Justine Emard

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A synthetic fauna co-designed with artificial intelligence unfolds in a three-dimensional ecosystem. These chimeras-avatars are the fruit of an ingenious collaboration with generative algorithms derived from 3D scans posted online, materialising a collective dream in which artificial intelligence generates new forms of life.    
These digital entities exist in an in silicoworld where they are subject to a dynamic climate generated by the computer’s own temperature variations. As they cross thresholds, the creatures disactivate visual strata of the image, gradually making their digital environment more liveable. 

Petrified Sculptures
Drawing a parallel with palaeontology, for which a chimera is a fossil amalgamated by mistake or manipulation, the avatars in this video game transcend their virtual reality to become petrified 3D-printed sculptures. The limestone deposit gives the meshes a mineral texture and water becomes a medium of creation, freezing the artificial animals in an eternal moment.

Justine Emard

Justine Emard lives and works in Paris. 

Her work explores the new relationship developing between our lives and technology. 

By combining different image media – from photography to video and virtual reality – she situates her work at the crossroads between neuroscience, objects, organic life and artificial intelligence. Her installations take as their starting point experiments in deep learning and the dialogue between human and machine. Since 2016, she has been collaborating with scientific laboratories in Japan. She was awarded the French Institute’s Hors-les-mursresidency in Tokyo in 2017. 

Her work has been exhibited in museums such as the NRW Forum (Düsseldorf), the National Museum of Singapore, the Moscow Museum of Modern Art, the Itau Cultural Institute (Sao Paulo), the Cinémathèque Québécoise (Montreal), the Irish Museum of Modern Art (Dublin), the Mori Art Museum (Tokyo), the MOT Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, the Barbican Centre (London), the World Museum (Liverpool), the Pernod Ricard Foundation (Paris), the CNES – Centre national d’études spatiales (Paris), the Musée du Louvre-Lens and the ZKM, Zentrum für Künst und Medien (Karlsruhe). She has taken part in international biennials such as the Moscow International Biennial of Contemporary Art (Russia), the Tongyong Triennial (South Korea), the Karachi Biennial (Pakistan) and the Chengdu Biennial (China). 

In 2020, she was commissioned under the “IMAGE 3.0” national photographic project by the Centre national des arts plastiques (CNAP) in partnership with the Jeu de Paume in Paris. In 2021–2022, and again in 2023–2024, she will be a visiting artist-teacher at Le Fresnoy – Studio national des arts contemporains. Her work features in several national and international collections. In 2023, she was awarded the “100 femmes de culture” prize in France. Justine Emard is artistic director of the permanent exhibition at the French Pavilion at the upcoming World Expo in Osaka in 2025. 

www.justineemard.com

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