DISNOVATION, NICOLAS MAIGRET IN RESIDENCE AT PARSONS PARIS

Date: March 19, 2014

Category: Artist-in-residence, BFA, Exhibitions, Faculty News, Media Archaeology Lab Paris, MFA

Parsons Paris is pleased to welcome Nicolas Maigret for his research “Disnovation” commissioned by Benjamin Gaulon, director of the MFA Design + Technology.
“Disnovation” is a critical exploration of the mechanics and rhetoric of innovation.

While in residence Nicolas Maigret’s will participate in the Parsons Paris community at the following events:

Public talk as part of the Dorkbot meetings, April 3rd
Series of workshops on “Disnovation” April 23rd & May 14th
Research blog [coming soon]

Nicolas Maigret’s work in digital art and sound exposes the internal workings of media, through a reflection on their errors, their dysfunctions, their limitations or failure thresholds, through immersive, sensory audio-visual experiences. After completing studies in inter-media art, Maigret joined the Locus Sonus lab, where he explored networks as a creative tool. He taught at École des beaux-arts de Bordeaux and co-founded the collective Art of Failure in 2006. He is also involved with the project Platforme, an artist-run centre in Paris.

THE PIRATE CINEMA
The Pirate Cinema makes the hidden activity and geography of Peer-to-Peer file sharing visible.

Conception: Nicolas Maigret | Software development: Brendan Howell

FLAT EARTH SOCIETY
Listen to the surface of the earth transposed into the groove of a vinyl record.
Introduction video.

Conception: Nicolas Maigret, Nicolas Montgermont

RESONANT ARCHITECTURE
Since 2006, the Art of Failure collective has been sending bass frequencies into remarkable architectural structures. These experiences reveal building’s specific acoustic and vibrating qualities.

Conception: Nicolas Maigret, Jeremy Gravayat, Nicolas Montgermont

SYSTEM INTROSPECTION
Concrete and tangible binary code exploration, “System Introspection” is best understood as the physical experience of a computer’s numerical data by meticulous observation of the machine by itself.

Nicolas Maigret’s work has been presented in international festivals, galleries and museums: Sonar (Barcenola, ES) – File (Sao Paulo, BR) – Museum of Art and Design (New York, USA) – SETI (San Francisco, USA) – Upgrade! (Chicago, USA) – Eastern Bloc (Montreal, CA) – Gli.tc/h (Birmingham, UK) – Sonica (Ljubljana, SI) – Leeds Film Festival (UK) – Mapping Festival (Genève, CH) – National Gallery (Kosice, SK) – Cimatics (Brussels, BE) – Gaite Lyrique (Paris, FR)…

The residency runs March 15-April 15, 2014.
More of Nicolas’ work can be seen online: