Bologna in Lettere 10th
BĂBÉL
stati di alterazione
ARTE-FATTI CONTEMPORANEI
a cura di Maria Korporal
Roland Quelven
K R Y P T O S – G R A P H E I N
Born in 1967. Lives in Brittany. Graduated in mathematics, painter, video artist and sound collagist. He collaborates with various artists, is involved in several collaborative projects, and his works are screened in many international videoart festivals. In 2009 he created the multimedia project «Napolecitta or the fractals virtues of Detail»: digital and sound collages, flash animations in a website devoted to a description of an ancient imaginary city named Napolecitta (fusing Napoli and Cinecitta). Since 2010 the ancient city has become an encyclopedic and imaginary world also named Napolecitta. Most of the videoworks are numbered, gathered as a register, an imaginary official record, a combination of numbers, maps, writings, paintings, masterpieces of Art history, video footage, video materials recorded digitally assembled as palimpsests. All this seen through the prism of the Detail. The reality concentrates as the fragment stands out… seeing through the prism of the Detail, whether iconic or pictorial, produces always the same effect: an « invitation to travel inside ».
K R Y P T O S – G R A P H E I N
“Turing believes machines think / Turing lies with men / Therefore machines do not think”.
A syllogism by Alan Turing.
K R Y P T O S – G R A P H E I N as non-narrative, non-pedagogical, non-chronological C I P H E R L I S T. The concept of List echoing to Umberto Eco’s words:”The list is the origin of culture. It’s part of the history of art and literature. What does culture want? To make infinity comprehensible. It also wants to create order – How does one attempt to grasp the incomprehensible? Through lists, through catalogs, through collections in museums and through encyclopedias and dictionaries.”