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VIDEO ART 2024 BODY LIMITS II (series) BODY LIMITS (series) 2023 DRAGONS BAR-BEES SOUVENIRS Series of 6 videos ANTHROPOCENE:TORTUES 2022 UPSIDE-DOWN Serie of 5 videos TRACES:SKI FENCE DANCE THE PARTY'S OVER SILENCE LET'S PLAY WITH MUYBRIDGE Serie of 5 videos SYMBIOSIS 2021 VACHES Series of 5 videos PRESENCE SABOTAGE 2020 AFFORDANCE EXTASES LE BALLON ROUGE : COMPRESSION BEIJING BICYCLES ENTROPY:BOCCADASSE ENTROPY:ZELLIGE ENTROPY:SKY 2019 TRACES:LIGHTS UNE FOULE EN COLERE MASSACRE OBSESSION TRACES:TREES Series of 5 videos CREPUSCULE 2018 MUSICAL LANDSCAPES Series of 5 videos TRACES:BIRDS LA ROUE TRACES:WAVES WASTE LITTLE BY LITTLE 2017 THE PARTISAN 2016 DON'T BE AFRAID THE SUNSET DOORS GOODBYE GLACIERS 2015 TYPO THE TEMPEST 6 OPERAS 2014 HANG ON SLOWDOWN#1 THE PUCK 2013 LA COURSE (The Race) SON ET LUMIERE EMPTY WATER THE BRAINSWEEPER CICADAS IN THE SUN 2012 FIRST PERSON SHOOTER SMILES AND SLAPS BURNING MATCHES RUNNING WATER TECHNO GARBAGE MEN LA NOYADE (The Drowning) THE DEADMAN SHOW BLOWER DRIBBLING ALONE THE UNKNOWN SKATER CYCLING IN RHYTHM 2011 NEONS MELODY ACOMMUNICATION TRAINING DOORS TECHNO TOOLS BUBBLE POPS HAPPY BIRTHDAY BILLIARDS MELODY TIME MELODY ERROR SYSTEM CARS MELODY MURMURES

NEWS February 22 to March 28 : screening at Particle + Wave, Emmedia Gallery, Calgary (Canada) February 25 to March 30 : screening at UMW Media Wall, University of Mary Washington, Fredericksburg (USA) March 6 : screenings at Traverse Vidéo, Toulouse (France) March 7 : screening at XI Muestra Internacional de Videocreación Artográfica, Granada (Spain) March 13 : screening at : Moving-Image-Arts Jubilee, Ryerson School of Image Arts, Toronto (Canada) May 2 to 9 : screenings at Festival de la Imagen, Bogota and Manizales (Colombia) May 16 and 17 : screening at Digital Graffiti, Alys Beach (USA) BIOGRAPHY Jean-Michel Rolland is a French artist born in 1972. A long time a musician and a painter, he brings together his two passions - the sound and the image - in digital arts since 2010. Through video art works, generative art, audiovisual performances and interactive installations, he questions the temporality, a genuine fourth dimension inherent to moving image, as well as the duality between his two favorite mediums, the sound and the visual. His formal research is guided by the desire to reveal the intrinsic nature of our perceptual environment and to twist it to better give new realities to the world around us. His works, always very experimental, are a reflection of the sometimes unexpected internal world of their author and are however the object of an important diffusion abroad. Several have been rewarded for their originality, by United Nations University (Dresden, Germany), Digital Graffiti in Miami (USA), Multimatograf (Russia), dokumentART (Germany and Poland), the University of North Carolina (USA), Festival do Minuto (Brazil), Artaq (France), ArchiShorts (Canada) and The International Video Art Review (Poland). Convinced that dematerialization of the digital arts is more a strength than a weakness, he leaves access to most of his productions on his website. CONTACT jimrolland13@gmail.com CV HTML (comprehensive) PDF (summary) VIDEOGRAPHY (pdf) ARTIST STATEMENT As a long time musician and painter, dissatisfied with the difficulty reconciling the practice of those two disciplines, I have devoted myself, since 2010, to digital arts. Thus my two favorite media meet: the sound and the image. Through moving image in different forms (video art, generative art, audiovisual performances, interactive installations), I strive to reveal new realities in the world around me. I ruminate on the notion of temporality and the duality of digital arts: the interplay of the sound and the image. Until 2016, the origin of each of my creations was music. It played a role as important as the image as they influenced each other in an equal relationship. This relation had to take place by natural complementarity (in video art, the constraint of never detaching the audio track from the video track from the initial shot), by co-construction (matching the audio to the video and vice versa as the main element of the creative process) or by cogeneration (in generative art, generation of sound and image by the same algorithms). It resulted in works in which sound and image were so inseparable that one without the other would have lost all meaning. This period is not over yet, but due to intensive practice, other interests have emerged over time, especially the notion of duration. Unlike the traditional arts, the art of moving image has this fourth dimension which, as with the first three, is first of all to be mastered in order to deliver a coherent work, but which can also become fertile ground for experimentation when one tries to extract its essence. The works which I described above were already very engaged with this problem, especially through the invented notion of rhythm'n'split where the moving image undergoes a visual but also temporal découpage in a musical logic. However, learning the Java language (which I primarily used to produce generative works of art and interactive installations) allowed me to understand temporality in new ways by giving me the power over the pixel. It is through this research on the succession of each point in each image of a film (or series of photographs) that my current works are based. The result includes videos in which the photographic trace is reintroduced, others which give a temporality to a succession of still images by different techniques, and others which are still to come. RECENT PROJECTS TRACES Traces is a series of experimental videos that break free from the present moment. The recent past of the chosen subject (and only this one) is kept on the screen to reveal its path. The photographic trace, lost with the film, is thus reintroduced in video art to materialize the movement. Following the example of Muybridge who, in 1878, had demonstrated through a chronophotography that the galloping horse never had all four legs in the air simultaneously, my videos highlight another aspect of the movement: its route through space. In the absence of sufficient retinal persistence, the videos of Traces reveal an invisible reality: the course in time and space of a moving subject. Videos of the project: . Traces:Birds . Traces:Ski . Traces:Waves . Traces:Trees (series of 5 videos) . Traces:Lights . Le Ballon Rouge : compression . Une Foule en Colère PHOTOVIDEOGRAPHIES Since January 2018, I have decided to reinvest the still image as a basic material for new audiovisual experiments aimed at demonstrating that video art, in its temporal dimension, can be based on snapshots. Photographic art thus changes status to acquire a temporality in which it seems imperative to me to involve sound material. The latter can be content to accompany the image to contribute to an atmosphere, but can also, conversely, be at the origin of the metamorphoses inflicted on the images. These works are an important step in my artistic activity because they allow me to question, in an original and different way, my two favorite subjects which are the temporality of video art and the duality between sound and image. The title of the project, "Photovideographies", is borrowed from Jean-Claude Chirollet, an art philosopher who, in his book L'Oil digital de l'art : les anachronismes numériques, uses it to qualify the monstration of classic works (paintings, sculptures ...) on digital media. Although he uses it quite differently from what interests us here, the notion of anachronism that emerges from the two meanings of this portmanteau is very real. Like total art, which wanted to bring together different arts from the same period in a live performance, it seems interesting to me to extend this notion to other artistic forms, but also to question the possible associations between the arts from different eras. Videos of the project : . Upside-Down (series of 5 videos) . Vaches (series of 5 videos) . Presence . Beijing Bicycles . Nakamise-Dori . Entropy:Sky . Entropy:Boccadasse . Entropy:Zellige . Massacre . Obsession . Waste . La Roue . Little by Little . Musical Landscapes (series of 5 videos)

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