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Gérard Boyer
Machine Palmipède
France



 


 



Life and artificial intelligence

Immaterial entities in digital form...clones and avatars...the enslaved technologically imagined...computerized virtual reality...

Everything aims at hiding / denying / effacing the physical inevitability of the world. Decandent and unruly technology whom we refuse the intelligent dimension become animats with voluntaristic behaviour. Violent mechanical stubborness, left to their own devices... blocked, camisoled in their primitive energetic needs.

Electricity, artificial life's first wind
Randomness, sole behavioural pattern
Infrared detector, as total interactivity
The imaginary, as a space to deambulate

Different constants (fragments), non exhaustive arbitrary list.
The borders between what is alive and what is artificial are mutually dissolved by accident.

A smell of oil, blood and diesel. A painful mixture that reaks of accident.

To physically sense the frail and complex technicity of the living.

Reappropriate technology, turned useless and dusty. To penetrate the machine until it is forgotten. To live its imaginary by way of technology. To capture the potential morphogenesis of living behaviour.


Biography

Art Porfessor at the Ecole d'art d'Aix en Provence. Has been artist in residence at the Studio Cormier in Montréal and has shown his work at the Galerie Autrep'Art (Marseille) at the Centre d'Art et de Plaisanterie (Montbéliard), MAC'A et Entrée 9 (Avignon), Galerie Susini (Aix en Provence), Galerie Pertinente Decadence (Marseille), and La Laiterie (Strasbourg) among others.

1994 - Diplôme National Supériuer d'Expression Plastique "Félicitations du jury".

1990 - Diplôme National d'Art Plastique

1985 - Baccalauréat série D