Simonsong (2024)

(Desktopsongs Cycle)


FR - ENG


Selection piece



Single-channel video piece, 3’47
16:9 / HD digital file / color / stereo


Students’ City Cultural Center, Alternative Film Video, Belgrade, Serbia 2024
Immersive gallery of Alfred University, Light Matter, USA 2024
Alicante Museum of Contemporary Art, ALC Videoart, Spain 2024

Arroz Estúdios, Rare Effect, Lisbon, Portugal 2024
Hill Livehouse Hong Tang, ONED, Suzhou, China 2024

Concordia, KO(O)RTS, Enschede, Netherlands 2024

Façade Video Festival, Plovdiv, Bulgaria 2024

Goes :art Channel TV, On Screen, Online 2024

The Wrong Biennale, Television, Online 2024

CRD of Pantin, France 2024



“ Simonsong is a video piece, a musical system that exists only through a visual process, in this case a mockery of technological hegemony in the arts, and particularly in the world of contemporary music. In the most trivial representation of the digital tool, up to 16 384 "mousists" (plastic mouse interpreters) play virtuosos in the way of the child's game Simon. “

 

Desktopsongs is a cycle of video pieces questioning our relationship with technology. Each work - inspired by desktop movie practice - is a musical system dependent on a visual process, tending towards an economy of the device. The cycle includes Screensong, questioning data privacy, Simonsong, questioning technological hegemony in the world of contemporary music, Playpausesong, questioning mass media consumption, and Playersong, questioning the mediatization of weapons over the Internet.