K3 Program Artistes Informations Organisation & contact Press Partners Credits © J&J French / English   Artistes Pierre Alferi / Jonathan Barnbrook / Etienne Bernard / Depth Affect / Pierre Di Sciullo / David Guez / Etienne Mineur / Dominique Moulon / Jean-Gabriel Périot / Antoine Schmitt / Trafik / > PIERRE ALFERI Pierre Alferi was born and lives in Paris. He began publishing philosophical essays such as "Guillaume d’Ockham", "Le singulier" and "Chercher une phrase". He has since written four books of poetry, "Les Allures naturelles" (1991), "Le Chemin familier du poisson combatif" (1992), "our present volume, Kub Or" (1994), and "Sentimentale journée" (1997), "as well as two novels", Fmn" (1994) and "Le cinéma des familles" (1999). Recently he has been working on short films and videos (Films parlants/cinépoèmes, DVD, 2003). His last books, a collection of essays titled "Des Enfants et des monstres" and a collection of poems titled "La Voie des airs" were published by P.O.L in 2004. (Films screened during K3: CINÉPOÈMES & FILMS PARLANTS). > JONATHAN BARNBROOK Jonathan Barnbrook is a British graphic designer and typographer. Barnbrook is arguably most-recognised for his work on the cover artwork of David Bowie's 2002 album Heathen which featured the debut for his 'Priori' typeface. This is particularly appropriate as Barnbrook cites record cover artwork as an early design influence, and possibly the interest that drew him to graphic design. Other well known fonts designed by Barnbrook include Bastard, Exocet, False Idol, Infidel, Moron, Newspeak, Olympukes, Sarcastic, Shock & Awe, and Tourette. Many have emotive and controversial titles reflecting the style and themes of Barnbrook's work. From 1997-2003 Barnbrook collaborated with 'Young British Artist' Damien Hirst, most notably on the design, layout and typography of his book I Want To Spend the Rest of My Life Everywhere, with Everyone, One to One, Always, Forever, Now and on artwork associated with his restaurant Pharmacy. (Films screened during K3: REMEMBER TIBET / GLOBA LIZATION / THE PROBLEM IS NOT / ONCE WE BRANDED OUR SLAVES / TO CONTROL YOUR PEOPLE / CONSUMERISM). http://www.barnbrook.net/ > ETIENNE BERNARD Etienne Bernard is an art critic for magazines such as 02 and Beaux Arts Magazine and a curator. He was granted an MA in Aesthetics from the University of Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne in Paris. His academic researches were focused on documentary American landscape photography. As a freelance curator, he led various projects in the fields of contemporary art and graphic design. Since 2007, he has been in charge of a bi-annual exhibition program for the CAPC Museum of Contemporary Art in Bordeaux and appointed as General Delegate of the International Poster and Graphic Design Festival of Chaumont. (Conference during K3: INTRODUCTION TO K3). > DEPTH AFFECT The Depth Affect project was born in the new millennium in the suburbs of Nantes, France. In David Bideau and Rémy Charrier’s student rooms, keyboards and laptops outnumbered Beach Boys and Autechre records. From then on, they were set to start building the architecture of their music. A few years later, with a handful of songs in their pockets, a few gigs and their duet being completed by a team composed of a DJ and a VJ, their music found its own personal path and their first album Arche-Lymb received critical acclaim. On top of that they worked on their live performance and developed a new and original approach to the stage which they had a chance of displaying live in several glorious French venues and festivals. In their new album Hero Crisis, the colours of melancholy have taken over the naive beauty and bucolic joy of their first record. In Hero Crisis, their songwriting has become more direct, both harsher and colder, with catchy melodies inhanced by an astonishing production. The twelve tracks of Hero Crisis mix influences stemming from r’n’b, pop, hip-hop, ambiant, click’n’cut and dubstep, thus creating a new dreamy and feverish soundscape. (Concert at the Submarine Station). http://www.depthaffect.com/ > PIERRE DI SCIULLO Pierre di Sciullo is a graphic designer and typographer. (Conference & project shown during K3: NIMPORTNAWAK). http://www.quiresiste.com/ > DAVID GUEZ A Background in both computer science and arts. Since 1994, he creates artistic work related to new images and digital forms (performances, installations, internet) mainly questioning social links and networks on the internet. (Conference & workshop during K3: Art & Science on Secondlife) http://www.guez.org/ > ETIENNE MINEUR An interactive and graphic designer, Etienne Mineur is one of the founder of Incandescence. He also developes my-os.net, a blog dealing with New Media and Graphic design. Invited artiste in UQAM (Montreal) in 2003, he currently teaches in Rennes. (Conference: INTERACTIVE BOOKS). http://www.my-os.net/blog/ > DOMINIQUE MOULON Dominique Moulon holds a Master's degree in aesthetic of arts, sciences and technologies from the University of Paris 8. He teaches multimedia creation, writes about new media and regularly gives conferences about digital art in Europe. In 2007, he was a guest lecturer at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. (Conference : DIGITAL ARTS IN EUROPE). http://www.moulon.net - http://www.newmediaart.eu > JEAN-GABRIEL PÉRIOT Jean-Gabriel Periot is an artist and filmmaker based in Tours, France. His work has been shown extensively around the world winning a number of awards including the Grand Prix at the Tampere International Film Festival, USA and Best International Short at the Cork International Film Festival, Ireland (Conference & films screened during K3: DIES IRAE, UNDER TWILIGHT, 200 000 GHOSTS. http://jgperiot.free.fr > ANOINE SCHMITT For the last 10 years, Antoine Schmitt has developed a specific plastic langage around active, semi-autonomous, sensitive, interactive or generative shapes. In minimal or monumental installations, he thus questions contemporary or intemporal themes like the human and its condition of free being, reality as a system, the energy of constraint, forces and their forms. He places programming, a medium that he considers radically new because of its active dimension, at the core of all his artworks. Alone or through collaborations, Antoine Schmitt has undertaken a confrontation of this langage with more established artistic fields like music, dance, architecture, litterature or cinema, of which he thus revisits the codes. His work has been awarded prizes in numerous international festivals : medi@terra (Athens, 1999), Interférences (Public Jury, Belfort, 2000), transmediale (Berlin, 2001), International Festival of Video-Dance (Paris, 2002), Vida 5.0 (Madrid, 2002), machinista 2003 (Russia), CYNETart (2004 Dresden), transmediale.07 (Berlin, DE). And has been shown among others at the Centre Georges Pompidou (Paris, 2002, 2004, 2006), at the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris (1999), at Sonar (Barcelona, 2002, 2004, 2005), at Ars Electronica (Linz, Austria, 2003), at the CAC of Sienna (Italy, 2004), at the Musée d’Art Contemporain de Lyon (France, 1997), at Villette Numérique (Paris 2004), at Slick (Paris, 2006, 2007). (Conference & project shown during K3: TIME SLIP). http://gratin.org/as > TRAFIK Trafik is a multitalented and interactive graphic & multimedia design agency. Interaction between the 5 partners, whose talent and know-how complementeach other, and enables them to fully command and develop new technologies. Also enables the development of new concepts for institutional, cultural and industrial clients. Damien Gautier, Pierre Rodière, Joël Rodière, Julien Sappa, Lionel Michée. (Conference & project shown during K3: SONIK CUBE). http://www.lavitrinedetrafik.fr