La Traversée
François Quévillon
Trailer
This film is part of Aseman Sabet’s Carte Blanche co-presented with MUTEK.
In this work which evokes animation strategies, registration points and motion vectors – which appear as arrows – calculate the future position of objects while a vehicle crosses a bridge. Conveying the contemplative experience of a computerized optical flow, La Traversée transports us into a world of otherness whose points of reference are nevertheless familiar. The work is part of the Manœuvres series which is inspired by technologies used by driverless cars and dash cam recordings. Through this series, François Quévillon plays with the tension that arises when confronting the programmed behaviours of mobile robotics with the unpredictable nature of the world.
In this work which evokes animation strategies, registration points and motion vectors – which appear as arrows – calculate the future position of objects while a vehicle crosses a bridge. Conveying the contemplative experience of a computerized optical flow, La Traversée transports us into a world of otherness whose points of reference are nevertheless familiar. The work is part of the Manœuvres series which is inspired by technologies used by driverless cars and dash cam recordings. Through this series, François Quévillon plays with the tension that arises when confronting the programmed behaviours of mobile robotics with the unpredictable nature of the world.
| Director | François Quévillon |
Image tirée du film La Traversée // Image from the film La Traversée
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François Quévillon
François Quévillon is an artist based in Montreal. His interdisciplinary practice examines planetary changes as well as those affecting contemporary media. He investigates how technology alters human cognition, culture, the environment, our relationships to space, to time and to one another. Frequently developed during artist residencies, his work has been featured around the world at exhibitions and events dedicated to contemporary art, cinema and digital creation. Among them : Connecting the Dots (Mexico), Sundance’s New Frontier exhibition (Park City), Spaces Under Scrutiny at the Knockdown Center (New York), International Symposium on Electronic Art (Gwangju, Dubai and Albuquerque), Flora at Kalyon Kültür (Istanbul), .dreams at the Theatre of Digital Art (Dubai), Open Media Art Festival – Digital Aura (Seoul), Intervals (Nizhny Novgorod), Festival Internacional de Linguagem Eletrônica (Sao Paulo), IndieBo (Bogota), LOOP Barcelona, Contemporary Istanbul, Mirage Festival (Lyon), Show Off Paris, Festival de la Imagen (Manizales), Mois Multi (Quebec), FIFA, RIDM, NeurIPS, MUTEK, Elektra and International Digital Art Biennal (Montreal).
Biographical notes provided by the film production team
Biographical notes provided by the film production team
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