16th of January - 22nd of February : Exhibition at the Gallery SIT DOWN
"WALLPAPER CINEMA"
opening Thursday January 17th from 6 PM to 9 PM
galerie SIT DOWN
4 rue sainte-anastase
75003 Paris
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Music : Raphael Elig & Eric Wenger
Mixed by Denis Lefdup
More info :
www.dante01.com/
www.allocine.fr/film/fichefilm_gen_cfilm=110951.html
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Pictures from the videos on echosytem.com/rephael
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Yokohama VDO Collection 07 : CINE.MOV
Véronique Godé and Anne-Marie Morice
for the Month of France in JAPAN
New Videos on You Tube
http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=relig7
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abstract from "BLOW" on You Tube
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"BLOW" selected for EXIS 2006 (Experimental Film and Video Festival), SEOUL, Korea
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Saladestar + escaparate High & low Tech
Blow, Birds, Structures optiques, Color lines by Raphël Elig (soporte de Synesthésie) at the OFF LOOP FESTIVAL Video Festival, Barcelona
http://www.loop-barcelona.com/LOOP06/CASTELLANO/OFFLOOP/
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The French Institute of Barcelona will present during the week-end of the 12th and the 13th of november, the last discoveries of the main french video collectors.
The FIB invited them to suggest a program from their collections. You will discover their selection, to understand how you can build a video art collection.
COLLECTION XAVIER MILIN
DEZINE
2003, 9 MIN
BLOW
2005, 5 MIN
STRUCTURES OPTIQUES
2005, 3 MIN
BOLLY
2005, 9 MIN
In this new serie of video, Raphael Elig appropriates certain sequences of cult cinema (Blow-Up), popular (a Bollywood film) and wipes out all narration to only keep the scenes that interests him and on which he composes an original soundtrack. He gives them a new lighting and transforms the sequences into geometric structures or wallpaper videos. As many games and visuals sequences in which the viewer absorbs himself until hypnosis. A wink to Marcel Duchamp, his roto reliefs and his "Anemic Cinema" just as the cinetic and optical art of the 50's and 60's.
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"SPACEMAKER - DVD BY NUMBERS" Presetation
at IRCAM for the FORUM's workshops.
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NEW !
ESPACE LOUNGE AT the CUBE
"DVD BY NUMBERS"
http://www.lesiteducube.com/site/breve.php?id=35
LE CUBE - ART3000
20, Cours Saint Vincent
92130 Issy-les-moulineaux
Tél. 01 58 88 3000
Fax. 01 58 88 3010
E-mail : contact@art3000.com
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Son et lumières à la maison avec les DVD d'ambiance
par Anne Bernard dans le Libé du 20 et 21 Novembre 2004
Télécharger le fichier PDF
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"Customisez vos murs grâce aux DVD d'Art" dossier spécial dans ELLE
par Katell Pouliquen
Quelle oeuvre pour quelle ambiance :
"Le musicien Raphael Elig mêle des extraits de films, des images numériques et des airs
entêtants. Les couleurs varient en fonction de la musique.
Pour quoi ? Pour une soirée expérimentale, ambiance happening multi-arts."
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Le DVD fait tapisserie : Article dans L'Express Mag de cette semaine
par Ada Mercier
DVD By Numbers présenté dans "La vie en Clair" sur Canal+ le 26 avril à 13h00 dans le cadre des papiers peints vidéos.
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"DEZINE" retenue dans la sélection officielle de la Vidéothèque Ephémère du festival VIDEOFORMES ouverte du 17 au 20 mars au public et aux professionnels.
http://www.videoformes.com
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Raphael Elig's Spacemaker selected as a “Recommend Work” evaluated highly by the jury committee in the [ Art ] Division at the 2003 (7th) Media Arts Festival, Agency for Cultural Affairs, Tokyo, Japan.
http://plaza.bunka.go.jp/english/festival/backnumber/15/suisen/art.html
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- "We'll Never Die" and "Prism" have been selected for the .MOV Festival in Sapporo, Japan and will be shown at the SOSO CAFE for the festival term. Produced by the online magazine SHIFT
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- "DEZINE" selected for the 10th biennial of moving images at the 'Centre for contemporary images', Geneva
http://www.centreimage.ch/bim/
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DVD by Numbers has been nominated by the Jury of the "Sommet du Luxe et de la Création" in the "Bien-Etre" section :
The third anual international meeting of the "Sommet du luxe et de la création"
will be held on monday the 27th of October at the Palais du Luxembourg followed by a dinner at the George V Hotel in Paris.
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- Thursday 25th of september at 6:30 pm : rendez vous at the Fnac Digitale, 77 Bd St Germain, Paris 6 for the launching of DVD by Numbers.
- Exhibition from the 8 to the 28th of september in the Fnac Digitale,
- DVD By Numbers is performing at Sony Dream World, the 4th, 5th, 6th and 7th of september in Palais des Congrès, Paris 8
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Raphael Elig's DVD Spacemaker is available : online : - Amazon.fr offline : - Librairie du Centre Pompidou, Paris 4 |
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The DVD SPACEMAKER proposes 2 parts composed of 8 videos: 4 videos to play successively and 4 others videos more ambiantales to loop.
Those 8 videos are 3 to 20 min long and offer as many occasions for the artist to explore the ratio between man and machine, the unconscious relation of the genetic code and the binary computer code.
A piece created from pictures of removed archives on internet, processed and colourized through a mechanical gesture. All starts with a binary alternation: a game with an archetype of the male (a military parade) and an archetype of the female (the dancers) that slips very quickly towards an ironic confusion of the kinds and positions. What if the entertainment was not so far from a military parade? Indisposition and headache... ? Just one remedy: " dristan tablets! "
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUQsHLMmq30
This piece uses the pixel as a metaphor of the genetic code; therefore the equation pixel = genetic code is suggested with the face’s multiplication : a wink to cloning resides in the mise en abymes of the face.
In the ending sequence, the skeletons represent this infinity of little deaths which are the living caracteristic and may be also the condition of immortality.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwiopD2epc0
This piece represents a 3D face on a 2 dimension background. It is a tribute to Steve Reich’s piece named alike and uses a repetitive audio process that is reproduced on the face’s expression and its background.
Through a loop of the sentence «come out and show them», the video explores numerous rythmic and harmonic possibilities. The timbre and the voice are in perfect synchronisation with the graphic animation.
" In the test of Rorschach, although the drawing of the spots are not figurative, it can resemble to known forms, that are frequently located and stated by numerous questioned persons. A gifted person with a good intellectual capacity has, according to Rorschach, to give a sufficient number of those "good forms" as responses. The test informs on the nature of intelligence: abstract or concrete, synthetic or analytical, according to the interpratation of the task, entire or in parts ; dynamic or passive intelligence, according to the degree of elaboration of the response; etc.
In Physics, a transparent body which separates white light into a spectrum of colours. ‘Prism’ emulates this physical process (visual and acoustic) associating a purely decorative dimension.
Vahine video is constructed on a sequence (extracted from the Headache Video) edited as a loop. This video emphasizes the decorative aspect of a narrative instant.
The video 'Dezine' restores a visual and musical atmosphere connoted from the 60/70’s.This filtered atmosphere, through a pixellisation process, emphasizes the aesthetic nature of the video. There is a relation between images and sounds that evolves and induces a cinematographic notion. One passes from abstraction to narration, from reality to virtuality looking through this filtering object, as a moucharabieh that distorts and induces variations in our perception of the scene.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5PJ9p3BqYI
In this video the ratio human/machine appears as a robotic dance, a repetitive gestual and stages the human figure using machines in different situations. The soundtrack underlines this duality human/machine adding 2 synthetic voices (male/female): the computer gets more human.