Yann Deval (BE), Mathieu Pradat (FR), Adelin Schweitzer (FR), Isjtar Vandebroeck (CREW, BE); moderator: Lucía García (iMAL, ES/BE)
Panel "Artistic Practices in the New Expanded Field"Yann Deval (FR/BE), Mathieu Pradat (FR), Adelin Schweitzer (FR), Isjtar Vandebroeck (BE)
Yann Deval (FR/BE)
After studying history of cinema at La Sorbonne (Paris, France) and studying editing and audio-visual post-production in Cannes (France), he settled in Belgium in 2006 where he developed his activities as interactive designer, motion-designer and music-composer between Ghent and Brussels.With the artists collective REANIMATION, he works for the film industry (Mood Indigo by Michel Gondry), and creates short films for The New York Times, documentaries for Arte etc.He co-directed the virtual reality performance IMMERSIO. This performance is a mix between live music (clarinet) and digital arts, and was played at SAT Montreal, ADAF Athens etc.He co-directed ATLAS (concept / programming / design / music), an extended reality experience for Hololens and Virtual Reality. ATLAS has been played at Ars Electronica, IRCAM Centre-Pompidou Paris (more than 30 exhibitions/performances around the world).
Mathieu Pradat (FR)
Mathieu Pradat is a director and architect working in the fields of virtual reality and cinema. His practice is rooted in the growing interaction between virtual and real worlds, as territories that carry narratives and emotions. He explores both linear and interactive narrative forms. His projects (Proxima, The Roaming-Wetlands, Le Chien, Twist again à Lourdes) have been selected for numerous festivals, including La Mostra de Venise - Venice Virtual Reality, GIFF (Geneva International Film Festival), B3 (Frankfurt Biennale) and the Locarno Festival –- La Rotonde. Mathieu Pradat teaches at the Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3 and in high schools. He is a 2022 Villa Albertine laureate and a member of the Massachussets Institute of Technology's Open Documentary Lab since 2022. In 2010, he founded La prairie productions, an immersive content and film production company.
Adelin Schweitzer (FR)
Born in 1978, Adelin Schweitzer lives and works in Marseille. He graduated in 2004 from the College of Arts in Aix-en-Provence and has since then pursued a polymorphic artist career at the crossroads between immersive performances, audiovisual experiments, and new technologies. Schweitzer takes part in the artistic avant-garde filiation of Rimini Protokoll, Tinguely, Marc Pauline from S.R.L, Stelarc. Drawing from science-fiction imagery and cognitive sciences, the artist designs over time the outlines of a singular and forward-looking universe. In 2015 he created deletere, a production and transmedia experimentation laboratory based in Marseille. It is now as an artist associated with deletere that he continues his research on technological deceleration, techno-shamanism, and experiential art.
Isjtar Vandebroeck (BE)
Isjtar Vandebroeck works as a media artist, researcher and performer. A first-generation native digital artist, he uses the computer as chisel, stone and looking glass. His work is transdisciplinary and excels in collaborative art-science-technology crossovers. Over the years his work has shifted from the sonic to the visual. Notable collectives include OKNO, Society of Algorithm and ATK!
Since 2019 he is part of CREW. CREW is an international team of researchers, performers, technologists, dramaturgs, musicians, programmers, writers and designers with currently at its core two artists: Eric Joris and Isjtar Vandebroeck. As an arts company crossing the boundaries of art, science and technology, CREW continues to ask a simple question: how does technology change us? Immersive performance is the perfect medium to investigate this: they envelop the spectator in a different world and interact with them in the (not) here & (not) now.
