"Technology is no stranger to Jacques Perconte; he uses its defects as inspiration, pushing it to its limits and incorporating its margin of error into his creative practice. For Perconte, information technology is capable of providing an accurate representation of the world - not because of its capacity to capture and process the appearance of reality, but because of the chromatic vibrations that it emits, which are not merely mimetic vibrations, but can be compared to the vibrations of reality itself." - Nicole Brenez
"The power of Jacques Perconte's imagery is startling. From the density of his auto-generated formations to the disappearance of those same images, his work comprises both pulsation and backwash; a chormatic intensity which generates texture and whose giant pixels cause colour to dilute, circulate and bleed from one shot to the next. The high fidelity and mimetic precision of digital imagery is diverted by Perconte's radical gesture, which attacks the binary root of digital information in order to access the vibrations of reality." - Smaranda Olcése
"Jacques Perconte manipulates coding and compression in real time, a technique which recalls the work of the early experimental filmmakers, who grafted and burned their film strips, or covered them with ink. This demented filmmaker is nostalgic for the primal strength of the "landscape moment"; in compensation for its absence, he controls the digital image until he retrieves the immediacy of a digital landscape. Whether monocrome or in full melstdown mode, his pixelated images leave space for the human form to emerge." - Juliette Verga
This DVD Contains:
SNSZ, 2002, 29 min 29 sec
UAOEN, 2003, 30 min
ISZ, 2003, 16 min 41 sec
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Extras
Contains a 44-page bi-lingual boolket in French and English
