JF Malouin

Les trois Grâces

FILE SAO PAULO 2018
Electronic Language International Festival

Abstract:
“Les Trois Grâces” is a presence and corporeality simulation in virtual reality. Exposing the underlying power struggle implied within touch, this piece explores the trespassing of bodily frontiers and territoriality. As a sculpture, its object is not matter, but our relationship to the other.
It offers a troubling experience of intimate proportions.

Additional technologies by Morph3D, Tore Knabe, John Porter. Special thanks to Société des Arts Technologiques (Montréal) and Pioneer Works (Brooklyn)

Biography:
JF Malouin spent 15 years creating video games for major studios before turning to an experimental practice in digital arts. His research questions the limits of the cinematographic paradigm as a motion representation form and explores corporeality & movement as manifestations of being. Ending his master’s degree in digital arts (NAD/UQAC), having received the Arthur-Villeneuve Rio Tinto excellency grant, he made a choice to fund his art practice through industrial means, founding Super Splendide, a VR Research workshop. JF Malouin’s last residencies were at Pioneer Works (Brooklyn, 2016), SAT (Montreal, 2017). His most recent work was shown at in Montreal, Canada (SAT, FIFA, Symposium IX, ELEKTRA /MIAN), Matane, Canada (PHOS), Brooklyn, USA (Pioneer Works) and Seoul, Korea (Da Vinci Creative).