[ISEA2015] Artist Statement: Sailly Sylvain — BRECHRIOc and DIATOM1a

Artist Statement

Computer-generated animation

  • Sylvain Sailly‘s (FR/CA) animations and sculptural installations explore contemporary information systems and image culture. Often drawing on the graphic iconography and research methods of industrial processes, his work is concerned with the tendency of data visualization to abstract and occlude socioeconomic realities. The works, which might be encountered as immersive multimedia installations or intimate web-based GIFs or videos, reference the contexts and histories of image-making technologies and the varying relationships between the screen and the material world. In 2011 he co-founded WALLPAPERS with Nicolas Sasoon and Sara Ludy. Sailly was born in 1983 in Poitiers, France. He currently resides on the unceded, ancestral and occupied lands of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Səl̓ílwətaʔ (Tsleil-Watuth) and Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish) Nations of the Coast Salish peoples. [source: http://www.zszsvzszs.com/zszszs/zsz.htm]