The history

1st edition of the VIDEOFORMES festival

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

Retrospective Robert Cahen (France)

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

Retrospective Gary Hill (USA)

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

 Tribute to Klaus vom Bruch (RFA)

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

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.

Tribute to Danièle and Jacques-Louis Nyst (Belgique)

Scénographie d’un paysage, installation by Dominique Belloir (France)

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

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

Tribute to Studio Azzurro (Italie)

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

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

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


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


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

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

 Frammenti della battaglia, installation by Studio Azzurro.

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.

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.

 Tribute to Ko Nakajima (Japon)

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

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)

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)

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

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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

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

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 (...)

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

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

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

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

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