niform
Interactive installation , 2007
Samuel Bianchini

Data Capture engineering: ExperiensS (Thomas Bouaziz and Yoan Leyris)
Image Processing engineering: Adrien Mazaud
Photograph: Jérémie Giniaux-Kats
Assistant: Oussama Mubarak
with the advice and support of Sylvie Tissot, Paul Girard and Stéphane Maguet

A co-production by CiTu, Dispothèque and numeriscausa, with the scientific collaboration of Limsi-CNRS.

This project is supported by the Ministry of Culture & Communication (Programme Dicréam) and the Mairie of Paris.

Thanks are due to Antonio Gallego, Vincent Gautier, Cyrille Henry, Christian Jacquemin, Jason Karaïndros, Julie Miguirditchian and, for the setting-up subsequent to the first exhibition of the work, to the administrative and technical personnel at the École regional des Beaux-Arts de Rouen as well as to Anne Lemarchand and Sophie Mari, students at Erba.

This work is dedicated to Alain Declercq













niform
Interactive installation , 2007
Samuel Bianchini
Large Gallery of the École régionale des Beaux-Arts de Rouen, May - June 2007
Photographs (above) : Samuel Bianchini
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niform
Interactive installation , 2007
Samuel Bianchini
Large Gallery of the École régionale des Beaux-Arts de Rouen, may - june 2007
Photographs (the two above) : Alain Declercq
To download an image in high definition (TIFF, 300 DPI), click on it

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niform is an interactive installation. In a large darkened room, the whole of one wall facing an audience of viewers is taken up with a panoramic image; at first, the image is unchanging,  is unchanging and blurred in its entirety. The group, rendered uniform by the blurring, is rendered even more so by the uniform clothing of the twenty men who constitute the group: the picture is that of a cordon of policemen in anti-riot gear, life-size.
The viewers, as they move, change the focal point of the image: as they move towards the screen, and according to the disposition of their bodies, the section of the image in front of them becomes progressively more clearly focused. At a distance of fifty centimetres or less from the screen, a spectator is confronted with one of the representatives of the forces of law and order.
The image no longer has a single depth of field, but several: these are localised, spectator-specific and are different for each viewer.  From an initially fuzzy image, each spectator progresses towards a focusing-in on the image, onto a single man, toward the individual man with whom s/he stands face to face.

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