Olivier Heinry
a few statements
Organicité et feuilletage, a statement in French about the uses and evolutions of the matrix in a light design context.
Biography
(taken from my portfolio)
Born 1974 in Quimper (France). Lives in Nantes. Works elsewhere.
Graduated from the Rennes Fine Arts School in 2000, after studies at the University of Rennes II and the Hfbk Hamburg. After early performances with the Ex-TV & PlugAnd.play artist collectives, started working for the stage thanks to Bruno Pocheron and have since then been mainly working as a sound, video and interface designer with French & German choreographers (Isabelle Schad/Good Work Productions, Amaraoui/Burner, David Rolland, Blanca Li) and theater directors (Judith Depaule, Thierry Bédard), or visual artists (Carl Marquis, Claire Pollet).
Performs irregularly under the Gary Glitcher nickname weird duets (w/ Olivier Baudu, Boris Hauf, Emoc, VJ Discomolino). Involved in the free software artistic scene with the Servideo collective from Paris, as well as Ping in Nantes, gives workshops and trainings about interactive art, Puredata, audio & video on Linux. Also part of different networks such as Labtolab, Rose des vents numériques, Gangplank and Labsurlab.
2009 he performed at Nantes Fine-Arts Museum a solo performance entitled 74 minutes (over Eindhoven), based upon glitched audio Cds, as well as Destructibility++, a fork featuring dancer Jean-Gérald Dorseuil in Berlin.
His next projects are T(h)alweg, both a performance and an audio installation adapted from/with Catherine Lenoble topofictional novel Petit bain (festival sonor at Lieu Unique, March 2011). He's also working on Severe Moral Purity with Bruno Hauf & Boris Pocheron, Mali Motion, a joyful video gig with the Yeta collective from Bamako. 2012 starts a collaboration with Aniara Rodado & Jacques Urbanska, a nomadic workshop across Europe & Mexico.
Interests (2009)
- network interactions (OSC, http, video streaming)
- human-machine interfaces to be used on stage (touchscreen, motorized knobs and faders, cams)
- sound and video synthesis
- free software
- free hardware
- common knowledge database (wikis, collaborative software development, collaborative document writing)
- developing a networked machine running free software that can play audio, video, DMX with great ease of use
Bio (2009)
During his wild youth in Rennes and Hamburg, Olivier Heinry took part to numerous mixed media performances, with the exTV group together with Emmanuel Debare , as well as with the PlugAnd.play group with Bertrand Gondouin in numerous festivals, art galleries and flats. He's also worked as a DJ and a webmaster, collaborated to a German architecture studio before turning to stage video and sound after graduating from the Rennes Fine Arts School in 2000.
He's collaborated as a video designer with French directors Judith Depaule ( Accrochez-moi 2001, Qui ne travaille pas ne mange pas 2004, Ce que j'ai vu et appris au goulag, interactively driven by the actors, 2005),Thierry Bédard (épilogue des Noyés, created in La Réunion, 2005), and with French choreographer David Rolland (C'est bien d'être ailleurs aussi, 2005, Pavillon with Anne de Sterk, 2007 & Êtes-vous donc 2009) as well as Berlin-based Schad/Pocheron/Gies/Pelmus Still Lives. He also tours with Blanca Li (Corazon Loco, 2007, Le Jardin des Délices, 2009).
He's also designed sound for visual artists Carl Marquis (Il reste 2 minutes à jouer, video soundtrack, 2002) and toured for Nabih Amaraoui & Mathieu Burner's One to One dance piece since 2003. He's also collaborated to Isabelle Schad's The better you look, the more you see (2002) as an all-around video-audio-interaction twister, in Judith Depaule's tribute to oriental dance Qui a tué Ibrahim Akef? since 2007, for video featuring beat detection and pitch tracking.
Olivier Heinry is also largely committed into the topics network, free software, free hardware and knowledge transmission. Apart from his stage activities, he's therefore been involved in workshops (Echtzeit, Art Gallery 40mCube in Rennes 2003, Video and theater in Brazzaville, 2007 with Judith Depaule, Je m'appelle Marylin, 2005 , study for a realtime video performance by Vincent Gillois, OSCream, open networked workshop in Reson'R festival Main d'Oeuvres and Festival des O1 Labomedia Orléans 2008 with the [http://crealab.info/zone/doku.php Crealab]...)
and a few collective projects: projet [http://www.servaux.org Servaux], an independently-run Internet server helping to cross-breed ingeneers, artists and activists (2003-2008), [http://wiki.servideo.org Servideo], a group of artists involved in streaming and real-time video using free software (since 2005), both based in Paris, and [http://crealab.info/zone/doku.php Crealab], a bunch of people based in Nantes involved in open-source collaboration, since 2007.
He lately programmed Claire Pollet's interactive installation Reste (2008), running on free software (and not so free hardware!). His next collaborations feature Isabelle Schad and Simone Aughterlony Sweet dreams are made of this and Sylvie Dyclopomos La folie de Janus directed by Judith Depaule. First new performance in years entitled 74 minutes over Eindhoven (under the Gary Glitcher nickname) should pop up next summer as well.
Olivier Heinry has an homonym, a French visual artist who graduated 1997 from the same fine arts school. If you come to see a sculpture in an art gallery or a biennale that bears his name, then you must have picked the other one!