Artists Statement
Arts numériques Fest Exhibition and Hacnum Exhibition Théâtre-Sénart, May 2 – June 3
Dylan Cote & Pierre Lafanéchère are ISEA2023 selected artists
visual performance made with Incogito .
30 minutes. Earthsatz also has an exhibitable version (prints + video).
To scrutinize the planet by referencing each of its facets is to seek to exhaust it, to say everything about it, to disenchant the idea of an unknown elsewhere by replacing it with a rational and immutable vision. Google Earth is a project that is both infinite and imperfect: to fit the world in a smartphone is not only to look at it as an object of scientific study, it is also to compact it. The image is imprecise, the volumes are altered, the city is silent, the cars static, life non-existent. “Hold the whole world in your hands”: a funny slogan for a strange vision of the world.
Yet the world told by Google Earth remains intriguing. The imperfections of its forms, the defects of its textures and the coldness of this representation constitute the attributes of a new, hybrid universe, more of algorithmic fiction than our tangible reality. Earthsatz seeks to amplify the cold and scary poetry generated by this “pocket world” where pixels have replaced particles.
The challenge is to succeed in contemplating this space for what it is: a fictional universe mimicking ours while developing its own autonomy, its own logic, its own physics. By in turn scanning part of the world generated by Google scans, we add a layer of information loss, greater compression and therefore amplification of its fantastic characteristics.
Earthsatz then proposes a walk in this third world whose fictional, artificial and irrational aspects are celebrated through a highlighting of its aberrations and a progressive degradation of its forms. These tormented landscapes are prolonged in dark and heavy sonorities, soundtrack of a synthetic universe in decomposition, roars of a planetary equation.
http://www.dylancote.fr/earthsatz
https://harddiskmuseum.com/portfolio/template-duplicate-for-new-artist-3 https://www.pierrelafanechere.fr/travaux/earthsatz
- 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 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