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Gwenola
Wagon
Conference paired with a split-screen colour-video subtitled in English.
Localised videos via platforms such as You-Tube are later compiled on Google Earth. The atlasitself thus becomes a world-wide picture house where exceptionally large quantities of videos are projected, to then be visualised through geographic coordinates. This sorting by locality enables film organisation by assigning them a legibility scale and view points. In this way, several idioms of reality depiction become superimposed upon satellite imagery overlying the terrestrial sphere.
The Blackpool-Manchester video [1] attempts to scout different modes of territorial exploration. Not having being able to travel between Blackpool and Manchester this winter, I started out on an internet connected journey between the two towns via interfaces such as Google Earth and Second Life. I made the very best of picking up any morsel of information as if «I'd really been there». Following through on three fantastical crossings, I moved between both towns and interlaced different ways of branching off and contemplating space.
[1] http://www.nogovoyages.com/blackpool_manchester.html
Recent publications:
1 With S. Degoutin, «Built Metaphors, villes privées entre fiction et réalité», article présenté à la 4e conférence internationale du réseau de recherche international «gouvernance urbaine privée et gated communities», La Sorbonne, 5-8 juin 2007.
2 With S. Degoutin and A. Kockelkorn, « Fiktive Grenzen », in Baunetz Woche, Das Querformat für Architekten, Berlin, juin 2007.
3 « Jouabilité des flux », in Jouable, Art, jeu et interactivité, catalogue d'exposition, Jean-Louis Boissier, Daniel Pinkas (ed.), Haute école d'arts appliqués HES, Genève, École nationale des arts décoratifs, Paris, Ciren, Université Paris 8, Centre pour l’image contemporaine, Genève, 2004, p. 121.