Centre de Recherche
Piere Schaefer (CICV)
Montbéliard Belfort
The goal of the international Center for Video Creation is to put image and sound Technologies and communication network potential (Numéris, Internet, ATM ...) at the disposal of researchers and artists, in order to:
- implement the creation of artworks (films, videos, theatre, installations, performances, interactive devices ...),
- develop a theoretical approach to the image, the imagination and communication in liaison with scientific domains and the humanities,
- promote discussion on how New Technologies affect cultural, social and economical development.
In order to accomplish its mission, the CICV disposes of the following tools: digital sound and image post-production studios, and a resource center and accomodations for residents which allow for residencies from a couple of weeks up to several months, of researchers and artists from all over the world.
Besides this mission of research and creation, the CICV participes and or organises activities in the following areas:
- training (educational training of teachers, community leaders, etc. ...),
- prospective research (organization of seminars and colloquiums in France and abroad).
In order to reach these goals, the CICV is permanently in contact with partners from all over the world and collaborates with selected consultants and experts.
Examples of Production:
Jeanne
Patrick De Geetere, 33:00, F 1995
A documentary fiction.
videØvoid
David Larcher, 32:30, F/GB 1993
From the trace produced by a single drop out is created a series of digital lndscapes that provide the backgrounds for the flight of the Zenonian arrow towards >void<.
The absence of information in a drop-out creates the space which defines a coincidential arrow on collision course with the proverbial flying equation... asymptote signifying nothing. The central Ø, interfaces the French word vide with the English void... these meet in the real world of the river Vidus as it flows through Void the town.
The tape is spun off the top of a monopole and folded into cypher space; a simulation referenced to the occasional Elysian field magnet as it tries to attract thet electron you're not seeing before it gets to the hypothetical target of your mind...
... reflection of it's virtuality rather than anything real.