LINES / TRAITS / LINIEN / LINEAS - 1989
Austellung - Exhibition 2011 (pdf)
Stephan Barron and Sylvia Hansmann followed the Greenwich Meridian by car from the English Channel to the Mediterranean Sea and from Villers-sur-Mer to Castillon de la Plana.
With their car fax they regularly sent images and texts about their trip to other faxes located in 8 different European locations (among them was Ars Electronica).
The straight line drawn by the two artists was materialised by fax Transmissions in the 8 exhibition spaces and in the spectator's mind by imaginary lines, projections of the original meridian.
Stephan Barron and Sylvia Hansmann thus created a new representation of line, one of the first symbols of humanity, a mental representation that integrated space, time and the human imagination. Pierre Restany talks about the "fractalisation of the meridian".
Gallery (Artworks related to LINES project).
The catalogue of Lines, includes texts by Pierre restany, Markus Müller, et Mario Costa est un objet d'artiste édité par Rien de Spécial. All these texts are available in pdf format here or in the EARTH ART CD ROM |
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Le Méridien touche la Villers-sur-mer (Normandy) |
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A new version of the video LINES will be available in 2009 ask Stéphan Barron |
Pause sur le méridien |
HATTINGER Gottfried , "Linien von Stéphan Barron und Sylvia Hansmann", Ars Electronica Festival Programm, Im Netz der System, sept. 1989, Linz, p.30 "El centre Espais entra en un viatge artistic a traves del telecopiador", Avui, 6 Sept. 89, Barcelona BARBU Théo, "The fax a new medium arouses new concepts", Artspeak, Novembre 1989 Vol XI n°5, New York COSTA Mario, "Le voyage de Stéphan et Sylvia", Catalogue du projet Traits, Ed. Rien de Spécial, Secqueville-en-Bessin, 1990 Texte original en italien: "Il viaggio di Stéphan e Sylvia "
ENGEL Jürgen, Ein Salto..., Artist Kunstmagazin, février 1991 n°8, Brême, pp.10-11 |
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Les 848 télécopies de TRAITS |
CAPELLA Anna, "Installacio del projecte Linies", Catalogue Espais Activitats 1989, Ed. Espais, Girona, 1990, p.159
CHABERT Ghilaine, "Un support artistique inattendu : La télécopie", Le journal du téléphone, Avril 1990 n°7, pp. 51 à 55
"Linien", Kunstforum International n°101, Juin 1989, p. 432
BARRON Stéphan, " Lines: A project by Stéphan Barron and Sylvia Hansmann ", Connectivity : Art and interactive Telecommunications, Leonardo, Vol 24 n°2, 1991, Berkeley, pp.185-186
MÜLLER Markus, "Linien", Catalogue du projet Traits, Ed. Rien de Spécial, Secqueville-en-Bessin, 1990
french translation : "Traits"
POPPER Frank, L'art à l'age électronique, Ed. Hazan, Paris, 1993, p.133
FALGAS Jordi, "Stéphan Barron i Sylvia Hansmann", Punt Diari, n°3295, 24 Sept. 1989, Gérone
RESTANY Pierre, "Le méridien ou le trait fractalisé", Catalogue du projet Traits, Ed. Rien de Spécial, Secqueville-en-Bessin, 1990
More detailed texts on this artwork are available from Stéphan BARRON's HDR on Technoromanticism's website and in the Earth Art CD Rom