Yann Le Guennec
Since the beginning
Works in France

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BIO
Yann Le Guennec is a visual artist, born 1968 in Brittany, France, where he lives and works.

He holds a Master Degree in Fine Arts from ESA Lorient. He was cofounder and worked for x-arn from 1998 to 2003. He teached at L'École de design Nantes Atlantique from 2001 to 2010.

His current artistic work is based on simple instructions that involve geometric compositions. These instructions are carried out in the form of photographs of arrangements made with available objects and materials in his local environment, and / or digital pictures modified by online softwares. These softwares use available data, mainly the IP addresses of devices that connected to his website.

The set of generated pictures constitutes a visual research on the existence of margins of freedom and action within a defined framework of rules and constraints. While in the extension of conceptual practices like those from Sol LeWitt, Claude Rutault, or algorithmic visual games from François Morellet, the various embodiments are an exploration of possible contexts allowing the existence of a contemporary art practice, mixing analog and digital, included in some banality of an everyday life that is not devoid of poetry.

Selected group exhibitions

2009 - TOOL BOX (as part of the exhibition ‘Urban Ping Pong’ curated by Emmanuel Ropers). Galerie Fernand Leger. Centre d'art contemporain d'Ivry, France.
2009 - Si j’avais un marteau!, base d'Appui d'Entre-deux, Nantes, France.
2008 - TOOL BOX. Commissariat: Jacques Rivet, Marie-Laure Viale, Ghislain Mollet-Viéville et Christian Ruby. base d'Appui d'Entre-deux, Nantes, France.
2007 - The Latency of the Moving Image in New Media. Curated by Eduardo Navas. Telic Arts Exchange, Los Angeles, USA

Selected publication

« Metaphor of the Merchant’s Table », /seconds, issue 10: 03/2009. ISSN 1751-4134. Useless Beauty and Fuzzy Logic: correlations of violence.
http://www.slashseconds.org/issues/003/002/articles/yleguennec/

Selected bibliography

Barker, Tim. "Error, the Unforeseen, and the Emergent: The Error and Interactive Media Art." M/C Journal 10.5 (2007). 21 Jun. 2010 http://journal.media-culture.org.au/0710/03-barker.php
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DISCUSSION

Re: fractal geometry


Dirk Vekemans wrote:
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> Interesting. I'm doing sth similar at the east gate of my Cathedral,
> generating animated wheel drawings from my site statistics, see
> http://www.vilt.net/nkdee/east/

i'm sure you also know 'anemone' from Ben Fry ?
http://acg.media.mit.edu/people/fry/anemone/

programming with web server logs is now like painting with acrylics.

> What's your experience with the runme.org?
> Getting any feedback there?

no, runme is a good database but not a good place for feedback or discussion.

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> dv
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>>Dirk Vekemans wrote:
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>>>Everybody dripping differently,
>>>mastery would then be something like being gifted with a talent for
>>>beautiful motion (dancing) and developing it over the years
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>>through a
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>>>feedback process (the paintings-residual output of the
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>>intense moments).
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>>oups, sorry for self-promo, but you should also check this
>>'statistic dripping' experiment:
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>>http://www.datapainting.com/infoscape/01/index.html
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>>'click to re-generate'
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>>"In Statistic Dripping, the canvas is a picture selected on
>>the network by the painter. The painter is the user of the
>>application. The movement is the trace of website visitors
>>displacements, treated by the software."
>>
>>http://www.runme.org/project/+StatisticDripping/
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DISCUSSION

Re: Re: Re: Fwd: Wappening #2


Lee Wells wrote:

> On another note:
> Who was it that did public performances at various webcam locations?

Surveillance Camera Players ?
http://www.notbored.org/the-scp.html

DISCUSSION

Re: fractal geometry


Dirk Vekemans wrote:
> Everybody dripping differently,
> mastery would then be something like being gifted with a talent for
> beautiful motion (dancing) and developing it over the years through a
> feedback process (the paintings-residual output of the intense moments).

oups, sorry for self-promo, but you should also check this 'statistic
dripping' experiment:

http://www.datapainting.com/infoscape/01/index.html

'click to re-generate'

"In Statistic Dripping, the canvas is a picture selected on the network by
the painter. The painter is the user of the application. The movement is the
trace of website visitors displacements, treated by the software."

http://www.runme.org/project/+StatisticDripping/

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Flickr Mixr : collective art for bloggers and others


Collectively randomized superpositions
(for your own website)

http://anoptique.net/FlickrMixr

Grid examples

http://anoptique.org/FlickrMixrGrid1
http://anoptique.org/FlickrMixrGrid2

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Best,
contact (at) anoptique (dot) com

DISCUSSION

FLICKR MIX


http://www.datapainting.com/flickr/?tag=dog
http://www.datapainting.com/flickr/?tag=machine
http://www.datapainting.com/flickr/?tag=computer
http://www.datapainting.com/flickr/?tag=landscape
http://www.datapainting.com/flickr/?tag=body

As you notice, you can modify the 'tag' value in this URI in order to create
a 'tag specific' picture, generated from FLICKR last submitted photos.

http://www.datapainting.com/flickr/?tag=hum
http://www.datapainting.com/flickr/?tag=well

Then, if you have an account (or want to create one on FLICKR.COM), you can
save and post the generated picture to FLICKR.COM tagged with the word
'datapainting' in order to create a second level of FLICKR MIX. If some
people use this new tag, this second level may become visible at:

http://www.datapainting.com/

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This is a short & simple experiment - feedback welcome.