Artists Statement
Arts numériques Fest Exhibition. Théâtre-Sénart, May 2 – June 3
Dylan Cote & Pierre Lafanéchère are ISEA2023 selected artists
Framed Earth is part of a series of artistic works around the world generated by Google Earth, produced by Dylan Cote with Pierre Lafanechère.
The landscapes of Framed Earth, immersed in the ocean, linger on dwellings, places of life. Having become islands, these pieces of worlds remind us of how we inhabit digital space and navigate the ocean of data. We sail from island to island, from bubble to information bubble, more or less populated, isolated, connected to each other. Behind the tangible framework represented by the edges of our screens are drawn informational frameworks that sequence, divide and reaggregate the worlds we inhabit.
To live is however not simply to spatially occupy a place, it is also to project one’s affects there and by constructing a story there. These imaginary digital habitats unfold in several forms and inspire different stories, sometimes absurd, even scary, between autarkic desertion and a post-apocalyptic world. http://www.dylancote.fr/framed-earth
- Dylan Cote is an artist and designer based in Paris, France. He collaborates closely with musical artists with whom he carries out audiovisual projects in different contexts. He also develops a more autonomous artistic practice through installations, images and video. His research focuses on experimenting with various media and techniques in order to generate forms that take advantage of the plastic potential of digital technologies while questioning their uses. Simultaneously tools, mediums and subjects, they help him to build contemplative spaces where anguish mixes with fascination, reflections of a work on contemporary technical imaginations and power relations induced by techno-capitalist expansion. Fragments of fiction emerge from this, revealing certain current issues linked to the technological and societal changes characteristic of our time. He is also one of the founding members of the visual art label OYÉ, created in 2016. It brings together various artists and designers around audiovisual artistic projects. http://www.dylancote.fr
- Pierre Lafanéchère (FR). Multidisciplinary artist, from a digital designer training. My work seeks to question our relationship to technology and its evolution. Going from computer-generated image to tangible devices, I explore digital, metal, wood, plastic as malleable materials allowing to divert uses and develop imaginations. My work revolves around animated images, digital installations, sculptures and automatons. I develop forms moving in physical and digital space in the service of an idea, a project, a moment. My research focuses on experimenting, sometimes diverting, various media and techniques in order to generate forms that take advantage of the aesthetic possibilities of new media. From this emerge fragments of fictions revealing certain current issues linked to mutations. I am also a member of the OYÉ collective, a group of visual artists, designers and scenographers who share a studio in Île de France. https://www.pierrelafanechere.fr