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David GUMBS
David GUMBS
Multimédia Artist
Nationality : French
Spoken languages : English, French
Age : 37
Solo Shows
Hors-champ, 14°N61°W Contemporary Art space, Martinique
Somewhere in Paradise, Haïti 2013 - (curator : Giscard Bouchotte)
Workshops
Selected Group Shows
Multimedia Master Class : Orléans’s Visual arts school, Fort-de-France Visual arts school,
Versailles University
Video Islands, New York 2015 (curator : Maria Elena Ortiz)
Teaching and Lectures
Trinidad+Tobego Film Festival – New Medias, Trinidad & Tobego 2014
Reflexions, 14°N61°W Contemporary Art space, Martinique 2014
Transformining Spaces, Bahamas 2014
(curator : Holly Bynoe & Nicole Smythe-Johnson)
Beep Bop Boop New Media, Florida 2014
(curator : Leah Brown & Peter Symons)
BIAC Martinique 2013, Flux, Martinique 2013
(curator : Holly Bynoe)
Fort-de-France Visual Arts School from 2009
Teaching : Multimédia, Médias Multiples, Motion Design
Versailles St Quentin en Yvelines University, 2006
Teaching : infographie & multimédia, Master 2 section
City of Orleans’s Visual Arts School, 2005/06
Teaching : multimédia, 3rd, 4th, 5th year students
Art Residencies
Art Bémao, édition spéciale Arts Numériques, Guadeloupe 2013
(curator : Jean-Marc Hunt)
La Saline Royale, Arc et Senan 2009
Périféeriques 3, Jacmel Haïti 2013
(curator : Giscard Bouchotte)
Les Beau-arts de Besançon, Besançon 2009
L’avant-Rue, Paris 2007
Dwet Fey Sevi, Terra Festival, Guadeloupe 2013
La Cité des Sciences et de l’industrie, Paris 2004
Hey you what do you see ?, Saint-Martin 2012
Happy Island Project, Aruba 2012
(curator : Jose Manuel Noceda)
Caraïbe en Expansion, CCR Fonds St jacques, Martinique 2011
(curator : Jose Manuel Noceda
Latitudes 2009, Paris City Hall 2009
(curator : Régine Cuzin)
Entre-Vues, Photographie contemporaine en Caraïbe, Martinique 2009
L’installation “L’herbe, un Paysage interstitiel”, Le Fresnoy 2008
Festival Croisées d’artistes, Ile-de-France 2007
Festival Variations caraïbes, Paris 2006
Performances
Colloque Poétique de la Révolte Albert Camus Aimé Césaire.
Performance Vidéo Live, Atrium, Fort-de-France 2013
Performance veillée Edouard Glissant, Beaux-arts de Fort-de-France, 2011
Body Painting, Galerie The Shore, St-Martin 2010
Prizes
Photographies de l’inconscient - www.ncident.net - 2004
Casse pas ta vie, 1st place - Regional poster contest for road accident prevention, 1996.
Festival Arborescence, Aix en provence 2005
Grants
“Paysage envisagé”, Espace Landowski, Paris 2004
Aide Individuelle à la création, DAC Martinique, 2011
“Internet à la loupe”, FRED FOREST, Fête de l’Internet 2004
“Paysage envisagé”, Cité des sciences et de l’industrie de la Vilette, Paris 2003.
Panorama 4, Paysages persistants, Le Fresnoy, Lille 2003
Aide Individuelle à la création, DAC Guadeloupe, 2013
Aide Individuelle à l’installation, DAC Guadeloupe, 2012
Publications
Frieze Magazine, Island Life - Contemporary art in the Caribbean - Dan Fox, n°192
ARC, Art, Recognition, Culture - Issue 03 July 2011
Le Monde Hors-série «Où en est la France d’outremer», 2009
SVM Mac, Mars 2002
Education
New Media Master Specialisation, Les Ateliers/ENSCI, Paris 2002
DNSEP Art, 2001
DNAP Art, 1999
Internet Links
> Artist portfolio :
www.davidgumbs.com
> Artist experimental platforms :
www.artchipel.org
www.cytoplasme.com
> Artist blog :
davidgumbs.tumblr.com
Artist statement
David Gumbs’s artistic approach is based on a famous quotation from XVII th century
French philosopher and chemist Antoine Lavoisier : « Mass is neither gained nor
lost, merely transformed ». Thus, life’s cycle, infinite scale, memory, and the Sacred,
are themes that emerge from larger topics of interest such as inner/outer landscape,
and offscreen. Concepts close to Chris Marker’s « In Memory », Ernest Pignon Ernest’s
« Aborigines », Desiree Dolron « Sacred Conversation » and Karl Blossfeldt life’s work.
David Gumbs’s painting and drawing universes are shaped from thousand of interlaced
lines. These immersed spaces reveal personal inner projections from the unconscious.
This process is the result of an automatic drawing act. Which is sometimes the witness
of a runoff discharge. The interlaced texture created with and without colour, plays
an interactive rhizome plot of each visitor’s unconsciousness.
His polyvalent approach (drawing, painting, photography, new media, interactive
video) questions the « Offscreen » of the perception, as a scanner of his « Mental
Archeology ». His research indeed focuses on the « stock of souvenirs » that builds
memory. David’s new media and photography works try to reveal these anthropomorphic and anthropologic memories.
The digital arts produced take an interest in societal context of inner representation.
Originated from Edouard Glissant’s « créolité » in the « Tout monde », from social
and architectural heritage, from the lush fauna and flora of the Caribbean. These
new media works are vectors of fairy tale legends of the night, of mystical trees and animist
ceremonies. This Island cultural context fosters the creation of new realtime 3D audiovisual representations, new realm of imagination inspired both by the ancestral
rhythms from the African continent, and also influenced by the french « Musique
Conrete », and Noise from Berlin’s underground life.
Offscreen series - Realtime 3D interactive video - Work in Progress
«Are offscreen all things, all ideas that we do not see, or we do not think of.. Indeed, it is mainly the concept more or less hidden from the stock which is the offscreen and produces a huge impact on the vision: the invisible invasion of the feld
by which cannot be found only in the form of occultation or absence.» Le Traité du
regard, Alain Beltzung, Revue Question de, n°112 – Albin Michel.
In continuation of the series of photographs « Ecorc(é) » This refection explores
the medium of interactive 3D and real-time video, characteristic notion of specifc interactive digital arts. Through this process, without falling into the trap
of illustration, David Gumbs explores microscopic fragments of tropical fora
to borrow new aesthetics, new hypnotic, subliminal and hybrid landscapes.
These explorations question the perception, the notion of scale, the detail that
draw from memory. The universes generated, create attempts to unconscious
accesses, to the viewer’s hidden imagination by vibration through the construction and deconstruction of the image.
Still according to Alain Beltzung «Representing things is the basis of our cerebral.
Not only any memory is representation, but also any kind of thinking as well because we fgure out what we want to comprehend. An action to be taken is frst subjected to an estimate: we represent it using borrowed memory elements to make a
choice according to acceptable or unacceptable aspect of this representation.»
The patterns gathered in nature, the minerals, the objects collected on the coasts
of the islands of the Caribbean, scroll as a key revelation of inner universes.
Indeed, the work generated in real time deceive the eye by creating both a sense
of familiarity and a disturbing repetition that sometimes reminds of microscopic
creatures, crawling, rolling, and as well as some fractal architectures.
Moreover, the symmetry of certain events can be interpreted as a Rorschach
test (a clinical tool for assessing psychological projective developed by psychiatrist
Hermann Rorschach and psychaliste 1921). Snapshots taken from real-time video
hint architectures imagination. From this symmetry also springs constitution
inherent to Life, to Nature. Nature is repetition, symmetry and asymmetry, microscopic and macroscopic. Nature is harmony.
Offscreen series - Realtime 3D interactive video - Work in Progress
Offscreen
video installation
24 min - 800 cm x 240 cm
14°N61°W
Contemporary Art Space
Martinique 2014
Offscreen - Light Box Series - 14°N61°W Contemporary Art Space, Martinique 2014
Offscreen series
Led sculptures
40 cm x 30 cm
14°N61°W
Contemporary Art Space
Martinique 2014
New Species
Realtime 3D interactive video
Reflexions show
14°N61°W Art Contemporary Space
Soleil Magma - Realtime interactive video - BIAC Martinique 2013
Indicible Camouflage - Realtime interactive video - Trinidad+Tobego Film Festival 14
Video Creation - Principe de Précaution 2014
Commissionned by
Myriam Soulanges - Marlène Myrtil - Biennale Dansité 2014
Video Creation - Miles & ses Danses de Mauvais Nègres
Contemporary Dance show
Commissionned by
Cie Christiane Emmanuel - Biennale Dansité 2014
VDO 1.0
Interactive video installation + In-situ wall drawing
Emergences, Latitudes 2009,
Installation Dessin Mural Insitu + Photographies
Hotel de Ville de Paris - 900cm x 300cm
The Rising. 800cm x 500cm
Festival Croisée d’artistes 2007
Série Ecor(é) - Photographie Numérique & Argentique
Dimension variable
Magma,
Peinture Numérique
Dimension Variable