Installation, 2009

The installation Memory Cone invites us to explore the nature of the electronic image and to question its apparent stillness. The installation serves as a laboratory to probe the material qualities of a mediated image. In this high-tech sequel to the materialist cinema of the seventies, Maire addresses the apparatus and its physical output and the fundamental trust in images and memory.

About the artist

Julien Maire lives and works in Berlin. He studied fine arts in Metz. Maire is a visual and performing artist who deconstructs and re-invents the technology of audio-visual media. He renews obsolete cinematic techniques and develops alternative interfaces to produce moving images. His research confronts immobility and movement, reality and fiction and interrogates the notion of time and memory in the film image. His performance Digit and the installation Exploding Camera both received an Honorary Mention at Ars Electronica Linz 2007. Exploding Camera also received the New Media Art award from the Foundation Liedts-Meesen in 2008. His work was nominated for the World Technology Award in New York in 2009. Recent exhibitions include venues such as The French Pavilion, 25. Biennale of Alexandria; Matter and Memory, Woodstreet Galleries, Pittsburgh; SMAK, Gent; Behind the Image, Festival Artefact, Stuk, Leuven; 5th Seoul International Media Art Biennale, Seoul; Elandscapes, Eart Festival, Shanghai.
Further information: Julien Maire

TRUST
30 July–5 September 2010

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