Flux et Reflux Cuchifritos
Fred Forest depuis la Galerie Cuchifritos, anime le réseau mondial qu’il a mis en place, auxquels participent 120 Instituts Français à l’étranger, notamment en utilisant Skype et en relation avec les universités de Brasilia, Porto Alègre et de São Paulo.
CUCHIFRITOS NEW YORK Exhibition | Aug 6 2011 6:30 PM
August 6-24, 2011, opening Saturday August 6th, 4 - 6.30pm
120 Essex Street, New York, NY 10002
Feedback is a Participatory Online Experiment by Fred Forest. Feedback is conceived as an extension of “Flux et reflux: la Caverne d’Internet”, an interactive, multimedia exhibition by Forest currently on view at the Centre d’art Le Lait, Albi, France, through October 30. In this exhibition that revisits the significance of Plato’s cave in the internet age, Forest invites the audience as well as internet participants worldwide, to become cast members in a continuously evolving film. The shadows of Plato’s allegory are transposed in contemporary forms created by the public strolling through the exhibition space and from people ‘sending their shadows’ through the internet.
Bio: French artist and theorist Fred Forest (born in 1933) is one of the earliest pioneers of video and media art. His work with interactive environments using computer and video elements began as early as 1968. At the forefront of interactive art and new media, sociology, and institutional critique, his work frequently immaterial and relational, raises questions about the nature and function of art in a market-driven age of information. A retrospective of his work was held at the Slought Foundation in Philadelphia in 2007. Forest has exhibited and presented at institutions including, the Centre Georges Pompidou, Espace Pierre Cardin, and the Musee d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris.
2011 GALERIE CUCHIFRITOS
UNE EXTENSION DE FLUX ET REFLUX LA CAVERNE DE L’INTERNET
EN COLLABORATION AVEC RESIDENCY UNLIMITED
NEW YORK DU 6 AU 24 août 2011
Fred Forest depuis la Galerie Cuchifritos, anime le réseau mondial qu’il a mis en place, auxquels participent 120 Instituts Français à l’étranger, notamment en utilisant Skype et en relation avec les universités de Brasilia, Porto Alègre et de São Paulo.
Le site participatif qu’il a créé, Flux et Reflux la caverne d’Internet, constitue en effet un outil critique sur le fonctionnement des images sur Internet et dans notre société, dite d’information et de communication
- https://residencyunlimited.org/fred-forest-upcoming-projects-in-the-us/
- https://residencyunlimited.org/programs/feedback-by-fred-forest-at-cuchifritos-gallery-opening-august-6-4-6-30pm/
- https://www.artshebdomedias.com/article/210811-fred-forest-entrez-dans-la-caverne
- http://carrefour-art-digital.over-blog.com/article-84996263.html
- https://www.ufsm.br/cursos/pos-graduacao/santa-maria/ppgart/2014/06/26/flux-reflux-la-caverne-dinternet-decriplage-citoyen-du-media-2011-fred-forest/
LONG BIOGRAPHY OF FRED FOREST
Fred Forest has a special place in contemporary art. Both by his personality and by his pioneering practices which mark his work. He is mainly known today for having used one by one most of the communication media that have appeared over the last fifty years. He is co-founder of three artistic movements: those of sociological art, the aesthetics of communication and ethics in art.
He represented France at the 12th São Paulo Biennale (Communication Prize) in 1973, at the 37th Venice Biennale in 1976 and at Documenta 6 in Kassel in 1977.
EXHIBITION AT THE CENTRE POMPIDOU FROM JANUARY 24 TO OCTOBER 14, 2024