Who are you? Can you tell us in a few words what you have been doing these last few years?
/ I studied fine arts at the Internet Editorial. I’ve had a computer
since I was 11. I’ve always done art. I remember, as a child, I loved
to send decorated envelopes: it was mail art. My practice was radically
modified by multimedia and especially the net; I dropped my brushes and
my color crayons to throw myself into code, the art of making links.
I also directed videos, but the practice that has stayed with me is photography.
In 1996, I got some help putting my first artistic creation on the net,
La Maison des Immondes Pourceaux (The House of the Gross Pigs), and
I’ve been hooked ever since… I’ve never stopped. Hypertext was an
absolute revelation. I was part of a public procurement operation, when
the Languedoc-Roussillon FRAC (Regional Contemporary Art Fund) decided
to acquire my Je suis ton ami(e)… tu peux me dire tes secrets (I’m your
friend… you can tell me your secrets) before it got censored; which it
still is today. In retrospect, I think that event was actually helpful
for me. My current practice is exclusively connected; I can no longer
create anything without conceiving of it in the framework of its
relationship with the Internet… and with others.
Complete interview :
http://www.digitalarti.com/en/blog/wjspots/wj_spots_1_nicolas_frespech
