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/ ______________________________________________ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://coredump.buug.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
