Olivier Bémer

A first mug is scanned in three dimensions in order to make a digital copy which will then be printed in 3D. Like photocopies, this operation is thus repeated until the original shape is exhausted. A sort of reversed archaeology in which the digital iteration degrades its subject as much as it declines it.

The physical copies are then presented as sculptures along with an animated video made with the digital copies. Talking characters are placed on the mugs, trying to convince that their mug is more valuable than the previous one. Each reproduction seeks to individualize itself artificially as the form loses the link to its utility.

Film	HD video, 12’02’’, 16:9, ST, 3D animation, fiverr.com

Installation	3D printing, PLA, 65’’ monitor

Sound Design	Pablo Altar

Exhibition Views	Jeune Création 72, Fondation Fiminco, Romainville

TEASER

In a room of fictions we are welcomed by a man without a past. As he passes through gradients of artificial light, our avatar discovers his shadow. When the symmetry breaks, a grayscale duel ensues, where rationality overexposes while fear darkens.

In Noon, shadow and light assume an allegorical form. An obsessive desire to eliminate shadows in favor of light reflects the mirage of progress through technology; rationalizing one's environment by erasing any trace of doubt and indeterminacy.
This sequence shot in first person view plunges us into a technological timeline in which our avatar sees his identity slipping away from him as he tries to illuminate its various representations.

Film	Film HD, 15’00'', 4:3, Binaural Mix, Blender 3D

Installation	Plexiglas screen, 165x124cm, Ropes, knots

Production	Le Fresnoy - Studio National des Arts Contemporains

Exhibition Views	Panorama 23, Par le rêve, Le Fresnoy Commissariat, Olivier Kappelin

Team	Tutor 3D Supervisor Sound Design Sound Editor Foley Artist Recordings Mix Color Grading Graphic Design	Emanuele Coccia Thomas Léon Pablo Altar Valentine Gellin Christophe Burdet Martin Dezelcaux Geoffrey Durcak Baptiste Évrard Thomas Petit

"On January 31st, there will be 7 days left to see the exhibition. On February 1st, there will be 6 days left to see the exhibition. On February 2nd, there will be 5 days left to see the exhibition. On February 3rd, there will be 4 days left to see the exhibition. On February 4th, there will be 3 days left to see the exhibition. On February 5th, there will be 2 days left to see the exhibition. On February 6th, there will be 1 days left to see the exhibition." [exhibition text]

Installation	Androids Phones, Flexible supports, Php code, Twitter API
PHP coding	Olivier J
Exhibition Views	Galerie Grand-Verre, FOMO, jan 21
Curator	Yue Yuan
Web	FOMO online

TEASER

It's ten past ten and time stands still on the watches in advertisements. A brand logo proudly appears in the center of the V formed by the two hands. The consensus hour.
Here time drags on and then starts again. A succession of extraordinarily vain events is in progress. The protagonists don’t worry too much, the path seems to be clearly indicated. Their gestures slide and repeat across the surface of the screen. The set takes some initiatives but no one really pays any attention. So the story has many false starts, nothing happens and the real stutters and stammers. The vessels overflow but no longer communicate.

Film	Film 4K, 19’00'', 16:9, Sound Digital 5.1
Installation	Moniteur 65’’, 4x Swiss Ball, Audio Headphones
Co-Production	Le Fresnoy - Studio National des Arts Contemporains Les Amis des Beaux-Arts de Paris
Exhibition Views	Panorama 22, Les Sentinelles, Le Fresnoy Commissariat, Louise Déry
Team	Dancers DOP Sound Mix	Anais Barras Daniel Galicia Tilhenn Klapper Sehyoung Lee Félix Touzalin Balthazar Lab Valentine Gellin Geoffrey Durcak

10¢ collective attempts is a sound installation simulating randomly and continuously 3 sound-interactions normally coming from a group of people. Laughter, applause, and a mantra.Each interaction is made up of 100 recordings made by 100 different individuals, paid $0.10 on the Amazon Mechanical Turk website, a platform launched by amazon.com in 2005 to hire remotely located "crowdworkers" to perform discrete on-demand tasks that computers are currently unable to do.The recordings are then broadcast simultaneously but randomly to simulate a group recording. A diffusion which by its cohabitation of different rhythms and sound textures testifies to a break-up of the participants, and the impossibility of gathering.A report of each financial transaction is displayed on a A4 laser-printed piece of paper, hanged on a clipboard below each speaker.

Installation	Sound Installation, ∞ loop, Raspberry Pi, Pythin Coding, laser prints, plexiglas supports
Exhibition Views	L’Effet Falaise, Prix Emerige, 2019 Commissariat, Gaël Charbau Felicità, Palais des Beaux-Arts de Paris, 2019

John asks George and George answers him. From suggestions to suggestions John enters a virtuous marketing circle. A story without an end. This scenario was based on real patents for new techniques and advertising technologies to aim and target consumers more precisely, that you can find online. A selection of diagrams extracted from those patents are screen-printed on Ikea furnitures that are also present in the film. the Ikea tables are presented together with the film.

Installation	Film HD, 11'28'', 16:9, ST, loop, Ikea tables, screenprinting
Sound Design	Pablo Altar
Exhibition Views	L’Effet Falaise, Prix Emerige, 2019 Commissariat, Gaël Charbau Ingenious, Prix Siemens, Centre Pompidou, 2020 +333, exposition collective, Folle Béton, Paris, 2019

A work of Art was submited every day to Microsoft's artificial stupidity Caption Bot during the course of 2019. The results were published every day on Instagram. Complete collection here

Installation	Collection of 356 images, 1 image per day, Tablet, diaporama
Exhibition Views	30 ans pile, Galerie Papillon, Paris, 2019

Alice & John is a conversation between Alice, an Artificial intelligence to chat with people online, and John Lennon. The conversation is made of Alice's answers to each sentence of Lennon famous song; 'Imagine'. Then starts a dialogue of the deaf between an out of date anthem of hope, and the arrogants answers of a blond and anorexic chatbot, dancing on a smartphone displaying John Lennon and Yoko Ono's videoclip from 1971.

Installation	Film HD, 5’24'', 16:9, ST, Tablets, loop
Exhibition Views	+333, exposition collective, Folle Béton, Paris, 2019 L’Effet Falaise, Prix Emerige, 2019 Commissariat, Gaël Charbau

Omniprésent is a performance by Olivier Bémer and Pablo Altar. Video and music are linked by computer programming and interacting with each other. They take on a narrative dimension in which the viewer is involved. All the images used during the performance are live streams. They bear witness to moments that are doomed to disappear. Pattern recognition and computer vision applied to these images trigger sounds which become the sound material of a music made of randomness and improvisation. More on Omnipresent.space

Performances	Live 006, 28.03.2019, 104 factory, le 104, Paris Live 005, 02.11.2018, Mirage Festival, Lyon Live 003, 07.06.2018, Electrons Libres, Stereolux, Nantes Live 002, 15.10.2017, Ecran Voisin, Les Grands Voisins, Paris Live 001, 07.07.2017, Les Petites Serres, Paris.

Travel is the movement of people between relatively distant geographical locations, you may understand the word « distant » in a broader sense. It can be one way or a round trip, as long as you remember where you began. Travel can also include relatively short stays between successive movements. Navigation is the process of monitoring and controlling any movement from one place to another. Navigation, in a broader sense, can refer to any skill or study that involves the determination of position and direction. wether it’s land navigation, marine navigation, aeronautic navigation, space navigation, or somewhere else. Time is exhausted, space is mapped, and we have the gift of ubiquity. Landscapes or wallpaper ? We are spectators of our own representations, we move from one paradox to another and we take pictures of other pictures. "in real life" is a vague idea. Representation and experience are two porous notions.

Film	HD, 23'03'', 16:9, ST
Music	Pablo Altar
Festivals	DIAS, Copenhague, Danemark, 2020 Les Yeux Ouverts, La générale Nord-Est, Paris, 2017 Fstvl Dcmtr, Beaux-Arts, Paris, 2016 Nuit Blanche, La Rotonde, Paris, 2016

06.2022	La Croisière, Expositions des ateliers de Montreuil, Montreuil
04.2022	Jeune Création 72, Fondation Fiminco, Romainville

09.2021	Par le rève, Panorama 23, Le Fresnoy, Tourcoing
06.2021	100%, La Villette, Paris
03.2021	Muses Algorithmiques, Le Granit, Belfort
02.2021	FOMO, Galerie Grand Verre, Paris 3
01.2021	M'entendez-vous, Galerie Commune

10.2020	Les Sentinelles, Panorama 22, Le Fresnoy, Tourcoing
09.2020	Benefit #2, Le Doc, Paris
08.2020	DIAS kunsthal, Vallensbæk Station, Denmark
01.2020	30 ans pile!, Galerie Papillon, Paris

11.2019	l’Effet Falaise, Prix Emerige 2019, Voltaire, Paris
10.2019	Felicità, Palais des Beaux-Arts de Paris
07.2019	Labo_Demo#1/Stand, Centre Wallonie-Bruxelles, Paris
06.2019	Finale, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Paris
04.2019	+333, Folle Béton, Paris

05.2017	Prix suisse de musique : immersion, Centre culturel Suisse, Paris
05.2017	Le tout est toujours plus petit que ses parties, Béton Salon, Paris

01.2015	ECAL Photography, Display Gallery, Londres

05.2014	ECAL Photography, 10 Corso Como, Shanghai, Chine
01.2014	ECAL Photography, Galleria Carla Sozzani, Milan

12.2013	PhotoForum Pasquart, Bienne, Suisse
11.2013	ECAL Photography, Galerie Azzedine Alaïa, Paris
02.2013	Half-Time, Espace Lausannois d’Art Contemporain, Lausanne

06.2022	Annecy Festival International du film d’animation
05.2022	Athens Digital Arts Festival
03.2020	Projection Grrranit, Belfort
04.2018	Chalon Tout Court, Festival de court-métrage, Chalon-sur-Saône
02.2018	Binary Sunrise, Chapelle des Petits-Augustins
06.2017	Les Yeux Ouverts, La générale Nord-Est, Paris
11.2016	Fstvl Dcmtr, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Paris
10.2016	Bon Esprit, Nuit Blanche, La Rotonde, Paris
06.2013	La Nuit des Images, Musée de l’Élysée, Lausanne, Suisse

03.2019	Omniprésent, Live 006, 104 Factory, le 104, Paris
11.2018	Omniprésent, Live 005, Mirage Festival, Lyon
10.2018	Omniprésent, Live 004, Silicon Malley, Lausanne, Suisse
06.2018	Omniprésent, Live 003, Electrons Libres, Stereolux, Nantes
02.2018	Binary Sunrise, Chapelle des Petits-Augustins
10.2017	Omniprésent, Live 002, Les Grands Voisins, Paris
07.2017	Omniprésent, Live 001, Les Petites Serres, Paris