Suspens(e) Workshop_ stories on pressure
From Saturday October 4th to Monday October 6th
 
Presentation
The workshop organized in the field of the French-Japanese institute by Alexis Chazard and Gwenola Wagon in the Jouable 2 exhibition proposed the creation of short interactive videos used from domestic interfaces (mouse, keyboard, micro…)
This workshop developed a reflexion on the interactive scenario, the shooting and the editing in relation to the interface.
The max /MSP environment has been used. The real time interface developed at MIT and IRCAM
The creations will be shown at the mediatheque of the French-Japanese institute of Kansai
 

Description of the workshop
The workshop lasted three days; the participants have been led to the creation of interactive projects. These projects will be then exhibited at the institute.
This workshop had pedagogical, artistic and technique goals. The artists/teachers offered numbers of proposals to be realized with the participants during the workshop.
These have to be interactive projects about to be achieved. These works have been elaborated with the participants. The works had to be realised within three days. The group of ten to twelve participants was constituted of Anglophone Japanese students in art and new media technologies, but also of some of the participants of the JOUABLE exhibition. Alexis Chazard and Gwenola Wagon who animated the workshop, are both artists in the interactivity domain.
(abridged version)

 

On suspense
The questions on interaction and playability meet the thematic of suspense both as cinematographic structure as well as events of the narrative and as well as collective adventure and as group work.
This thematic brings up new artistic goals and presents new ways of thinking interaction.
The spectator goes from the logic of control to that of responsibility, but also to that of loss.
To what kind of repercussion lead these choices, the facts and gestures of the one who exchanges, which dialogue with a programme.

A first clue, led us to the question of pressure on:
http://jouable.free.fr/demo_pression/

 

The organizers
_ Alexis Chazard
Multimedia artist, pedagogue programmer, graduated from The national school of art of Cergy-Pontoise, he works and lives in Paris, France. He intervenes and realizes creative workshops:”seuils” (1) at Paris ENSAD, “Transferts” (2) at Geneva EAD as well as “CD-Rom/DVD-Rom” at the studio of the National contemporary art of FRESnoy.
He is in charge of the course on sound “Déplacements d’air”(3) at the University of Paris 8
He created and animates a video workshop at the Camille Lambert art centre of Juvisy-sur-Orge.
Further informations on: http://acgw.fr.st
(1): http://seuils.ht.st
(2): http://transferts.ht.st
(3): http://www.arpla.univ-paris8.fr/~canal15/

_ Gwenola Wagon
Gwenola Wagon created interactive pieces. She is a searcher at the University of Paris 8. She graduated from the superior national school of art in Paris. She attended the post graduate degree workshop of interactive researches organized by ENSAD and Paris e where she realized the Julie project (1) she is in charge of a video workshop in Paris 8 since 2000 (2).

At present, working on a thesis about potentialities of an interactive cinema (3), conducted by Jean-Louis Boissier.
Further informations on: http://acgw.fr.st
(1): http://projetjulie.ht.st
(2): http://www.arpla.univ-paris8.fr/~canal12/
(3): http://cinemactif.free.fr

An interactive video installation land map has been realized by both Alexis Chazard and Gwenola Wagon to be seen on: http://landmap.ht.st

_ Michaël Sellam (collaborates to the preparation of the workshop)
Audio artist, video producer, net artist, lives and works in paris france. Michael Sellam works on the relationship between body, space and time.
He is an active member of the experimental platform Incident.net He studied interactive fiction, video, sound and interactive installation with Anne-Marie Duguet at Sorbonne and Jean-Louis Boissier in Paris 8 and at
l’ENSAD.
He has been invited since 2003 to co direct a research and creation workshop at the fine arts school of Rennes as an invited artist.
Further informations on: http://michael.incident.net/
Project "scenario": http://incident.net/works/scenario/
Project "la langue se charge": http://incident.net/works/lalanguesecharge/
ARC of Rennes: http://novideo.free.fr