{"id":12539,"date":"2021-04-22T18:00:55","date_gmt":"2021-04-22T16:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.laval-virtual.com\/?p=12539"},"modified":"2021-04-23T10:09:41","modified_gmt":"2021-04-23T08:09:41","slug":"look-back-at-the-4th-edition-of-digital-art-festival-recto-vrso","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.laval-virtual.com\/en\/look-back-at-the-4th-edition-of-digital-art-festival-recto-vrso\/","title":{"rendered":"Look back at the 4th virtual edition of digital art festival Recto VRso"},"content":{"rendered":"

On April 14-16, the international digital art festival Recto VRso took place online in the Laval Virtual World. Created in 2018 by the Laval Virtual exhibition, the festival was organizing its 4th edition. Let’s look back at this exclusive virtual event with Judith Guez, founder and curator.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Key figures of this 100% virtual Recto VRso<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This year, the edition of Recto VRso was totally new. Facing the health crisis, the festival became a 100% virtual<\/strong> event. For Judith Guez<\/a> and her team, it was “a<\/em> challenge a completely new format<\/em>”. The programme of this virtual edition included: conferences, live performances, meetings, seminars and exhibition spaces. “Normally, Recto VRso mostly proposes exhibitions. This year, we had a virtual 3-day conference programme!”<\/em>, explains Judith.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In the end, 800 curious people registered to attend this 4th edition to discover digital art. 45 countries<\/strong> were represented among the visitors, speakers, exhibitors, artists and other professionals. 36 speakers carried out conferences, with still a high percentage of international people. In the “Areas”, we counted 40 exhibition spaces and 8 research-creation seminars. Finally, 30 artists exhibited online, presenting their artwork on the event website<\/a>. Very good results for this premiere!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A large focus on digital art<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The theme of the 4th edition of Recto VRso festival was: “Virtual Exhibition<\/strong> \/ Real Exhibition: Online art”. Artists, culture professionals and creators conducted reflections on artistic adaptations during the current period. How are works now distributed online? What happens to the artwork in virtual adaptations? What new artistic forms are emerging in these online spaces? This unique edition was also an opportunity to build a link with the history of digital art and Net Art. “We invited Maurice Benayoun, pioneering digital art artist, and who has been participating in Laval Virtual for many years, as well as Maxence Grugier, journalist, who is interested in historical evolutions of this domain”, <\/em>tells Judith.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Other professionals from the cultural sector talked about hot topics, like Roei Amit from Réunion des Musées Nationaux – Grand Palais<\/a>, Valérie Hasson-Benillouche from Galerie Charlot<\/a> – one of the only digital art galeries in Paris. They gave lectures and questioned the virtual adaptations of museums and galeries, as well as the artwork status<\/strong>. The festival welcomed Yann Minh, pioneer of cyberspace and the first to explore the creation of virtual exhibition spaces.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In parallel, the Making Lemonade <\/strong>event took place, organized by the French Embassy of Korea<\/a>, the Goethe Institut<\/a> and the Art Center Nabi<\/a> of Seoul. Some lines of thought were common to those of Recto VRso and concerned the diffusion of online art and its market. Participants “questioned the future of digital art, in relation with the current context”.<\/em> All the conferences can be watched in replay<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Making Lemonade<\/a> was a patner of the event and proposed conferences on the future of digital art.<\/p><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Artistic effervescence has spread to the programme<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Even if the edition was virtual, Judith Guez had at heart to propose moments to meet and enjoy artistic performances. During the 3 days, two artists collecive put on a show! On the first night, the collective In-Dialog<\/a>, composed of artists, designers, developers and researchers, presented its latest project on live. “Birds of Springs” is an audio-visual performance<\/strong>, with poetic overtones, to be admired with contemplation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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For the closing night, Cookie Collective<\/a> gave a live performance of Creative Coding<\/strong>. It is a form of algorithmic art creation; artist-developers use code and mathematical formulas in real time to make an image evolve. The performance took the form of battles: two people confront each other live for several minutes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n