Martyna Marciniak: “to examine how design and technology shape ideologies and social structures” In 2025, Martyna Marciniak is artist-in-residence at CERN in Geneva, in collaboration with Copenhagen Contemporary. CERN introduces her practice as follows: “Marciniak’s interdisciplinary practice combines spatial storytelling, speculative fiction and 3D reconstruction to examine how design and technology shape ideologies and social structures.” HerContinue reading “Beyond the “Fake”: Martyna Marciniak’s Artwork, Anatomy of Non-Fact, Explores Synthetic Images”
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Colours of Time, a movie by Cédric Klapisch: Photography as a Profoundly Human Global Technology
Humanity embraced photography, and it enriched human relationships—the very core of our humanity. The transformation of the world through this technology has been emancipatory. And what about today? As for today, is this movie a final look back before the battle for the future? Transitions—we are already in them. Climate, biodiversity, and technology. Faced withContinue reading “Colours of Time, a movie by Cédric Klapisch: Photography as a Profoundly Human Global Technology”
Isaac&Graham: when gravity powers smartphones
The physics professor Joël Chevrier tells us about the creation process of Isaac&Graham in collaboration with designer Mathieu Lehanneur; a story that reveals micro-energy and the joint work of a designer, a physicist, and a technologist.Isaac&Graham is a deceptively simple setup (that’s the very point): a crank allows you to easily lift a 20 kg weightContinue reading “Isaac&Graham: when gravity powers smartphones”
With Chinese artist Qingmei Yao, moving bodies reveal how technology is transforming our humanity.
From October 2024 to January 2025, artist Qingmei Yao exhibited Fencing: Landscape Fight at the Centre Pompidou as part of the exhibition China: A New Generation of Artists. Qingmei Yao placed two fencers on their usual piste. However, she replaced the two foils with two selfie sticks equipped with smartphones. Consequently, gazes, body movements, andContinue reading “With Chinese artist Qingmei Yao, moving bodies reveal how technology is transforming our humanity.”
At the museum Bourse de Commerce Paris, “Arte povera” lifts the hood of The Glorious Thirty
Currently on view at the Bourse de Commerce/Collection Pinault, the exhibition “Arte Povera” traces the Italian birth, development and international legacy of this singular artistic movement. Over 250 works by the main protagonists of Arte Povera are on display. Title image : Pier Paolo Calzolari, Untitled (Mattress), 1970. ADAGP, Paris 2024 Private collection, Lisbon. ViewContinue reading “At the museum Bourse de Commerce Paris, “Arte povera” lifts the hood of The Glorious Thirty”
Fashion: Iris van Herpen’s dresses, hybridizations of the woman body with the world
The exhibition, which ran from November 29, 2023 to April 28, 2024, was a huge success: over 100 gowns were presented at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs (MAD) in Paris, some of them worn by actresses Nathalie Portman, Eva Green, Cate Blanchett and Tilda Swinton, as well as singers Beyoncé, Lady Gaga and Björk, andContinue reading “Fashion: Iris van Herpen’s dresses, hybridizations of the woman body with the world”
Performances by Marina Abramovic and Ulay : Physical interactions between two moving bodies
Artists’ bodies in motion versus the disembodied digital future Over a period of twelve years, from 1976 to 1988, performance artists Marina Abramovic and Ulay (Uwe Laysiepen) explored a personal and artistic fusion. Their performances are breathtaking, both spectacular and physically complex. They engaged them at the limits of the body, of its strength, resistance and exhaustion.Continue reading “Performances by Marina Abramovic and Ulay : Physical interactions between two moving bodies “
Bill Fontana brings the bells of Notre-Dame back to life
Deepl translation of https://theconversation.com/quand-bill-fontana-redonne-vie-aux-cloches-de-notre-dame-185522 On the 5th floor terrace of the Centre Pompidou, artist Bill Fontana lets us hear “live” the permanent vibrations of the bells of Notre Dame, even though they are totally inaudible to the ear. This is a magnificent and impressive sound installation produced as part of the Manifeste 2022 festival organized by IRCAM (Institut deContinue reading “Bill Fontana brings the bells of Notre-Dame back to life”
Contemporary art: Tarek Atoui, a passer of vibrations
Tarek Atoui has exhibited his work “The Ground” at the Bourse du Commerce, the contemporary art center created by François Pinault, until September 6, 2021. He had already presented it at the Venice Biennale of Contemporary Art in 2019. Tarek Atoui is first and foremost a musician, specializing in electroacoustics. As an artist, he explores the vibrationsContinue reading “Contemporary art: Tarek Atoui, a passer of vibrations”
A physicist at the museum, an English version of my Arts&Sciences book
A physicist at the museum: A scientist’s view of contemporary artists Find the EN-book Here At a café between scientists, engineers and artists in Grenoble, I hear myself say, “I love your arts and sciences exhibition. I could give a lecture based on my physicist’s view of some of these works.” Obviously, one of theContinue reading “A physicist at the museum, an English version of my Arts&Sciences book”
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