Dichotomie
AV Performance
Duration: 10 min.
Saturday, 28 June 2014 | 19:00 > 19:10 2014-06-28T19:00:00.000Z | Stage 1
excerpt: https://vimeo.com/63976016
With digital technologies becoming more powerful, accessible and democratic, virtual manipulation becomes not only more present, but more realistic. Virtual lie, embedded in our culture of the beginning of the century, is now a staple of the mass media. Modifications of images disturb the veracity of facts. These new realities, constructed and calculated, affect and influence humans by a simple principle of illusion.
Dichotomie was created from these observations, audiovisual project based on a concept of contradictory forces, deconstructed lie emerging from a heterogeneous mixture. Digital manipulation is not insidious; union of disparate elements constitutes the work, dialogue between sound and visual, evolving into canadian and icelandic landscapes, known for their pure and natural beauty.
With digital technologies becoming more powerful, accessible and democratic, virtual manipulation becomes not only more present, but more realistic. Virtual lie, embedded in our culture of the beginning of the century, is now a staple of the mass media. Modifications of images disturb the veracity of facts. These new realities, constructed and calculated, affect and influence humans by a simple principle of illusion.
Dichotomie was created from these observations, audiovisual project based on a concept of contradictory forces, deconstructed lie emerging from a heterogeneous mixture. Digital manipulation is not insidious; union of disparate elements constitutes the work, dialogue between sound and visual, evolving into canadian and icelandic landscapes, known for their pure and natural beauty.
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Author
Hugues Clément (CA/MONTREAL)//Since winning the SAT’s Bourse Euterke contest as an emerging VJ in 2011, vj and audiovisual artist Hugues Clément, based in Montreal, has further refined his very singular, dichotomy-dismantling approach through performances at MUTEK, Igloofest and showcased works in Beijing, Brussels and Paris. Informed by studies in electroacoustics and compositional work for the theatre and contemporary dance, Clément comes at a/v art with scrupulous artistic deliberations and a playful bent for digital manipulations and abstracted graphic juxtapositions. Clement...