"Art of Failure" Exhibition
Devotion Gallery
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Imperfections identify a medium as it is with glass becoming visible by accumulated dusts and scratches. The ART OF FAILURE collective, Nicolas Maigret and Nicolas Montgermont, experiment within the capacity of contemporary technologies to generate specific sounds and visual languages. In their realizations, the internal characteristics of media are revealed through errors, dysfunctions, borderlines or failure threshold, which they develop into sensory and immersive audio visual experiences.
This exhibition brings together works produced by the Art of Failure collective dealing with issues of perceptible representations of digital data. The pieces on view explore the connections between our concrete space and the immaterial spaces of information. The series of LAPS projects takes a close look at the internal vibrations of the worldwide communication network in the manner of a seismic analysis. It enables the audience to perceive the digital and intangible space peculiar to the Internet network. The FLAT EARTH SOCIETY series surfs at the heart of global cartographic data and offers an acoustic experience of terrestrial reliefs.
Nicolas Maigret has been developing an experimental practice of sound and electronic images (performances, installations, programming, radio) since 2001. After studies in Intermedia arts where he followed a theoretical education about the avant-gardes, he joins the laboratory Locus-Sonus in Nice dedicated to audio art researches. He has been teaching new media during workshops and at the Fine arts school of Bordeaux. He is presently involved in an artist run space named Plateforme in Paris, and develops digital and sound art researches in duo with Nicolas Montgermont under the name of Art Of Failure.
Nicolas Montgermont studies the relations between art, sciences and medium using the computer as a workshop. After a formation in signal processing, he studies sciences applied to music at the IRCAM center. His creating work is the search of a numerical aesthetics, using and developing personal tools to explore the specific possibilities of the computer. With the chdh collective, he develops a work of audiovisual performance that is shown in many festivals in Europe and is continued by the release of a dvd, vivarium in 2008. Since 2007, he also works with the Art of Failure collective mainly in the sound art field. In parallel, he teaches the usage of the computer for creation at the Louis Lumiere school, at the university of Tunis and in workshops.
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Schedule
from February 17, 2012 to March 16, 2012
Opening Reception on 2012-02-17 from 19:00 to 22:00