NEW MEDIA ART : ARTJAWS’ GUEST CURATORS
NEW MEDIA ART : ARTJAWS’ GUEST CURATORS
ALEX DARBY
The collection « Difficult Objects » highlights two artists (Andrea Wolf and Katie Ann-Houghton) whose works don’t align with the art historical status quo, and embody the numerous complexities of difficult objects. From craft to digital media to controversial works, this collection brings to the fore issues that are not easy to reconcile.
CONSTANCE MEFFRE
Paul Destieu's practice includes the creation of videos, installations and sound works. Destieu questions the evolution of the media and their situations in our current environment. The project entitled ``Archive of a Strike`` is focused on the materialization of sound and musical forms.
ANNE ROQUIGNY
This selection of works is focused on the work of Sophie Deltombe, an artist whose practice questions the internet, its aesthetics, language and codes. By appropriating the vocabulary, mechanisms and modus operandi of the Internet culture, she discloses her daily relationship with connected objects.
EMMANUEL CUISINIER
For Emmanuel Cuisinier “Hemispheres” evokes as much the idea of metaphysical spaces where we can exist and dream as geographic and biological territories. North/south, left/right, emotional/rational, real/virtual — the notion of hemisphere calls to mind duality, binarity, conflict but also transition.
GILLES ALVAREZ
Digital artists are deviators who insert a layer of indetermination between reality and its representation. The artists I selected for this online curatorship practice this alchemy and formulate some variations in the continuum of our lives, between birth, social life, war, play, religion, death and transfiguration.
EWEN CHARDRONNET
For me, an exhibition is not a final goal but a platform where each player enriches their sensory knowledge and collectively participates in opening up new ways of perceiving and acting in society, faced with our accelerated world. These are the mutual cosmic exchanges that give artworks their “value” and can help us to rethink our politics of recombinatory commons.
DOMINIQUE MOULON
Throughout the world, a few media art fairs are popping up here and there, while Variation continues to pursue its mission. Now in its third year, this singular Parisian salon and expo comes to the Cité Internationale des Arts. The importance of this venue becomes apparent when we consider the blank walls of its gallery situated in the Marais.
JEAN JACQUES GAY
Contemporary art lovers cannot ignore new media art and its capacity for original collections and demonstrations. From video to Net art, interactive installations and animated GIFs, digital art is being exhibited on a new screen: the tablet. From Agam to Hockney, big names of the art world are using these nomadic screens as an organic and living canvas to share the adventure of their collector.
KLIO KRAJEWSKA
The artworks in Klio Krajewska's collection represent various trends in media arts: installations, kinetic sculptures, digital images. Each one, in its own field, represents the culmination of contemporary esthetics, without overplaying the technology required to realize it.