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::: MUSIQUES et CULTURES DIGITALES :CYRILLE HENRI
CYRILLE HENRI
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Cyrille Henry is a programming-artist who represents time through photography in his « Voyages » series. When he does without the real capture to modify and put together white cubes, it is aimed to recall nature symbolized by trees (“Arbres”). He enjoys making rules that he writes as algorithms, like those which drag the shapes (“Formes”) contained in other images. And he made the DVD “Vivarium” with Nicolas Montgermont, showing their common experiences inside chdh.
Voyages en train (train trips)
The camera that Cyrille Henry takes with him during his train trips memorizes lots of landscapes of which however the artist only saves one column of pixels per image. Those columns, once put together methodically, from left to right, represent the memory of a trip into space, into time. As large, horizontally, as trips were long, those Voyages en train (train trips) are just spatial and temporal compressions of which all lines testify at the same time of a place and a moment.
Voyages immobiles (travelling without moving)
The Voyages immobiles come from the same process that consists in saving only a spatiotemporal fragment by captured image. But here the camera is facing the subject that only nature disturbs. It emerges from unique landscapes, however coming from multiple temporality, a quiet feeling, the impression that a certain slowness probably betrayed by the length of the process put in place. As for the vertical filaments that persist, like drips for paintings, they represent time passing.
Arbres logiques (logical trees)
Cyrille Henry’s trees don’t have roots, nor leaves. They are the result of a machines calculation. The white cube representing their base is identical to those of each extremity of their branches. Some trees seem to suffer while others recall ornament, but all of them come from algorithms putting together few rules among which it has to be defined that the size of the cube of the base is always more important than those of the cubes of its own arborescence. And though it is about representation of nature.
Latent shapes
As an alchemist, Cyrill Henri practices conversion too when he creates algorithm formulas that transform some photographic images in particle swarms fixed in their expansion. Original images representing views of urban or natural landscapes, nothing remains except “the latent shapes” that were only waiting for the artist to appear from the invisible. Pixels have become cubes; cubes have been modified, then moved in the tridimensional space of the image that finally reveals the hidden shape, waiting for its own representation.
Vivarium
Cyrille Henry also enjoys projects like “chdh” for which he has been collaborating for years with Nicolas Montgermont. Together they frequently give audiovisual performances in real time that the DVD Vivarium allows to apprehend. Tracks or instruments responding to the name “Convulsions”, “Mutation” or “Parade” present objects that form and deform following the rhythm of sounds that their movements generate. Here again, the formal vocabulary is radical: lines, panes and other spheres. And yet, an impression of living comes the from elastic links that unite them.
Dominique Moulon
Cyrille Henry: www.chnry.net
Nicolas Montgermont: http://nim.on.free.fr
chdh: www.chdh.net
Artkillart: http://artkillart.free.fr
Vivarium, chdh DVD, bringing together Cyrille Henry and Nicolas Montgermont, was coproduced by Compagnie Prométhée and the Etablissement Public de Coopération Culturelle Arcadi and is distributed by the label Artkillart. |
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