I gave a workshop on interactive video, using max/msp/jitter, to the students of the Haute Ecole d’Arts Appliqués (now HEAD) in Geneva. This master program is now called Media Design. The workshop included a small production which we shot in Geneva. It was a cadavre exquis on the theme of «what happens in bedrooms».
Tom Leeser invited me to give a lecture at the CalArts Center for Integrated Media, on my research on interactive video. It was attended by a diverse group of students coming from various disciplines.
I spent 3 extraordinary days with Marie Brassard and her team. Installed in the Usine C in snowed-in Montréal with her company Infrarouge, I presented to her various technological possibilities for her new show called the «Peepshow» project, ranging from AI-controlled virtual creatures to architectural and scenographic ideas for video on the stage. A private workshop if you will.
I started teaching my course of «Narrative filmmaking for computational media» at the USC School of Cinematic Arts, open to all students with backgrounds in filmmaking and basic programming (class code : CTIN499)
I started teaching the mandatory class called «Experiments in Interactivity I+II» dedicated to physical computing and computer science for interactive artists at the USC School of Cinematic Arts, in the Interactive Media Division chaired by Scott Fisher, with Perry Hoberman.
After presenting a paper on my Live Cinema instrument at the NIME conference in Hamamatsu, I gave talks on the future of cinema at ATR (just before Bob Moog, who shared his egg sandwich with me at lunch) and IAMAS (hosted by Christa Sommerer & Laurent Mignonneau), where I recorded the sound of frogs at night in an open field.
Jouable, Colloque international sur l’art, le jeu et l’interactivité, au Centre pour l’image contemporaine, Saint-Gervais Genève, organisé par Jean-Louis Boissier (CIREN, Paris VIII) et Daniel Pinkas (MADE, HEAD).
J’y ai présenté mon travail et mes idées durant la session 2.
Proceedings of this colloquium & event have been published.
Vallejo Gantner (now director of PS122), director of the Dublin Fringe Festival, invited me (Media Lab Europe) to be a mentor, together with Steve Valk (Forsythe Company/Daghdha), Jocelyn Clarke (Abbey Theatre) and John Collins (Elevator Repair Service), for a 2-week workshop at the Tyrone Guthrie Centre, in Annaghmakkerig.
We explored new forms of drama, new relationships between performers & their audience, & non-linear storytelling in performance.
Architectures Non Standard / Laboratoires de l’Architecture Numérique
J’ai participé à cette exposition au Centre Georges Pompidou sur les mutations apportées par le domaine computationnel dans l’architecture, en créant des sons pour le Emonic Environment de Paul Nemirovsky, en collaboration avec le collectif d’architectes Servo.
This interactive film installation, whose physical structure was designed by AETC (Antoinette & Christian Scheidegger), won the new media award at the Festival of New Cinema of Montréal, ex-aequo with Morten Schjødt for Switching.