GÉRARD CHAUVIN, FRANCE
My work has been shown recently in various places in Europe: Denmark ET4U, Captures # 24 in Royan in France.
Lives and works in Angoulême.
Digital work – Installations - Video
1985-2005: Teacher at Ecole Européenne Supérieure de l’Image à Angoulême.
1985 – Teacher at Art school Les Acacias à Angoulême
May 2004 – February 2006 Director de l’Ecole Arts Plastiques des ACACIAS.
Privileged mediums: none or all, rather mixed media.
Particular character: focusing on the development of installations, a chosen orientation since 1977. Since when, central elements and materials of the artwork are; the spectator's reaction with the artwork, ephemeral and real time, fragmented artwork and the context.
Circumstances: As a teacher in an art school I see latest technology being used in the workshops, which allows me to understand the computers and the latest technology. In this way I undertake projects with the students, which also reflects my personal convictions.
Also, I am not a musician, nor a technician nor a computer expert, but an artist who ‘uses’ technologies without concern that they are the latest product.
I have a relaxed attitude towards technology. I use technology to create the artwork not for the sake of using a particular technology.
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The Human Shadow Engine, video, 2009
The body of dreams and futures unthinkable
This movie is based on theories of Glibert Simodon and Bernard Stiegler and evokes "the idolatry of the machine”, which is a myth of the robot and automation.
"The aesthetic history of mankind is a series of successive mismatches between three organizations that form the aesthetic power of man's body with its physiological organization, its artificial organs (technical objects, tools, instruments, works art), and social organizations resulting from the joint artifacts and bodies."
Bernard Stiegler: From the symbolic poverty by Bernard Stiegler LE MONDE - 10.10.03
"This study is driven by the intention to raise awareness of the meaning of technical objects. The culture has incorporated defense system against the technical, yet that defense is as a defense of rights, assuming that technical subjects do not contain human reality. " Gilbert Simondon, "On the mode of existence of technical objects" (MEOT, 1958) |
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