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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