{"id":13477,"date":"2022-07-31T18:41:30","date_gmt":"2022-07-31T18:41:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2022.photogaspesie.ca\/plages-devoilement-de-loeuvre-numerique-de-sven-a-paspebiac\/"},"modified":"2022-07-31T18:47:33","modified_gmt":"2022-07-31T18:47:33","slug":"plages-unveiling-of-svens-digital-work-in-paspebiac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2022.photogaspesie.ca\/en\/plages-unveiling-of-svens-digital-work-in-paspebiac\/","title":{"rendered":"Plages: unveiling of Sven\u2019s digital work in Pasp\u00e9biac"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Rencontres de la photographie en Gasp\u00e9sie invites the public to the unveiling of Plages<\/em> (Beaches), a permanent stand-alone installation with its own augmented-reality application, which will take place on Saturday, August 20, at 11 a.m. at Centre culturel de Pasp\u00e9biac. This project by Sven<\/strong> (Qu\u00e9bec) follows on the heels of Plongeons<\/em><\/a>, which he presented last year at Mus\u00e9e de la Gasp\u00e9sie, in the town of Gasp\u00e9, as part of Rencontres.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the form of a large-format mural, Plages<\/em> displays visual snippets representing certain bucolic and historical aspects of the Pasp\u00e9biac beach. By way of augmented reality, Sven invites the public to take another look at his composition using smartphones and tablets. The screens act as digitizers and reveal other images \u2013 virtual, this time \u2013 superimposed on the printed one and becoming the receptacle of an overabundant and disordered collective memory, a multilayered work revealing copious and untidy recollections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Whereas Plongeons<\/em> diverts world-heritage photographs \u2013 gathered, notably, from the U.S. government National Archives and from NASA \u2013 of which the artist presents a falsified interpretation of historical situations, Plages<\/em> draws its material from the local population. A residency at Centre culturel de Pasp\u00e9biac done in fall 2021 allowed him to come into contact with the residents of Pasp\u00e9biac and the surrounding area in order to collect their photographic memories. The citizens are already highly active in sharing personal archives via the Facebook group \u201cRaconte-moi Pasp\u00e9biac<\/a>.\u201d Sven also had access to the Mus\u00e9e de la Gasp\u00e9sie<\/a>\u2019s archive center.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Plages<\/em> was created in collaboration with developer Paul Gascou-Vaillancourt<\/a>. Realization of this project was made possible thanks to the financial support of the Canada Council for the Arts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

About Sven<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stefan Buridans, a.k.a. Sven, has been living and working in Montreal since 2007. A graduate in film studies (ESEC, Paris), he has a particular interest in the visual print left on our collective memory. His research in digital arts is the result of professional audiovisual experiences and invites the spectator to cross the indefinite space between an image\u2019s perception and interpretation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A founding member of the Mouvement Art Mobile (MAM) in 2012, Sven initiates events in the public and digital space. He promotes in the institutional and academic fields the recognition of a contemporary notion of mobility in art. With the MAM, Sven was the commissioner of Mobilisations<\/em>, the first Canadian mobile art retrospective, of which he managed the catalog\u2019s publication.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His first exhibition, Plongeons<\/em>, a device integrating augmented reality, is currently touring in Qu\u00e9bec art centers and cultural houses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Rencontres de la photographie en Gasp\u00e9sie invites the public to the unveiling of Plages (Beaches), a permanent stand-alone installation with its own augmented-reality application, which will take place on Saturday, August 20, at 11 a.m. at Centre culturel de Pasp\u00e9biac. This project by Sven (Qu\u00e9bec) follows on the heels of Plongeons, which he presented last […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":13475,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[199,213,214],"tags":[993,994,995,507,996],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\t\n\n\n\n\t\n