REYNALD DROUHIN



Defragmentation of the Internet by Images: With the aid of one or several "key words": to determine the images that will be researched (mosaic modules) to recompose the image that you have submitted (the matrix).

"Des frags" is a project using the resources available on the Net and to put them to a different purpose than that for which they were originally designed. For this, the project is, in appearance, very simple: using existing tools available on the web to create the final work (from/by and with the Net). "Des frags"is the defragmentation of the Internet. A multitude of information is available on the web, and this project allows all this information to coexist together in the one final image: a matrix that will serve as a global reference point of the different elements of which it is composed.

"Des frags"is also a "blow"(a murder for players of video games) meaning a "hold-up"of existing images on the Net: the appropriation of a raw material present on the web and reactivation of this "dead", archived memory into a live, ephemeral memory.



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Both net and video artist, Reynald Drouhin has presented his work in Montreal at the Biennale de Montreal and at the festival Champ Libre manifestation internationale video et art electronique in 1999. He has also participated in ISEA 97 Chicago, Imagina à Monaco (1998) and the Web Art Festival « Web bar » (1999) in Paris. Drouhin has received the Grand Prix at the Cyberfestival in Rueil-Malmaison in 1999 and the Multimedia price at DRAC Auvergnes/Vidéoformes in Clermont-Ferrand in 1997. Since 1990, Reynald work on many Web art sites and numeric projects. Artist-teacher in Fine Art at Rennes in France since 2000.


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