Julie Morel
julie@incident.net
The starting point of my work is to challenge my subconscious, memory, habits, and assumptions. I observe all the mistakes, incidents, failures and translation shifts. I track repetitions, uneasy situations and comportments in my everyday life. I try to understand how situations build. By suggesting different trajectories, I aim to reveal how culture shapes our reaction to social or intimate situations.
Another important part of my research is how computers can sometimes defy these usual reactions by imposing their own. This process can be seen especially in my photography installation “Extrait”, the “Temp/” video series or the dyslexic texts generators. For example, “Temp/” questions how computers change human behaviour by modifying (and adding to) their memory.
By simply breaking a glass and immediately thinking “Ctrl + Z” (this computer shortcut undoes the last action), I realised how keyboard shortcuts are part of my life, how the “Ctrl+Z” is burnt into my memory as it is into my computer’s. I thus created a text based video narrative using those shortcuts: I related the story of a relationship, from the beginning to the end, from Ctrl + N (new) to Ctrl + Q (quit).
I work with text, which I use as images to enforce new rhythm, space and way of seeing, transforming the viewer into a reader, and the reader into a viewer. I often make a parallel between text and programming: therefore producing interactive and generative narration (gen-narrative) with loop, randomness and variation, and exploring how code and message are linked on the projection surface that is the screen.
Biography:
After studying at the National Fine Arts School of Paris, Julie Morel completed her DEA, a post-graduate degree from the University of Paris 8 in New Media Aesthetic. Her thesis, "Coding/Transcoding/Decoding" researches how loop, randomness and variation in coding can be the starting point of interactive and generative narration. The thesis goes on to explore how code and message are linked on the projection surface that is the screen.
She also earned a post-graduate degree in Interactive research from the School of Arts Décoratifs of Paris.
Julie is a full time digital arts teacher at the Superior School of Art in Lorient (Brittany) and a lecturer at the National Fine Art School in Paris.
Her professional experience as an international freelance author and designer has included designing web-sites for cultural institutions, artists and galleries.
Her work has been exhibited in many international venues and festivals. It questions how computers change human behaviour by modifying (and adding to) their memory. Her work with text, which she uses as images enforce new rhythm, space and way of seeing, transforming the viewer into a reader, and the reader into a viewer.
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