ALBERTINE MEUNIER
Born in  1964 / Lives at Vitry sur Seine, France
www.albertinemeunier.net/en

albertine.meunier[[a]]gmail.com
mobile +33 6 80 84 82 62.

 

Albertine Meunier has been practicing so-called digital art since 1998, and is particularly inclined to use the Internet as raw material. She defines herself as a Net artist, which is not necessarily her artistic net value. This mildly obsolete expression—a Net artist is, quite simply, an artist of her time—helps to give her a human face, far from the coldness of digital machines.

Her works question, both critically and playfully, big online players such as Google, Twitter and Facebook, as well as our new environment full of transistors and microprocessors, where we live at the speed of fiber optic networks. This online world that Albertine knows so well has become her raw matter for creativity and exploration. In her research and in her artworks, she attempts to reveal the invisible poetry of all things digital.

Albertine's many technical, esthetic and conceptual skills have allowed her to explore this essential poetry and esthetics. She cultivates simple, minimal forms, which may sometimes appear to be "tinkered" from scratch, but she intentionally distances herself from the hyper-technicity of other digital installations.

As such, her favorite themes are: esthetics of the Internet, materiality and materialization of the Internet, but also the endless accumulation that results from the digital format.

Her desire to give form and rhythm to the invisible and imperceptible aspects of the Internet has led to her unique perspective, where technique and poetry are engaged in an unexpected relationship.

As she explores this new world taking shape, many of her works question both space and time: space as both a physical and digital place, both here and there and therefore quantic; time as a lifespan; space and time as a place for memory.

With her seemingly hands-off approach, Albertine leads us on a playfully, impertinently and drolly poetic journey. Let's play a bit with the Internet… thanks to Albertine.

 

Exhibitions
2015 Internet, Do you love me ?, MLPL - 64 / xx - Variation, Paris Media Art Fair, Paris
2015 The Infinite Book - Variation, Paris Media Art Fair, Paris
2015 The Enlightened, 6 feet on Earth - Galerie Mi, Paris
2015 The Infinite Book , Journée du Patrimoine - Quai d'Orsay, Paris
2015 The Infinite Book , Evening French Digital Creation - Quai dOrsay, Paris
2015 L'apocalype selon faces d'anges - Muntados, Greece
2015 DataDada Performance, #InternetMeGonfle - Futur en Seine, Paris
2015 DataDada Performance, #Badaboum - Ekimetrics, Paris
2015 Angelino - Seconde Nature, Aix en Provence
2015 Tiptoe to the Annunciation – Croisements numériques, Nantes
2014 The Infinite Book, Le Web, Paris
2015 Angelino, Grand Bouillon, Aubervilliers
2014 DataDada Performance - APREM#4, La Bouverie
2014 Angelino, My Google Search History, Les Dessous de L.H.O. – Variations Show Off, Paris / Art2M
2014 DataDada Performance - Forum d'Avignon, Paris
2014 My Google Search History, Les Dessous de L.H.O. - Ro[bots], Festival les Composites, Compiègne
2014 7th Heaven - La Tapisserie, Paris
2014 Au delà de 1m/s - Résidence du Consul de France, Rio De Janeiro
2014 My Google Search History - Espace Virtuel du Jeu de Paume
2013 Peg Mountain - Forum d'Avignon
2013 Beyond 1m/s, Looking for Daisy - Show Off, Paris
2013 Lafiac.com - Ceci n'est pas la FIAC (en ligne)
2013 Pegman Coin - 104 - Futur en Seine, Paris
2013 Beyond 1m/s - Galerie NaMiMa, Nancy
2012 Crossings, My Google Search History - Show Off, Paris
2012 Lafiac.com - Ceci n'est pas la FIAC (online)
2012 Un monde de paquets : Beyond 1m/s, Crossings, Hop Hop Hop, it's time to live - La Tapisserie, Paris
2012 Un monde de paquets - 104 - Futur en Seine, Paris
2012 Crossings, Mona LHO - Galerie Area, Paris
2011 Tiptoe to the Annunciation - Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris
2011 Lafiac.com - Ceci n'est pas la FIAC (online)
2011 Tiptoe to the Annunciation - Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris
2011 Tiptoe to the Annunciation - AFK -  Casino Luxembourg - Forum d’art contemporain, Luxembourg
2011 Captures - La Tapisserie, Paris
2011 Regards d’Artistes sur les Médias Sociaux , Médiathèque de Mérignac
2011  Speed Show vol  5 "Open Internet", Paris
2010 Les Trucs - Jeu de Paume Virtual Space (with Microtruc)
2010 Lafiac.com - Ceci n'est pas la FIAC (online)
2010 DCODD - Festival Pocket Films 2010 - Forum des images, Paris (with Microtruc)
2009  Solo Exhibition, Journée Net-art - BnF -  François Mitterrand , Paris
2009 Les Bains numériques -  Digital Arti,  Enghiens les Bains   
2008  Système C - Mains d’Oeuvres, Saint-Ouen (avec le collectif Microtruc)  
2008  Revolutions - Forms That Turn - Biennale d’art contemporain de Sydney, Australie (sélection en ligne)  
2008 Jouable -  Web Flash Festival 2008 -  Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris (avec le collectif Microtruc)  
2007 La Re-visite - Festival Traverse vidéo 2007, Toulouse  
2007 File 2007 - SESI Gallery -  ART Institution in Sao Paulo, Brazil


Internet et multimédia Workshops
2011 Hype(r)Olds, workshops with 77 year olds women - Gaité Lyrique et Métallos, Paris
2009 Toujours pas sages,workshops in Segou, Mali
2008 Tea time with albertine, workshop with 77 year olds women - La Cantine, Paris
2005 Destination Laos, workshop in fine arts school Luang Prabang, Laos


Books
2014 The innards of L.H.O.
2011 6 x 6 / 36 – Déplacement / Mobility  - Ed. Nunc
2011 My Google Search History -  le livre -   Ed. L’air de rien
2009 X comme X -  livre d’artistes collectif -  Ed. Les Analogistes  


Speeches / Conferences
2015 Ecole des Beaux Arts de Nantes
2014 Google Cultural Institude, Paris
2014 Obs/IN, Marseille
2014 APREM#4, La Bouverie
2014 Femmes et Numérique, Liège
2013 #dizain 10 : Identités Nuémriques, La Gaité Lyrique, Paris
2013 #dizain 5 : Code(s) + Data, Divan du Monde, Paris
2013 Senior, et alors ? Centre de conférence de Microsoft France
2011 Make it Public - Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai
2010 Internet of things - Digitalement Votre - Maison des Métallos, Paris
2009 Wikiplaza, Futur en Seine, Paris
2009 Lift Experience 09, Marseille
2008  Réalité augmentée -  Web Flash Festival 2008 -  Centre Pompidou, Paris  
2008  Internet Mon Amour -  Centre Beaubourg, Paris  


Projections
2008  Official competition Festival Pocket Film 2008 - Centre Pompidou, Paris (with Microtruc)   
2006 Festival D/Art/2006 -  Sydney, Australia  
2006 Mobile Exposure of Microcinema International,  San Francisco
2005 Official competition Festival Pocket Film 2005 -    Forum des images, Paris   

Bourse
2010 DICRéAM, dispositif pour la création artistique multimédia, Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication (France).