Jim Rolland

France

Jean-Michel Rolland is a French artist born in 1972. For a long time, he has been a musician and a painter, combining his two passions - sound and image - in digital arts since 2010. Through video art, generative art, audiovisual performances, and interactive installations, he questions temporality, the true fourth dimension inherent in moving images, as well as the duality between his two preferred mediums, sound and visual.

His formal research is guided by the desire to reveal the intrinsic nature of our perceptual environment and to twist it in order to create new realities in the world around us.

His works, always highly experimental, reflect the sometimes unexpected inner world of their author and yet enjoy significant international exposure.

Several of his works have been recognized for their originality by institutions such as the United Nations University (Dresden, Germany), Digital Graffiti in Miami (USA), Multimatograf (Russia), dokumentART (Germany and Poland), the University of North Carolina (USA), Festival do Minuto (Brazil), Artaq (France), ArchiShorts (Canada), and The International Video Art Review (Poland).


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Upside-down 5

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Upside-Down is a series of five photovideographic artworks that follow a similar basic rule: the photographs used are the right way around at the start of the video and end upside down.
But the important thing is what happens between these two moments: the colors migrate from top to bottom and bottom to top at different speeds, leaving trails in their path.
Those at the bottom meet those at the top towards the middle of the screen and their hugs constitute the climax of the work (which lasts about thirty seconds in the middle of the videos).
We go from figurative to abstract to return to figuration with displacement. The images are transformed into moving abstract paintings to regain their original altered form.

technique

generative art

format

landscape

duration

03:02

year

2023

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