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Sophie Lavaud

SOPHIE LAVAUD
Sophie Lavaud is a French Artist in the field of interactive digital media art. She explores the complex symbiotic relationships between art, culture, and technology, especially in light of her focus on the history of painting within the interactive field. She has earned her Ph.D. with a thesis called “Interactive Scenographies - Interfaced Bodies and Dynamic Systems” in 2005 at the University of Paris 1 in Art and Sciences of Art.

BIOGRAPHIE
Since her chilhood, she experiments many technics on a great variety of supports. Her first prioritized media she used as a visual artist were painting and drawing whose aesthetic is the seeds of what she fully currently develops with digital media. She has first exhibited her work in galleries and art centers. Then, as a pionnier in the field of digital art, she makes exhibitions beside other artists as Fred Forest, Miguel Chevalier, Pascal Dombis, Joseph Nechvatal, Edmond Couchot, Jean-Louis Boissier and many others. In his last book, From Technological to Virtual Art, the MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachussetts, 2007, pp. 225 – 230, the curator and theoretician Frank POPPER writes: “Reciprocal aesthetic propositions for interactive digital installations of a spiritual nature are at the heart of Sophie Lavaud's realizations. Her approach fits into a changing path which has led her from painting to interactive digital creation, from the completeness of a painting to the infinity of directions and view points on the virtual Web, from solidity to fluidity. She incessantly prompts us to redefine our position between the meditative contemplation of appearances and the action on the image and on ourselves.” Sophie Lavaud frequently lectures on the role of technology (Stony Brook University, NYC,, Bilbao, Armedia, Paris…) in art and writes papers for international reviews.

SELECTED ART WORKS
CENTRE-LUMIÈRE-BLEU (1995-2000) dematerialized painting for an interactive installation with sensors. The painting becomes a distributed space where the spectator gets immerse into it. Centre-Lumière-Bleu have been voted by plebiscite by digital art critics.

MANDALA ÉLECTRONIQUE (1996) computer generated images animation film in 3D where electronic matter continuously goes from one state to another: from order to chaos, from polychrome to monochrome...

 TECHNOMARIAGE (The Techno-wedding) (1999): web site, web-cams, creation of avatars (drawings, modelisation), installation, sensors. Original music created by Christophe Charles and Christian Valensy. Event webcasted on the Internet. Co-producted and realized in collaboration with Fred Forest, a media artist. Vinton Cerf, the “father” of TCP/IP protocol honoured us with his presence as our main witness for our wedding.

CYBER-LIGHT-BLUE (2000): scenography playing with several artistic practices: visual, music, poetry. Commissioned work from Parisian Contemporary Art Festival @rt-outsiders. This is an Internet version of my artwork Centre-Lumière-Bleu, especially created to exist on the Internet where the physical presence of the body language is changed into the physical presence of the writings. on line version: 

ACTIVE MATRIX (2003-2006): this is a project of an interactive scenography from Kandinsky’s artworks that uses autonomous intelligent agents. The first prototype is called Scenic painting number 1 and is made from the painting called Yellow-Red-Blue using cross-discipline modes of production: visual langage, scenic arts, computer sciences, behaviour and cognitive sciences, biology, physic, educational sciences.

SOLO SHOWS ANS SELECTED GROUP SHOWS
2008

Artmedia X, BnF (Bibliothèque Nationale de France), Paris (France)  Isea 2008 (International Symposium on Electronic Art), Singapore 

Stony Brook University, Manhattan, New York City (U.S.A)

2006		 High School of Photography and Cinema Louis-Lumière, Noisy-Le Grand (France). 2004	 Art Metz, European fair of contemporary art, Multimedia space, Metz (France). 2002 	Artmedia 8, “From Aesthetics of Communication to Net Art”, International symposium and exhibition, CFCE, Paris. 9th International Video Art Festival, Casablanca, Marocco. 2001 Art Jonction International, Parc des expositions, Nice (France).

WebNetMuseum, on line exhibition, curated by Louis-José Lestocart 

2000	 ISEA (International Symposium on Electronic Art), Forum des images, Paris

Festival @rt-Outsiders, Paris 

1998-99	 Virtual art, interactive and multisensory creations”, Boulogne-Billancourt, curated by Frank Popper

Internet and Art, curated by Anne-Marie Morice, Synesthésie, Paris

1997	 Cyber, Cités, Citoyens ”, Cité des Sciences et de l’Industrie, La Villette, Paris

Others

Parc des expositions, Toulouse, Futuroscope, Poitiers, Basilique Saint-Pierre aux Nonnains, Metz, Carrousel du Louvre, Paris (France)

Galeries solo and group exhibitions

Galerie Françoise Friederich, Cologne, Galerie Odem, Hanovre, Procréart, Paris, Espace Connectik, Lyon, Galerie de la Pleau, Tououse, Galerie Kandler, Toulouse.