“857 clusters is an audiovisual poetry performance based on a text entitled « Vecteurs » and its extension towards multiple surfaces of code and linguistics. Slowness, precipitation, changing rhythm, agglomerates of textual atoms, letters or letter fragments: superimpositions of multiple audio and visual layers. Different surfaces collide with breaths, fragmented voices and fractured phonemes, composed/decomposed/recomposed by various kinds of digital treatments. What encounters are possible between textual, real and digital bodies? What alchemies are produced between gesture and control, between voice and text? With this project as a departure point for my virtual residency at Studio XX, my objective is the sharing and divulgation of “source codes” on the web. The online materials will be freely accessible under an open license. Beyond the performance as a punctual and time-situated event, this archiving work will incite reflection on another aesthetic form. With this work, performance is not merely presentation-based, but is also deployed into a database. We are thus dealing with another temporal and “physical” dimension of the project. What perceivable experiences does this format make available to the site’s visitors? What are the associated aesthetic implications? These are some of the questions I will be attempting to respond to during the course of this project.”
Bio
From the visual to the audio, passing by the textual, Pascale Gustin listens in order to make the music of linguistics and code emerge. If she works to deconstruct her relationship to digital objects, it is because they seem to ask her this question: which part of the machine is human and vice versa, which is the “machine” part of the human? For her research, she primarily uses the open source graphic programming environment Pure Data + Gem. She currently teaches Pure Data at the Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallee University. She gives workshops on these tools on a regular basis in art institutions as well as at the Centre de Ressources d’Arts Sensitifs à Mains d’Oeuvres (Saint-Ouen, France). Holding a degree in Fine Arts, she has published essays in journals and magazines including JAVA, Nioques and Akenaton/dock(s). Her first book « Trajets » was published by Station Mir editions in 2006. She is also the creator of digital performances presented at events such as Piksel09 (Bergen, Norway), Hacker Space Festival (Vitry-sur-Seine, France), Vision’R (Paris, France), Visionsonic (Sèvres, France), /ETC (Amsterdam, Netherlands) and Studio XX. She currently lives and works in Paris.