Digital Vocabulary Sculpture
2015
Shapes printed during the exhibition by a 3D printer are placed on a light table. The 256 shapes in the Digital Vocabulary film are captured in motion and printed using a 3D printer. The virtual becomes real and is embodied in forms.
This transformation of state, from digital to solid, is made possible by translating digital shapes into a program that makes the elements editable. They are then arranged next to each other following the organization of the original Digital Vocabulary plates produced by Woody Vasulka in the early 1980s.
Generic
• Concept and artistic direction: Frédéric Curien, Jean-Marie Dallet, Hervé Jolly.
Production
• Labex Arts-H2H (University of Paris 8, France)
Technical
• A 3D printer prints the algorithms of the 256 shapes taken from the Digital Vocabulary video. They are then placed on a light table in different matrix configurations of 16 elements (4 x 4).
Dimensions of the light table with 256 shapes: 130 (L) x 130 (W) x 80 (H) cm.
dimensions of the light table with 16 shapes: 30 (L) x 30 (W) x 14 (H) cm.
Exhibitions
• 2019 : Mémoires vives: from Nam June Paik to SLIDERS_lab, curator Jean-Marie Dallet, Zebrastraat (Ghent) & Bozar (Brussels), Belgium.
• 2017 : Les vitrines du Labex Arts-H2H, Labex Arts-H2H, ENS Louis-Lumière, Saint-Denis, France. Matrix Sculptures 2, 7, 8.
• 2016 : Vision-Recherche en art et en design, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France.
• 2016 : Flux et reflux du signal, Steina et Woody Vasulka and SLIDERS_lab, Le Cube, Issy-les-Moulineaux, France.
• 2015-2016 : SKYLINE, personal exposure, Contemporary art center Faux mouvement, Metz, France.
• 2014-2015 : Au commencement était le bruit, Gantner multimedia space, Bourogne, France.
