Stéphan Barron

Technoromanticism is the theory of links between art and new technologies, within the context of the threats posed to Nature by technoscience and economic development.

"Stéphan Barron occupies, in Europe, a prominent place in the search for a spatio-temporal definition of the video image.

[5] Satellite audio transmission and slow-scan TV between the medieval church of Thaon in Normandy, France, and The Cloisters in New York City - June 1987.

[6] Only satellite transmission by a European artist, this artwork anticipates global or planetary art which developed later with the internet.

[8] Transtlantic installation for the transinteractifs - Paris / Toronto - November 1988 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.

Stephan Barron built this telephone-operated robot in collaboration with the engineer Jerome Gilbert, a specialist in home automation - 1991.

The project was carried out at the Brandenburg Gate, symbol of the immaterial border between east and west - Sakchewsky Galery, Berlin - 1991.

The same planetary interactive installation was shown between Paris and Munich in 1995 (Unesco Award) - Tourcoing School of Art - 1994.

[13] Two computers, one in Brazil, one in Australia, averaged the images of the skies of the two countries - Arte tecnologia, São Paulo - 1995.

[14] Measurements taken of ozone produced by motor car pollution in the city of Lille, and measurements taken of ultraviolet radiation coming through the ozone layer were transformed into sounds via the Internet that were projected onto the streets of Roubaix and in the garden of the Old Treasury Building in Adelaide - Adelaide International Festival - 1996.

This cubic labyrinth is formed by stacking 25 QR codes tracing the path of Leopold Bloom, hero of James Joyce's Ulysses through the streets of Dublin.

[25] Installation of 14 digital photograph sized 120x160 in FRUC Artcenter, Montpellier - July 2003 Videotape (18 min) + Sound of the stones and clash of primitive materials: earth, straw, grass and sky.

Music: Deficit Des Années Anterieures - 1985 Videotape (4 min 30 sec) + New York, machine, mechanical constraints with muffled sounds.