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Albertine Meunier has been practicing so-called digital art since 1998, and is particularly inclined to use the Internet as raw material. She defines herself as a Net artist, which is not necessarily her artistic net value. This mildly obsolete expression—a Net artist is, quite simply, an artist of her time—helps to give her a human face, far from the coldness of digital machines.
Her works question, both critically and playfully, big online players such as Google, Twitter and Facebook, as well as our new environment full of transistors and microprocessors, where we live at the speed of fiber optic networks. This online world that Albertine knows so well has become her raw matter for creativity and exploration. In her research and in her artworks, she attempts to reveal the invisible poetry of all things digital.
Albertine's many technical, esthetic and conceptual skills have allowed her to explore this essential poetry and esthetics. She cultivates simple, minimal forms, which may sometimes appear to be "tinkered" from scratch, but she intentionally distances herself from the hyper-technicity of other digital installations.
As such, her favorite themes are: esthetics of the Internet, materiality and materialization of the Internet, but also the endless accumulation that results from the digital format.
Her desire to give form and rhythm to the invisible and imperceptible aspects of the Internet has led to her unique perspective, where technique and poetry are engaged in an unexpected relationship.
As she explores this new world taking shape, many of her works question both space and time: space as both a physical and digital place, both here and there and therefore quantic; time as a lifespan; space and time as a place for memory.
With her seemingly hands-off approach, Albertine leads us on a playfully, impertinently and drolly poetic journey. Let's play a bit with the Internet… thanks to Albertine.
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artworks booklet 
The Enlightened – 2015
. Galerie mi, Paris - 20th october to 15th november 2015
Three men—Larry Page, Sergueï Brin and Eric Schmidt—and their angelic faces symbolize the Google company.
Its “Don't be evil” slogan might lead us to believe that this company is angelic by definition and par excellence.
In many ways, Google is angelic, delivering us from the many hardships that we endure on the demonic Internet. Google makes our lives easier, and for that reason we love it, even adore it.
It has become a new kind of all-powerful God, venerated for its permanent presence.
Then, Google duplicates us on server farms using the data it captures: keyword searches, geolocation coordinates, images, etc., building over time in the Sky, in our collective Cloud, our clone.
For a while now, this company has been determined to immortalize us through projects around Singularity and Transhumanism.
Are those three wise men not our post-modern enlightened...? What if these singular thoughts, accompanied by immense power, could transform our beliefs forever?
Trinity!
Vanity!
Memento Mori -remember that you will die- of modern times
the Infinite Book – 2015
. Variation paris Media Art Fair, Paris - 20th- 25th October 2015
. Journée du Patrimoine Quai d'Orsay, Paris - 19th-20th September 2015
. Evening French Digital Creation, Quai d'Orsay, Paris - 25th September 2015
. Le Web, Paris - Décember 2014
The infinite book is an entirely blank book.
The book’s content appears only when its pages are turned.
The infinite book offers a brand new way of printing content. This type of printing could be defined as printing digital content on the fly, as the digital material available online is displayed once the page is identified.
DataDada Performance – 2014
. Futur en Seine, Paris - 12 et 13 juin 2015
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Ekimetrics, Paris - 13 mai 2015
. La Fabrique du Théâtre, Aprem #4, Mons - 18th October 2014
. Google Cultural Institute, Paris - 17th October 2014
. Forum d'Avignon @Paris, forum culturel 100% DATA - Paris, 19th September 2014
. Lecture du Manifeste en Direct sur TV5monde, Paris - 18th September 2014
Written on Friday the 13th of June 2014 by the artists Albertine Meunier and Julien Levesque, the DataDaDa* Manifesto expresses their opposition to Data being progressively considered as mere digital bits of information.
Albertine Meunier and Julien Levesque wish to wrap, powder, decorate, style and envelop Data with the influence of the Dada art movement. One century later, a new art movement is created: DataDada.
7th Heaven – 2014
. La Tapisserie, Paris - 20th february to 22 of march 2014
7th Heaven is a tangible, esthetic and playful installation.
Personalized movable objects move up and down a string according to each person's physical altitude in real time.
6 feet on Earth – 2014
. Galerie mi, Paris - 20th october to 15th november 2015
6 feet on Earth is an art installation that is directly linked to Albertine's real-time movements throughout her everyday life.
The innards of L.H.O. – 2013
. Variations Show Off, Paris - 2014
. Ro[bots], Festival les Composites, Compiègne - 25 mars au 17 avril 2014
. La Tapisserie, Paris - 23 octobre 2013
The innards of L.H.O shows the innards of Google's Knowledge Graph by taking over this little "semantic" pop-up that appears during a Google search.
It's a sort of ready-made hack!
Looking for Daisy – 2013
. Show Off, Paris -
21 au 23 octobre 2013
Looking for Daisy pays tribute to Eugène Boudin and to cows, his models.
Looking for Daisy is an installation made up of aquarelles of Google cows* found on little country roads through Google Street View, and of a sensor in the form of a simple letter.
Peg Mountain – 2013
. Forum d'Avignon - 21 au 23 novembre 2013
. La Tapisserie, Paris - 20 juin au 20 juillet 2013
. Futur en Seine, Paris - 13 au 15 juin 2013
The Peg coin is a way of thumbing our nose at Google and at all big companies that are trying to expand and increase profits by taking control of the digital economy. As represented by a little man, the Peg coin reminds us that the digital world, sometimes perceived as dematerialized, has a big influence on the real lives of men and women. Reappropriating this symbol of the Internet and circulating it among good hands is a way of elevating our everyday lives beyond the digital cash cow.
Crossings – 2012
. Show Off, Paris -
17 au 21 octobre 2012
. La Tapisserie, Paris - 20 au 28 juin 2012
. Futur en Seine, Paris - 14 au 17 juin 2012
. Galerie Area, Paris - 9 au 10 juin 2012
Crossings is an object that records the distance separating Albertine and Julien in real time.
Today, equipped with our mobile phones, this distance is perfectly measurable and reveals a curve of moving away / moving closer through the recording.
Through this observation, we may be able to unveil a little of the chance meetings between the two of us.
Beyond 1m/s - 2012
. Résidence Consul de France à Rio de Janeiro - depuis le 13 février 2014
. Show Off, Paris -
21 au 23 octobre 2013
. Galerie NaMiMa, Nancy - 25 janvier au 14 février 2013
. La Tapisserie, Paris - 20 au 28 juin 2012
. Futur en Seine, Paris - 14 au 17 juin 2012
Beyond 1m/s physically implements the Internet speed.
In order to measure this speed, the dispositive interrogates Google every 30 seconds about the sentence « I think » using a questioning method in Google real time.
Like a water wheel, Internet sets in motion.
Hop Hop, it's time to live – 2012
. La Tapisserie, Paris - 20 au 28 juin 2012
. Futur en Seine, Paris - 14 au 17 juin 2012
"Hop Hop Hop, it’s Time to live" proposed new units of measurement in order to measure the daily surfing : the hop and the ttl. These units of measurement enable to quantify Internet browsings.
hop : the number of relay servers to get to the Internet address requested
ttl : the time needed to spread the information on the networks for each browsing
My Google Search History, the book – 2011
. Ro[bots], Festival les Composites, Compiègne - 25 mars au 17 avril 2014
. Erreur d'impression, Espace Virtuel du Jeu de Paume - décembre 2013 à avril 2014
. Show Off, Paris -
17 au 21 octobre 2012
. La Tapisserie, Paris - 30 juin au 2 juillet 2011
. sur les étals de la librairie Yvon Lambert, Paris, la librairie du Palais de Tokyo, Paris, la librairie du Jeu de Paume, Paris, la librairie du Parc / Actes Sud, Parc de la Villette, Paris, la librairie du 104, Le Merle Moqueur
In 2006, Google launched Google Search service and stored cybernauts’ researches. Since this first day, Albertine Meunier scrupulously compile her researches and reveal them to the public. More than three years have passed : Albertine’s researches put end to end tell a story, hers as well as the history of the web.
Mona LHO - 2011
. Galerie Area, Paris - 9 au 10 juin 2012
Mona LHO art piece is an object connected to the web that restores and displays in real-time this AMCI rating, Art Marlet Confidence Index, through its connection to the web.
Thanks to its very surprising form, this object turns into a ready-made of Modern times, by its relationship to the Art market and its connexion to the Internet network.
Eof/Eol, End Of File/End of Life - 2011
. La Tapisserie, Paris - 18 au 26 mars 2011
Caught on the fly on Google Books, several decades of Life Magazine covers scroll before our eyes.
Beyond the unceasing world activity, beyond our desire to capture what surrounds our life, one day it will slow down and finally stop. End of File. End of Life !
Tiptoe to the Annonciation, ballet for 12 angelinos - 2010
. Croisements numériques, Nantes - 4 au 18 mars 2015
. Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris - 11 au 13 novembre 2011
. Village de l'innovation, Futur en Seine, Paris - 23 au 26 juin 2011
. Expo AFK, Casino Luxembourg, Forum d'art contemporain, Luxembourg - 29 janvier 2011 au 1er mai 2011
À petits pas vers l'annonciation is an interactive ballet for 12 mechanical dancers. The Ballet interprets the work À petits pas vers l’Annonciation, a very specific reading of the Annunication to Mary.
Each dancer would only be the interpreter of a chosen word, extracted from the text of the Annunciation to Mary, Chapter 1, 26-38 in the Gospel of Luke.
Avec le soutien du DICRéAM, dispositif pour la création artistique multimédia, Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication (France).
Les Trucs - 2010 - avec le collectif microtruc
. Jeu de Paume, espace virtuel, Paris - novembre 2010 à mars 2011
Les Trucs » are objects put into circulation that pass from hand to hand according to a predefined protocol. They are geolocalised on a map online, enabling us to visualise their journey in real time. The idea is to confront networks and territories by questionning the expanse, the range and the morphology our our networks.
Angelino - 2009
. Seconde Nature. Archéologie des média – Exposition-research PAMAL , Aix en Provence – 20 may to 28 june 2015
. Grand Bouillon, Aubervilliers - 2015
. Variations Show Off, Paris - 2014
. Regards d'Artistes sur les Médias Sociaux , Médiathèque de Mérignac - 4 mars au 2 avril 2011
. Internet of things, Digitalement Votre à la Maison des Métallos, Paris - 1 décembre 2010
. Festival Panoramas, Bordeaux, 2010 - 2 et 3 ocotobre 2010
. Lift Experience 10 - Marseille, Au sein du Cabinet des Curiosités Numériques by nod-a
. Les Bains numériques, Digital Arti - Enghiens les Bains - du 16 au 19 juin 2010
. 1.618 Sustainable Luxury Fair, Carte Blanche Atopic Festival, Palais de Tokyo - Paris - Mai 2010
. Les bouillants #2 - Diapason Rennes, Les bouillants Vern sur Seiche, Art Rock - 22 avril au 29 août
. BnF,
François Mitterrand - journée Net art - Paris - déc. 2009
. Carrefour des possibles, Fing, Centre Pompidou- Paris - nov. 2009
The Angelino is an angel detector.
A female dancer, emprisonned in a musical bottle, is animated by the passage of an angel on the internet and dances on a small tune, especially when the word « angel » passes through the flow of public messages on Twitter.
Around the World - 2009
. BnF,
François Mitterrand - journée Net art - Paris - déc. 2009
Around the world est un ensemble de tableaux numériques, carnet de voyage sur internet à travers un univers imaginaire formé de lieux tout à fait réels. Les paysages de cet univers imaginaire ont la particularité d'être composés d'éléments réels de Google Street View.
Stweet - 2009 - avec le collectif we-love-the.net
. BnF,
François Mitterrand - journée Net art - Paris - déc. 2009
. Lift Experience 09 - Marseille
. Présentation de Stweet à la Wikiplaza, Future en Seine - Paris 2009
Stweet is a live internet installation that appropriates photographic geographical data from the web in real time. It offers a display of geolocalised messages from Twitter on a Google Street View panorama. It allows a poetical representation enhanced by the flow of information existing on the web. In a room, two major actors of the web : on the one hand Google and its amazing Google Street View and on the other hand Twitter and its unceasing textual flow of human tweets.
Mon avatar n'est pas un gringalet - 2010
. La Tapisserie, Paris - 11 juin au 13 juin
. Passage en Seine, La Cantine - Paris, 2010 - voir la vidéo
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Radart #2, La Cantine - Paris, 2010
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Nuitnumérique#7, Centre Culturel Saint Exupéry, Reims, 2009
The experimentation « 200 grams of DNA » allows Albertine - who is interested in the digital identity and in the Internet social networks - to observe the decoded and web shared DNA closer, 2.0 web dispositive about the DNA with a web service such as 23andme.
A first Salivette party was organised during the « Nuit- numérique#7 » in October, 2009 at the Centre Culturel, Reims.
Tea Time with Albertine and then Hype(r)Olds – since 2008
. Speed Show, Café Paris, 11 janvier 2011
. Workshops à la Cantine et à la Maison des Métallos - Paris
. Intervention de nos demoiselles lors du Baiser de la matrice, Théatre Paris Villette, 2008
This workshop was created in March 2008 and occured every two weeks at during three hours.
Free Influencer – 2008 - avec le collectif we-love-the.net
Free Influencer is a cross between the questions of digital identity and individual rating, proposing everyone to control one's identity online, gaining more weight and influence in the same time.
Free Influence uses Freebase as a free open database. This base enables everyone to constitute his profile and to declare his influences, but also to create or modify every profile as well as influences already declared.
DCODD – 2008 - avec le collectif microtruc
. Système C – Un festival de la coïncidence, Mains d'Oeuvres 2008
. Web Flash Festival 2008, Centre Georges Pompidou Paris
DCODD is a project of localized sets of videos. 2D codes¹ are painted on the ground on twelve different squares in Paris. Each 2D code links to a specific video. Every two months, a new artist makes a new set of twelve videos.
Videos linked to a place by DCODD with 2D codes are neither of tourist interest nor documentary but intend to create a new scenery, or even a disconcerting view of the local context.
Big Picture - 2008
. BnF,
François Mitterrand - journée Net art - Paris - déc. 2009
. Web Flash Festival 2008 - finaliste catégorie Art NetArt, Centre Georges Pompidou Paris
La big Picture is the living picture of Facebook status updates. Presented as a widget, it enables one to follow status updates of Facebook friends visually. The simple action of moving the mouse on the surface of La Big Picture allows to read Facebook statuses of lots of people.
La Big Picture is also an artistic experiment allowing to film the activity of a website like Facebook, to testify about its rhythm, to make one feels the heart beatings of this web site actors and perhaps to film the « explosion of social media » (acceleration, slowdown, stop, etc.).
by albertine Meunier, Yann le Guennec, Olivier Auber
MMS Exquis - 2008 - avec le collectif microtruc
. Compétition officielle Festival Pocket Film 2008, Centre Georges Pompidou Paris
My Google Search History – depuis nov. 2006 - Work in progress
. La Tapisserie, Paris - 30 juin au 2 juillet
. BnF,
François Mitterrand - journée Net art - déc. 2009
. Carrefour des possibles, Fing, mai 2008
. Internet Mon Amour, février 2008, Centre Beaubourg, Paris
. 11th International Video Festival Videomedeja , 2007, Serbia
. File 2007 - SESI Gallery, ART Institution in Sao Paulo, Brazil
. Web Flash Festival 2007 - finaliste catégorie Art NetArt, Centre Georges Pompidou Paris
Displayed in a cumulative way, under the form of a text, a video or a sound, her researches provide a real self-portrait, as a big souvenir-film. Moreover, My Google Search History puts in perspective questions about our private life and the Internet, and more particularly our private life and Google, and reveals the quantity of information Google holds about us. Delivered to our eyes thanks to this inventory we can freely observe her researches, as Google does.
Théorie M – 2006
. The 2008 Biennale of Sydney venue online, Australia
. Festival Traverse vidéo 2006, Abattoirs de Toulouse
. Installation artistique sur les trottoirs de la ville de Paris
M-Theory is a project that associates Internet, cellular phone, video, map making and urban spaces.
2D codes were tagged in Paris. A video that can be watched from a mobile phone is associated to each tag. In parallel, the website www. theoriem.net presents a Google Map on which the position of the 2D codes tagged on sidewalks are localised. The M-Theory project is to be situated in a matter of appropriation through many levels.
a project with Caroline Delieutraz.
Interactive exhibition of Edison Mobile Remake - 2006
. Installation Festival Pocket Film 2006, Centre Georges Pompidou Paris
Edison Mobile Remake n°1 to 5 – 2006
. Festival Pocket Film 2008
. Festival D/Art/2006, Sydney Australie
. Mobile Exposure 2006 of Microcinema International, San Francisco
. Mobile Monday France
« Ready Made », presenting the original videos or some extracts on mobile phones, the artistic gesture being perfectly adapted to mobile phone format and essentially concerning the appropriation of the transmitted videos.
A corps et à Christ – 2005
. Galerie Université Paris 8 – oct 2005
À Corps et à Christ is composed of a series of seven short videos about my relationship with the Christ and its different representations, universal representations.
The Christ inhabits my universe and particularly my house in an astonishing way.
Counter Googling - 2004
. Présenté au Carrefour des Possibles, FING, Foundation Internet Nouvelle Generation en avril 2004, Paris
Counter Googling divert the use that can be made of googling practice in creating people profile pages. Therefore, someone who is searching on Google an individual whose profile page exists on Counter Googling, would be tempted to click on the link to Counter Googling website among the results proposed by Google.
A portrait present on Counter Googling plays with the mecanism of researching in proposing true and fake portraits (or self-portraits) among the list of answers proposed by Google.
The second goal is to push further the logics of the uncontrollability of one's identity, by creating portraits or self-portraits under Art Libre Licence.
This portraits realised under Copyleft Licence demonstrate how little control one can have on the information about oneself.
Le Voyage Immobile – 2003
. Forum de l'image 2004, Abattoirs de Toulouse
Correspondance between Picabiette, who is in Russia traveling accross the Transberian from Vladivostock to Moscow, and Cathbleue (former name of Albertine Meunier) who accompanies him from a distance. This fully motionless trip had been possible thanks to the Internet, all information linked to the trip being available on the web.
Cathbleue had left the trip after 206 days. Exhausted and slightly obsessional.
At last count, Picabia has continued to write until Christmas 2003.
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