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An image from Veronique Pecheux and Simin Renaud’s ‘Between Two Mirrors’. Images courtesy the artists and Transient Festival
From Moogfest to the Mutek and Sónar, electronic music festivals are playing host to a variety of electronic and new media art. For the last three years in Paris the Transient Festival has been doing this by blending French electronic musicians, VJs, and installation artists. The latest edition, which wrapped in early November, featured a number of digital arts exhibitions, ranging from disorienting audiovisual installations to conceptual photo series.
“For each new edition we want to show the diversity in forms and shapes of creation that can become digital art installations, whether by video, projection mapping, net art, glitch art or even webjaying,” says Déborah Nogaredes, who co-curated the installation exhibitions with Marie Koch. “This year we have followed this direction, offering videos, photographs, and many interactive installations that gives an approach of virtual reality and the relationship between man and machine.”
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Image of Dorian OHX’s ‘Immersion Part 1’
As with the 2015 edition, Nogaredes and Koch put out a call for projects. This year they received about 200 applications, from which they selected six projects for the exhibition and another 15 for audiovisual live performances. Nogaredes and Koch wanted to showcase emerging and young French artists, introducing them to a wider audience. Beyond that, they wanted to show how new technologies are influencing this new generation’s creativity.
One such young artist is 21-year-old Dorian Vallet-Oheix, a.k.a., Dorian OHX, who typically makes audiovisual sound poems. For his new work Immersion Part 2, Vallet-Oheix gives viewers the opportunity to use old TV sets and VCR tapes. On each of these tapes are an assemblage of Super 8 footage that Vallet-Oheix found, which he hopes immersively takes viewers into a “filmed newspaper” of lives and unknown persons as viewers choose which ones to select and play.
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Source: Thecreatorsproject Vice