Julien Maire

Graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts Metz, Julien MAIRE is a French new media artist with impressive works such as Exploding Camera, Low Res Cinema, Demi-Pas.

Since the mid-1990s, he has worked between performance art, media installations and cinema to produce live performative works that are hybrids of genres and media, exploring the physicalities of the moving image.

His installations and performances have been featured widely and internationally at prestigious venues such as Ars Electronica, Digital Art Festival, European Media Art Festival, Film Festival Rotterdam, Sonar, Transmediale, ZKM, ICC (Japan), Empac (New-York),... Julien was the winner of the NTAA award (Update_2 biennial) in 2008 and was nominated for the World Technology Award in New York in 2009.

Julien was invited by iMAL in 2004, 2010, 2012 and 2014 and is now permanent resident, installing his workplace at FabLab.iMAL where he is one of the managers.

Activities

DorkbotBRU#11
2014

with projects by Julien Maire, Val Macé & David Chazam and Yann-Aël Le Borgne & Roman Miletitch.

CreativeFab 2014
2014

En mars et avril 2014, iMAL organise plusieurs workshops d'introduction à la fabrication numérique pour différentes hautes écoles artistiques bruxelloises francophones.

Code, Arts & Crafts - Mechatronica
2013

Mechatronica is een combinatie van mechanica, elektronica en (meer recentelijk) informatica om programmeerbare mechanische machines te ontwerpen. Tijdens deze workshop zullen de deelnemers hun eigen machines kunnen creëren met de hulp van diverse digitale fabricatiegereedschappen van FabLab.iMAL, Arduinos en de ervaring van de workshopbegeleiders.

Julien Maire - Long term Residency
2012 - 2013

Julien Maire, French new media artist, has settled his workshop space in FabLab.iMAL for a year. He will have some time to share his experience with other members of the FabLab.

Open House
2012

Tijdens Open House, iMAL nodigt drie gastartiesten uit om het toekomstige iMAL FabLab (fabrication laboratory) voor te stellen, met Corneel Cannaerts, Julien Maire, Félix Luque en Damien Gernay. Parallel, bezoekers kunnen de tentoonstelling van Cécile Babiole "Gobo Gobo Hey!" ontdekken.

Open Core
2010

Julien Maire herbekijkt de 16e eeuwse publieke anatomische dissecties door middel van een performance, tijdens dewelke hij visuele machines zoals videocamera's en webcams zal ontleden.

Infiltrations Digitales
2004

Van 29 oktober tot 14 november organiseert iMAL in VDB (Dexia Art Center) twee geanimeerde weken waarbij de digitale cultuur en haar interdisciplinaire invloeden doorheen gevarieerde kunstpraktijken, zoals dans, muziek en visuele kunst, filmkunst, installaties, centraal staan.

Nieuws

In Berlijn: Signals tentoonstelling + Daisy Chain performance
In het kader van Transmediale 2019 in Berlijn organiseert Wallonie-Bruxelles International...

"A Thousand Segments" an installation by Julien Maire

The installation will be presented at the Halles de Schaerbeek, in the framework of Focus VISIONS, from 14 October to 5 November.

In the age of high resolution, "A Thousand Segments" presents a minimal screen composed of lines mechanically switching from black to white. Each of these segments constructs and deconstructs perspectives.

The minimal screen – despite the rigour of its texture – spread freely in space...