Archives > Décembre 2004

French collective of photographers just launched a blog (in French). Founded in 1991, Tendance Floue is a group of twelve photographers who work on both individual and collective projects. One of there most famous serie is Olivier Cullman's A Chicken's Life : "in fact, two different series of photos taken at different times. One of them, in black and white, is a series of photos on the military. The other, in color, is a look at the poultry industry". And much more on their original website in english.

We talked about Boueg Bergman a few weeks ago. He is now guest-blogging on AEIOU (french version). Beside his photograph job in SL, Boueg just started Third Life Records, "Second Life's first record label, 100% dedicated to original and previously unreleased musical contents developed by resident artists". He will be for two weeks our special correspondent in SL, at the borders of schizophrenia...
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Take a beautifull ride of parisian suburban night. French photograph Dom Garcia shoots really enigmatic numeric pictures of Paris' circle-road life, squares, buildings and neon lights. An exhibition Buildings + Squares, started 12.16.04, also takes place à la Galerie Visuel.
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A method. And a gallery. By Anne Bichon.
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Christmas time : "Limona Studio offers you the opportunity to commission your own hand-painted movie poster on canvas. From your pictures, the best artists of Bollywood selected by Limona Studio will create a very unique and colorful painting in Bollywood style". The web site is mainly in french, but there's an english page available for instructions, or you can send an email at this address.
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Frédéric Madre is our new guest-blogger on Aeiou (french version). The net-artist-who-wouldn-t-want-to-be-called-an-artist is editor of Pleine-Peau (revue snob et désespérée), started the first blog in France a few years ago, opened the Faculty for the Interpretation of Images at Uo, and just launched his new project : Polyptique is a kind of wiki where people can upload pictures on a server, writing a sort of hyperimage collaborative project while experimenting the limits of the developed structure. Taking the words of the conceptor, Polyptique "ties you in infinity"... If you want to know more about Frédéric Madre, here's an interview on Rhizome (eng).
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You're an european producer or film maker ? You wish to shoot in Paris ? Or work with a technical or artistic partner in the Région parisienne ? The Ile de France Film Commission (new online) will help you in your formalities.
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The Smartcucumber website provides loads of ecstatic comix and erotic fantasy. Check out the cartoons, and don't miss the splendid Love by Joko. The people behind this website are permanent guests of Un regard moderne, a brilliant media-clash webzine reinventing news every day.
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Enjoy a bit of pop on the Chansonpoche label : "pocket songs" are mini-CD's which have the size and shape of a phonecard and contain one individual song. Streams and videos are available on the site, records can be bought online or at the French Touche boutique in Paris. Primesautier.
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"The public domain is about non-ownership, not more accurate descriptions and granularity of ownership. Licensing structures like the Creative Commons help copyright owners and their lawyer lackeys catch up with today's faster moving, smaller-scale and more intricate network of information exchange between 'prosumers', not by 'freeing' it, but by describing it as intellectual property more efficiently." (Commercial Commons, Univesity of Openess : Uo)
I wonder why this excellent - and very virulent - text about the Creative Commons licence didn't make more waves in the blogocean... (thanks to Frederic Madre for the link !). Political correctness ? I was talking about CC with my friend David Pescovitz from Boingboing yesterday afternoon, telling him that I was sometimes annoyed by works which were... hm, not so good, but getting some kind of publicity out of this licence. Strange how the generation reading Naomi Klein is prompt to cut'n paste a small logo on it's work... (I'm in love with the Uo nologo by the way). Of course, I'm not a specialist of the subject, and I still feel quite enthousiastic at the idea of an alternative movement growing up. But for sure, I won't be mentioning that "This is a gift !" on my parcels this Christmas...
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Tonight (12.3.04) at 7 P.M. French time, the cat is screening his new movie picture at Pompidou Center in Paris. The film will also be broadcasted on Saturday night on French-German cultural TV channel Arte. Chris Marker, the most puzzling of French imagewriters, is adding a new line to his already astonishing career. If you have time, it's definitely worth taking a jet to Paris to watch that. And if you don't... you can always watch the cat sitting on the Piazza of Centre Pompidou (webcam).
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What's gaming and interactivity in art today (Video game, new media arts, installations..) ? The Jouable, part 3, international exhibition takes place until 4 dec in Paris. Will you play the game ?
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If you want to hear a bit of french, Arte Radio (web-radio "station" of the excellent cultural TV channel) will provide you with hundreds of very good quality files to listen, files which are now released under the Creative Commons licence. And if you don't speak french, don't panic and listen - for exemple - this Chanson Yaourt (.mp3) which proves that french people are very bad in english too ("singing in yogourt" means doing the lyrics in an "english way"... if you manage to recognize the words...).
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