Biography
Cécile Babiole is a french artist based in Paris. In the 80s she is first active in the music field, then in electronic and digitals arts. Her creations combine visual and audio arts through installations and performances that investigate digital medias with irony. Image, sound and interactivity are the components of her practice. From performance dispositive to participative installations, her recent work concentrate more on technology issues. She aims to transpose and twist around the standardised uses in the field of creation. The industry and apparatus appears like a common thread running throughout all her work : engines or sewing machines concerts, installations on a bus or in a mine, digital making. Cecile Babiole integrates the field of mechanical device and mass culture to draw a confrontation between creativity and determinism, past and present usage, obsolete and contemporary techniques.
Her work has been exhibited internationally : Centre Pompidou Paris, Mutek – Montreal Elektra, Fact Liverpool, MAL Lima, NAMOC Beijing… and distinguished with numerous awards and grants : Ars Electronica, Locarno, prix SCAM, bourse Villa Médicis, Transmediale Berlin, Stuttgart Expanded Media Festival…
She is also a member of the artists-curators collective Le sans titre and Roberte la Rousse.
DOCUMENTS
CONTACT
cecile[AT]babiole.net
PRESS
PDF : Détournement de sons, Mouvement n° 59, 2009
PDF : Cécile Babiole, transpositions transcodage et manipulation, MCD no 51, 2009
PDF : Cécile Babiole and Laurent Dailleau, Art Forum no 1064, 2009
PDF : Cube festival, quand les arts numériques arrivent en ville, poptronics, juin 2009
PDF : Cochonneries électroniques, Libération, 2006
PDF : Circulez y’a rien à voir, Mouvement.net, 2003
PDF : Portrait Cécile Babiole, Inrockuptibles, 1998
PUBLICATIONS
PDF : Shining Field, Éditions de l’Ecole des beaux arts de Rennes, 2008
PDF : Cécile Babiole Transpositions, Semaine 34.09, 2009
PDF : Fugue, Catalogue de l’exposition à la galerie Coullaud & Koulinsky, janvier 2013