Julien Maire Kikk Festival 2019

Out of Order (Talk in French) In his artworks and performances, Julien Maire systematically reinvents the technology of visual media. His research is a manifest hybrid between mediaarchaeology and the production of new media constellations. His output consists of prototypes that perform exactly what their etymology promises (from protos: first and typos impression or model): proposing unique technological configurations that produce a new, specific image quality. As industrial prototypes, these original creations no matter how technically clever and refined are rather useless: too complex, too delicate and too clunky to ever be considered for massproduction. As artistic statements, the main function of these fullscale constructions is to provoke an effect of wonder, alerting the viewer to the ambivalent status of moving images produced by a machine. Extract from Edwin Carels, The Productivity of the Prototype: on Julien Maires Cinema of Contraptions, University College Ghent