Antoine Schmitt


Visual artist, Antoine Schmitt creates artworks in the form of objects, installations and situations of minimal and radical aesthetics, to address the notion of self movement, as shape and as point of view.

Artiste plasticien, Antoine Schmitt crée des oeuvres sous forme d’objets, d’installations ou de situations à l’esthétique minimale et radicale, pour traiter de la notion de mouvement propre, en tant que forme et en tant que point de vue.

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Pixel Noir

2010 Black square painting, computer, videoprojector, specific algorithm Variable size Exhibition Illumination, Galerie G, Paris 2010   View the video ...

Nabaz'mob

Nabaz'mob, opera for 100 smart rabbits by Antoine Schmitt and Jean-Jacques Birgé 100 Nabaztag smart rabbits play together an opera specially composed by Antoine Schmitt et Jean-Jacques Birgé. Evoking John Cage, Steve Reich, Conlon Nancarrow and György Ligeti, this musical and choreographic score in three movements, transmitted via wi-fi, plays on the tension between the orchestral ensemble and the individual voices to create a strong and involved showpiece. This opera questions...

Psychic

camera, computer, custom program, videoprojector, red lamp, amplifier, speakers Creation : Exhibition Invisibile, Palazzo delle Papesse, Siena (IT) - October 9th 2004 – January 9th 2005 - Curator : Emmanuele Quinz Psychic sees the spectators and describes what she sees using phrases projected on the wall. And she sees maybe a little more/differently than what we see : she perceives the internal states and motivations of the spectators. The text is printed letter by letter like b...

22 cubes ensemble

Visual and audio autonomous infinite non-interactive installation. Algorithms, computer, videoprojector and soundsystem. ©Antoine Schmitt 2001 Tribute to Steve Reich. Creation : October 2001 Exhibitions: -November 2001 : in concert (with Vincent Epplay) at the batofar (Paris) - Virus Festival. - April 5 to May 5 2002 : in Kontrollfelder/Control Panels, a group exhibition - hartware medien kunst verein, Dortmund (DE) - curators: Andreas Broeckmann and Matthias Weiss - Septe...

Venus #1

Computer, behavioral algorithm, interactive with sound. © Antoine Schmitt 1998 Installation, designed to be videoprojected on a wall, or shown on a screen, in the context of an exhibition or of a concert. The duration is infinite, there is not end. Venus #1 is a creature which dances on music, either coming from the internal CD-Rom player of the computer, either from an outside source in the case of a concert for example. When there is no sound, Venus #1 lazily wanders inside he...

Antoine Schmitt bio

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Visual artist, Antoine Schmitt creates artworks in the form of objects, installations and situations of minimal and radical aesthetics, to address the notion of self movement, as shape and as point of view. Heir of kinetic art and cybernetic art, nourished by the philosophical side of science-fiction, he reveals and literally manipulates the forces at stake, to question the modalities of the free being in complex systems of reality. Originally programming engineer, he places the program,...

2011 Exhibitions

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Future • 12may11 : EXHIB : Nabaz'mob, opera for 100 communicating rabbits with Jean-Jacques Birgé in Gateways exhibition (Kumu Art Museum, Tallinn, Estonia) • 13apr>14aug11 : EXHIB : TIME SLIP and Psychic in collective exhibition Paranoïa/Gare St Sauveur (Lille, FR) • 24mar>3apr11 : EXHIB : TIME SLIP and Psychic in collective exhibition Paranoïa/VIA (Maubeuge, FR) • 10>12mar11 : EXHIB : TIME SLIP and Psychic in collective exhibition Paranoïa/EXIT (Créteil, FR) C...