ATTENTION - here it's full of crazy stuff !
------- if you have nice adresses, please
send them to us,
so we can share ! -------
On October 7 2008, all links on this page have been verified.
Most of them are "historical" sites.
For the last 10 years, the Web has been Widely extended.
Recent links will be found on specialized sites and blogs
such as mine or Etienne Mineur's which give daily clues...
NEW SUGGESTIONS
Raymond Sarti is Finishing his own site, with more than 1600 documents.
French blogs I read every day: Etienne Mineur, Jean Rochard, Poptronics, Cati Vaucelle...
2 minutes every day of Françoise Romand's film, Thème Je (The camera I), 7 extracts in a week. Françoise Romand has also reprogramed her whole personal site.
Too bad that the real home page of Hema stores is not this one !
FRIENDS AND US
Co-founder of LeCielEstBleu, Nicolas Clauss (painter-programer), whose site flyingpuppet contains 26 interactive modules with Birgé, has created his new site, nicolasclauss.com on which you'll also find L'ardoise, De l'art si je veux, J'ai dix ans, Cinq ailleurs, and Somnambules (12 interactive choreographical scenes by Jean-Jacques Birgé, Nicolas Clauss and Didier Silhol) which has got 5 international awards.
La Pâte à Son is on the website of La Cité de la Musique - Espace Jeunesse. It means Sound Dough! This creation of Jean-Jacques Birgé, Frédéric Durieu, Thierry Laval, Kristine Malden, is a programmable musicbox. Also on LeCielEstBleu.com.
On LeCielEstBleu, 3 interactive musical modules of Time: Big Bang, Forever and PixelbyPixel. SCAM Prize for the Best Creative Site and nearly 2 millions visitors for the site which brings together Frédéric Durieu (algorithmic programer), Kristine Malden (webmaster) and Jean-Jacques Birgé (sound designer). Frédéric and Jean-Jacques are two of the three authors of the wonderful CD-Rom Alphabet. Visit the Zoo too and its now famous Flying Giraffes.
Paris Connection : essays, interviews, and links to six Parisian web.artists: Jean-Jacques Birgé, Nicolas Clauss, Frédéric Durieu, Jean-Luc Lamarque, Antoine Schmitt, and servolvalve. Produced by Jim Andrews and Nancy Paterson (Coriolisweb, Canada), Helen Thorington (Turbulence, USA), Regina Célia Pinto (Museo do Essencial e do Além Disso, Brazil) and Roberto Simanowski (Dichtung-digital.org, Berlin). Presented in English, French, Spanish and Portuguese with the help of fifteen people from seven countries.
Antoine Schmitt, after his collaboration on CD-Rom Carton, cosigned Machiavel with Jean-Jacques Birgé. On his page one can admire funny and interesting moving creatures : Gratin. A lot of precious links about sharp programing too.
SonicObjects, original cellular telephone rings, under the direction of Antoine Schmitt, are recorded by 17 modern composers, among who J-J Birgé, B.Vitet, D.Petit, P.Labbé, V.Epplay, J.Montessuy, H.Sage, D.Besson, R.Cahen, L.Martinez, servovalve...
Surletoit.com, a new collective of independant workers close to us.
Etienne Mineur (artistic director for Seurat
and Carton), Etienne Auger (graphic designer for Machiavel and
Trop d'adrénaline nuit), Arnaud Dangeul and Pierre Wendling are
on incandescence.
They all work together, from time to time, with Birgé, Schmitt and Durieu.
Hyptique have realised Seurat and
Carton : Hyptique, and
you must absolutely get their CD-Rom on Electroacoustic music (INA-GRM) on Hyptique.net.
Hyptique is also producing Numer Festival.
Some
other nice musical games (techno, jazz, rap...) on PianoGraphique : PianoGraphique
There, Jean-Jacques Birgé and Nicolas Clauss have created an original
module,
Sudden Stories !
Assez Vu, new site of Francis Gorgé and Dominique Meens with many musical extracts of their live shows and a few rare documents on the Drame !
On Hélène Sage's site, admire the video of "Humons la conditienne"...
Photograph François Figlarz shows Légumes de saison, and gives us links to Matthew Mahon, Weapons of Mass Destrcuction, Are you bad enough...
Philippe Gourier, the sculptor's website
Michel Séméniako, the photographer's website, whose pictures could be admired on CD-Rom Carton
Michèle Buirette's site, and her new solo album on GRRR, Le Panapé de Caméla.
INTERACTIVITY
Hoogerbrugge: Modern Living, Nail(s), Hotel...
Servovalve
John Maeda
Joshua Davis
Soundtoys presents many artworks
Presstube, James Paterson's
Flong, Goran Levin's
Tokyoplastic, funny animations
Multiface proposes many creative sites
Ubu.com offers experimental films, sound poetry, extraordinary mp3 documents , all in free accesss!
Absolut...
Nicolas Clauss suggests net-art sites : A is for Apple (David Clark), Photomontage (Shirin Kouladjie), Incident (Drouin, Chatonsky, etc.), Anomynes, Fubbs (Chad Garrick)...
Etienne Mineur suggests: Arkitus, Eigelb, Chronotext, KrazyDad, Ryan Alexander, strange plants...
ericM gives many adresses of multimedia artists sites on pÔooZe kA féE...
Nice musical programmations on Marc
Em's site
Experimental interfaces by koert
On Sodaplay
by Ed Burton, and discover a zoo of strange creatures, make your own
A nice intercative alphabet with Letterscapes by Peter Cho : Typeractive
Conclave Obscurum, Russian images and a strange wonderful remix
More interactive animations : Willing-to-try , Foulds
Milko Music Machine, a
dancing cow
A nice Dutch funny thing is on nobodyhere,
send his e-cards to your firends !
MUSIC
45 independant French labels, among which GRRR : Les Allumés du Jazz , renewed…
The site of label nato : fantastic catalogue, clever comments, diconato by Jean Rochard!
The site of label D'autres Cordes, with Franck Vigroux
The site of record label nûba, with Pascale Labbé and Jean Morières
Also the one of label la nuit transfigurée, with records of Didier Petit and Camel Zekri
Sites of Benoît Delbecq... Lê Quan Ninh...
The best French jazz newspaper Jazz Magazine is full of informations and music: Jazzmagazine
European Free Improvisation : www.shef.ac.uk/misc/rec/ps/efi
POLITICS
From
The Wilderness, from an ex-cop (copvcia.com), an
amazing mass of informations on 9-11, Bush-Bin Laden families,
drugs and oil business... Other alternative sites, from Howard Zinn, Noam Chomsky, Michael Moore, NoLogo...
