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DÉSERT NUMÉRIQUE 05
FRIDAY 04/07 > SUNDAY 06/07/2014
In 2014, Désert Numérique focuses on notation : this latency between the idea and its formalization. Through all its forms, from the recipies into score, algorithm, program and code, script, rules, logical diagramms, map and route, modus operandi,... all forms of writing that fix, delimitates, memorizes, delays, diffracts, cut, split, and built this very Western relationship to the world and technology.
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Chapter 1. Writing
Be it a computer program or a musical score, notation generally involves the
execution of a sequence of instructions with different degree of interpretation.
The process is similar to the transition between the virtual to the actual.
JODI collective composed by Joan Heemskerk and Dirk Paesmans based
in the Netherlands, essential pillar of the Netart scene, will open the festival with
a selection of Netart works that deconstruct both language and code.
Algo-Lit collective with An Mertens, Catherine Lenoble, Brendan Howell,
Olivier Heinry and Nicolas Malevé, will gather and work around i-
literature and free software, following the principles of the Oulipo-meetings:
they will share work and thoughts and write/code together algorithmic based
texts. At Désert Numérique, the collective will share its researches on collective writing process through a radiophonic piece. Catherine Lenoble will lead her Semantic dicontamination workshop, on the
analysis/deconstruction of the digital art Newspeak.
The result of the writing workshop proposed by Catherine Strauss with the help of Marjolaine Rolland at Espace Public Internet de la Vallée de la Roanne during the year at Saint-Nazaire-le-Désert is shown at the festival.
Chapter 2. Recipe
Notation can't be explored without engaging coking recipes : a participative banquet will be
held for the opening night, where everyone is invited to bring a speciality of his region. For the dessert, we will eat the result of a workshop made by Élodie Ravion with the children of Saint-Nazaire-le-Désert primary School and them teacher Alice Dubief.
Chapter 3. Score
Since 2010, Sébastien Roux works on the concept of
translation: Nouvelle is a sound creation inspired by the Legend of Saint Julien L’Hospitalier by Gustave Flaubert, and
Inevitable Music is a listening session based on the instructions given by the American artist Sol LeWitt's to realise his Wall Drawings.
Cécile Babiole is invited to compose a score for eight
sewing machines, that will be played by musicians, tailors and amateurs from
the Valley, during a 3 days workshop, and for a performance called Stitch'n glitch.
Espace multimedia gantner proposes to answer to notation topic with a documentation of Peter Vogel's Partitions de réactions through sketchs of his scores and audiovisual documents.
Chapter 4. Drawing
From score to drwing, through routine: following a sheme on a map, pre-programmed routines that can be repeated by the different planes in the air, during Drone Tone performance by Alejo Duque and Cyrille Henry.
Notation drive us into Fernand Deligny's lignes d'Erre(roam lines). In echo, festival's audience will be invited to draw a trajectory and a line on a map while visiting the soundwalk realized by the students of ESAD-GV (École Supérieure
d'Art et de Design de Grenoble - Valence) driven by Fabrice Beslot and Franck David.
RYBN will exhibit its Algorithmic Trading Freak Show, an
algorithmic cabinet of curiosity, composed by several rare specimens of monstrous
financial algorithms.
Chapter 5. Transmission
Writing is a support for indirect communication. Its transmission is essential,
and depends on the conservation of the integrity of its support. Any alteration
may lead to the loss of a part of our history, and therefore, our identities.
Referring to Earth–Moon–Earth (Moonlight Sonata Reflected on the Surface of the
Moon), by Katie Paterson, Fossile collective with Samuel Racine and
Lili Mamath will present Bug in the code, a performance based on the slow
destruction of a printed text, eaten by termites.
How can we transmit the experience of the festival ? Written as a newspaper, visitors and artists are onvited to contribute
to the memory and to the Narrative of this fifth edition, on posters. Mickaël Roy accompanies this collective processus.
Fabrice Schoumacher, alias Fab Fuzz, shows a sound and light installation : his Dreaming Machines, programmmed, on their own, cast onto the wall, shapes of soft, hard, incisive colors.
Chapter 6. Execution
Zoé Benoit proposes reading sessions on tents, inviting participants to bring a book about flow. In partnerships with Grame (Centre National de Création Musicale, Lyon).
A video studio and stage will be installed in the middle of the village. Movies will
be shot from instant made scenarios, and will feed an audiovisual dialog for a
local and temporary TV. Dedicated to amateurs, helped by artists and technicians : Lionel Palun, Sarah Brown, Jérôme Fino, Joris Guibert, Ivan Chabanaud, with the help of Virtuoses.TV.
Another open platform will be hosted this year : the Placard
headphones Festival and its JumpOn summer edition on tour, will stop at Désert Numérique for a marathon of
concerts during the week-end (pending).
Chapter 7. Trace / Anticipation
Last part of the festival, the transformation of the real related to algorithmic
surveillance technologies, with a screening of Moutons 2.0 by Antoine Costa and
Florian Pourchi. The movie, who shows RFID chips installation on sheeps
to guaranty their traceability, strongly echoes the relation of the village with
technology.
Alejo Duque and Cyrille Henry will propose a performance called
Drone Tone, coproduced by Désert Numérique and La Muse en Circuit with the help of SCAN Rhône-Alpes and DICRéAM. The musical performance deals with the
frightening power of military drones, and its score is based on remote
controlled flying devices. Drone Tone explores different ways of generating sound
by transforming drones into musical instruments.
WORKSHOPS
Four workshops led between June, 2013 and June, 2014 take end by a final presentation for the opening of the festival.
This educational and artistic workshop is proposed to 18 children of Saint-Nazaire-le-
Désert's primary School, and implied several artists. The starting point has been defined by
Emmanuel Ferrand: to read this cliff as a musical score; then
Cécile Beau tried to listen to the trembling earth ; Élodie Ravion created recipes to reproduce and eat Écharennes'cliff, and Jérôme Fino will finish with a carnival of sound objects. Sarah Brown, who filmed the whole process, shows the video archives created with the children. This workshop has been supported by Fondation de France, DRAC Rhône-Alpes and CRDP de l'académie de Grenoble.
Other workshops and meeting are planed before and during the festival.
NETWORK MEETING
DÉSERT NUMÉRIQUE, A PROFESSIONAL BEND
Internum network, federates digital art scene in South-East of France, will meet at Désert Numérique on Thuesday and Friday, 3-4 of July.
PARTICIPATIVE Media Library
Call for participation
To all artists, volunteers, participants, visitors!
Bring a book, dvd, magazine, that left an impression on you and changed your relationship to the digital technologies.
Inaugurated in 2010, at the EPI de la Vallée de la Roanne (at Saint-Nazaire-le-Désert), this library is free consultation,
and includes more than 250 books, DVD, etc. The actualizaition of the catalog is made with the precious help of Géraldine Letovanec (librarian of ESAD-GV).
Legends :
TEXT, by Jodi | Algo-Lit |
Photography of the village commented in the writing workshop at Espace Public Internet |
Peter Vogel, Partitions de réactions |
Cécile Babiole, Stitch'n glitch, Concert of sewing machines |
Cécile Babiole, Stitch'n glitch, detail |
Sol Lewitt, Wall Drawing #260 |
Sébastien Roux, Inevitable Music |
Detail of the stained-glass window of the cathedral of Rouen telling Saint Julien's legend |
Fernand Deligny, Lignes d'Erre |
Mouton 2.0. La puce à l'oreille |
A. Duque C. Henry, Drone Tone |
RYBN, Alogrithmic Trading Freak Show |
Workshop Écharennes |
Rencontres Internum.
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After the festival:
MODULATION 24H OF MICRO-RADIO IN MOUNTAIN
RADIOPHONIC CAMP
12-13 JUILLET 2014 / HAUTES ALPES
DEPARTURE FROM THE FOUNTAIN PLACE IN THE MIDDLE OF THE VILLAGE OF EOURRES (05300) SATURDAY THE 12 OF JULY AT 3 PM
>>>Call for participation, info, contact
ABOUT THE FESTIVAL
Désert Numérique is hosted by Saint-Nazaire-le-Désert, a small mountain village, whose church, chapel, school, streets and
fields are proposed as spaces for artistic experimentations.
Both public invitation to the discovery of digital art in - and through - a natural context, and a professional meeting, Désert Numérique aims to compare and combine digital and analogical art practices, in a very particular way that arouse curiosity.
Désert Numérique proposes to put digital art down to a collective History, and defuse the myth of the technological escalation.
Team
Boris Husser, general stage manager, realized DN5 stamps with a laser cutting machine.
Carl.Y, general stage manager, will assist Cécile Babiole this year, during the workshop and concert of sewing machines.
Fabrice Schoumacher electrician manager.
Sylvain Bèche, cook manager.
Emmanuel Richier, sound manager.
LBB, sound regording manager.
Ivan Chabanaud, stream manager.
Bernard Dermineur, Peter Vogel's host.
Karen Dermineur, Marika Dermineur and Michèle Lision: Désert Numérique's hostesses.
Saint-Nazaire-le-Désert and inhabitants: Désert Numérique hosts.
SUPPORTS AND PARTNERSHIPS
Désert Numérique is supported helpfully by:
CNC-DICRéAM, Region Rhône-Alpes, Drôme, Fondation de France,
CRDP of Grenoble Academy, DRAC Rhône-Alpes, Saint-Nazaire-le-Désert, Pro Helvetia,
Mondriaan Fonds (pending), et la Fondation FREE (pending); and from its partners:
Incident.net, 720 Digital, Agence aiRPur, Animation et Patrimoine, Arte Creative, Artkillart, Auberge
du Désert, Sylvain Bèche, Bistrot, Brasserie du Désert, Espace multimédia gantner, Cantine
des cocottes, Camping municipal, Club Rencontre-Amitié-Joie, ESAD-GV, EKO, EPI of the
Valley of Roanne, Grame, La Grosse Entreprise, Lavoir du Désert, MCD, Municipality and School
of Saint-Nazaire-le-Désert, Office de tourisme of the
Valley of Roanne, Paroisse,
Roanne Active, Selfworld, Sonic Protest, Virutoses.tv AND Yopla system.
The inhabitants of Saint-Nazaire-le-Désert, volunteers and all the friends.
On October 3, 1942 the V2 was first launched from Peenemunde. Breaking the sound barrier, it reached an altitude of sixty miles. It was the world's first launch of a ballistic missile and the first rocket ever to go into the fringes of space.
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