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albertine meunier
Albertine Meunier

aka Catherine Ramus
ex. cathbleue


albertinemeunier.net


:: artistic bio ::
net artist

French
born in 1964
lives at Vitry sur Seine / France

contact
email albertine meunier

also member of
we-love-the.net / rhizome.org , Connecting Art & technology / microtruc /


livre google history My Google Search History, le livre – 2011
. La Cantine, Paris, High Tech Paradoxal - 26 novembre 2011
. La Tapisserie, Paris - 30 juin au 2 juillet
2011
. sur les étals de la librairie Yvon Lambert, Paris, la librairie du Palais de Tokyo, Paris, la librairie du Jeu de Paume, Paris, la librairie du Parc / Actes Sud, Parc de la Villette, Paris, la librairie du 104, Le Merle Moqueur 

En 2006, Google launched Search History and started to store people internet searches. Since that first day, albertine carefully compiled her researches and published them publicly on the web. Three years have passed: Albertine's researches put together tell a story..

 

eof eol Eof/Eol, End Of File/End of Life - 2011
. La Tapisserie, Paris -  18 au 26 mars 2011

Captured on the fly on Google Books, decades of Life magazine front covers are displayed in front of us. Beyond the constant movement of the world, beyond our desire to capture the world around us, our life ends up one day, slows down and eventually stops.
End of File. End of Life!

 

A petits pas vers l'Annonciation, ballet pour 12 angelinos - 2010
. Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris - 11 au 13 novembre 2011
. Village de l'innovation, Futur en Seine, Paris - 23 au 26 juin 2011

. Expo AFK, Casino Luxembourg, Forum d'art contemporain, Luxembourg - 29 janvier 2011 au 1er mai 2011

The installation À petits pas vers l’Annonciation is interpreted by a ballet company of 12 angelinos. A dancer, a prisoner in a musical bottle, comes alive and dances to a little melody when an angel passes on Internet and more precisely when an angel passes on Twitter. Each angelino comes alive in response to a predefined word for each dancer, extracted from the text The Annunciation of Mary (the Gospel according to Luke 1:26–38). The ballet company of 12 angelinos dancers is made up of the following: the dancer #1 comes alive to the word “angel”, #2 to “Gabriel”, #3 to “Nazareth”, #4 to virgin”, #5 to “grace”, #6 to “god”, #7 to “son”, #8 to “Mary”, #9 to “shadow”, #10 to “Holy Ghost”, #11 to “eternally” and #12 to “impossible”. Every minute Twitter is consulted the dancers come to life and dance if “their” word is detected. The apparatus of the dancers is nevertheless a manual mechanism. Indeed, the musical bottle of the angelino consists of a musical box wound by hand. The viewer or internaut can also act on the angelino from a distance of his/ her choice in order to make a particular dancer turn, by posting a message on Twitter with the word “chosen”.

With the support of the DICRéAM, apparatus for multimedia artistic creation, Ministry of Culture and Communication (France).

 

Les Trucs - 2010 - avec le collectif microtruc
. Jeu de Paume, espace virtuel, Paris - novembre 2010 à mars 2011

Objects ("Trucs") go into circulation from hand to hand, people following a predefined protocol: delivery of the "Truc" to another person in 24 hours, send an email to explain the context of the trade ... The "Trucs" are pinpointed on a map online, which allows people to view their routes in real time. On the website of the Jeu de Paume , Internet users can follow at any moment, the movements of every "Truc" and also read the relative stories written by the temporaty possessor of the "Truc".


Angelino - 2009
. Regards d'Artistes sur les Médias Sociaux , Cap Sciences Bordeaux- 1er août au 1 novembre 2011
. Regards d'Artistes sur les Médias Sociaux , Médiathèque de Mérignac - 4 mars au 2 avril 2011
. Internet of things, Digitalement Votre à la Maison des Métallos, Paris - 1 décembre 2010
. Festival Panoramas, Bordeaux, 2010 - 2 et 3 ocotobre 2010
. Lift Experience 10 - Marseille, Au sein du Cabinet des Curiosités Numériques by nod-a
. Les Bains numériques, Digital Arti - Enghiens les Bains - du 16 au 19 juin 2010
. 1.618 Sustainable Luxury Fair, Carte Blanche Atopic Festival, Palais de Tokyo - Paris - Mai 2010
. Les bouillants #2 - Diapason Rennes, Les bouillants Vern sur Seiche, Art Rock - 22 avril au 29 août
. BnF, François Mitterrand - journée Net art - Paris - déc. 2009
. Carrefour des possibles, Fing, Centre Pompidou- Paris - nov. 2009

The angelino is an angel detector.
A dancer, trapped in a music bottle, comes to life and dances on a little melody when an angel moves on Internet and more particularly when the angel goes through Twitter.

 

Around the World - 2009
. BnF, François Mitterrand - Net art day- dec. 2009

Around the World is a set of imaginary landscape made up with very real places with the particularity to be composed of real elements of Google Street View.

 

Stweet - 2009 - with we-love-the.net
. BnF, François Mitterrand - Net art day- dec. 2009
. Lift Experience 09
. Presentation of Stweet at Wikiplaza, Future en Seine 2009

Stweet is a mix of street and tweet offering a real new way to discover geolocalised tweets from Twitter on a Google Street View panorama.

 

200 gr d'adn - Salivette Party - 2008
. La Tapisserie, Paris - 11 juin au 13 juin
. Passage en Seine, La Cantine - Paris, 2010 - see the vidéo
. Radart #2, La Cantine - Paris, 2010
. Nuitnumérique#7, Centre Culturel Saint Exupéry, Reims, 2009

Experience 200 grammes d'ADN is a way to Albertine, interested in digital identity and in social networks on internet, to have a closer look on the shared and personal DNA around the 23andme.com service.
Around the experiment, she organises Salivette party, a special event for 20 guests invited to spit in an DNA decoder kit.

 

Tea Time with Albertine – depuis 2008
. Speed Show, Café Paris, 11 janvier 2011
. Workshops at la Cantine, Paris
. Artistic Installation by nos demoiselles during the Baiser de la matrice, Théatre Paris Villette 2008

Albertine has created the Tea Time with Albertine, an internet and multimedia workshop with hyper seniors (80 years old women)

 

Free Influencer – 2008 - with we-love-the.net

Free Influencer, based on the open and shared database Freebase, give the people influence in kilogrammes.

 

DCODD – 2008 - with microtruc
. Système C – Un festival de la coïncidence, Mains d'Oeuvres 2008
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Web Flash Festival 2008, Centre Georges Pompidou Paris

DCODD is a geo localized videos project. 2D codes coulds are tagged on well know Paris crossroads' pavements (Place d’Italie, Place de Clichy, Place de la République, Place de la Bastille, Place Saint Michel...). Each month, a new artist creates a new geolocalized playlist for a specific crossroad.

 

Big Picture - 2008
. BnF, François Mitterrand - Net art day- dec. 2009
. Web Flash Festival 2008 - finaliste catégorie Art NetArt, Centre Georges Pompidou Paris

Big Picture is a widget to follow in a very visual way the Facebook friends' status, in an individual or collective way. The Big Picture is a living representation of interpersonal relashioships in social network. This project has been realized with Olivier Auber et Yann Le Guennec.

 

MMS Exquis - 2008 - with microtruc
. Compétition officielle Festival Pocket Film 2008, Centre Georges Pompidou Paris

MMS Exquis are fictions done with mobile phone as a correspondance with mms on the 'Cadavres Exquis" principle. Realizes through mms exchanges, the MMS Exquis build intimist and documentary fictions almost surrealist.



My Google Search History – depuis nov. 2006 - Work in progress
. La Tapisserie, Paris - 30 juin au 2 juillet
. BnF, François Mitterrand - Net art day- dec. 2009

. Carrefour des possibles, Fing, mai 2008
. Internet Mon Amour, février 2008, Centre Beaubourg, Paris
. 11th International Video Festival Videomedeja , 2007, Serbia
. File 2007 - SESI Gallery, ART Institution in Sao Paulo, Brazil
. Web Flash Festival 2007 - finaliste catégorie Art NetArt, Centre Georges Pompidou Paris


My Google Search History is a set of movies, sounds and text inventory with all my search requests done since 2006 on Google search engine. Displayed as an inventory, my searchs show a full selfportrait. Beyond this autoportrait feature, this project highlights privacy concerns on internet and more particularly privacy concerns on personal data and Google. With this video we can easily see the incredible amount of personal information Google has on ourselves. This inventory allows you to peep into my privacy as Google can.



Théorie M – 2006
. The 2008 Biennale of Sydney venue online, Australia
. Festival Traverse vidéo 2006, Abattoirs de Toulouse
. Installation artistique sur les trottoirs de la ville de Paris


Théorie M is a project mixing Internet, mobile phone, movie, cartography and urban spaces. 2D codes have been tagged in the town of Paris. Each tag is linked to a movie that can be seen on the mobile phone. On the theoriem.net web site, a personalized Google Map localized the tags painted on the Paris’ pavement. This project has been realised with Carolien Delieutraz.



Interactive exhibition of Edison Mobile Remake - 2006
. Installation Festival Pocket Film 2006, Centre Georges Pompidou Paris

100 years after Edison, camera is embedded in a mobile phone and linked to a 2D code*, still picture is moving in a new way. Edison will have loved these mixed as they reinvent a new type of cinema.
* a 2D code is a two-dimensional matrix barcode consisting of black and white square modules arranged in either a square. With a mobile phone equipped with a camera phone, a barcode reader and connected to Internet



Edison Mobile Remake n°1 to 5 – 2006
. Festival Pocket Film 2008
. Festival D/Art/2006, Sydney Australie
. Mobile Exposure 2006 of Microcinema International, San Francisco
. Mobile Monday France


Edison Mobile Remake is in the move of the ready made and movie remakes using new technologies. Realize remakes of Edison movies using a cameraphone (a Nokia N90 mobile phone) is come back to the beginning of cinema with this very new tool. Secondly, as ready made, short Edison movies fit perfectly well on the new screen, the 4th one, the mobile phone screen.



Digital Corner Street avec Fred Forest – 2005
. Art Basle Miami Beach 2005

Work with Fred Forest and France Telecom Resaerch and Developement for the creation of the images avatars package for the Miami Happening on the wall of the Miami Museum, using the peer to peer France Telecom R&D Solipsis software.



15 août 2006 – 2005
. Compétition officielle Festival Pocket Film 2005, Forum des images Paris

When the citizen, closed to terrific events, is becoming a journalist and use his camera phone to catch images, let’s imagine a fiction.



A corps et à Christ – 2005
. Galerie Université Paris 8 – oct 2005

7 movies describe my relationship with religious object at my home place, like Christ and Mary. An intimate relation, fears and complex looks reflect on my own fiction.



Counter Googling - 2004
. Carrefour des Possibles, FING, Foundation Internet Nouvelle Generation en avril 2004, Paris

Counter Googling is a serie of copyleft portraits and selfportraits. The main purpose is to describe a well know habit people have with the search engine Google : type the first name and last name of someone in the Google search field as a search request.
It’s a way to people to own their numerical identity.



Le Voyage Immobile – 2003
. Forum de l'image 2004, Abattoirs de Toulouse

Le Voyage Immobile is an imaginary trip and a daily letters exchange through emails between 2 people, one is supposed to be in Russia and one in Paris. Le Voyage Immobile is a fake trip becoming true through the internet.

 


Press - more

Angelino, «L’Internet des objets, poussé par l’industrie et les télécoms, pâtit surtout d’un manque d’idées et compte sur les artistes et hackers pour trouver de nouveaux usages et les fournir en visions créatives. Telle cette délicieuse danseuse d’Albertine Meunier, qui tournoie à chaque fois que le mot «ange» passe sur Twitter, manière de donner une présence sensible au réseau» _Libération – 4 décembre 2010


Albertine a-t-elle aussi 200gr d'adn ?, «Heureuse nouvelle pour notre Albertine qui va pouvoir savoir si elle est prédisposée à l’oreille absolue, si elle est sensible à l’amertume des choux de Bruxelles ou si elle risque un cancer du sein » _ecrans.fr


Big Brother et ses petits frères, « Si tout le monde publiait ses données confidentielles, ça permettrait de diminuer un peu la puissance de Google, suggère l'artiste»
_Libération – 23 février 2008


Des codes barrés vers l'ailleurs, « C'est comme une extériorisation d'Internet dans le monde réel. Le spectateur convoque l'image, il devient interactif » _Libération – 8 décembre 2007


Google et moi,« En fond sonore, un léger et permanent "bruit de moteur"... Hypnotique » _fluctuat.net


Self-portrait as a Google user, « Disturbing » _We make money not art


Edison Mobile Remake « la taille de l’écran et l’interaction avec le monde extérieur. Où en est la création pour téléphones portables ? Témoignages des créateurs Jean-Charles Fitoussi, Alain Fleischer et Catherine Ramus» _ecrans.fr


Edison Mobile Remake, « Catherine Ramus (a.k.a. Albertine Meunier) nous suggère ces splendides"remakes de videos de Thomas Edison, tournés avec un téléphone mobile Nokia N90 et adaptés à une diffusion sur téléphone mobile » _fluctuat.net


Counter Googling « Tantôt plein d'ironie, tantôt trouvaille graphique, tantôt bouteille à la mer, ces autoportraits partagés, à l'heure de l'information reine, donnent un aperçu tout en nuances sur une époque, une pratique, un art » _Article Centre international d'art contemporain de Montréal


Le Voyage Immobile « Au 119e jour de ce périple à bord du légendaire Transsibérien, les relations épistolaires de Picabiette et Cathbleue vont bon train… Et leurs mails s’amoncellent, jour après jour, pour constituer un carnet de voyage qui mérite le détour » _lemonde.fr

 


Festivals, Expositions & Talks links

Rencontres numériques, Cohésion Sociale et Culture Numérique - Maison des Métallos, Paris - 29 nov 2010 - Tea Time With Albertine
http://www.rencontres-numeriques.org/

Jeu de Paume, espace virtuel, Paris - novembre 2010 à mars 2011 - Les Trucs
http://www.jeudepaume.org/index.php?page=article&sousmenu=11&idArt=1360&lieu=3

Internet of things, Digitalement Votre à la Maison des Métallos, Paris - 1 décembre 2010 - Angelino
http://www.maisondesmetallos.org/site/index.php/actualites/details/79-DIGITALEMENT VOTRE.html

Festival Panoramas, Bordeaux, 2010 - 2 et 3 ocotobre 2010 - Angelino
http://panoramas2010.com/

PasSage en Seine, mai 2010
http://www.passageenseine.org/pes-2010 - vidéo : http://lacantine.ubicast.eu/videos/mon-avatar-nest-pas-un-gringalet

Radart #2, La Cantine - Paris, 2010
http://radartfrance.wordpress.com/radart-n°2/

BnF, François Mitterrand - journée Net art - déc. 2009 - Angelino - Stweet - Around the World - My Google Search History - Big Picture
www.bnf.fr/pages/cultpubl/apres_midi_etude_1213.htm

Carrefour des possibles, Fing, Centre Pompidou - nov. 2009
- Angelino

Nuitnumérique#7, Centre Culturel Saint Exupéry, Reims, 2009 - Salivette Party

Lift Experience 09 - Stweet
www.liftconference.com/lift-france-09/experience

Wikiplaza, Future en Seine 2009 - Stweet
wikiplaza.org/fr/présentation-de-stweet-par-albertine-meunier

Finaliste Web Flash Festival 2008 - Art Net Art - Centre Georges Pompidou Paris - Big Picture
www.flashfestival.net/2008/#/15/

Système C – Un festival de la coïncidence, Mains d'Oeuvres 2008 - dcodd
www.festivaldelacoincidence.org/

Carrefour des Possibles, FING, 4 juin 2006 - My Google Search History
www.identitesactives.net/?q=retour-sur-Carrefour-des-possibles-special-identites-actives

Festival Pocket Film 2008 - Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris - mms exquis n°3 - n°2 - Edison mobile remake
www.festivalpocketfilms.fr/article.php3?id_article=799
www.festivalpocketfilms.fr/article.php3?id_article=831

Internet Mon Amour, février 2008, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris - Google Search History
www.internetmonamour.fr/

Place de la Toile, France Culture - novembre 2007
www.radiofrance.fr/chaines/france-culture2/emissions/place_toile/fiche.php?diffusion_id=57026

11th International Video Festival Videomedeja , 2007, Serbia - Google Search History
www.videomedeja.org/en/my-google-search-history

File 2007 - SESI Gallery, ART Institution in Sao Paulo, Brazil - Google Search History
www.filefestival.org/site_2007/pagina_trabalhos_arquivo.asp? a1=330&a2=334&id=2#1906

Finaliste Web Flash Festival 2007 - Art Net Art - Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris - Google Search History
www.flashfestival.net/2007/index.php?r=Compétition&sr=Finalistes et vote public

The 2008 Biennale of Sydney venue online, Australia - Théorie M
www.bos20008.com/revolutionsonline/

Festival Traverse video - Toulouse aux Abattoirs 2006 - Théorie M
www.traverse-video.org/01_programme_2007.php

Festival Pocket Film 2006 - Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris - Interactive Exhibition of Edison Mobile Remake
albertinemeunier.net/festivals/brochure_pocket_films_2006.pdf

Mobile Monday 29 mai 2006 - Interactive Exhibition of Edison Mobile Remake
www.mobilemondayfrance.org/?p=58

Mobile Exposure 2006 of Microcinema International - Edison Mobile Remake n°5
www.independentexposure.com/filmmaker/1826/CatherineRamus.html

Festival d/Art/2006 Sydney Australie - Edison Mobile Remake n°1 to 5
www.dlux.org.au/dart06/exhibition.html#7

Art basel Miami 2005 - Solipsis - Digital Corner Street avec Fred Forest
solipsisarchive.netofpeers.net/wiki2/index.php/Happening_fr

Festival Pocket Film 2005 - Forum des Images, Paris - 15 août 2006
www.festivalpocketfilms.fr/rubrique.php3?id_rubrique=147

Carrefour des Possibles, FING, 27 avril 2004 - Counter Googling
www.webcastor.fr/fing/carrefour/carrsmil27_04_04_08.html#08

Forum de l'image 2004, Toulouse aux Abattoirs - Le Voyage Immobile
www.voyage-immobile.net/images/forum_image_2004.pdf

 


ArtWorks URLs

Les Trucs www.lestrucs.net
A petits pas vers l'annonciation www.albertinemeunier.net/a-petit-pas-vers-l-annonciation/
Angelino www.albertinemeunier.net/angelino/
Stweet www.we-love-the.net/Stweet/
Around The World www.albertinemeunier.net/around-the-world/
Tea time with albertine www.albertinemeunier.net/teatimewithalbertine
Free Influencer www.we-love-the.net/FreeInfluencer/
Dcodd www.dcodd.net
MMS Exquis www.microtruc.net/mmsexquis.html
Big Picture www.albertinemeunier.net/BigPicture/
My Google Search History www.albertinemeunier.net/google_search_history/
Théorie M www.theoriem.net
Interactive exhibition of Edison Mobile Remake www.albertinemeunier.net/choses_a_dire/ expo.htm
Edison Mobile Remake www.albertinemeunier.net/edison
15 août 2006 www.albertinemeunier.net/060815/
A corps et à Christ

www.albertinemeunier.net/christ/a_corps_et_a_christ1.htm
Counter Googling www.counter-googling.net
Voyage Immobile www.cathbleue.com/voyage