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Lecture Workshop

Interactive political films

I gave a workshop on how to make interactive political films at Mediamatic with Florian Thalhofer and his Korsakow authoring tool, to a very interesting range of participants (all filmmakers) who had come with their own footage. The final presentations took place at a local film school in Amsterdam.

I also gave a talk at De Balie about video games and non-violence, during the International Documentary Film Festival (IDFA), on a panel with Joost Raessens & Brody Condon.

A reader was put together by Mediamatic.

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Workshop

Interactive cinema workshop

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».

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Residence

Agony

Spent 2 weeks at La Halle aux Cuirs de La Villette, with Mié Coquempot (K622) and her company.
Costume design by Didier Despin, technology provided by La Kitchen (Cyrille Henry).

This maquette was made possible thanks to the CNC/DICREAM.

Thank you to Cécile Babiole for her help with electronics…

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Lecture

CalArts / Integrated Media

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.

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Workshop

Brainstorming for «Peepshow»

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.

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Course

Narrative filmmaking for computational media

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)

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Course

Experiments in Interactivity I+II

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.

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Lecture

Japan lecturing tour

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.

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Lecture

Colloque jouable

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.

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Residence Workshop

THREAD

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.