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  4. NETICONES

NETICONES

Presented at Notacon 10 (2013), Unknown date/time (Unknown duration)

If, for some reason, you've been looking for a way to have your next Facebook profile picture be a photo mosaic made entirely of the social network's various icons, then look no further. At Neticones.com, you can take a picture and watch the transformation happen in real-time and view the final product later through the site's gallery. Michaël Borras alias Systaime brings together modern digital technologies and the ancestral art of mosaic to create portraits for the installation NETICONES. The work (work in progress) is declined / déclinable in any medium: website, book, photo prints, facebook application, Streetart, & interactive installation. Neticone has been part of the exhibition Camera Whore http://onmaingallery.com/news/2012/07/04/camerawhore/

Presenters:

  • Michaël Borras A.K.A Systaime
    Michaël Borras is a French video designer and graphic artist known as the net.artist "Systaime". He has presented his work in Seoul, Tokyo, and New York, and in numeric festivals worldwide. Since the end of the 1990s, Systaime has been part of the "internationale échantillonniste" collective, a group of Parisian underground artists that published its manifesto in Libération in March 2000. His production was firstly sold on VHS format. Before the Youtube era, Systaime produced "webfilms" and was one of the first contributors to Dailymotion. He reached a larger audience in France when he collaborated with the artist "Polemix et la voix off" a mash-up cut-up band that made nonsense political discourses, détournement as described by the situationists. Systaime added images to these. Using for example, a virtual version of the French president in a second life universe. He became in 2010 a regular contributor to French media such as Libération. He participated in the Internet pavilion at the 2011 Venice Biennale. In 2011, he was one of the first contributors to arte (the German-French) web platform. Systaime is one of the French initiators of "facebook art".

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