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The Prix Ars Electronica Archive is a collection enabling search and viewing of all the submissions since 1987. The award-winning projects are documented with catalogue texts and audio-visual media. All other submissions can be searched by title/artist and displayed with year, category in list form. Please cite the credits (artwork name, artist and photographer) and only use the materials if your article is related to Ars Electronica.
Somnambules
Didier Silhol,
Jean-Jacques Birgé,
Nicolas Clauss
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Somnambules is a choreographic and interactive show for the Internet in 12 scenes and their respective preludes. It draws together contact dance, painting, video and music.
Dance Contact Improvisation, of which Didier Silhol is one of the forerunners in France, deals with physical laws and human relations through gravity and expansion, altruism and resistance, inertia and impulse, submission and refusal, things which find their resolution in dance.
Filmed movements of the dancers are screened on scenery built from painted elements, playing with matter and transparency. Interactive music is composed on the basis of the emotions it renews ad infinitum, confronted with the images. Interactivity, both graphical and musical, places the player at the heart of the choreography. This new artwork has its source in all the short interactive modules conceived and realized by Jean-Jacques Birgé and Nicolas Clauss on the website flyingpuppet.com.
Links: http://www.somnambules.net
Dance Contact Improvisation, of which Didier Silhol is one of the forerunners in France, deals with physical laws and human relations through gravity and expansion, altruism and resistance, inertia and impulse, submission and refusal, things which find their resolution in dance.
Filmed movements of the dancers are screened on scenery built from painted elements, playing with matter and transparency. Interactive music is composed on the basis of the emotions it renews ad infinitum, confronted with the images. Interactivity, both graphical and musical, places the player at the heart of the choreography. This new artwork has its source in all the short interactive modules conceived and realized by Jean-Jacques Birgé and Nicolas Clauss on the website flyingpuppet.com.
Links: http://www.somnambules.net
Nicolas Clauss (F), born in 1968, is the co-founder of the site *lecielestbleu.com*, and created his own space, *flyingpuppet.com*, in 2001. He has a masters degree in experimental and social psychology and a bachelor degree in arts and picture technologies (ATI). He has exhibited his pictures since 1989. On Flying Puppet, he has conceived and realized over 50 on-line interactive pieces.
Jean-Jacques Birgé (F), born in 1952, is a music composer, sound designer, film director and multimedia author. He studied at the French National Film School (IDHEC)and founded the record label GRRR in 1975 and the orchestra Un Drame Musical Instantané in 1976. He won a British Academy Award of Film & TV Arts and the Locarno Video Festival Grand Prix in 1994 and 13 other international awards in USA, Japan, France, Germany, the Netherlands.
Didier Silhol (F), born 1948, studied classical dance with Andreď Glegolski, and Cunningham technics with Charles Moulton and Robert Kovitch. In 1980, he co-founded the Association Danse Contact Improvisation and began to teach this technique and dance approach. He plays for several companies (Odile Duboc, Stéphanie Aubin, Jean-Claude Gallotta, Christiane Blaise, Genevičve Sorin, etc.). He teaches at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse in Paris.
Jean-Jacques Birgé (F), born in 1952, is a music composer, sound designer, film director and multimedia author. He studied at the French National Film School (IDHEC)and founded the record label GRRR in 1975 and the orchestra Un Drame Musical Instantané in 1976. He won a British Academy Award of Film & TV Arts and the Locarno Video Festival Grand Prix in 1994 and 13 other international awards in USA, Japan, France, Germany, the Netherlands.
Didier Silhol (F), born 1948, studied classical dance with Andreď Glegolski, and Cunningham technics with Charles Moulton and Robert Kovitch. In 1980, he co-founded the Association Danse Contact Improvisation and began to teach this technique and dance approach. He plays for several companies (Odile Duboc, Stéphanie Aubin, Jean-Claude Gallotta, Christiane Blaise, Genevičve Sorin, etc.). He teaches at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse in Paris.