaginary meetings) presents a staging which creates an ambiguity between a real physical space and a virtual space made of augmented reflections and gives the illusion of a deformed reality.
This installation is made of a camera and a screen presented like a mirror. When a visitor enters into the room, he is faced to the interactive mirror screen reflects his/her body and face. Virtual faces and hands are attracted slowly by this reflection and are trying to touch him, to catch him, to avoid him, to surprise him... These faces and hands have lots of various behaviors : shy, reserved, curious, or engaging, and question relationships to the other. The hands and faces feel the presence and move along the face of the viewer.
Grégory Lasserre and Anaïs met den Ancxt work together with the name Scenocosme.
They mix art and digital technology in order to find substances of dreams, poetries, sensitivities and delicacies.
They have exhibited their interactive installation artworks at ZKM Karlsruhe Centre for Art and Media (Germany), at Museum Art Gallery of Nova Scotia (Canada), la Villa Romana (Firenze), at Daejeon Museum of Art (Korea), at Contemporary Art Museum Raleigh (USA), and in many international biennals and festivals : Art Center Nabi / INDAF (Seoul), Biennial Experimenta (Australia), BIACS 3 / Biennial International of Contemporary Art of Seville (Spain), NAMOC / National Art Museum of China / TransLife / Triennial of Media Art (Beijing), C.O.D.E (Canada), Futuresonic (UK), WRO (Pologne), FAD (Brasil), ISEA / International Symposium on Electronic Art (Belfast & Istanbul & Albuquerque & Sydney), EXIT, VIA, Lille3000, Ososphere, Scopitone, Seconde nature (France) at La Gaîté Lyrique (Paris)…
Scenocosme : www.scenocosme.com

Rachel Rosalen et Rafael Marchetti (Brazil)
Unassigned

Rachel Rosalen : Over the last few years, Rosalen has traveled a unique journey in artistic-electronic production in Brazil. She has done work with video, telematics performances, interactive video installations, live theater, projects based on databases and programs – in may cases building specific interfaces for each work. Rosalen uses these devices to discuss a broader project dealing with relations between life and death, war, violence, media, eroticism and construction of the body in the contemporary metropolis. Her trajectory has been quite nomadic and solitary, and she often asks other artists, programmers, or electronic engineers to work with her on projects.
Rafael Marchetti : Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1975. Lives and works in São Paulo (SP).
Developer, designer and editor.Masters – Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes Manuel-Belgrano-Argentina.
Collective exhibitions:1995 – Fundación Aquemia Gráfica 2001, Buenos Aires, Argentina; Fundación Moa, La Plata, Argentina.

Gabriel Mascaro (Brazil)
Memories of my time on Mars

Coproduction Gabriel Mascaro / VIDEOFORMES 2013 - creation in residency 2012/2013
This video was edited using footage recorded by soldiers during the Afghanistan War. The videos were found on a social networking site frequented by soldiers, their families and the simply curious.
In 2012, near what I thought would be the end of military occupation in Afghanistan and with the conflict in Syria impending, I contacted some American soldiers through social networks in an attempt to get a research the memories and imagery that they recorded during combat. That was when I came across the helmet-cam footage, which gives a soldier’s-eye view of the surroundings, where the camera is located very close to the true line of vision. Every month they pick out their best footage and post it online.
In reorganizing the images, I propose a journey through a symbolic war in which the enemy is invisible and the target uncertain. What interests me most about this research is the experience of a latent present, in which the conflict no longer takes place between the soldier and the enemy, but in the rarefied space and time between the camera and the helmet.
Gabriel Mascaro lives and works in Recife, Brazil. He has directed four feature length documentaries that have circulated in major festivals around the world including IDFA, Rotterdam, CPH:DOX, BAFICI, Miami, Cartagena, Visions du Reel, Munich, Museum of Contemporary Art in Barcelona (MACBA).
Gabriel’s recent work transits between documentary, fiction, experimental art video and installation.
http://gabrielmascaro.com/

Thierry Kuntzel (France)
The Waves (2003), interactive installation

With the collaboration of the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Nantes (France).
At the back of the very long room, a very large image and the sound that is associated with it: the sea; more precisely the waves. No beach, just a sliver of sky. The waves, in their terracing: far-away almost flat, the formation of the first contours, and, in the foreground, the unfurling. Movement and color, like an unstable monochrome, endlessly recurring, between black, blue, gray, green and golden (the sand caught up in the rolls).
“For example, the color green: yellow and blue can surely be perceived, but if their perception vanishes by dint of progressive diminution, they enter into a differential relation that determines green. And nothing impedes either yellow or blue, each on its own account, from being already determined by the differential relation of two colors that we cannot detect, or of two degrees of chiaroscuro (…) The sound of the sea: two waves must be seen as nascent and heterogeneous in order to enter into a relation capable of determining the perception of a third, that “excels” over the others and becomes conscious. Gilles Deleuze, The Fold.
What befalls the image and sound in the installation has a troubling connection with the spectator: while he neither determines the image nor the sound, which is recorded beforehand, he is the one who regulates and deregulates the speed, by his position in the room. The waves slow down the closer to the screen the spectator is, until they stop in a photograph devoid of sound. No literal fusion with the waves, but a link, or complicity with them: a renewal of the oceanic feeling (illumination of melancholy). Mechanism, perception, a return from the edge even, tow, undertow, impossible time: The Waves is a tribute to Virginia Woolf (to the book of the same title), to her writing, her invention of time, her person - this life continually on the verge of drowning (that was her real end), between terror and ecstasy.
Thierry Kuntzel was born in Bergerac in 1948.
His philosophy, linguistics and semiology studies led him ta work on a thesis, supervised by Roland Barthes, on "Travail du film / travail du rêve" ("Film-work / Dream-work'') and to write several important texts on film theory and analysis.
From 1972 to 1989, he worked at the Research Service of the O.R.T.F, then at the I.N.A, training and research. He taught semiology of cinema and textual analysis of film at Paris and American universities and the IDHEC film school.
At the end of the eighties he decided to devote himself entirely to artistic creation. After making several installations with marble and neon from 1974, he produced the majority of his videos between 1979 and 1980.
Since then, he has focused on creating installations that involve the projection of images, light and sound. Writing is also a fundamental process of the whole oeuvre.
Thierry Kuntzel has lived and worked in Paris. He died in 2007.

La Tôlerie
10 rue de Bien-Assis - 63000 Clermont-Ferrand
Tuesday to Saturday - 2pm to 6pm

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