The Thomas More meeting
dal 22/11/2002 al 24/11/2002
Segnalato da
22/11/2002
The Thomas More meeting
Convent of La Tourette, Eveux-sur-Arbresle
The meeting will give the opportunity to hear several French-speaking academics and philosophers. This meeting will settle, at the rhythm of the stay, a dialogue with the public.
Cultural Centre
Convent of LA TOURETTE
Thomas More Centre
From image to virtual: to think the screen
Meeting and Electronic projection at the convent of La Tourette in France
The weekend of 23/24 in November, 2002 takes place, in the convent of La Tourette, the Thomas More Meeting: " From image to virtual: think of the screen ". This will give the opportunity to hear several French-speaking academics and philosophers (Jean-Clet Martin, Marie-José Mondzain, Jean-Louis Weissberg, Wolfgang Wackernagel, Jean-Jacques Wunenberger). This meeting will settle, at the rhythm of the stay, a dialogue with the public.
In connection with this Thomas More Meeting, the Cultural Centre of La Tourette proposes on Saturdays an electronic projection which will take place in the atrium of the convent. This Franck Ancel's realization follows upon a residence, in association with Joachim Montessuis and Franck Olivier. His installation will put in echo the subject of the Meeting and the so particular architecture of the convent.
"It's from the atrium that we understand better the use of the church, and it of Corbusier on architecture which is traversed. A building is a sculpture in which one penetration; with three dimensions of this one add a fourth, which is that of the time of the course. This other dimension does not give a global vision but a succession of sequences connected between them by the memory and intelligence, as if the building had multiple possible visions"
Extracts from the guide of the La Tourette convent
The device consists in the projection of video in real time and numeric images. For the presentation of this project, Franck Ancel also chose the reading of the German architect Philippe Oswalt in his text "Polytopes de Xenakis" (1991):
"The church space which Xenakis and Le Corbusier designed together is a sort of camera obscura: the room is dark. A small square opening in the ceiling projects the image of the sun on the floor. The movement of the sun is represented by this wandering spot of light in the interior. Yet that is not all. The exterior walls of the lower floors of the monastery were designed by Xenakis as 'musical glass walls.' Also called 'ondulatoires,' they are composed of vertical strips of concrete and strips of glass of different widths. The constantly changing rhythm of open and closed is projected by the sunlight onto the floor. The floor becomes a projection screen. The walls fade in our perception. "
It is in these opening, thanks to the contemporary use of the numeric that another set of projection will be set up at nightfall. By it, this short-lived action describes formally the frame of a "scenography of the electronic image", anticipated since 1963 by Jacques Polieri.
Between theory and practical, Franck Ancel is the author of several texts which confront Art with the comtempory mutation. He also organized meeting on " art and new technologies " (Bordeaux), conceived the exposition " Life Perception " (Compiègne), and coordinated a retrospective on Jacques Polieri (BNF/Paris). His last realization was a postal cards edition associated with a temporary Internet site.
Participation on the Meeting on registration in complete or half board
Projection in the atrium of the convent on Saturday November 23th from the evening
Press Contact - Stéphane Vambre
Convent of La Tourette
Eveux-sur-Arbresle, near Lyon - France