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PRESENTATION

Alexandre Berthier, coordinator in Paris for INTACT project.

Contact: alexberthier@intact01.net
www.marswalkers.org

Alexandre Berthier (1975) is a multimedia artist working in collaboration with Karl-Otto von Oertzen under the name the Marswalkers. They developed several projects including video and/or sound based installations, photography, films, sound and/or network based performances, as well as social projects using telesharing tools to connect different communities in the world.
Their work is visible at www.marswalkers.org

[+] Alexandre Berthier cried for the first time in Paris the 24th of December, 1975
Living at 77 rue Vitry 93100 Montreuil France

Studies

2004-2005, Preparing a Master of Arts in Liberal Studies,
University of Maine in Orono, USA.

June 2003, National Diploma of Artistic Expression (MA), Fine Art School of Cergy-Pontoise, Paris, France.

June 2001, National Diploma of Plastic Art (BA), Fine Art School of Cergy-Pontoise, Paris, France.

Professional side

Summer 2005, video editing for Windows On Maine, historical films database.

August 2004, organizer of the Without Borders exhibition in Orono, Maine.

Since September 2003, Teaching Assistant at the New Media Department, University of Maine.

January 2003, photographer for a musician’s portraits, for press magazine.

September 2002 - March 2003, invited artist in the project E-GALAB, creation of a virtual collaborative 3D space for artists on the web; part of the European Commission Culture 2000, with the participation of CIANT (international centre of art and new technologies) in Prague, CYPRES (intercultural centre for practice, research and interdisciplinary exchanges) in Marseille, and MIDE (museo internacional d’electrografia) in Cuenca.

November 2002, director of a video-clip for the French band Ali Dragon, in collaboration with Karl-Otto von Oertzen.

March-June 2002, invited artist to work on the experimentation of performances on the web, through high bandwidth connection, for the Research Centre of the Wimbledon School of Art directed by William Furlong; in collaboration with karl-Otto von Oertzen.

February 2002, photographer for the band Cocosuma, for press magazine.

August 2001, stage-designer and property master on the short-film « le fruit de nos entrailles », Little Bear productions.

September 1998, set-photographer on the short-film Popcorn, Adr productions.

January-April 1998, technical assistant for Cinedoc, Paris Film Cooperation for the diffusion of experimental cinema.

July 1997, set-photographer for the short-film Comme une bete immobilière, Jsbc Prod.

Exhibitions/Performances

In September 2004, Courants d’Ere was shown at “Désert”, 6th International Exhibition of Video and Electronic Art, presented by Champ Libre in Montreal, Canada.

In August 2004, In Between was shown at “Without Borders”, Ayers Island Contemporary Arts Festival, Orono, Maine.
In March 2003, Courants d’Ere and Inutile,Necessaire were shown at “Plugged In Fest”, Maine Center For Contemporary Art, Rockport, Maine.

In October 2003, Inutile, Necessaire was shown at the gallery La Vitrine, Paris.

In April 2003, sound performance for the festival Avril.Exe at Confluences, Paris.

In February 2003, MIDE (museo internacional d’electrografia) in Spain bought 2 photography from the Time Stretch series.
In November 2002, OTTO was selected and shown at the European Short-Film Festival of Brest.

In October 2002, OTTO was shown at the Festival Des Jeunes Realisateurs at Accatone cinema in Paris, organized by the « Henri Langlois » association.

In Septembre 2002, London, Exchange Place and OTTO were shown at Funduns in kassel, Germany.

In June 2001, sound performance for Confluences, Paris.
In December 2001, Pas réel(s) and Appuie et puis? were shown at the 3rd Festival of Different Cinema, at La Clef in Paris.

In April 2001, collective exhibition “Petits Bouquins”, at the gallery l’Apocope in Marseille, presentation of a photographic book made in collaboration with Laure Bollinger.

In December 2000, collective exhibition “Picnic”, in the studio of the Tsé-Tsé designers, presentation of a performance/installation.

In May 1998, collective photographic exhibition at the University of Harvard, USA.

Filmography

1995 : Efflorescence.
Super8 movie, color/black&white, duration 4 min.
in collaboration with Hugo Verlinde.
« How a flower’s discovery can transform the look upon the city. »

1996 : La Démolition.
Super8 movie, black&white, silent, duration 3 min.
In collaboration with Stephane Perraud and Martin de Chabaneix.
« 2 characters seem to wake up with the purpose of destroying the room’s wall to go to the
other side. Like a transition to another state. »

1998 : Lonely woman.
Super8/video movie, color, duration 5 min.
In collaboration with Alexis Drai .
Based on a song by Ornette Coleman.
“At the beginning is a jazz piece inspiring a visual world, at the end is a fiction built
like a musical video.”

1999 : Pas réel(s).
Video film, color, duration 2 min.
“Observing a behavior from the reality, filming it and then building/destroying this
material, in crescendo until the abstraction.”

2000 : Appuie et puis ?
Video film, color, duration 1 min.
“Taking the action of pushing on a switch, getting rid of the consequence and simply
keeping the gesture for what it represents, multiplying it and then inverting the logical
consequence’s order.”

2002 : OTTO.
16mm film, color, duration 5 min.
“Inside spaces represented only by circles, a character is moving and seems to search for
something. We can’t figure his motivation: does he have a quest? Is he running away?
Is he influenced by the environment?”