The Residents
It is with great pleasure that LA CHAMBRE BLANCHE welcomes artist Pierre Giner for a production residency from October 19 to November 9, 2016. He intends to work with 3D scans and augmented reality devices. The artist will present his work on November 3 at 5 pm.
Talking about his work as an artist, Pierre Giner recalls the game of children who create environments born from their imagination where they install their dolls and figurines as so many representations of their own universe. He also sees his computer as a doll’s house where he creates interaction between many 3D avatars Pierre Giner makes new technologies, video, mobile telephony, websites and video games the territory of his expression.
During his research work in LA CHAMBRE BLANCHE, labs, he will be working on a project named ‘’RESIDENTS’’ by creating avatars of the people he will meet at LA CHAMBRE BLANCHE as well as and in the city. By scanning these people, Giner aims to create LA CHAMBRE BLANCHE’s population of avatars and then disseminate them throughout Quebec City.
If you drop by LA CHAMBRE BLANCHE during that and you feel like it, you can get scanned and therefore run the chance of meeting your avatar somewhere in the city! A surrealistic meeting, as if you crossed to the other side of the mirror.
Choréomix
Pierre Giner (France) starts the second part of his production residency at LA CHAMBRE BLANCHE. This time, he collaborated with Damien Bourniquel (France) who was invited by the Maison pour la danse de Québec. This cross-residency allows the two artists to make a prototype of a character scan system and motion sensor. Thus, the system is created to systematically acquire data about the body and movement resulting from the dance. Both parts of the residency successfully took place thanks to the collaboration with the Consulate General of France in Quebec City.
Bio
Pierre Giner est un artiste multimédia qui vit à Paris et ailleurs. Il enseigne à l’École supérieure des arts appliqués Duperré. En 2010, il est commissaire de MuseoGames, une exposition sur l’histoire du jeu vidéo dont il assure la scénographie. De 2005 à 2008, son outil de VJing Idance se promène de ville en ville en suscitant bon nombre de collaborations artistiques avec musiciens, chorégraphes, architectes et designers de mode. Pas moins d’une dizaine d’années plus tôt, il présentait la première œuvre Web jamais réalisée à LA CHAMBRE BLANCHE avec le projet « Ça dure un peu ».
Démarche
Artiste inclassable et facétieux, globe trotteur impénitent, Pierre Giner a fait des nouvelles technologies, de la vidéo, de la téléphonie mobile, des sites web et des jeux vidéo, son espace d’expression. Ses projets reposent sur des contenus narratifs ou thématiques où information et interactivité, critique et romance, linéarité et discontinuité, sens des lieux, des usages et des situations, s’allient pour déployer le théâtre de la fiction. Il confronte toujours outils technologiques et problématiques contemporaines pour proposer des oeuvres jouant du décalage, de la re-mise en scène et du détournement. Texte d’Annick Rivoire, Poptronics.fr