[ISEA2023] Curator Statement: Hacnum (curator) — ISEA2023 Hacnum Selection

Curator Statement

Exhibition. various locations, May 16 – 21

Hacnum represents nearly 400 French actors and artists in the field of hybrid and digital arts and is committed to promoting innovative artistic projects that use new digital technologies while respecting the plurality of the forms, writings and themes addressed. It is in this spirit that, for ISEA2023, we have selected works that are relevant to the theme by considering all the meanings that the term symbiosis can embrace, but also the use of the most appropriate and diverse tools.

Members of the HACNUMxISEA2023 Selection Co-Curation Commitee

Juliette Bibasse – commissaire indépendante
Magali Revest – artiste
Dominique Moulon – critique d’art et curateur indépendant
Pierre Scheffler – ARCAN
Morgiane Laïb et Raphaël Jourjon – Festival Pléiades/Ville de Saint-Etienne
Stéphane Le Garff – Festival OFNI
Luc Brou – Oblique/s
Erik Lorré – Fées d’Hiver
Clément Thibault – Le Cube Garges
Natacha Duviquet – SIANA
Julie Miguirditchian – Plateforme MAS – Musique Audio Sons
Diego Jarak – Festival ZERO1
Cyrielle Tissandier – AADN
Ikbal Ben Khalfallah – Festival Safra’Numériques
Gabriel Soucheyre – VIDEOFORMES
Marianne Lebon – Les Hangars Numériques

Selected Works of ISEA2023 Selected Artists

Ad Hominem – Alex Verhaest
Cymatic Ground – Tobias Klein & Alvaro Cassinelli
EARTHSATZ – Dylan Cote & Pierre Lafanechere
Je viens de te voir en rêve – Marion Roche
The White Out – Le Clair Obscur
Life Support System – Disnovation
Lygophilia – Robertina Šebjanič
Recollection – Weidi Zhang & Roger Luo
Reverse Phylogenesis – Golnaz Behrouznia & Dominique Peysson
Plastic Landscape – Reversible World – Yoon Chung Han
Unforeseen Spaces – Marie Lelouche
Vegetal/Digital – Alison Bennett
Whiteout – Abel & Carlo Korinsky
Wilderness – David Bowen

  • Created in 2020, HACNUM – ​​the National Network for Hybrid Arts and Digital Cultures – brings together more than 400 players in the sector in France. Hybrid by nature, HACNUM brings together professionals of various typologies: artists, festivals, theaters, concert halls, third places, art centers, fablabs, places of residence, digital creation studios, business clusters, galleries of art, universities, journalists… for the defense of their mutual interests. https://hacnum.org