[spectre] SPUTNIK 1957-2007

[franck ancel]

Dear Friends,
If you are soon in Russia, see my new projection "SPUTNIK" on this
outdoor video festival :
< Moscow, Volgograd, Voronezh, Kaliningrad, Perm, Rostov-on-Don,
Riazan', Samara, Sochi, Ufa, Yekaterinburg >
http://www.artpolitika.ru/ov2007_day_eng

All the best, Franck Ancel

PRESENTATION

It was with the obscure words "?Anta?Odeli?Uta?" that the 1924 Russian
science fiction film AELITA by Jakov Protazanov, was launched towards
the conquest of space. However, it was not until 1957 with the launch of
the first Sputnik, that there was a real gesture towards the cosmos for
the first time in the history of humanity, with an object being sent
into satellite around Planet Earth. Far from having become a forgotten
dimension, satellite technologies are now the source of both everyday
and cosmic questions. In fact, the actual presence of human beings in
space, today conjures up the idea of sustainable development alongside
techno-scientific developments, the implications of which are equally
important in terms of terrestrial issues. To celebrate the 50th
anniversary of this major event and in collaboration with Sacha Basset
Chercot, an original animation has been made using digital special
effects to promote awareness of the anniversary. This artistic creation
also fits into artist Franck Ancel's project titled "1957-2007: from
Sputnik Satellite to Explorer Art". Because the millennium-old
foundations of humanity have been radically shaken up by the arrival of
satellites and their multiple uses:from global transmission through to
localising data information, it is planetary universality that is being
virtually exhibited.

BIOGRAPHY

Born in 1970, France, Franck Ancel lifes in Paris. He has been probing
technology for more than fifteen years. He has traced the development
from the avant-gardes artists of the last century to the recent
mutations of creation on a planetary scale. He has thus organized and
coordinated symposiums, expositions, and performances in cooperation
with associations and institutions. The last one was a retrospective on
Jacques Polieri, the creator of ?modern scenography,? at the BnF, Paris.
Since the 9/11 terrorist attacks, Ancel has set up an interactive,
participative triptych, "A.I.T.", probing architecture, image and
technology on 20th Century heritage sites. In 2005 he concluded a cycle
of five communications for five continents entitled "From Scenography to
the Planetary Network" with its world première being broadcast live on
the Internet from a plane travelling between Shanghai and Munich. In
2006 he pursued this idea with the conference "From scenography to
planetary network for Shanghai 2010" held in Silicon Valley as part of
ISEA/ZéroOne. He has just captured digital date in front of five
Guggenheim museums for his latest creation, 5G.

http://www.franck-ancel.com/atx/