THE TERMINAL FOR PILGRIMAGE
Art
Yae Akaiwa & Kensuke Sembo
Exonemo invite us to take an interactive stroll between the Théâtre de Nîmes, Le Carré d’Art, La Coupole and l’école des Beaux-Arts: each of these locations houses a terminal with digital photo equipment connected to a printer. Smile! Each terminal will only reproduce a quarter of your image according to preset cropping. You have to finish the job, if you don’t want to end up with a surrealist portrait. All the photos will be transferred onto the Internet, remixed then projected every night onto the façade of the Maison Carrée !
Yae Akaiwa and Kensuke Sembo meet during college, she studying sculpture and he studying design. They start working on projects together after graduation. The word "Exonemo" is entirely made-up and meaningless: not betraying its creators' country of origin it avoids any narrow-minded reading of their work through the filter of "Japaneseness". They start the Exonemo project in 2000. Over twenty later projects and with a solid international reputation, our celestial hackers are taking up their places in Nîmes.
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