Stéphan Barron

Stéphan Barron is a contemporary artist. He developed through his artworks since the 1980s the ideas of Planetary Art and Technoromanticism. Planetary Art is an art form which takes the Earth in its planetary dimension as its basis for artistic creation. 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. Technoromanticism also seeks to analyse the return of the human body within technological arts, formulating the hypothesis that a technological society needs a corporeal rebalancing of perceptions.

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

All these artworks are documented in Stéphan Barron's HDR on the Technoromanticism website.

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

Stéphan Barron rode the Orient Express from Paris to Budapest and every hour took a Polaroid of what he saw. In Budapest the 25 Polaroids of that one-way trip were scanned on computer and sent to Paris by modem. The same process was used from Budapest to Paris, and the 25 digitised Polaroids of the return trip were sent from Paris to Budapest - Institut Français, Budapest October 1987 - New version, exhibition at OSTRALE / DRESDEN - sept. 2010.

Seven television sets showing images from the Berlin Wall and Berliners facing seven television sets showing images from China and the Great Wall.

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. With their car fax they regularly sent images and texts about their trip to other faxes located in eight different European locations (among them was Ars Electronica) - 1989.

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