[ISEA95] Paper: Jean-Marc Philippe — La relation art/alliage a memoire de formes: 10 ans de parcours. $1500000 en recherche et developpement: un nouvel imaginaire artistique

Abstract

The specifics of Alliages a Memoires de Formes (Memory Shape Alloys) includes the memorizing of various shapes at various temperatures, shapes that can be spontaneously reconstituted each time the shape encounters the some temperature. These technologies were originally developed by the military. When I first studied them in 1985, I was so impressed that I decided to apply them at an artistic level. To meet the production imperatives required for a self-memorizing evolutive sculpture (one whose shapes evolve night and day and seasonally), an original research program was undertaken in high-tech laboratories in France and the United States.

  • Jean-Marc Philippe, France. This multimedia artist works in the domain of art in space. He most notably conceived and produced the work Message des Hommes a l’Univers which included 10,500 messages gathered by Minitel between 1986 and 1987 and transmitted into space for eternity by radio telescope. Some of his other works include Le Torse Hermaphrodite (1986), Le Totem du Futur (1987-89), La Porte des Deux Infinis (1994), and La Sculpture Planete Mars (1995). The first two works were awarded the ISAST New Horizon Award in 1987.