As an artist, I need to rest directed by Sonia Cillari compares, in an intimate relationship, her personality as an artist to an unknown part of herself. Under the voyeuristic gaze of the viewer.
Grégory Chatonsky features in The Parade, the relationship between a work and the public by commenting on the behaviour of spectators: Each of them is transformed into a fashion model. Thus revisiting the issues developed by Dan Graham in Performer / Audience / Mirror (1977).
Patience for the man is inspired by generative processes and source codes. Aaajiao (Xu Wenk) and B6 consider them as cultural forms rather than sets of sequences of commands.
Tarantelle by Marie-Laure Cazin features its own soundtrack performed by the two actors as well as the sound effects technician and the musician. It is they who breathe movement into the pictures.
Pascale Houbin, Aujourd’hui à deux mains, hopes to develop a production in Montbéliard from films made on site, which will offers the public a journey into the world of gesture, at the frontier between spoken language and visual calligraphy.
Adrien Mondot develops in La Chute something like the beginning of flight, a system of virtual juggling using digital tools. This multidisciplinary artist’s work lies at the point of intersection between the art of juggling and technological innovation.
With De l'expérience des choses, Heiner Goebbels, Marc Perroud have produced a documentary on the genesis of an artistic sound and visual installation that has been incorporated into theatre: a theatre without actors and pianos without pianists.
Jonathan Pontier proposes in Territoires de l'âme a multimedia ritual, an initial voyage inside a man during which he dreams his reality and realizes his dreams.
Robert Cahen / Tombe (avec les mots). words, phrases, letters, enter into the visual field, moving slowly and fall from top to bottom, as if in a sort of liquid weightlessness. The idea of a passage once again haunts this work, but here, this idea is accompanied by a peculiar, deadly emotion.
Caroline Grosjean, à l'endroit... Visual choreography and design that is presented within a pure and fragile framework: limited space, silence and close proximity to the spectators. The staging is specifically focused on the concentration and the focussing of sensations.
Since 2007 research programs centred on the kinetics of cultures and trying to model them by means topological concepts from hard sciences, applications in the areas of the relations between members of human networks, the study of road or computer systems. This is also applied to the field of art.
instantly seizing the kinetics of bodies and landscapes in several areas of representation and through continuous perception, where the concepts of near and far cannot be reduced to measurement but rather to distortion.
If one were to try to find a new word that would characterize the works of artists in residence at [ars] numerica and more generally the types of genre crossing works offered by digital technologies, the term portable topologies might apply. Portable because they are wireless, lightweight, digitally transferable and suitable for navigation.
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