The history

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VIDEOFORMES'

HISTORY

  • 1986


    1st edition of the VIDEOFORMES festival

    Le Cap de Bonne Espérance, spectacle multimédia de Jean-Michel Gautreau (France)

  • 1987


    Retrospective Robert Cahen (France)

  • 1988

    Les Pyramides, installation by Danièle and Jacques-Louis Nyst (Belgique)

  • 1989

    Retrospective Gary Hill (USA)

  • 1990

    Retrospective John Sanborn (USA)
    Don Quixote and Point of Light, installations by Nam June Paik (Corée)


    Urban scenography on the theme of pyramids by the Fabre and Speller architectural firm

  • 1991

     Tribute to Klaus vom Bruch (RFA)

  • 1992

    VIDEOFORMES represents French video art at the ARCO, the International Contemporary Art Fair in Madrid
    Good Boy, Bad Boy, installation by Bruce Nauman (USA)

  • 1993

    VIDEOFORMES represents French video at ARCO,
    Madrid La forêt, urban scenography by the architectural firm Fabre et Speller
    
T.V. garden, installation by Nam June Paik (Korea)
    Le requiem des elfes, installation by Michel Jaffrennou (France)
    Juan Downey retrospective (Chile)
    Creation of the Galerie de l'Art du Temps and the magazine Turbulences vidéo

    
VIDEOFORMES chairs Réseau, an association bringing together numerous national players in the field of video and multimedia.

  • 1994

    Tribute to Danièle and Jacques-Louis Nyst (Belgique)
    Scénographie d’un paysage, installation by Dominique Belloir (France)

  • 1995

    Tiny deaths, installation by Bill Viola (USA)
    
Karma n°7, Autoportrait, Ga na oa ra irways, installations by Nam June Paik (Corée)
    Exhibition-tour inspired by several episodes of Canal+'s L'Oeil du Cyclone

  • 1996

    Tu, installation by Thierry Kuntzel (France)
    Opening up programming (previously focused on video) to new technologies

  • 1997

    Tribute to Studio Azzurro (Italie)

  • 1998

    VIDEOFORMES in New Delhi for the celebrations of the 50th anniversary of the Indian State (French Pavilion)
    Tribute to Gianni Toti (Italy)
    Opening of the Multimedia Documentation and Culture Centre

  • 1999

    Tribute to Steina Vasulka (Islande/USA)
    Nuit du Printemps Electronique VIDEOFORMES guest at the Vidarte video art festival in Mexico City

  • 2000

    Opening of the multimedi@ cultural space Tribute to n + n corsino (France) Electronic Arts Night

  • 2001

    
A la recherche de Stella, installation by Alain Fleischer (France)


    VIDEOFORMES invited to the Videobrasil video art festival in São Paulo.

  • 2002

     The Arc of Ascent, installation by Bill Viola (USA)

  • 2003

     Frammenti della battaglia, installation by Studio Azzurro.

  • 2004

    VIDEOFORMES ‘on tour’ in Poland with French video: Krakow, Gdansk, Warsaw. VIDEOFORMES invited to Tokyo for a conference and screenings at the Franco-Japanese Institute.

  • 2005

    20 years of VIDEOFORMES: Gary Hill, Studio Azzurro, Robert Cahen, Eder Santos and Lucas Bambozzi (Brazilian Season in France), and creation of the Digital Arts Forum.

  • 2006

     Tribute to Ko Nakajima (Japon)

  • 2007

    Tribute to Gianni Toti (Italie)
    Retrospective of video installations by Rosângela Rennó (Brazil)

  • 2008

    Mapping, night-time projection of Charlie Mars's ‘Anatomie & cacahuètes’ with Digital Slaves
    There, in this part of the world, installation by the group Dunes (France)

  • 2009

    Nox Borealis, installation by Kaija SAARIAHO & Jean-Baptiste BARRIERE (Finland/France).
    In partnership with the Comédie de Clermont-Ferrand, Scène nationale.
    The Rat, the Owl and the Snake, projections in public spaces by Bertrand Gadenne (France)

  • 2010

    Nantes, artists' projects and optical theatres by Pierrick Sorin (France)

  • 2011

    Under the Centipede Sun by Mihai Grecu (Romania/France)
    Video Creation Awards:
    5 Lessons and 9 Questions About Chinatown by Shelly Sliver (United States)
    Last Day of the Republic by Reynold Reynold (United States)
    Young Audience Award:
    HOTEL EPISODE UN by Benjamin Nuel (France)

  • 2012

    VIDEOFORMES presented the following installations:
    The Recollection Box by Andre Amparo (Brazil)
    Constellation by Mariana Carranza (Uruguay/Germany)
    La Descente by Robert Croma (Great Britain)
    108 by Hee Won Lee (South Korea/France)
    Overturned Bronze by Pablo Lobato (Brazil)
    VIDEOFORMES co-produced the following installations:
    Whoever you are by Laurent Pernot (France)
    VIDEOFORMES co-produced and presented the following shows or performances:
    B0DYSC4PES by Collectif 1minute69 (France)
    Live by Mondkopf (France)
    VIDEOFORMES presented the following Focus programmes:
    Reynold Reynold (United States)
    Video creation awards:
    Alphaville-MD by Maix Mayer (Germany)
    Planet Z by Momoko Seto (France)

  • 2013

    VIDEOFORMES presented the following installations:
    Terres arbitraires by Nicolas Clauss (France)
    Somewhere in between by Pierre Coulibeuf (France)
    XVII-VIXI by Triny Prada (Colombia/France)
    Binge Drinking by Pierrick Sorin (France)
    VIDEOFORMES co-produced the following installations:
    Home-Square by David Blasco (France)
    Waterproof by Giuliana Cunéaz (Italy)
    Rêve de dérive by Gabriel Mascaro (Brazil)
    VIDEOFORMES co-produced and presented the following shows or performances:
    Live by Kangding Ray (Germany)
    VIDEOFORMES presented the following Focus programmes:
    CAGE SUITE (International)
    Video creation awards:
    Snail Trail by Philipp Artus (Germany)

  • 2014

    VIDEOFORMES presented the following installations:
    The Waves by Thierry Kuntzel (France)
    La chair et les volcans (work in progress) by Clémence Demesme (France)
    VIDEOFORMES co-produced the following installations:
    Memories of my time on Mars by Gabriel Mascaro (Brazil)
    Puys by Jacques Perconte (France)
    VIDEOFORMES co-produced and presented the following shows or performances:
    Skinstarp by Thomas Israël (Belgium)
    Panoptic by Pierce Warnecke, Christoph Limbach and Yaïr Glotman (Germany)
    Live by St4lk (France)
    VIDEOFORMES presented the following Focus programmes:
    Exquisite Corpse Video Project, a collaborative project by Volume 4: Porn/Politics (International)
    Video Creation Awards:
    Marchant Grenu by François Vogel (France)
    Danse macabre by Boris Labbé (France)
    After I image by Grayson Cooke (Australia)
    1 Part 7 by Reynold Reynold (United States)
    Young Audience Award:
    L’inéluctabilité du destin by Bernard Capitaine (France)

  • 2015

    VIDEOFORMES presented the following installations:
    V+M by John Sanborn (United States)
    Digital Diaries by Catherine Ikam and Louis Fléri (France)
    VIDEOFORMES co-produced the following installations:
    LUX VOCE CORPORE by José Man Lius (France)
    VIDEOFORMES co-produced and presented the following shows or performances:
    MÔWN (Movies on my own) by Ariane Loze (Belgium)
    Vaisseaux by Gregory Robin and Annabelle Playe (France)
    Live by Incite (Germany)
    VIDEOFORMES presented the following Focus programmes:
    City in transformation by Abir Bukari (Syria)
    Video creation awards:
    Tehran-Geles by Arash Nassiri (Iran)

  • 2016

    VIDEOFORMES presented the following installations:
    Ambiancé by Anders Weberg (Sweden)
    VIDEOFORMES co-produced the following installations:
    Road Movie by Peter Bogers (Netherlands)
    Devoir de Mémoire / Ambroise Brugière by Enrique Ramirez (Chile/France)
    VIDEOFORMES co-produced and presented the following shows or performances:
    Come and go by Kentaro Taki (Japan)
    Requiem Dance by Ko Nakajima (Japan)
    Dématérialisé by Pierre Amoudruz and David Guerra (France)
    VIDEOFORMES presented the following Focus programmes:
    Japanese Video Art by Kentaro Taki (Japan)

  • 2017

    VIDEOFORMES presented the following installations:
    White Pulse by Christine Maigne (France)
    Montagnes (455 secondes) by Laurent Pernot (France)
    Dreamers by Véronique Rizzo (France)
    VIDEOFORMES co-produced the following installations:
    Lumina Fiction #2 by Golnaz Behrouznia (Iran/France)
    VIDEOFORMES co-produced and presented the following shows or performances:
    Boo, Forever by Gauthier Keyaerts, Jonas Luyckx and Stephan Ink (Belgium)
    VIDEOFORMES presented the following Focus programmes:
    Papay Gyro Nights Festival (International)

  • 2018

    VIDEOFORMES presented the following installations:
    ISMAÏL BAHRI | Esquisse, ISMAÏL BAHRI | Foyer
    PHYLLIS BALDINO | Nothing from the future
    CABINET DES CURIOSITES
    ESMERALDA DA COSTA | #JETENVEUX
    JOSEPH DAVID | PUMP
    SCENOCOSME | Les cent visages
    ALESSANDRO AMADUCCI | The Storm
    PHYLLIS BALDINO | Now is here
    BOB KOHN | Tribute to Edweard Muybridge
    SAMUEL ROUSSEAU | Autodafé, SAMUEL ROUSSEAU | Soleil Noir
    OLIVIER BOSSON | Le Forum des Rêves

  • 2019

    VIDEOFORMES presented the following installations:
    Fanny Bauguil and Zoltar Petrescu | Blomoprovs
    Tania Mouraud | Pandemonium
    Kika Nicolela | Futur Passé
    Fabien Chalon | L’aube des neiges
    Regina Hübner | loving
    Nam June Paik | TV Buddha
    Delphine Gigoux-Martin | Projections and video installations
    John Sanborn | Sorry
    Isabelle Arvers | Ce qui me manque
    VIDEOFORMES co-produced the following installations:
    Imaginary Systems | Dissimilarium 0.1
    Agnès Guillaume | Days after Days

  • 2020

    VIDEOFORMES presented the following installations:
    Phyllis Baldino | u_n_d_e_r_w_a_t_e_r
    Nicolas Clauss | Frame
    Nicolas Clauss | Endless Landscapes
    Nicolas Tourte | Ellipses
    Sandra Paugam & Chargles Ayats | Le CriVR
    Pascal Lièvre | Rêver l’obscur
    Anne-Sophie Emard | Descendance
    Anne Marie Rognon | Les graines
    Le Sonneur | Fleeting Doors ‘Lovers’
    VIDEOFORMES presented the following performances:
    NSDOS | Sending.Movement 2.0
    L’Age d’Or | Orage Magnétique
    Rocio Berenguer | Coexistence
    VIDEOFORMES co-produced the following installations:
    Boris Labbé & Daniele Ghisi | Monade
    Anne-Sophie Emard | Fleuves
    Julien Dubuc – INVIVO collective | Tesseract (...)

  • 2021

    VIDEOFORMES presented the following installations:
    Regina Hübner | Dear Cell
    Francesca Fini | The Reading (…)
    Tomoko Konoike | Omnibus Movie
    Eiko Soga | Tuning Bamboo
    Eiko Soga | Autumn Salmon
    Robert Cahen | Sanaa (…)
    VIDEOFORMES presented the following performances:
    Alex Augier | p(O)st
    NSDOS | Sending.Movement 2.0
    VIDEOFORMES co-produced the following installations:
    Scott Hessels | Below Victory
    Guillaumit | Eau Vive
    HeeWon Lee | La neige
    John Sanborn | The Friend

  • 2022

    VIDEOFORMES presented the following installations:

    Gabriela Golder | 52 Shades of Blue

    Mihai Grecu | Saturnism

    Agnès Guillaume | Adam & Eve

    Agnès Guillaume | Days After Days

    Eleonora Manca | Haiku With Suspended Time

    Erik Schmidt | Days After Days

    VIDEOFORMES presented the following performances:

    Franck Vigroux & Kurt d'Haeseleer | The island

    Iury Lech | Lux Spectris

    VIDEOFORMES co-produced and presented the following installations:

    Nikzad ArabShahi | Autogenesis

    Golnaz Behrouznia | Geomorph Momenta

    Maurice Benayoun | Value of Values (VoV 2.0)

    Anne-Sophie Emard | Les éperdus

    Scott Hessels | Below Victory: Memoria Hospitis & Light

  • 2023

    VIDEOFORMES presented the following installations:

    Mariana Carranza | Ephemeral Angels

    Úrsula San Cristóbal | Tejer un cuerpo (Weaving a Body)

    Agnès Guillaume | You said Love is Eternity

    Anne-Sarah Le Meur | Dixverts

    Shunsuke François Nanjo | The Infinite Landscape

    Henri Tauliaut | Water Divinity Game

    Total Refusal | Hardly Working

    i-REAL | Marc Veyrat

    Inside a Circle of Dreams | David Lawrence

    Space Utopia | Vincent Fournie

    VIDEOFORMES presented the following performances:

    Datum cut | inex.materia

    Rafael | Untitled

    Atelier Vjing (SUC) | DZRDR

    VIDEOFORMES co-produced and presented the following installations:

    Gary Hill | Afterwards

    Eau Vive | Guillaumit

  • 2024

    VIDEOFORMES presented the following installations:

    Mariana Carranza | Ephemeral Angels

    Úrsula San Cristóbal | Tejer un cuerpo (Weaving a Body)

    Agnès Guillaume | You said Love is Eternity

    Anne-Sarah Le Meur | Dixverts

    Shunsuke François Nanjo | The Infinite Landscape

    Henri Tauliaut | Water Divinity Game

    Total Refusal | Hardly Working

    i-REAL | Marc Veyrat

    Inside a Circle of Dreams | David Lawrence

    Space Utopia | Vincent Fournie

    VIDEOFORMES presented the following performances:

    Datum cut | inex.materia

    Rafael | Untitled

    Atelier Vjing (SUC) | DZRDR

    VIDEOFORMES co-produced and presented the following installations:

    Gary Hill | Afterwards

    Eau Vive | Guillaumit

  • 2025

    VIDEOFORMES presented the following installations:

    Santiago Torres | Real-Time Frame

    Vincent Ciciliato | Sabia-VR

    Agnès Guillaume | The Well

    Ismaël Joffroy Chandoutis | Golberg Variations

    Scott Hessels | Lovebirds Garden

    Nicolas Tourte | Fondation

    Véronique Rizzo | Rituel de l'eau, Rishi's Upanayanam

    Mathilde Reynaud | Lemna

    François Vogel | La Salamandra

    John Sanborn | a dog dreams (of god)

    Scenocosme | Lights Contacts

    Heewon Lee | La Pluie

    Mihaï Grecu | Digital Desert

    Giuliana Cunéaz | I Cercatori di Luce

    Laure Nillus | Dé-payser

    Aurélien Jeanney | Blue Rain

    Various artists | Signature Programmes

    VIDEOFORMES presented the following performances:

    ANA PAYE | inland I come back in broad day

    Katia Vonna| Interstice

    Collective music creation workshop | Untitled

    Contrpoint | AV-DJ SET

    Franck Vigroux, Antoine Schmitt & Loic Varranguien | Nacht II

    VIDEOFORMES co-produced and presented the following installations:

    Agnès Guillaume | Le Puits

    Ismaël Joffroy Chandoutis | Golberg Variations

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