Herve Fischer

Herve Fischer (Paris, 1941) is a writer and Artiste of French nationality and Canadian.

Biography

Artist and philosopher, of dual nationality, Frenchwoman and Canadian, it lives in Montreal. He studied with the National university and the Université from Quebec in Montreal. He taught with the Sorbonne-Paris V and the 3Ecole Nationale Sup3erieure of decorative Arts. He was titular Chaire Daniel Langlois of digital technologies and fine arts with the Université Concordia, where he developed the project of the media lab Québécois Hexagram. He is currently professor associated with the University with Quebec in Montreal, researcher with Hexagram and the inter-University Center of arts médiatiqes, founder and director of the International observatory of the numerical one. Cofounder and theorist of the sociological art in 1971, it was dedicated thereafter to the '' mythanalyse ''.

As an artist, it was representing France with the Biennale de Venise (1974). It was invited special of the Biennale of Sao Paolo (1980), invited to the Documenta of Kassel in 1982. It had personal exposures in the museums Galliéra (Paris, 1976), ICC (Antwerp), in the museums of contemporary art of Montreal (1981), Mexico City (1983), the MNBA of Buenos Aires (2003), Montevideo (2004), Santiago of Chile (2006). Agitator of interactive ideas, according to the Le Monde newspaper, pioneer of multi-media and numerical arts in Quebec (Co-organizer of the new adventures of Marco Polo , Romance French-speaking telematics with eight authors of three continents in 1984, foundation of the Quoted of arts and new technologies of Montreal with Ginette Major in 1985, organizer of the exposures and international competition of computer animation '' Images of the future '' of 1986 to 1997, founder of the Téléscience festival in 1990, the MIM - International market of multi-media the in 1992, the first electronic Coffee in Canada in 1995), of International federation of associations of multi-media in 1997, cofounder of Science for all in 1997.

In We will be gods (2006), he revolts against the religious integrisms in growth and with the fact that more 80 % of the inhabitants of developed countries believe in the shape of god: “ Raise the head, crowd in worship, in front of non-existent gods! Cease kneeling in front of your own fears, of flagorner your own dreams, like courtiers of illusions. It is you only whom you strike by beating your coulpe. ” It opposes also two poles of the Western civilization: Athens and Jerusalem. In the Greek Polytheism, “ the man upright ” faces the gods by the experiment, the reason and philosophy, while in the Christian Monothéisme, “ the man with knees ” awaits the revelation. He is also posed against the opposition of what is natural and artificial: honey and the plastic are of comparable nature, since that they are both of the products of animals.

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