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The Band “Esmark” is a collaboration between the sound architect Nikolai von Sallwitz and the artist Alsen Rau. The music video by video artists Robert Seidel for the track “Husby-klit Bk.” is based on a live video performance, in which a modular video synthesizer generates mental spaces between floating and overwriting realities. The visual material is based on a convolute of geographical impressions, that are fused by the cinematic soundscape into a continuous stream of dissolving memories.

Robert Seidel’s projections, installations and experimental films have been shown in numerous international festivals, as well as at galleries and museums such as the ZKM Karlsruhe, Art Center Nabi Seoul and MOCA Taipei. He is interested in pushing the boundaries of abstracted beauty through cinematographic approaches, as well as ones drawn from science. By the organic interplay of structural, spatial and temporal concepts he creates an evolving complexity of multifaceted readings. Seidel lives in Berlin/Jena as artist and curator.

The Other is a thought provoking video work that takes viewers on a journey through the intricate realms of estrangement, the search for identity, and the indelible marks left by colonial history in our society. At its core, this video work delves into the intricate and often unsettling emotion of estrangement—the feeling of disconnection from oneself and one's surroundings. It poetically explores the ways in which external influences, societal pressures, and personal quests for self-discovery can blur the lines between self and 'other,' giving rise to a compelling examination of identity. Against the backdrop of these personal and emotional explorations, "The Other" unearths the deep-rooted colonial history that continues to shape our collective consciousness. It sheds light on the suppressed narratives, silenced voices, and uncomfortable truths that underlie our societies.

Carla Chibude Seidemann is an interdisciplinary artist specializing in film and photography. Currently enrolled in the VAV-Moving Image Programme at Gerrit Rietveld Academie. A standout accomplishment in their career is the self-publishing of "Visual Diaries," a research magazine that explores the intersections of art, culture, and society, encouraging readers to foster empathy towards their surroundings and to be part of a broader conversation. www.visualdiaries.info In addition to their academic pursuits, Carla Chibude Seidemann has gained practical experience as an assistant at Zaafar Jewelry NY, contributing their creative insights to the world of design. Through their work in film and photography, Carla Chibude Seidemann aims to capture the nuances of human emotion and the intricacies of the human experience.

There is in nature, a mysterious and complex mathematical system that repeats itself over and over again, an underlying geometric pattern in forms as disparate as clouds, mountains, trees or our own circulatory system. Its distinctive feature is self-similarity, the same configuration that is repeated at different scales, branching out infinitely. There are those who believe that it is “God’s fingerprint”, “the absolute truth of the universe”.

Sebastián Seifert is a multimedia artist, designer and music producer. He has lived and worked in Barcelona since 2002. His career has developed at interdisciplinary points of convergence, maintaining digital electronic poetics as the support, concept and format of his productions. He has an International Master’s Degree in Media and Interactive Systems at the Autonomous University of Barcelona and ESDI (2002) and the Design, Image and Sound Career at the University of Buenos Aires (UBA). In the field of media art, he has developed net-art projects, interactive installations and multimedia performances, serving as curator of these languages ??at the «la Caixa» Foundation (Barcelona) from 2003 to 2011. With the audiovisual project “Microfeel ”, the artist highlights his transdisciplinary vocation, creating worlds that combine visuals and sound. He has taken his audiovisual concert to festivals like MUTEK (ES/AR/MX), SONAR, SZIGET, CTM, FILE and AMURAL, among others.

Through episodes that display a high degree of idiosyncrasy, we follow a stranger who creates an imaginary order which serves to stress his inexistence elsewhere. The film is a personal documentary that represents a constellation of past time and suspended time while attempting to explore the Foucauldian phrase 'a placeless place'.

Sibi Sekar was born on April 29th, 1997 in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. Sibi fell in love with cinema at an early age upon viewing the works of artists such as Luis Buñuel and Sergei Parajanov. Sibi began making experimental films and directed a few short films ("Thoughts Out Of Season", “Night Train Light On Track“, “Teal City” and "Representation") while doing his postgraduation in Humanities and Social Sciences. He launched the SSSW banner during the 2020 pandemic and made a few more short films ("On Floating Bodies", "The Tale of the Entry/Exit", "you are, i am" and "Of Other Spaces") under said banner. They have been screened at over thirty festivals across five continents. He usually works on explorative films that are primarily an ascetic representation of resistance and the thematic dispositions of his films concern the symbolic depiction of being, nothingness and the transcendental space.

The film takes its starting point in several research trips to the West Bank, especially to the city of Hebron. We are confronted with photographs, and with still images, depicting ? in a rather abstract and distanced manner ? various situations: a model of ancient Jerusalem in a Museum, a check-point with its massive security architecture squeezed into a historical building, houses, walls, objects. In between, sequences of moving image appear that show a chain link fence above a shopping alley in Hebron, built to protect Palestinians from settlers throwing stones at them. The continuous, but halting, camera movement facing the horizontal fence disturbs our perception and sense of orientation. Still and moving images alternate with short texts, establishing a rhythm that does not only connect ? without always explaining ? what is seen, but introduces a narrative that articulates the interrogation of image and text. Contrary to a conventional image of Palestine and the conflict as emphasized ? and exploited ? by the mass media and contrary to dominant documentary practices, Selander turns away from a documentary exposition and instead ?reflects on and projects layers of control, dream and confinement, both in relation to the place and its history and to problem of showing and saying it? (Selander).

LINA SELANDER (b. 1973) lives and works in Stockholm, Sweden. Lina Selander works mainly with moving images in film and video, but also with photography, text and sound. Her works are often installations where these different medias and components converge and interrelate to one another. She is interested in the image?s ability and lack of ability to reproduce time, experience and memories and she explores how different narrative forms and techniques transform and change a story. Her works investigate film as medium, examining its possibilities and limitations as form of expression, and they often raise questions about history and authenticity. Selander?s work has been shown at Bonniers Konsthall, Moderna Museet and Index Foundation and in international group shows, biennales and festivals, for example in the Bucharest Biennale 2010, Institute of Contemporary Art in London, The Netherlands Media Art Institute in Amsterdam and Transmediale 05 in Berlin where she received an honourable mention from the jury. She has also received the Maria Bonnier Dahlin Foundation Grant (2005) and The Edstrand Foundation Art Prize (2008). She is also represented in the next Manifesta Biennal, 2012 in Belgium.

Artifacts from a Maoist life intersects with machines grinding books, the piecing together of destroyed DDR documents and children undergoing education. A comment on the earlier work “When the Sun Sets It’s All Red, Then It Disappears” from 2008.

Man sees himself as nature’s interpreter and tamer. But nature does not care about meaning, and its power cannot actually be controlled. It therefore remains silent in the face of man’s increasingly reckless experiment, the catastrophic effects of which will ultimately afflict man himself. The camera follows a panda at Schönbrunner Zoo surrounded by pictures of the Great Wall of China. Silently the panda holds a bamboo brush to paper, makes some marks with ink—pictures—and is rewarded with carrots. How shall we interpret this artistic gesture? The video proceeds to a control room at a never-used nuclear power plant that illustrates yet another despotic panorama, one with the same silence and latent violence. The images are transferred from one context to another, created and recreated in relation to one another. To question what it means is only human, but in the long run probably irrelevant. Text: Lisa Rosendahl

Lina Selander (b. 1973 in Stockholm) lives and works in Stockholm, Sweden. Selander’s films and installations can be read as compositions or thought models, where ideas and conditions are explored and weighed. She examines relationships between memory and perception, photography and film, and language and image. Lina Selander’s solo shows include Kunst Haus Wien; Argos – Centre for Art and Media, Brussels; Iniva, London; Moderna Museet, Stockholm; VOX – Centre de l’image contemporaine, Montréal. She was the Swedish representative at the Venice Biennale 2015. A selection of her group shows include: The Kyiv Biennale 2015; Seoul Media City Biennale 2014; Manifesta 2012 in Belgium. ++++ Oscar Mangione (b. 1971) works with Lina Selander and has participated with her in several exhibitions. From 2006 to 2012 he edited and wrote for the magazine and art project Geist and took part in numerous exhibitions, performances and projects in venues such as the Reykjavík Arts Festival, the Museum of Modern Art in Stockholm and the Venice Biennale.

Lina Selander offers a subtle meditation on the long-term historical effects provoked both socially and ethically by the Soviet utopia of the production of energy, summarised in Lenin?s slogan from 1920: ?Communism is Soviet Power plus the electrification of the whole country?. The elements of Lenin?s Lamp equally reject an idea of films, photographs or videos as neutral accretions of visual information. The elements of this film are to be seen both as material witnesses of the experience of modernisation and as agents of the very same history. From Dziga Vertov?s film The Eleventh Year (1928) to and video recordings from the Chernobyl disaster and the ghost city of Pripyat to images of fossils in museums and prehistorical landscapes, Selander?s images consist of sensory materials.

LINA SELANDER (b. 1973) lives and works in Stockholm, Sweden.
Lina Selander works mainly with moving images in film and video, but also with photography, text and sound. Her works are often installations where these different medias and components converge and interrelate to one another. She is interested in the image?s ability and lack of ability to reproduce time, experience and memories and she explores how different narrative forms and techniques transform and change a story. Her works investigate !lm as medium, examining its possibilities and limitations as form of expression, and they often raise questions about history and authenticity. Selander?s work has been shown at Index, The Swedish Contemporary Art Foundation, Bonniers Konsthall, Moderna Museet and in international group shows, biennales and festivals, for example in the Manifesta 9 in Genk, Bucharest Biennale 2010, Institute of Contemporary Art in London, The Netherlands Media Art Institute in Amsterdam and Transmediale 05 in Berlin where she received an honourable mention from the jury.

Lina Selander?s work When the sun sets it?s all red, then it disappears takes Jean-Luc Godard?s 1967 film La Chinoise as its starting point. It examines the relationship between political, utopian and emotional expressions in words and images, it explores the revolutionary zeal of a time and the desire to start all over again. La Chinoise is a film in the making, a film that tells the story of a revolutionary and truth-seeking common narrative while at the same time trying to be a part of it, sharing its inherent expressions and problems. Lina Selander?s film is also a work in the making, engaging and evolving around Godard?s film and the questions it addresses and responds to. But it is also a film about photography and storytelling. Most of the photographs in the series of stills are from the 1968 student revolts in Paris and Stockholm, taken at meetings and manifestations. But they also show other motifs, such as a close-up of a growing blob of moisture on a news reel showing Chairman Mao swimming in the Yellow River, personal photos and some stills from La Chinoise. All images have been photographed with flash and all photos have a white circular reflection on them which may represent or constitute a common space where the spectator?s space and that of the motif overlap, but where they are also defined as separate ? a blinding dazzle or hole in the image which ultimately blocks any final narrative and forces itself into the motifs and events that are being documented.

Lina Selander works mainly with moving images in film and video, but also with photography, text and sound. Her works are often installations where these different medias and components converge and interrelate to one another. She is interested in the image?s ability and lack of ability to reproduce time, memories and experience and she explores how different narrative forms and techniques transform and change a story. Her works investigates film as medium, examining its possibilities and limitations as form of expression. Lina Selander?s work have been shown at Gävle Art Center, Bonniers Konsthall, 300 m3 Art Space and Moderna Museet as well as in several group shows and festivals abroad, for example the Transmediale 05 in Berlin where she received an honorable mention. She has also received the Maria Bonnier Dahlin prize for young artists and The Edstrand Foundation Art Prize 2008.

Reconstruction. Des images non systématiques ? cousues à l?intérieur puis retournées. Toutes ces images étaient très ordinaires, scènes typiques d?un album de famille : vacances, voyages à l?étranger, rencontres familiales, etc. Les fils de couture dans ces images ? la côte cousue à l?océan, les nuages au ciel ou les gens les uns aux autres marquent une manière de codifier les structures et relations émotionnelles dans les images, contrôlant ainsi une interprétation d?eux-mêmes et soulignant (alors qu?ils essaient en même temps de le combler) le fossé entre l?image et la réalité. Les coutures et les trous de l´aiguille dans l´image sont ressorties comme l´essence d´une realité intense et cachée, contenant une vérité qui manquait aux images réelles. Les images retournées montre cette vérité dévoilée. J?ai ensuite utilisé les images retournées avec les mailles, trous et coutures et inversé leur ordre pour revenir au négatif, à l?image photographique de base. Le point rouge lisant le diagramme comme une figure et les transformant en sons devient une mise en scène d?un acte de souvenir. Il lit ce qui est réprimé et caché, et ce qui se cache derrière la mémoire réprimée.

Née en 1973 à Stockholm où elle vit et travaille. Lina a étudié en Suède à la Valand School of Fine Arts, à Gothemburg puis à la Royal University College of Fine Arts de Stockholm. Elle a ensuite suivi un cursus à la Gothenburg University en photographie et film,. Lina Selander travaille avec les films et des photographies, textes et sons. Les sujets récurrents de ses ?uvres sont la transformation du temps et de la mémoire, leur dissolution, compulsivité et leur intensité. Elle travaille avec, et montre sous des angles différents, l?auto-référence des images, immobiles ou mobiles. Les ?uvres vidéos de Lina Selander traitent du mélange de l?abstrait et de la narration, elle décompose et recompose le film comme structure narrative. Elle veut que les ?uvres mettent en scène elle-mêmes leur propre essence théorique et leur existence, et ainsi faisant, dévoiler un domaine où un nouveau sens peut émerger. Ses ?uvres ont été montrées au Moderna Museet, Fylkingen, Galleri Charlotte Lund, Stockholm and Galleri 300m3, Gothenburg. En février 2005, elle a été récompensée d?une Mention Honorable à la Transmédiale 2005 à Berlin.

In the first sequences of Lina Selander´s new film a story is told about the ancient, now extinct, plant silphium. The plant grew on the coast outside the North African town Cyrene—a settlement of Greeks from the overpopulated island of Thera in 630 BC—which became the main town in the Greek colony, situated in today´s Libya. The plant was famous for its medical usage (it was used as a contraceptive and abortifacient) and for its richness in flavour, which made it the base of the colony’s export. Its importance for the economic wealth was so crucial that the image of silphium was imprinted on the coins. When exploitation of the plant led to extinction, the city declined. As is often the case in Selander’s works, the film builds on layers of images and meaning, layers that link history and pre-history to contemporary society, and in which nature as a prerequisite for life is one of the focal points. The human strive for development and expansion, the desire for control over nature, and above all—visual control, depiction and surveillance, is always met by another contradicting force. The nature looks back at us, its eyes empty—a reoccurring image in Selander’s film. In Silphium this double movement of visual and earthly mastery and its opposite—loss of visual control, awareness of vulnerability—is first expressed in a shot of the famous 16th-century painting The Ambassadors by Hans Holbein. The ambassadors are depicted together with the emblems of wealth and superiority of the countries they are the representatives for. A contradicting image is hidden until you view the painting from a specific angle, but when you do a human skull becomes visible, the sign of mortality. Selander lets the image oscillate in and out of visibility; the painted image emerges as in a rupture of light in the dark whilst mumbling voices count—numbers, years maybe. The sound fragment is a loan from Chris Marker´s 1962 film La Jetée—another important point of reference. The films narrative tells the story of how a man is used in time travel experiments in order to save the world. He travels through sediments of memory and images, much in the same way as Selander’s film, only to return to his beginning.

Lina Selander (b. 1973) lives and works in Stockholm, Sweden. She works mainly with moving images in film and video, but also with photography, text and sound. Her works are often installations in which these different medias converge and interrelate to one another. She is interested in the image’s ability and lack of ability to reproduce time, experience and memories and she explores how narration is created and how different techniques transform a story. Her works investigate film as medium, examining its possibilities and limitations as form of expression, and they often raise questions about history, media archaeology and authenticity. Selander’s work has been shown at Index - The Swedish Contemporary Art Foundation, Moderna Museet, Kunsthall Trondheim and in international group shows such as Manifesta 9 in Genk, Belgium and the Bucharest Biennale 2010 and at Haus Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Seoul International Media Art Biennale and upcoming exhibitions such as Momenta Art, New York, INIVA, London and she also representing Sweden in the 56th Venice Biennale 2015.

Le film montre des images de Portbou, ville située à la frontière franco-espagnole, où le philosophe Walter Benjamin s?est ôté la vie la nuit des 27 et 28 septembre 1940. La frontière a été fermée la veille de son arrivée et rouverte le lendemain de sa mort. Les images, à la fois fixes et en mouvement, sont accompagnées d?une voix-off qui raconte différentes histoires sur le quartier des réfugiés : des fragments, des détails, des pensées. La vidéo et le son tournent tous deux en boucle. Leur durée est cependant différente, ce qui induit une multitude de relations entre le mot et l'image, qui tantôt accentue la distance qui les sépare et tantôt réduit leur écart. Une dérive continuelle de la perspective, qui montre qu?un récit complet n'est jamais possible. Finalement, les images sont peut-être plus liées à la voix qu?aux histoires, ou à l'histoire qu?elles racontent. Le titre « Timmarna som rymmer formen » est une citation de « Sens unique » de Walter Benjamin.

Lina Selander travaille principalement avec des images en mouvement dans le cinéma et la vidéo, mais aussi avec la photographie, le texte et le son. Ses ?uvres sont souvent des installations dans lesquelles ces différents médias et composantes interagissent et convergent les uns vers les autres. Elle s'intéresse à la capacité de l?image, ainsi qu?à son manque de capacité, à reproduire le temps, les souvenirs et les expériences et elle explore la façon dont les différentes formes et techniques narratives peuvent changer une histoire. Ses ?uvres expérimentent le film comme médium, en examinant ses possibilités et ses limites en tant que forme d'expression. Les ?uvres de Lina Selanders ont été exposées aux Gävle Art Center, 300 m3 Art Space, BONNIERS Konsthall et Modena Museet, ainsi que dans plusieurs expositions collectives et festivals à l'étranger, par exemple, à la Transmediale 05 de Berlin (Allemagne) où elle a reçu une mention honorable. Elle a également reçu le Prix de la Fondation Edstrand et le Prix Maria Bonnier Dahlin pour les jeunes artistes. Lina vit et travaille à Stockholm.

The opening of the film «The Ceremony» shows the image from the title page of Olof Rudbeck the Elder’s «Atlantica» from 1679, were Rudbeck reveals Sweden as the sunken Atlantis. Written during the era of the Swedish Empire, the archaeological novel «Atlantica» is a marvel of non-specialization and heterogeneous connections, largely based on speculative etymologies and sound correspondences. In «The Ceremony», in a similar audacious manner, identities, histories and places appear and disappear: freed from reality’s hold, in layer upon layer of image, text and sound, like abandoned or yet to be built cities: Tutankhamen’s crypt and unbroken seal, Bredäng (suburb of Stockholm where the artists live), the strange entrance to the old Stasi headquarters in Berlin, other places, tombs and prisons. All connected by subterranean passages through which an alien time runs; incompatible, turning endlessly into itself.

Lina Selander (b. 1973) lives and works in Stockholm, Sweden. Lina Selanders work often focus on junctures in history where a system or physical place collapses and something new begins to emerge; the narrative of mechanical cinema giving way to that of digital video, or a political or economic system plummeting into a new one. Her works revolve around images as memories, imprints and representations. Selander’s work has been shown at Iniva (Institute of International Visual Arts), London; Index – The Swedish Contemporary Art Foundation, Stockholm; Moderna Museet, Stockholm; VOX - Centre de l’image contemporaine, Montré al and in international group shows such as the Venice Biennale 2015; Kyiv Biennale 2015; Seoul Media City Biennale 2014; Manifesta 2012 in Genk, Belgium; Bucharest Biennale 2010; and at Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin.Oscar Mangione (b. 1971) works with Lina Selander and has participated with her in several exhibitions. From 2006 to 2012 he edited and wrote for the magazine and art project Geist and took part in numerous exhibitions, performances and projects in venues such as the Reykjavík Arts Festival, the Museum of Modern Art in Stockholm and the Venice Biennale.

To the vision machine (2013) 28:45 min. HD-video, color, sound and silence. 16:9 To the vision machine is the beginning of a larger work on the visual inscription`s invisible centre, on the picture as an internal object and its relation to vision and different imaging technologies. The work initiates a search for a code that would make vision redundant, a promised land which it can not hope to enter. The starting point is the atomic bomb over Hiroshima, or more precisely: the detonation of the atomic bomb as a photographic event. The first atomic bomb created a flash that lasted one fifteenth of a millionth of a second. The light penetrated every building and shadows of objects and bodies were exposed and burned onto the city`s surfaces. When bodies and objects turned to ash, their traces were left as unintentional monuments. But the detonation itself can only be witnessed at the expense of one`s eyesight or life. The sound of the whistle and the scene at the end is from the film "The Children of Hiroshima" ("Genbaku no ko", 1952), which shows the Peace Memorial Museum while it is under construction after the U.S. occupation had ended and it was allowed to remember the disaster again.

LINA SELANDER (b. 1973) lives and works in Stockholm, Sweden.
Lina Selander works mainly with moving images in film and video, but also with photography, text and sound. Her works are often installations where these different medias and components converge and interrelate to one another. She is interested in the image?s ability and lack of ability to reproduce time, experience and memories and she explores how different narrative forms and techniques transform and change a story. Her works investigate !lm as medium, examining its possibilities and limitations as form of expression, and they often raise questions about history, media archeology and authenticity. Selander?s work has been shown at Index, The Swedish Contemporary Art Foundation, Moderna Museet and in international group shows, biennales and festivals, for example in the Manifesta 9 in Genk, Bucharest Biennale 2010, Institute of Contemporary Art in London and The Netherlands Media Art Institute.

The Offspring Resembles the Parent (2015) is a new film made for the 2015 Venice Biennale. Like Selander’s earlier works, it takes as its starting point a specific event or situation of crisis within society—in this case the current economic state and our increasingly crumbling faith in the monetary systems, with links to the European situation during World War I and the interwar years. A major part of the film’s imagery consists of Notgeld—emergency banknotes—often colourful and with a strong visual impact, printed on paper or fabric. Their obviously fictitious character—they represent gigantic figures— points to the imperceptible flows within today’s digital economies. Not unlike language, economic value is built on an agreement, a mutual understanding. The fictitious reality of finance only reveals its relation to the human, the body, to work and to nature in a situation of crisis in which the human conditions and connections to colonialism and warfare become clear.

Lina Selander is one of Sweden’s most innovative moving image artists. Her films and installations often focus on junctures in history where a system or physical place collapses and something new begins to emerge; the narrative of mechanical cinema giving way to that of digital video, or a political or economic system plummeting into a new one. Her works revolve around images as memories, imprints and representations. Selander’s process is similar to that of the scientist or poet. Each work constitutes a dense archive of facts and observations, occasionally in dialogue with other films, works of art or literature. The precise, rhythmic editing and use of sound in her films generate a unique temporality and strong internal pressure, and take intuitive leaps between associations and meanings. Selander’s work has been shown at Index, The Swedish Contemporary Art Foundation, Moderna Museet, VOX - centre de l’image contemporaine, Montréal and in international group shows, biennales and festivals, for example in the Venice Biennale 2015, The Kiev Biennale, Seoul Media Art Biennale 2014, Manifesta 9-European Biennal of Contemporary Art 2012, and the Bucharest Biennale 4, 2010. .... Oscar Mangione works with Lina Selander and has participated with her in several exhibitions. From 2006 to 2012 he edited and wrote for the magazine and art project Geist and took part in the following exhibitions, performances and projects: Överlämningen, Konsthall C, 2013; Suðurlandsvegur, The Reykjavík Arts Festival, 2012; The Spiral and the Square, Bonniers Konsthall, 2011/12; Geist in Therapy, The Studio, Moderna Museet, 2009; Role Critique, Iaspis at the Venice Biennale, 2009; Geist on Speed, Index, 2008.

A sprawling meditation on the choreography of bodies in Moscow’s urban landscape, Detours depicts a new way of dealing illicit drugs via the Darknet, the layering of the physical and the virtual realities, as well as a poetics, and politics, of space. Taking place in sleepy neighbourhoods, among the concrete walls of high-rises, behind garages and amidst abandoned railroads, the film alternately follows and loses track of Denis, the treasureman who hides stashes of drugs all over the city.

Ekaterina Selenkina is a filmmaker, artist and curator born in St. Petersburg, Russia in 1992. Her work showed at Venice International Film Critics’ Week, Viennale, Thessaloniki International Film Festival, Garage Museum of Modern Art, Camerimage, Pacific Meridian, Message to Man, New Holland Island International Debut Film Festival, REDCAT arts center, among others. Together with Zaina Bseiso, Luis Gutiérrez Arias and Joie Estrella Horwitz, she is a member of the film collective called Bahía Colectiva and co-curator of Adrift Residency. She received her MFA in Film/Video from California Institute of the Arts and is currently based in Moscow.

"Sleep" fait référence à la vidéo éponyme d?Andy Warhol. Tenant le rôle de John Giorno je vis mon sommeil comme un refuge propice à l`inaction. De part ce fait j?évite les contraintes matérielles et les logiques productivistes du monde actuel. L?irruption de la figure tutélaire de Warhol ne tardera pas à rompre ce paisible isolement, me secouant et me demandant de me réveiller et de travailler (« wake up it?s time to work and be famous »). Par un jeu de miroir, s?introduit alors la logique répétitive d?une Histoire de l?Art obnubilée par une conception linéaire du progrès. Le caractère cyclique de la vidéo peut aussi bien préfigurer le retour rêvé de l?inertie bienfaisante que symboliser l?alternance implacable entre répression et régression dans une ambiance cauchemardesque.

Né en 1979, à Versailles. Après avoir acquis une formation Littéraire, option Arts Plastiques au lycée, je suis entré à l?Ecole des Beaux-Arts de Rouen où j?ai obtenu mon Diplôme National Supérieur d?Expression Plastique cette année. Le travail que j?ai développé utilise le dessin et l'animation vidéo pour illustrer les thèmes du doute et de la difficulté à créer. Me livrant à des jeux parodiques avec l?Histoire de l?Art, je laisse libre cours à des interprétations poétiques de mes incertitudes et inhibitions. A ma sortie des Beaux-Arts, j?ai participé à l?exposition « Sommeil », à la Chapelle du Genêteil à Château-Gontier.

Pour '200 Nanowebbers', Semiconductor a créé une toile moléculaire qui a été générée par la musique de Double Adaptor en fait. Avec des scripts écrits par eux-mêmes, les mélodies et les rythmes naissent à l'échelle manométrique ce qui déplace et se déforme à la résonance ; rebellant des aperçus de minuscules particules changeantes et interactives. Au fur et à mesure que les sons se construisent et d'autodétruisent, la toile se construit avec des éléments plus complexes qui enrobent le rythme de la musique et l'énergie.

Semiconductor créé des Films Sonores et qui révèlent notre monde physique en flux; les villes en mouvement, des paysages se déplaçant et des systèmes chaotiques. Depuis 1999, les artistes britanniques Ruth Jarman et Joseph Gerhardt ont exploré plusieurs processus d'animation numérique pour produire des films expérimentaux ou des animations en direct. Le point central de toutes ces ?uvres est le rôle du son, qui devient synonyme de l'image, car il crée, contrôle et la déchiffre ; en explorant la résonance par l'ordre naturel des choses. Finalement le travail numérique manufacturé est combiné avec le procédé analogue qui coupe le hasard et les erreurs dans le système informatique comme un co conspirateur. Ces travaux ont été exposés dans des galeries, des festivals, des cinémas et des biennales sur toute la planète. Les récentes expositions sont la Biennale de Venise, EMAF Allemagne, le Musée de Lyon d'Art Moderne, France et Inhabituel, Milan. La dernière contribution de Semiconductor dans le genre du cinéma en direct est leur logiciel de performance live dédié Sonic Inc ; un outil de sculpture 3D en temps réel où les sons sont crée par des entrées sonores spécifiques et par l'interaction et produisant des environnements audio créés et contrôlés sur le moment. Les dernières performances comprennent Transmediale ; Berlin, Tate Britain ; London and Images Festival; Toronto. Ils sont pour le moment basé au Space Science Laboratories à UC Berkeley et font des recherches pour de futures ?uvres d'art.

In 1957, Bassil killed the quemist Adrian Ghole in his laboratory, in Hudson city (NY). He prepared his plane with care, calculating every details: came to the Gole?s laboratory, kill him with chloroform, break the glass of his watch at 6:49, take the improtant formula of the quemist, run away with his car and get down into the river; the erosion activity of the water could cancel every elments could be associate with him. Everything runs perfect and Bassil was convenced that in the World just 1 person on a million was like him but he didn?t calculate than when pass on the bridge, a police, crow, firecrackers and applauses waiting for him: he was the million car who pass the bridge and he wins 1 million of dollars The day after his photos will appared on the news pape? the murderer in the murdered?s car.. just few hours later, Ghole?s car get down into the bridge? but Bassil was inside.

Marinella Senatore is a teacher, film director and director of photography and has been also working with drawing, painting and installation. Her first steps towards the visual arts came after a degree at Rome`s Centre for Experimental Cinematography. The films of the artist from Campania always present a thorough study and arrangement of lights on the set, which also become the source for sculptural installations (Memeland) and photographic series (Places). The characters of the stories told by Senatore embody nuances of her private life on which dreaming landscapes are inserted. Lately the artist has chosen to work on sets with non professional actors and technicians, and to embrace the richness and the generosity of ordinary people. Sets have become accessible place for everyone, whose mechanisms are consciously unveiled in the filmic production (for instance in Manuale per i Viaggiatori, 2007). The `behind the scenes` are included as a major part of the script, while corality and the idea of a laboratorium are at the core of a research that is not afraid to questions the world through the people inhabiting it. Marinella Senatore chooses to tell stories and by doing so in keeping alive and valuing both individual and collective memory.

NOÉ SENDAS Lady Macbeth Ecrit par Joao Pinharanda Noé Sendas, dans sa vidéo, cite les personnages de Macbeth et de sa femme. Utilisant une auto-représentation photographique obsédante, l'artiste nous met face à face avec les limites de la visibilité et de la représentation, avec les limites de l'existence éthique et politique de l'Homme. Dans le montage visuel, le visage, avec des expressions forcées de douleur et de peur, est souvent dupliqué par des miroirs (qui fonctionnent comme des reflets dans l'eau) et (le/nous) renvoie une image dont nous ne pouvons nous défaire. Des moments d'obscurité et des flashs vidéo intenses se suivent à un rythme irrégulier, indépendamment de la sonorité continue établie par les dialogues de la pièce de théâtre. Dans ces derniers, Noé Sendas mélange les répliques des deux versions cinématographiques de Macbeth : celle d'Orson Welles et celle de Polanski. On entend la mer, les cris de détresse des oiseaux de mer et les dialogues des personnages au bord de la dépression. Lady Macbeth tente en vain de laver le sang dont ils sont tâchés après la succession de meurtres sur lesquels ils ont fondé leur Pouvoir. La métaphore devient réalité.

NOÉ SENDAS Biographie Ecrite par Miguel Amado Noé Sendas (né à Bruxelles en 1972) a étudié à Ar.Co, à Lisbonnes. Sa formation comprend également des études dans des écoles étrangères, comme le Royal College of Arts, à Londres et la school of the Art Institute of Chicago, ainsi que des résidences (particulièrement celle du Kunstlerhaus Bethanien). Au milieu des années 1990, il commença à présenter son travail, et sa carrière s'est épanouie ces deux dernières années. Sa participation à de nombreuses expositions, tout particulièrement "En garde !" (Porto, 2002-2003), une exposition personnelle avec une matrice d'anthologie permettant une compréhension de la direction des artistes et réalisant une tendance personnelle qui jusque-là n'était que suggérée. Sendas a recours à différents moyens d'expression : vidéo, sculpture, son et dessin. Des références explicites ou implicites à des artistes, et des créations littéraires, cinématographiques ou musicales font partie de ses matières premières. Des citations de Shakespeare et Beckett, par exemple, sont récurrentes, ainsi que de divers réalisateurs tels que Godard et Coltrane. A son répertoire s'ajoutent également des soucis précis quant à la représentation et la pratique des arts visuels, notamment : le corps comme entité simultanément théorique et matérielle ; les mécanismes de perception de l'observateur ; ou le potentiel discursif des méthodes d'exposition. Le processus créatif de Sendas est ancré dans un dispositif intellectuel basé sur l'association de matériaux d'origines diverses. Cependant, la logique sous-jacente n'est pas seulement une logique d'appropriation, mais la définition d'une nouvelle paternité. Cette méthodologie partage des affinités électives avec des stratégies employées par les DJ et avec un instrument courant de la musique pop actuelle, le sampler, vu qu'il configure une appropriation de thèmes qui seront utilisés pour créer de nouveaux sons plutôt qu'un collage.

Cette vidéo est une réédition de fragments très courts réalisée à partir de plusieurs films, sur la base d'un simple constat : le moment de l'émotion la plus profonde ne coïncide souvent pas avec les évènements qui l?ont provoquée. Un homme se promène dans la rue, rentre dans un bâtiment, s?enfuit en courant par la rue principale, et s'arrête dans un square, pour revenir enfin exactement dans la même rue qu?au début, faisant de tout ceci une boucle parfaite. L'usage de la couleur et du noir et blanc permet de faire la distinction entre ce qui est « réel » et ce qui correspond à des projections, rêves ou fantômes.

Noé Sendas est né à Bruxelles en 1972 et vit et travaille à Berlin. Il a commencé à montrer ses ?uvres au milieu des années 1990. Sendas a recours à différents moyens d'expression : la vidéo, la sculpture, le son, le dessin et le son. Les références explicites et implicites à des artistes et des ?uvres littéraires, cinématographiques, musicales ou créations, font partie de ses principales matières premières.