antoine schmitt

antoine schmitt

Antoine Schmitt creates works of art in the form of objects, installations and situations to address movement processes in all their modalities and question their intrinsic conceptual problems, plastic, philosophical or social in nature. Heir to kinetic art and cybernetic art, fueled by metaphysical science fiction, he endlessly interrogates the dynamic interactions between human nature and the nature of reality. Originally a programming engineer in computer human relations and artificial intelligence, he places programming, a contemporary art material and unique for its active quality, at the core of most of his artwork, to literally reveal and manipulate the forces at play. Antoine Schmitt has also undertaken an articulation of this approach with more established artistic fields such as music, dance, architecture, literature or cinema, and has collaborated with Franck Vigroux, Atau Tanaka, Vincent Epplay, Jean-Jacques Birgé, Delphine Doukhan, K.Danse. , Patrice Belin, Don Nino, Cubenx, Alberto Sorbelli, Matthew Bourne, Hortense Gauthier… As a theorist, speaker and editor of the gratin.org portal, Antoine Schmitt explores the field of programmed art.

His work has received several awards at international festivals: transmediale (Berlin, second prize 2007, honorary 2001), Ars Electronica (Linz, second prize 2009), UNESCO International Video-Dance Festival (Paris, online first prize 2002) , Vida 5.0 (Madrid, honorary 2002), CYNETart (Dresden, honorary 2004), medi @ terra (Athens, first prize 1999), Interferees (Belfort, first prize 2000), and has been exhibited among others at the Center Georges Pompidou ( Paris), at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs (Paris), at Sonar (Barcelona), at Ars Electronica (Linz), at the CAC in Sienna (Italy), at the Musée d'Art Contemporain de Lyon (France), at Nuits Blanches (Paris, Amiens, Metz, Brussels and Madrid). It is part of the collections of the Artphilein (CH), Fraenkel (USA), Meeschaert (FR), Société Générale (FR), Espace Gantner (Bourogne, FR), Cube (Issy-Mx, FR) Foundations , from the Paris Municipal Contemporary Art Fund (FMAC)