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, a radically new material in art history due to its essence of active matter, at the core of most of his artworks. Antoine Schmitt, alone or through collaborations, has undertaken a confrontation of this approach with more established artistic fields like music, dance, architecture, literature or cinema, of which he revisits the codes. He has thus collaborated with Vincent Epplay, Jean- Jacques Birgé, Atau Tanaka, Anne Holts et Jean-Marc Matos, Alberto Sorbelli, Joana Preiss, Juha
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His work has received several awards in international festivals : transmediale (Berlin, second prize 2007, honorary 2001), Ars Electronica (Linz, second prize 2009), UNESCO International Festival of Video-Dance (Paris, first prize online 2002), Vida 5.0 (Madrid, honorary 2002), CYNETart (Dresden honorary 2004), medi@terra (Athens, first prize 1999), Interférences (Belfort, first prize 2000), machinista 2003 (Russia), and has been exhibited among others at the Centre Georges Pompidou (Paris, 2002, 2004, 2006), at the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris (1999), at Musée des Arts Décoratifs (Paris, 2009), at Sonar (Barcelona, 2002, 2004,
2005), at Ars Electronica (Linz, 2003, 2009), at the CAC of Sienna (Italy, 2004), at the Musée d’Art Contemporain de Lyon (France, 1997), in Nuits Blanches (Paris 2004, 2008, Amiens 2007, Metz 2009, Bruxelles et Madrid 2010). It is part of the collections of the Espace Gantner (Bourogne, FR) and of the Digitalarti fund (Paris, FR).
As a theoretician, speaker and editor of the gratin.org portal, Antoine Schmitt explores the field of programmed art.
Antoine Schmitt lives and works in Paris (FR).
Recent and future exhibitions (selection) :
Antoine Schmit
Festival EXIT (Créteil, FR), Mar11
Festival VIA (Maubeuge, FR), Mar11
Festival Ososphère (Strasbourg, FR), Feb11
Festival Rencontres Internationales Paris-Berlin-Madrid, (Paris), Nov10
Nuits Blanche Bruxelles, Madrid, Oct10
Media Facades Festival, Berlin, Bruxelles, Helsinki, Linz, Madrid, Aug-Oct10
Exhibition TRUST / ISEA RUHR 2010, (Dortmund, DE), Jul->Sept10
Exhibition process is paradigm, laboral (Gijon, ES), Apr>Sept10
Festival Bouillants#2, Bretagne (FR), Apr>Jul10
Festival Luminato (Toronto, CA) Jun10
Festival FIMAV Victoriaville (QC, CA), May10
Festival Rencontres Internationales Paris-Berlin-Madrid, (Madrid, ES), Apr10
Festival Rokolectiv (Bucarest, RO) Apr10
Espace Gantner, exposition collective, Bourogne (FR), Feb10
Seconde Nature, expo solo, Aix en provence (FR), Jan10
Nuit Blanche Metz (FR), oct09
Festival Ososphère, (Strasbourg, FR), Sept08, Sept09
Festival Ars Electronica (Linz, AT) Sept09
Musée des Arts Décoratifs (Paris, FR) Jun>Nov09
Festival Game Is Up, Vooruit, Gent (BE), Mar09
Festival transmediale.09, Berlin (DE), Jan09
Festival CIMATICS, Bruxelles (BE), Nov08
Seoul Mediacity biennale, Seoul (South Korea), Sept>Nov08
Nuit Blanche, Paris (FR) Oct08
