[spectre] From image to virtual: to think the screen, La Tourette/F

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    Cultural Centre
Convent of LA  TOURETTE
Thomas More Centre
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=46rom image to virtual: to think the  screen
Meeting and Electronic projection at the convent of La Tourette in  France
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The weekend of 23/24 in November, 2002 takes place, in the  convent of La
Tourette, the Thomas More Meeting: " From image to virtual: think  of the
screen ". This will give the opportunity to hear several French-speaking
academics and philosophers (Jean-Clet Martin, Marie-Jos=E9 Mondzain,
Jean-Louis  Weissberg, Wolfgang Wackernagel, Jean-Jacques Wunenberger).
This meeting will  settle, at the rhythm of the stay, a dialogue with the
public.
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In  connection with this Thomas More Meeting, the Cultural Centre of La
Tourette  proposes on Saturdays an electronic projection which will take
place in the  atrium of the convent. This Franck Ancel's realization
follows upon a residence,  in association with Joachim Montessuis and
=46ranck Olivier. His installation will  put in echo the subject of the
Meeting and the so particular architecture of the  convent.
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"It=92s from the atrium that we understand better the use of  the church, an=
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it of Corbusier on architecture which is traversed.  A  building is a
sculpture in which one penetration; with three dimensions of this  one add
a fourth, which is that of the time of the course.  This other  dimension
does not give a global vision but a succession of sequences connected
between them by the memory and intelligence, as if the building had
multiple  possible visions"
Extracts from the guide of the La Tourette  convent
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The device consists in the projection of video in real time  and numeric
images. For the presentation of this project, Franck Ancel also  chose the
reading of the German architect Philippe Oswalt in his text "Polytopes  de
Xenakis" (1991):
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"The church space which Xenakis and Le  Corbusier designed together is a
sort of camera obscura: the room is dark. A  small square opening in the
ceiling projects the image of the sun on the floor.  The movement of the
sun is represented by this wandering spot of light in the  interior. Yet
that is not all. The exterior walls of the lower floors of the  monastery
were designed by Xenakis as 'musical glass walls.' Also called
'ondulatoires,' they are composed of vertical strips of concrete and strips
of  glass of different widths. The constantly changing rhythm of open and
closed is  projected by the sunlight onto the floor. The floor becomes a
projection screen.  The walls fade in our perception. =93
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It is in these opening, thanks  to the contemporary use of the numeric that
another set of projection will be  set up at nightfall. By it, this
short-lived action describes formally the frame  of a "scenography of the
electronic image", anticipated since 1963 by Jacques  Polieri.
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Between theory and practical, Franck Ancel is the author  of several texts
which confront Art with the comtempory mutation. He also  organized meeting
on =AB art and new technologies =BB (Bordeaux), conceived the  exposition =
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Life Perception =BB (Compi=E8gne), and coordinated a retrospective on  Jacqu=
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Polieri (BNF/Paris). His last realization was a postal cards edition
associated with a temporary Internet site.
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Participation on the  Meeting on registration in complete or half board
Projection in the atrium of  the convent on Saturday November 23th from the
evening
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