Grégoire Zabé is a new media artist, teacher at Ecole Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs in Strasbourg, France. His main interests are in collaborative cyberspaces, evolutive representation systems, internet as a dimentional and social space, individuals plunged into new media context.
Exhibitions: "vitual worlds" workshop ESAD 2002, Norapolis multimedia festival metz 2002, Laval Virtual 2002, web3Dart selection 2003, acm siggraph web3d symposium 2003, lab3d at Cornerhouse Manchester, ICA London, Folly Gallery Lancaster, Experimental Art Foundation Adelaide, Center of Contemporary Art Skopje, FILE festival sao paulo 2003, EMPYRE international mailing list june 2003, Atelier Alternatif Strasbourg 2003, "OVNI" workshop esad 2004, Norapolis multimedia Festival 2004, web3Dart selection 2005, Exhibition Unauthorized Access at Hermitage Museum, St Petersbourg 2005, Nuit Blanche Strasbourg 2006, Musée d'art Moderne et Contemporain de Strasbourg 2007, Centre d'art Epinay Sous Senart 2008...
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Sharedscapes - points of view on landscapes by Grégoire Zabé, web art, 2009
SHAREDSCAPES is an experimental 3d shared space, a platform for creatvity, research and self-expression. It welcomes online submissions of texts, pictures and sounds, which will express your definitions of the concept of landscape .
Through the medium of the technological translation of material published online, its secondary aim is to create a 3D space/sculpture in real time. Each deformation of the 3d space surface is specific, linked to the characteristics of the message (date, weight, content...) .This will crystalise that material, seeking to bring together computer-generated images, chaotic/
generative modelling and a “virtual reality” space. Little by little, a virtual landscape will develop. Its composition will not be subject to the physical constraints of a site (in concrete geographical terms) but to the technological exchanges of human beings virtually connected to each other. It is in the ambiguous relationship between landscape and information that the essence of this project exists.
« Moving, instable, multiple, cross-disciplinary bodies and objects are an important source of inspiration for my work. Their meeting, juxtaposition, merging or mutation breed a dynamic setting in motion and legitimate their existence on the computer/Internet medium. Web3d induce a deep modification of our representation systems, and define a new unfinished streaming time and place for free arts, and active audience »
