SAISON CROISEE
FRANCE - PORTUGAL
CONNECTIVITY
The (un)veiled Gaze
Lamozé proposes a sensorial approach to the notion of body landscapes by creating spaces of visual and sound expressions, beyond visual or other physical restrictions. Synesthesia is a neurological phenomenon by which several of our senses are associated. Although we are all sometimes able to feel these sensory interactions, 2 out of 100 people enjoy this ability permanently. For example, for them, a sound or a letter of the alphabet can evoke a certain colour. Some synesthetic musicians have thus been able to identify precisely the colours they see when listening to musical notes. The composer Alexander Scriabin, after having listed the colours of the twelve musical notes commonly used in the West, even invented an instrument at the beginning of the 20th century that transposed music into colour using a lighting system he named La Tastiera per Luce*. Since then, others have followed suit, designing digital tools capable of interpreting images into sound, such as Olivia Jack's Pixelsynth and Skytopia's SonicPhoto programme. Lamozé himself has developed a modus operandi based on the misuse of digital audio software to create his own sounds from visual elements. It is therefore with the help of these various syntheso-synthetic tools that Lamozé has embarked on the sound and musical transcription of his photographic work (UN)VEILED, which depicts a figure tearing off a veil from her eye’s, titles: (UN)VEILED gazing. As a result, (UN)VEILED offers a double level of reading through the mise en abyme of the theme of unveiling.
Lamozé is a multidisciplinary artist in the tradition of the Gesamtkunstwerk. His multimodal expression is nourished by the transversality of artistic practices, involving music, performance, sculpture, photography, digital arts as well as interactivity without limitations of any kind. Co-founder of the Music Unit creative studio, he is highly invested in themes at the intersection of art and technology such as artificial intelligence, 3D audio and voice synthesis.
After studying at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris, training in photography at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure Louis Lumière and participating in numerous international creations in the field of music, he has chosen for several years to integrate the plastic and digital arts in his contemporary works.
THE (un)VEILED GAZE
Lamozé
HART TO HEART
ln the heart of the Yukon territory in northern Canada, flows the Hart River in the Peel watershed.
Layers of meaning, from the industrial to the spiritual, overlap in the same geography.
The watershed is a reflection of the reality, and the struggle, around the world, as industrial societies must reconcile our own nature with the rest of nature. When does our technology include our ecology,
to connect versus orphan us from the rest of life on earth? Does this hinge on the ecology of our perception?
Hart to Heart is an interactive stereo 3D video installation inspired by a journey on the Hart River in the Yukon’s Peel watershed. In this place where human values in the land overlap and divide us, this journey ignites a question for urban and industrial culture:
how will we transcend our duality with the earth?
Hart to Heart: reflections is the first sketch created in 2015 in a series of visual, virtually tactile, and auditory meditations on the land and our relationship with it as an urban and industrial culture. Remote Sensibility VIII: the ecology of perception is the next iteration in development, incorporating the land, visual art and performance, with the insights of our elders and astronauts, in multi-screen installation. RSVIII opened at Yukon Arts Centre public gallery in December, 2019.
Directed, filmed and edited by marten berkman
Interactive design by Baptiste Bohelay
Sound design by Jordy Walker
Marten Berkman is a visual artist, filmmaker and photographer living and working in Whitehorse, Yukon in Canada's subarctic. With an artistic practice inspired by the land and our relationship with it, Marten creates digital canvases of our inner and outer geographies. From a background in drawing, painting, printmaking and photography, his media have evolved to include film making, moving image, interactivity, and stereo 3D video installation. His works have appeared locally, nationally and internationally in print, theatres, galleries, festivals (Planet in Focus, Interactive Futures, Electric Fields, ISEA) and conferences (International Polar Year, World Humanities Conference). Work with his clients and partners have ranged from photography for Canadian Geographic magazine, HD and full dome video production for Yukon and Yukon First Nations at the Vancouver 2010 Olympics, to photography and film production for the National Film Board of Canada. He is regularly engaged as video designer for live performance in music, theatre and dance, and has been commissioned to author his own works for Yukon Film Society and TAIS Frame Anomalies. A project currently in development entitled Remote Sensibility VIII: the ecology of perception, inspired by the Yukon's Peel watershed, merges visual art, performance and film.
Hart to Heart
Marten Berkman
