Cinematon

“For one evening, become the actors and actresses of a black and white film, in short sequences recorded on the Cinematon booth: it’s as easy as a photo booth! These mini-films will be brought to life thanks to a video-mapping projection, that integrates them live on the building’s windows. Whether you want to mimic a romantic scene, a Western face-off, a burlesque stunt or the fateful moment of a thriller, don’t hesitate to come in costume!”

Le Cinématon is an interactive audiovisual installation, with video-mapping on the facade of a building. The public is invited to come along and record short sequences on the Cinematon arcade booth, using a video-matting technique (a neural-network algorithm version of the cinema’s green screen).
These sequences are then replayed in the building’s windows, whose shutters open and close virtually on a range of picturesque settings: the alien planet of a sci-fi movie, an underwater backdrop, a western saloon, a disco club, or with typical cinematic effects : stop-motion, reversed shots, etc.
Behind each of the building’s windows plays a different version of Scott Joplin’s famous “Maple Leaf Rag”. This gives rise to unpredictable musical collisions as the shutters open randomly, paying an odd and heartfelt tribute to the master of rag time.

Direction & programming : Vincent Goudard
Production : AIAGOS – www.aiagos.com
Commission : Nuit Blanche / Mairie de Paris, Mairie de Cachan.

Special thanks
Anthony Rushforth for helping me with neural net programming, Marc Caira for helping to cut out the arcade machine, Aaron Jonah Lewis who kindly let me use their fantastic banjo version of Joplin’s Maple Leaf Rag (go check their bandcamp!), Jean-Jacques Jaffredo, Serge de Laubier, Gladys Brégeon, Olga and Anatole for their precious advices.

Credits
Main music theme: Scott Joplin’s “Maple Leaf Rag” (1899); Aaron Jonah Lewis : Maple Leaf Rag (Banjo version); Some sounds excerpts from freesound.org: AlienXXX, LukaCafuka, ohrpilot, Nimlos, Pfannkuchn, klankbeeld – thanks to them!

The Cinematon was premiered during the Grand Paris’ “Nuit Blanche” festival, at the Maison Raspail in Cachan, on 7th June 2025… under a stormy and rainy weather! ⛈️ ☔️ ️

Cinematon @ NuitBlanche-Facade

Cinematon @ NuitBlanche - arcade booth

Cinematon @ NuitBlanche - arcade booth

Cinematon @ NuitBlanche-Facade

Cinematon @ NuitBlanche-Facade

Cinematon @ NuitBlanche-Facade

attracteurs étranges / forages

High-resolution digital prints by FORAGES.
Pigment ink on Canson paper, 600 dpi.
Dimensions 40x60cm. Photo satin premium RC 270g.
Single copies, signed by the artists.
Contact me for price and availability [here].

“Attracteurs étranges” is a series of digital images created with custom-made chaotic algorithms for the performance “FIB_R” by FORAGES [Gladys Bregeon & Vincent Goudard].
The title refers to the mathematical object of the same name, which exhibits both a chaotic and organized nature, through aperiodic states. According to mathematician David Ruelle, who coined the term, strange attractors should help us to “elucidate the fundamental mechanisms of turbulence, chemical reactions, weather forecasting and bacterial population genetics”.

Note that previews here below are low resolution.

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FIB_R / forages

Live audio+visual performance by FORAGES.

Sounds and images are operating in real-time on stage.
FIB_R plunges us into a body, that of the optical fiber itself. The eye opens onto its invisible omnipresence, penetrates the network fabric and sounds out the running processes.
On stage, two performers enter an abstract dialogue made of textual, sonic and graphic data. This communication is caught up in a cycle of metamorphoses embodying the modalities of digital media. The network acts as a protagonist, an environment with its own rhythm and rules.
Manipulations of digital images (via multi-touch interfaces) and analog images (captured via microscope camera and endoscope) are performed live on stage. They generate and explore fiber as an organic environment, in which language, deconstructed then reconstructed, attempts to find its way from sign to poem.

FORAGES is Gladys Brégeon and Vincent Goudard.
Production : AIAGOS
Duration 40min.
Presentation [pdf].
Technical rider [pdf].

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Previous performances

L’arbre qui cachait la forêt

Sisyphus in the anthropocene hamster-wheel.

L’arbre qui cachait la forêt is a multimedia installation originally proposed for the Festival of Lights of Lyon (FR) happening on december 8th. The theme was about ecology and artists were encouraged to make use of little and/or renewable energy.

The installation consists of an interactive video projection of a tree, with the screen placed precisely where the filmed tree is located. The screen offers a view that corresponds to the perspective of the global environment. In front of this screen, a giant hamster wheel awaits a visitor. The rotation of the wheel causes the video to progress from the current date of the festival, close to the winter solstice, when the tree is apparently dead, to the summer solstice at midday, when the tree is fully green against the deep blue sky. But as soon as the visitor stops running after that desired blue summer sky, the video rewinds to the cold winter night.

Prior to the installation, the tree has been shot with timelapse photography technique during a whole season.

Vincent Goudard - L'arbre qui cachait la foret - Project preview
On-site installation preview.
Giant hamster wheel draft for the project
Giant hamster wheel draft design by Ulysse Lacoste.

107724404×8

Digital moving picture.
107724404×8 is the audiovisual rendering of a binary pdf file raw data.

The video reveals the internal structure of the file as both visual and sonic shapes. Compressed parts of the file will look and sound noisy while uncompressed parts will show redundant patterns and somewhat harmonic sound spectrum.

Original video is 10min long and 1024× 768px.
Beware of the rrrraw sound.

media music room

transforming a place into a collective audiovisual instrument

media music room is a collaborative workshop held in DauHaus, Sofia [BG], aiming at transforming a place into an interactive and collaborative music audiovisual instrument, through hacking and bending things at hand. During a week, a small team worked using all kinds of recycled and in-situ materials (bench, lamps, microphones, clothe) and softwares (max/MSP, pure data, processing, flash, etc.) to create an interactive setup, made of a bench-o-phone, ceiling-lamps-turned-to-audio-delays, pen tablet drumloop mixer, joystick-contolled sound scrubbers, audiovisual feedback and synched projection fitting the location architecture. This camp was open to any visitor as an opportunity for local people to meet, share ideas, bring their own audio/video material and conceive together. At the end of the week, an event was organized where anyone could play the multimedia instruments.

The project was also meant as a thought-provoking exchange on the notion of instrument in the contemporary society, following theories raised by John Cage or Christopher Small.

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The project took place in studio DauHaus, during my residency in Sofia at InterSpace Media Art Center.

Special thanks goes to the French Institute for their support, and to Goethe institute and Pro-Helvetia for lending beamers.