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Participative piece for reconstruction of a selection of anonymous slides (part of the collection of Sébastien Koeppel). \r\n\r\nProduced by STUK (Artefact Festival) and Group T, Leuven"},{"locale":"nl","description":"Prototype voor optische mix van een digitale videocamera en een analoge dia-projectie via een Digital Mirror (DLP). Interactieve installatie als reconstructie van een aantal anonieme dia's uit de collectie van Sébastien Koeppel.\r\n\r\nProductie: STUK (Artefact Festival) en Group T, Leuven"},{"locale":"fr","description":""}]},{"id":7487,"title":"Random Access Memory","dimensions":"","date_begin":"2011-01-01","material":"","short_description":"","art_status_id":13,"legal_status_id":47,"category_id":58,"platform_id":1,"deleted":false,"asset_count":1,"stream_count":0,"collection":"","cached_tag_list":"media archeology","publishing_process_id":1,"annotation":"","date_end":null,"reference":"","stream_count_app":5,"permalink":"random-access-memory","description_ru":null,"description_de":null,"description_es":null,"description_el":null,"short_description_du":null,"short_description_fr":null,"short_description_ru":null,"short_description_de":null,"short_description_es":null,"short_description_el":null,"description_ca":null,"short_description_ca":null,"description_it":null,"short_description_it":null,"cached_primary_asset_url":null,"cached_actor_names":null,"hide_from_json":false,"prev_platform_id":null,"description_uk":null,"short_description_uk":null,"description_tr":null,"short_description_tr":null,"mhka_works":false,"poster_image":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/mhka_ensembles_production/assets/public/000/017/523/large/julien_maire_alexandre_causin-103.jpg?1369820308","poster_credits":"(c)image: Alexandre Causin","translations":[{"locale":"en","description":""},{"locale":"nl","description":""},{"locale":"fr","description":""}]},{"id":7488,"title":"Flip Dots Mirrors","dimensions":"","date_begin":"2011-01-01","material":"","short_description":"","art_status_id":13,"legal_status_id":47,"category_id":58,"platform_id":1,"deleted":false,"asset_count":2,"stream_count":0,"collection":"","cached_tag_list":"media archeology","publishing_process_id":1,"annotation":"","date_end":null,"reference":"","stream_count_app":8,"permalink":"flip-dots-mirrors","description_ru":null,"description_de":null,"description_es":null,"description_el":null,"short_description_du":null,"short_description_fr":null,"short_description_ru":null,"short_description_de":null,"short_description_es":null,"short_description_el":null,"description_ca":null,"short_description_ca":null,"description_it":null,"short_description_it":null,"cached_primary_asset_url":null,"cached_actor_names":null,"hide_from_json":false,"prev_platform_id":null,"description_uk":null,"short_description_uk":null,"description_tr":null,"short_description_tr":null,"mhka_works":false,"poster_image":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/mhka_ensembles_production/assets/public/000/017/520/large/julien_maire_alexandre_causin-039.jpg?1369819936","poster_credits":"(c)image: Alexandre Causin","translations":[{"locale":"en","description":""},{"locale":"nl","description":""},{"locale":"fr","description":""}]},{"id":7489,"title":"Inverted Cone","dimensions":"","date_begin":"2010-01-01","material":"","short_description":"","art_status_id":13,"legal_status_id":47,"category_id":58,"platform_id":1,"deleted":false,"asset_count":3,"stream_count":0,"collection":"","cached_tag_list":"","publishing_process_id":1,"annotation":"","date_end":null,"reference":"","stream_count_app":8,"permalink":"inverted-cone","description_ru":null,"description_de":null,"description_es":null,"description_el":null,"short_description_du":null,"short_description_fr":null,"short_description_ru":null,"short_description_de":null,"short_description_es":null,"short_description_el":null,"description_ca":null,"short_description_ca":null,"description_it":null,"short_description_it":null,"cached_primary_asset_url":null,"cached_actor_names":null,"hide_from_json":false,"prev_platform_id":null,"description_uk":null,"short_description_uk":null,"description_tr":null,"short_description_tr":null,"mhka_works":false,"poster_image":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/mhka_ensembles_production/assets/public/000/017/120/large/detail_instal_inverted_cone.JPG?1368020463","poster_credits":"(c)image: Julien Maire","translations":[{"locale":"en","description":"*'In his artworks and performances, Julien Maire systematically re-invents the technology of visual media. His research is a manifest hybrid between media-archeology and the production of new media constellations. His output consists of prototypes that perform exactly what their etymology promises (from protos ‘first’ and typos ‘impression’ or ‘model’): proposing unique technological configurations that produce a new, specific image quality. As industrial prototypes, these original creations – no matter how technically clever and refined – are rather useless: too complex, too delicate and too clunky to ever be considered for mass-production. As artistic statements, the main function of these full-scale constructions is to provoke an effect of wonder, alerting the viewer to the ambivalent status of moving images produced by a machine.'*"},{"locale":"nl","description":"*'In zijn kunstwerken en performances vindt Julien Maire systematisch de technologie van de visuele media opnieuw uit. Zijn onderzoek is een manifeste hybride tussen media-archeologie en de productie van nieuwe mediaconstellaties. De output bestaat uit prototypes die precies doen wat hun etymologie belooft (van protos, 'eerste' en typos, 'impressie' of 'model'): unieke technologische configuraties voorstellen die een nieuwe, specifieke beeldkwaliteit produceren. Als industriële prototypes zijn deze originele creaties – hoe technisch vernuftig en geraffineerd ook – eerder nutteloos: te complex, te delicaat en te rammelig om ooit in aanmerking te komen voor massa-productie. Als artistieke statements moeten deze levensgrote constructies vooral een effect van verwondering oproepen, waarbij ze de kijker waarschuwen voor de ambivalente status van bewegende beelden die door een machine werden geproduceerd.'*"},{"locale":"fr","description":""}]},{"id":9425,"title":"Reading Back","dimensions":"70 x 55 x 60 cm","date_begin":"2013-01-01","material":"3 automatic reading machines, stepper motors, electronic drivers and mechanism and 3 books with original drawings","short_description":"","art_status_id":13,"legal_status_id":12,"category_id":72,"platform_id":1,"deleted":false,"asset_count":1,"stream_count":0,"collection":"Courtesy Julien Maire","cached_tag_list":"","publishing_process_id":1,"annotation":"","date_end":null,"reference":"","stream_count_app":20,"permalink":"reading-back","description_ru":null,"description_de":null,"description_es":null,"description_el":null,"short_description_du":null,"short_description_fr":null,"short_description_ru":null,"short_description_de":null,"short_description_es":null,"short_description_el":null,"description_ca":null,"short_description_ca":null,"description_it":null,"short_description_it":null,"cached_primary_asset_url":null,"cached_actor_names":null,"hide_from_json":false,"prev_platform_id":null,"description_uk":null,"short_description_uk":null,"description_tr":null,"short_description_tr":null,"mhka_works":false,"poster_image":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/mhka_ensembles_production/assets/public/000/020/814/large/DSC_0481.jpg?1392911471","poster_credits":"(c)image: M HKA","translations":[{"locale":"en","description":"Julien Maire (b. 1969) operates on the interface of installation, performance and media art. For years he has been busy with re-activating old imaging techniques with the aid of modern technology. By mixing technologies of past and present, Maire does not merely present objects of melancholy, he re-activates them. In *El Hotel Eléctrico* he confronts us with the notion of duration and reading time. Three automatic 'reading machines' are set up and quite mechanically and indifferently leaf through three books.  The reading process appears to lead its own life here. The viewer must submit to the rhythm of the machine, just like a film projector or DVD-player reads an image and requires us to follow.  \r\n\r\nIn each of his works, Maire plays with the conventions that surround a medium as well as with viewers' patterns of expectation. Quite methodically, he reminds us to always take a second look. In the performance *To Sublimate*, presented at the opening evening of *El Hotel Eléctrico*, he translates the typically photographic concept of the ‘blurred’ (out of focus) image into a three-dimensional object.\r\n\r\nThrough his manipulations, Maire triggers questions concerning the features and attributes of an image and in a wider sense of visual strategies in the digital age. He opposes the notion that technology necessarily equals progress, while at the same time remaining fascinated by this ongoing evolution. With his work, Julien Maire paradoxically enters into dialogue with media archaeology via the design of new technological devices and absurd prototypes that deliver ungraspable results, never destined to become items of mass-production."},{"locale":"nl","description":"Julien Maire (°1969) opereert op het snijvlak van installatie, performance en mediakunst. Hij houdt zich al jaren bezig met het reactiveren van oude beeldtechnieken met behulp van moderne technologie. Door vergane en actuele technologieën te mengen, exposeert Maire geen melancholische objecten, maar reactiveert hij ze. In *El Hotel Eléctrico* confronteert hij ons met de notie van tijd en leesduur. Drie automatische ‘lees-machines’ staan opgesteld en doorbladeren volautomatisch en volkomen onverschillig drie boeken. Het leesproces lijkt hier een eigen leven te leiden, de kijker dient zich te onderwerpen aan het ritme van de machine, zoals ook een filmprojector of DVD-speler een beeld afleest en ons noopt te volgen.\r\n\r\nIn elk van zijn werken speelt Maire met de conventies die een medium omringen en met de verwachtingspatronen van de toeschouwer. Systematisch herinnert er hij ons aan altijd twee keer te kijken. In de performance *To Sublimate*, opgevoerd op de openingsavond van *El Hotel Eléctrico*, vertaalt hij het typisch fotografische concept van het ‘onscherpe’ beeld naar de drie-dimensionele werkelijkheid.\r\n\r\nVia zijn manipulaties lokt Maire vragen uit omtrent de kenmerken van het beeld en de visuele strategieën in het digitale tijdperk. Maire verweert zich tegen de belofte van technologie als vooruitgang, hoewel hij tegelijkertijd gefascineerd is door de constante evoluties. Met zijn werk treedt Julien Maire duidelijk in dialoog met de mediageschiedenis, paradoxaal genoeg via het ontwerpen van nieuwe technologische apparaten, absurde prototypes die ongrijpbare resultaten opleveren, maar die nooit massa-producten kunnen worden. "},{"locale":"fr","description":"Julien Maire (°1969) opère à la croisée de l’installation, la performance et les arts média. Depuis des années déjà, il s’attelle à réactiver d’anciennes techniques de l’image à la faveur de la technologie actuelle. En mariant technique obsolète et technologie innovative, Maire n’expose pas des objets mélancoliques, mais les ravive. Dans El Hotel Eléctrico, il nous met face à la notion de temps et de durée de lecture. Trois « machines à lire » sont disposées dans l’espace et feuillettent trois livres de manière automatique et impassible. Le processus de lecture paraît autonome et le spectateur-lecteur doit se soumettre au rythme de la machine, de même qu’un projecteur ou un lecteur DVD nous force à suivre son flux.\r\n\r\nDans chacune de ses œuvres, Maire joue avec les conventions qui entourent le média utilisé et avec les attentes du spectateur. Il nous rappelle systématiquement de regarder plutôt deux fois qu’une. Dans la performance *To Sublimate*, qu’il présente le soir du vernissage de l’exposition El Hotel Eléctrico, il transpose le concept typiquement photographique de l’image « floue » vers la réalité tridimensionnelle.\r\n\r\nPar le biais de ses manipulations, Maire soulève des questions autour des caractéristiques de l’image et des stratégies virtuelles de l’ère numérique. Maire s’inscrit en faux contre la promesse que la technologie génère forcément le progrès, bien qu’il soit fasciné par les évolutions constantes de la technologie. Son œuvre engage au fond un dialogue avec l’histoire des médias, et ce, de manière assez paradoxale, à travers la conception de nouveaux appareils technologiques, de prototypes absurdes qui donnent des résultats insaisissables, mais qui ne peuvent jamais devenir des produits de masse.\r\n"}]}]