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As a curator, my goal is to merge political, social and artistic issues around the question of games, which is eminently symbolic and political... and to promote alternative and artistic uses of video games, I’ve organized a number of 8bit music and chip tunes concerts, produced on Gameboys; and, for almost 5 years, I’ve been showing films
designed with video games, still called Machinimas. The point is to prove that it is possible to transform an object of mass consumption into a means of expression.

Texte écrit pour la revue MCD en 2009 : Jeu(x) tu perds gagnes.

WJ-SPOT Interview : http://www.digitalarti.com/en/video/wj_spots1_35_isabelle_arvers



My link to Emmanuelle

 

Emmanuelle Grangier is a french artist who lives in the south of France. Under the direction of Anne-Marie Duguet, she got a PHD in art and sciences of the art, and wrote her thesis about the accident : The bug : an aesthetics of accident.

My link to Emmanuelle is fluid and liquid, it began on a beach, then in a bar drinking casher vodka and talking about our slavic soul. I am also playing in many of her videos...

In 2002, she directed the first part of the Link trilogy : the idea of this video was to film people from above, naked, on a white floor. She asked to participants, couples of any sort, man and dog, friends, sister and brothers or lovers to identify a gesture that could define their relationship. A gesture to actualize their relation to oneanother. Their link in motion.

I invited her to show this video at the Pompidou Center in 2003.

6 years later, after an attempt to redo Link with new couples, something strange happend. In the south, very few people accepted to be filmed naked, so Emmanuelle decided to create a second episode : Link 00 to daddy.

For this new video, she was interested in the way people see their father. So she asked to some people to define an image that would sum up the way they see their dad. The result is a very short video as video portraits, where sons or daughters are standing besides their fathers, in the way photography portraits were taken in the nineteen's century.



 

 

These two videos and some other video works will be screened in a little charming theater in Marseille on the first april. (Le Panache, 8.30pm)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The last part of this trilogy is right now being done and is linked to Link 00 to daddys. This time people have to imagine a robot which could live with them, a compagny robot. After a quite long interview related to the last robotics innovations, people have to define the look of their robot, its functionality, its usefullness, etc...

Then Emmanuelle is sketching the robots in 2D and students of the 4MM school in Marseille animate them in 3D. When all the robots will be created Emmanuelle will incrust these robots in the video portraiting each creator. The last step of this work will be an interactive application to allow us to communicate with robots online. Stay tuned!

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About zabarvers


Isabelle Arvers

Isabelle Arvers is a french curator, critic and author, specializing in video and computer games, web animation and digital cinema. She has coordinated ISEA 2000, Paris, and she has curated Video Cuts 2001, Centre Pompidou, Gaming Room Villette Numérique 2002, Paris, Tour of the Web 2003, Centre Pompidou, featuring French and international artists.

In 2004, she has organized a Gameboy music concert and she has curated the wireless art event Wifiledefrance for la Region Ile de France. She was the net.art curator for the 2004 Banana RAM festival, Italy. She curated the exhibit Gametime, Experimedia, Melbourne in October 2004 and la Nuit Numérique for the 2004 Bitfilms Festival, Hambourg, Germany, November 2004.

Last projects: No fun games and the gaming experience, Bergen Norway, 2005; Mal au Pixel, Paris, France, 2006; Articule 3, emerging swiss creation, Annecy, France, 2007; Playing to real, Meudon, France, 2007, Gamerz 04 and Gamerz 05, Aix-en-Provence, 2008 & 2009, Machinima screenings, Gameplay & Mostravideo Brasil, 2009.

She is also performing with WJ-S a device and a software created by Anne Roquigny. She oftens writes for reviews like MCD, ARCADI or for the magazine Amusement. http://www.isabelle-arvers.com


Marseille,France

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