David Claerbout  is one of the most innovative and acclaimed artists working in the realm of moving images today, his oeuvre exists at the intersection of photography, film and digital technology.Trained as a painter, he became more and more interested in time through investigations in the nature of photography and film. His works present profound and moving philosophical contemplations on our perception of time and reality, memory and experience, truth and fiction.Using pixel constellations, image sequences, light, speed, speech, music and ambient sound, installation environment and the technologies used to convey these, his strikingly sensual compositions elicit new modes of perceptual absorption, expectations, comprehension and memory. He has been the subject of numerous solo exhibitions internationally, most recently including: MNAC, Barcelona, and Schaulager, Basel (2017); Städel Museum, Frankfurt (2016); KINDL, Berlin (2016);  Marabouparken Konsthall, Sundbybert, Sweden (2015); Nederlands Fotomuseum, Rotterdam (2014); Kunsthalle Mainz, Mainz, Germany (2013).

Last update: May 19th, 2017

Raymond Bellour is a researcher, writer, emeritus research scientist at the CNRS (CRAL, Paris). He has been responsible for the edition of the complete works of Henri Michaux in the Pléiade (1996-2004) and co-curated in 1990 the “Passages de l’image” exhibition at the Centre Georges Pompidou.  His books include ‘L’Analyse du film’ (1979); ‘L’Entre-Images. Photo, Cinéma, Vidéo’ (1990), ‘L’Entre-Images 2. Mots, Images’ (1999); ‘Le Corps du cinéma. Hypnoses, Émotions, Animalités’ (2009), ‘La Querelle des dispositifs. Cinéma – installations, expositions’.  (2012). He is a founding member of the film journal ‘Trafic’.

February 29th, 2016

Christine Van Assche is a contemporary art historian, curator, and critic specializing in audiovisual art. As the Chief Curator at Centre Pompidou between 1982 and 2013, she built up the institution’s first video and new media art collection, featuring 1,600 works including those by David Claerbout, James Coleman, Stan Douglas, Valie Export, Esther Ferrer, Jean-Luc Godard, Douglas Gordon, Mona Hatoum, Pierre Huyghe, Isaac Julien, Mike Kelley, Chris Marker, Tony Oursler, Nam June Paik, Pipilotti Rist, etc. She curated a number of thematic exhibitions such as Passages des l’image in 1990, Sonic Process in 2000, Vidéo, un art, une histoir that toured internationally between 2005 and 2012, Une vision du monde. La collection des Lemaître in 2006, Video Vintage in 2012 and 2013, as well as numerous solo exhibitions accompanied by catalogs devoted to artists such as Nam June Paik, Tony Oursler, Mona Hatoum, Johan Grimonprez, Douglas Gordon, James Coleman, Chris Marker, Bruce Nauman, Pierre Huyghe, Ugo Rondinone, Isaac Julien, among others.

Last update: November 11th, 2019

Erika Balsom is a senior lecturer in Film Studies at King’s College London. Her book After Uniqueness: A History of Film and Video Art in Circulation, was published by Columbia University Press in 2017. She is the author of Exhibiting Cinema in Contemporary Art (2013), the co-editor of Documentary Across Disciplines (2016), and a frequent contributor to magazines such as Artforum, frieze, and Sight & Sound. Her scholarly work has appeared in journals including Cinema Journal, Screen, and Grey Room. In 2017, she was the international curator in residence at the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery/Len Lye Centre, New Zealand, resulting in the 2018 screening programme and publication An Oceanic Feeling: Cinema and the Sea. In 2018, she was awarded a Leverhulme Prize and the Katherine Singer Kovacs essay award from the Society for Cinema and Media Studies.

Last update 7th February 2019