Friday 7th and Saturday 8th of April 2023
9 pm > 12 am – Loop screening
Free
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Palace of Fine Arts
Place de la République
59000 Lille
Monument video mapping
International artists
The Video Mapping Festival offers a Video Mapping Contest as part of the Lille tour. This year, the selected candidates will present their work on the Palace of Fine Arts’s facade; a Jury made of professionals will award a Grand Prize, possibly an honorable mention, and the public will choose an Audience Prize by SMS vote (Friday only).
The 2 winners will receive a grant to propose a creation, one of 5 000€ from iMapp Bucharest for a creation for the 2023 edition of the festival, the other of 4 000€ from Christie for a creation for the Lyon Festival of Lights 2023.
Video mapping created by international artists for the Video Mapping Contest 2023 organised as part of the Video Mapping Festival.
Video Mapping Contest pre-selection Jury:
• Marko Bolković – director, VISUALIA Festival Pula (Croatia)
• Susie lou Chetcuti – artist, Rencontres Audiovisuelles (France)
• Julian Hölscher – designer, art director, media artist (Germany)
• Filip Roca – artist (Spain, Montenegro)
• Robert Seidel – artist, Studio Robert Seidel (Germany)
Video Mapping Contest Jury:
• Franck Dion – director (France)
• Teresa Mar – light artist (Austria)
• Julien Pavillard – director of events and animation for the City of Lyon and general coordinator of the Lyon Festival of Lights (France)
• Julia Shamsheieva – digital artist (Ukraine)
• Robert Sochacki – PhD, academic lecturer and curator, Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Art and Design in Wrocław, NOKS collective (Poland)
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IN COMPETITION
Concurrent n°1
► ColorWaves
9 waves of coloured photons emerge from the center and sides of the building then grow along its facade. The first 7 waves show sequentially the colours seen in a rainbow. The 8th wave shows all the rainbow colours at once. The 9th and final wave shows the full colour spectrum, hence pure white glowing light.
Direction: Felix Frank (Ecuador)
Concurrent n°2
► Greed
Greed is an animation of the fairytale The Fishermen and his Wife by using typographic elements. This fairytale shows the greed and immoderateness that are reinforced by capitalism and can therefore be criticised in our society. The artists’ statement refers to a moderate and humble attitude towards resources, desires and people.
Concept and animation: Caren Flohr, Anika Flohr (Germany)
Original music: Timo Flohr
Concurrent n°3
► Elemental Construction vol.2
The artwork is based on simplicity, rhythm and the pulsating, dynamic, constantly changing harmony of primitive geometric forms and primary colors which ultimately form a single entity.
The artist’s intent is to create an illusory space in which forms become a play of light and shadow. The inspiration came from the European masters of the 20th century and the innovative freedom of the avant-garde.
Direction: Zoltán Varga – EPER (Hungary)
Concurrent n°4
► Raben mutter
A journey of a young mother, fighting with obstacles in search of an individual way of life, mental health and love for herself and her children.
Direction: Anna Mahendra, Camilo Colmenares (Germany)
Original music: Camilo Colmenares
Concurrent n°5
► Invisible to the naked eye
Some scientific discoveries invisible to the naked eye stimulate the imagination. Through the movement of visual and sound effects, this mapping is an invitation to travel through the building’s material. A dive from space to the particle, from reality to abstraction, in which the different architectural elements are anchored.
Direction: Néon Minuit (Dorian Rigal, Léon Denise), Jérémy Oury (France)
Original music: Jérémy Oury
Concurrent n°6
► BAZARNAÜM 493
BAZARNAÜM 493 is a graphic tale about the relationship between silence and noise, stability and dynamism, established order and avant-garde. We meet a face, the king of silence, who commands and watches over a space – the Palace of Fine Arts – by playing a small show. But when he falls asleep, his space becomes the scene of a carnival: a procession composed of a colorful fauna and flora invades the Palace, feasting on wild rhythms.
Waking up with a start, he tries to chase away the troublemakers. But the carnival people have not said their last word…
Direction: Simon Lazarus (France)
Original music: Joséphine Hurtut
Concurrent n°7
► [‘/archive’].log
The emergence of new forms of digital and media related arts and the availability of digital technology have led to new questions regarding the conditions and necessities of the accessibility, documentation and archiving of art in general. This mapping deals with these specific questions and use them as a basic framework for its composition.
Direction: Simon Hillme, Louis Schad (Germany)
Video mapping tour organised by Rencontres Audiovisuelles.
With the support of the Hauts-de-France Region, DRAC Hauts-de-France, Métropole Européenne de Lille, the City of Lille and Crédit Mutuel Nord Europe.
