[WHO]
“Fabien Zocco explores the artistic potential of technological outsourcing, applications and other software. Playing on the endless possibilities offered by the digital network, he appropriates the icons of digital popular culture and virtual aesthetics to create architectures, forms or futuristic stories. With a hint of derision, he questions our relationship to new technologies that have invaded our daily lives and investigates our relationship to the virtual.” _Sonia Recasens , critic & curator.
His work has been shown in France (Le 104-Paris, Le Fresnoy, FRAC Poitou Charentes…), China (Pearl Art Museum, Shanghai), Mexico (French Institute, Mexico DF), Canada (UQTR gallery, Trois-Rivières), Poland (A-I-R program, Wroclaw), Belgium (NTAA Biennale (Gent), Royal Museum of Mariemont), Italy (Into thin words, Polignano a mare), Germany (GEH8, Dresden), and online (The Wrong – New digital art biennale).
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Spider and I / Robotics Sculpture, 2020. / robot hexapod, smart wristband, electronics. / An hexapod (a robot with six legs looking like a big mechanical spider) alternate calm moments and attitudes of distrust and aggressiveness. / These shifts of behaviour are directly linked to the emotionnal state of the artist, who will be equipped with a smart wristband while the work is exhibited. / With the support of : La SCAM, Région Hauts-de-France, Le Bel Ordinaire, Le Fresnoy, Le Shadok. Spider and I / Robotics Sculpture, 2020. / robot hexapod, smart wristband, electronics. / An hexapod (a robot with six legs looking like a big mechanical spider) alternate calm moments and attitudes of distrust and aggressiveness. / These shifts of behaviour are directly linked to the emotionnal state of the artist, who will be equipped with a smart wristband while the work is exhibited. / With the support of : La SCAM, Région Hauts-de-France, Le Bel Ordinaire, Le Fresnoy, Le Shadok. Attack the sun / film. A collaboration with Gwendal Sartre, 2019. / Attack the sun / is a film whose dialogues have been generated by an artificial intelligence during the shooting. It shows the drifting of Steven Moran, a californian youtuber who seems to become crazy. / Production : Nuits Blanches and L’Espace Croisé, with the support of DICREAM, Le Fresnoy, Pictanovo, DRAC Hauts-de-France. Black box / Robotics sculptures, 2017. / Plexiglas, wood, electronics. / 4 black cubes are slowly moving on the ground, developing strange and enigmatic behaviors and interactions. / Production : Art Factory Orange. / images : Cyrille Cauvet.Theotechnical deconstruction INC / Generative installation / Robotics sculpture, 2016. / 8 smartphones, robotic arms, specific program on computer. / 8 smartphones on 8 robotic arms are interpreting a text generated in realtime from the Bible. / Production : Le Fresnoy – 2016. Theotechnical deconstruction INC / Generative installation / Robotics sculpture, 2016. / 8 smartphones, robotic arms, specific program on computer. / 8 smartphones on 8 robotic arms are interpreting a text generated in realtime from the Bible. / Production : Le Fresnoy – 2016. Game over and over / Installation / videogame for robots, 2016. / 2 screens, 2 robots. / In the middle of a room, two robots, each one placed in front of a screen, fight each other in an infnite, absurd and minimalist video game play. / This confrontation goes on endlessly : the opponents cross respectively an asteroid field on which they shoot frantically, but the game never reaches the end. / Production : Ecole Européenne Supérieure de l’Image & Lieu Multiple/Espace Mendès-France. From the sky to the Earth / installation, 2014. / program on computer, sound system. / A database listing the name of the stars (Aldebaran, Proxima, etc…) is queried every minutes. When a star is chosen, an image caught in Google Street View appears. It is the image of a place on Earth with the same name as the star. / public collection : FRAC Poitou-Charentes. Motor maniac / Drawing, 2020. ink on paper, 22 x 34 cm,A mind-body problem (edition) / Edition, 63 p., 500 ex, 2015. / A text generated with a specific artificial intelligence program. / Production : Le Fresnoy – 2015.
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