[spectre] 1958-2008 : from Philips Pavillon to Explorer Art

[franck ancel]

Press release
10/16/08

1958-2008 : from Philips Pavillon to Explorer Art

On Sunday October 26 2008, starting at 6pm, Franck Ancel, will organize 
homage through the Internet to the "Electronic poem" of Le Corbusier, 
Xenakis and Varèse. "Electronic poem" conceived during the World Fair of 
Brussels, closed the last weekend of the fair in October 1958.

The "Electronic poem" was a multimedia projection in the fleeting 
Philips House that Le Corbusier and Xenakis built the same period the 
Convent of the Tourette*, and Ancel will attempt to evoke the 
exploration of a numerical poetry from this same building.

After celebrating under this contextual form, last year on October 04 
2007, the launch of the first satellite of the humanity in a soufflerie, 
Ancel will light up these historic passages in art while connecting them 
in the big tradition of the video performances from the time of Dan Graham.

Already in 2003 in an interactive projection with the cultural Center of 
The Tourette, the sections of glass ondulatoires of Xenakis of the 
Convent will participate once more in this new creation -- somewhere 
between the poetry of the straight angle of Le Corbusier and the dream 
of a "World-radio poem" of Varèse.

An event outside the beaten paths signed by Franck Ancel. Collaborations 
with Vincent Epplay (Parisian sonorous artist), Derrick Giscloux 
(Lyonese numerical artist), with local businesses such as Webcastor, but 
also in exchange with artists from universities, like Vincenzo Lombardo 
(coordinator of the "Virtual Electronic Poem") from Turin.

Contacts et informations
Ancel +33 676 470 610
info at franck-ancel.com

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

Franck Ancel lives in Paris. 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 National 
Library in 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 presentations for five continents 
entitled « From Scenography to the Planetary Network » with its world 
premiere being broadcast live on the Internet from a plane travelling 
between Shanghai and Munich. It analyzes his practice through 
theoretical reflection, in texts for magazines or at the time lectures. 
It produces and creates also multiples of art that remix as material 
tracks its research. It questions the classical borders, while 
projecting in the contemporary space, a placement in networks of data 
post-medias.

Vincent Epplay, plasticien/musical, elaborates a placement work in game 
between the matérial nature of the sound and its methods of 
broadcasting/reception. Developing a practice that lends itself at once 
to the visual arts and to the electronic music, it questions the reports 
his/picture, the broadcasting context (lasted, place), and the report to 
the audio spectator.
http://www.viplayland.net

Derrick Giscloux is a musician and a composer. His picture work carries 
itself essentially on the modification in real time of the video 
pictures of the scene of a spectacle or of a multimedia installation. 
Then the continuation of video pictures "in movement" is projected on 
film screen simultaneously to the obtained scene.
http://derrickgiscloux.free.fr

* http://www.couventlatourette.com