Ivan Chabanaud
Plastic artist, creator of virtual environments.
Born in 1954
Concept: Latin conceptus, Idea of an object designed by the spirit which permits an organization of perception and knowledge.
Like all biographies: stories where once upon a time, there was a painter sculptor. During his life, he encounters his material medium which will enable him to express the irrational part of himself. As time passes, while in dialogue with the concrete, he discovers the tools which he is drawn to use. In a sense, any approach to the description of the relationship of concept to finished object is difficult. I would like to speak about the boundaries created by paper when it is torn, the door through which passes the majority of what we cannot express.The outline of this defined edge is a record of a gesture of powerlessness and a renunciation of the preceding moment. If the paper remains intact and only ruffled, an unstable record took place. Only the tear adds a descriptive dimension related to time: a trace. The transition towards this state upsets the pre-existing order, thus the moment of the transformation becomes the place of creation. The gesture which could describe the space in which I found my material medium was born from the space between the abstract straight line at the edge of a paper and a fractal path.
So this is how, once, while cutting out paper silhouettes to find their inherent expressive qualities, the Golem appeared to me. During these last few years, I became interested in the concept of virtual environment, in which virtuality takes the place of the imagination. The construction of these particular environments always require sophisticated equipment, I developed my last installations in centers which allow this type of development (ART 3000 for the last 2 projects) and the CICV for this most recent work. The installation of this particular environment required a four-month residency at the CICV.
Currently, an extension of my residency has led me to a deeper and richer reflection of the imaginary, and has provided a shared experience with others who are now using the network, so that we may begin to define and fill the space between works of art and spectacle.
Roland Cahen
Musician, electroacoustician.
Born in 1958 in Paris.
Married, father.Good at nothing, I was rejected from public school. Fortunately I succeeded in entering Pierre Schaeffer's class of electroacoustic composition at CNSM and to study theater with Gerald Robard and Daniel Mesguish. I teach electroacoustic music at the school of Music of Montbeliard and at the CFMI of Lille. I am passionate about teaching. It nourishes me. It also gives me the freedom which I need to create and experiment, which in turn, feeds my teaching.For myself, electroacoustic art is an extraordinary tool for experimentation in many different media, from theater to music via research and multimedia. I follow the paths which most attract me. My teachers often said that I only did what I wanted to do, but they did not realize that I did not follow them, not for lack of enthusiasm but rather, because something was missing. I didn't have the capacity for a deeper comprehension.
I went through one mystical period. I believed that the truth could be found in the depths, but I realized that the absolute is morbid and the surface of daily life is much more creative. Today I assert with flickering lightness, a search for what is extremely topical: the universal, the metaphysical, the multicultural. My intellectual guides, my models, my spiritual fathers for the most part, either committed suicide or were misled in the worst conneries of history. Perplexity is salutary, choice is generally essential.
I believe that live culture, that reality, each individual "act" is more profitable than any labeling of identity.
Bruno Herbelin
Engineer data processing specialist.
Born in 1974Having followed a traditional educational track, I obtained my diploma in 1997 as an engineer, in the department of Engineering of Software and Knowledge at the Polytechnic Institute of Sévenans.My personal interest in art and culture led me to carry out my project at the end of my studies at the CICV, where I worked on the ICARE project assisting Ivan Chabanaud in the computer design of the program. This collaboration permits an interesting dynamic in artistic creation: technological tools that inform a new means of expression; others' requests and original ideas stimulate and thus inform my own technological understanding. In addition, for the past two years, as a conscientious objector, I have been able to fully commit myself to the vision and scope of the Icare project.