CATALOG VIDEOFORMES 2025

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VIDEOFORMES 2025: Forty years of shared commitments

Forty editions of a collective ambition in which every player – artists, partners, audiences, teams – has contributed to shaping a festival that is resolutely experimental, transdisciplinary and rooted in its time. This 40^th edition is not just a celebration: it is living proof that another culture is possible, driven by shared convictions and a shared desire to defend a daring art form.

In 2015, VIDEOFORMES brought together creative forces in a symbolic way with the creation of Video_Age , a collective work drawing on three decades of archives to create a dialogue between eras and disciplines, echoing the past in the present and confronting aesthetics and eras. This project already embodied the conviction that digital and hybrid art cannot be created in isolation. It is the fruit of a mutual commitment – that of the artists, of course, but also of the structures that support them and give shape to their visions, and of the audiences that welcome them and question them.

VIDEOFORMES 2025 extends this heritage by bringing together historic figures and new voices, whose works, whether political, poetic or purely sensory, share the same demand for art that questions, disturbs and moves. It’s art that doesn’t just illustrate its time, but thinks about it and challenges it.

This vital commitment would be meaningless without the people behind it. Alongside the 90 international artists invited and presented in the Auvergne metropolis, loyal partners wanted to mark this special event by offering a particularly creative wink as part of Résonances VIDEOFORMES 40^th, so many complicit extensions in the city and beyond. VIDEOFORMES thus confirms its position as an essential platform for contemporary digital creation, while celebrating forty years of shared artistic innovation.

We also owe a debt of gratitude to all those who, from the outset, have brought this festival to life: institutional and private partners, curatorial and technical teams whose invisible work enables each edition to emerge, and finally the audiences, without whose repeated encouragement these experiences would have no meaning or continuity.

Forty years is the age of maturity, but also the age of insubordination. VIDEOFORMES is a vivid reminder that the most innovative art is always born of encounters – between disciplines, between generations, between ideas – and that art remains a territory on the move, where each edition of the event is a new page to be written.

To my (all too soon gone) friends: Philippe Franck & Ko Nakajima