Creation on line and in situ Ministry of Culture and Communication Paris

[Presse WNM]

Press-release

Ina invites you to delve into the memory of the web with
" Memory-Pictures " the newest work by Fred Forest

online at  http://www.fredforest.org/Ina


Fred Forest's newest work will also be presented in the form of an
installation located in the lobby of the Ministry of Culture and
Communication, 182 rue Saint-Honoré, 75001 Paris, France, from March
21 to April 15, 2005.

Beginning on March 21, the Institut National de l'Audiovisuel and
Fred Forest invite you to join in the creation of a collaborative
work of art " Memory-Pictures " online at www.fredforest.org/Ina,
conceived for the Festival of the Internet.

" Memory-Pictures " offers Internet users the opportunity to embark
on a journey to the core of the memory of the Internet in the company
of avatar guides.  Starting with a key word fed into a search engine,
users will cause images to emerge from the depths of the network.  A
specially designed computer program will automatically organize these
images into a pre-formatted montage consisting of sixty thumbnail
pictures, which will bear a digital stamp validating the montage's
status as an authentic work of art.  The montages can be printed out
and sent to Ina, where they will be signed by the artist, and then
returned to the senders via surface mail.  A dynamic archive will be
set up to allow the public to view all of the works produced.

This playful project sets up a framework for free exchange, which, by
virtue of its altruistic motives, underscores the original fraternal
spirit of the Net.

A most atypical artist, Fred Forest has become over the years an
emblematic figure in the world of contemporary art.  A co-founder of
the French Festival of the Internet, he was awarded the Grand Prize
for Communication at the Sao Paulo Biennial.  He has represented
France at both the Venice Biennial and the Documenta exhibition in
KasselŠ

In April 2004, the entire corpus of his work officially became part
of the national cultural heritage through its incorporation into the
Fonds de Création Audiovisuelle Contemporaine, a public archive
maintained by Ina.  Created in 2002 out of the archives of Imagina,
the first European forum dedicated to " new images ", the Fonds de
Création Audiovisuelle Contemporaine is dedicated to the creation and
preservation of a permanent record of works that have made creative
use of audiovisual media or have developed new approaches to
esthetics and storytelling with the help of innovations in the field
of information technology.  It is especially concerned with forms of
creative expression whose spirit of originality and independence has
not yet been subjected to the constraints of industrial production.
http://www.webnemuseum.org
http://www.fredforest.org


Contact-press Michael Leruth
757.221.1390 (tel)
001 757 221 1390 (tel)
757.221.3637 (fax)
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