Benjamin Bergery . media art

Benjamin Bergery . media art




JACOB'S DREAM Installation by Benjamin Bergery and Jim Campbell 2016 to present Grace Church Cathedral - San Francisco Low resolution images on 48 foot LED image ladder Created as part of Grace Cathedral Artist in Residence program



MIRACLE FRAGMENTS Temporary Light Installation by Benjamin Bergery and Jim Campbell February 2017 Grace Cathedral - San Francisco Entire cathedral is darkened with 12 separate light installations Created as part of Grace Cathedral Artist in Residence program




FRENCH KISS - BIG FRENCH KISS - THE BED 3 Light Installations by Benjamin Bergery with technology by Jim Campbell December 2014 Pop-up show at THE PROPERTY gallery, Los Angeles - click image for details




CHORUS LUX Light Installation by Benjamin Bergery and Jim Campbell Church of Saint Sulpice for Paris Nuit Blanche 2014 - click image for details



	RISING & FALLING color print by BenjaminBergery Water Series 2014



	BAPTISM by Benjamin Bergery Looping video installation with ultra slow motion imagery Saint Sulpice Church, Paris 2013, 2014 Meta Lab, Société des Arts Technologiques, Montreal 2014-2015


	TENEBRAE ET LUX Commission for Perth International Arts Festival 2013 by Benjamin Bergery & St George's Cathedral Consort conducted by Joseph Nolan, with director/choreographer James Berlyn & 6 dancers and technology by Jim Campbell I created a series of 10 light pieces to provide a visual countepoint to the a cappela performance of music by medieval composer Carlo Gesuald about the Passion of Christ. The Perth International Arts Festival commissioned this work to me for performances in February 2013 in Australia.
	"As if dazzled by the flash bulb of an old camera, I was left with these images burned and lingering under my eyelids" -- Melissa Lesnie "The various tableaux, redolent of the chiaroscuro of depositions, pietas and crucifixions and suchlike by Caravaggio, de la Tour, Rubens and Ribera, are as moving as they are simple" -- William Yeoman
A pdf of program notes and reviews of Tenebrae et Lux



	THE KISS light installation with technology by Jim Campbell 2 lamps with bulbs "kiss" each other with modulated brightness. Le Petit Club, Paris 2012



	PARFUM MCLUHAN, VF 18 minute, oeuvre audio, 2012 Benjamin Bergery & Luc Martinez avec Luc Courchesne Voix: Benjamin & Kim Bergery, Paule Ducharme, Cécile & Louise Guillomet Télécharger le fichier mp3: clique droit (PC) CTRL+clique (mac) Hommage acoustique à The Medium is the Massage, 1967 de Marshall McLuhan & Quentin Fiore A écouter en fond sonore. McLuhan nous enseigne que les environnements média sont invisibles, comme des parfums.

	MCLUHAN PERFUME 38 minute audio piece, 2012 Benjamin Bergery & Luc Martinez with Luc Courchesne Voices: Benjamin & Kim Bergery, Paule Ducharme, Cécile & Louise Guillomet Download the mp3 audio by ctrl+click (mac) right click (PC) McLuhan Perfume is an hommage to The Medium is the Massage, 1967 by Marshall McLuhan & Quentin Fiore A podcast to listen to in the background. McLuhan teaches us that media environments are invisible, like perfume.



	MCLUHAN MASSAGE PARLOR/ SALON DE MASSAGE MCLUHAN by Luc Courchesne with Mike Wozniewski, Benjamin Bergery, Luc Martinez, David Duguay SAT, Montreal November - December 2011 Nuit Blanche, Toronto October 1, 2011 Luc Martinez and I created the audio for this giant immersive installation.



	ANNUNCIATION DIPTYCH by Benjamin Bergery Large black & white prints on suspended steel plate Saint Jacques Saint Christophe Church, Paris 2011-2016





	CONFESSION 3 by Benjamin Bergery Saint Sulpice Church, Paris 2011, 2012 Light installation with technology by Jim Campbell 2 bare bulbs on facing chairs "speak" to each other with modulated brightness.



	EPIPHANIES by Benjamin Bergery December 2010 to January 2011 Solo show with 3 installationswith technology by Jim Campbell LUMA Loyola University Museum of Art Chicago Read the review by Sigalit Zetouni in Chicago Life, the New York Times' Midwest magazine supplement




	JACOB'S TREE by Benjamin Bergery & Jim Campbell 2009 Print with fluctuating light Texting the Torah group show The Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco



	SOTTO VOCE by Benjamin Bergery and Jim Campbell 2009 Large-scale fluctuating light installation in darkened cathedral-sized church Saint Sulpice Church, Paris a project associated with *Nuit Blanche 2009*








	EPIPHANY by Benjamin Bergery with technology by Jim Campbell 2007 Low resolution LED video installation Saint Sulpice Church, Paris 2007-2008, 2009, 2011, 2012

	Photos of Bergery studio with computers and custom LED boards by Jim Campbell



	ANNUNCIATION by Benjamin Bergery and Jim Campbell 2006 Low-resolution video triptych installation Saint Sulpice Church, Paris 2006-2007



LINKS

blog.bergery.net: sketches, portraits, inspirations

-> Benjamin Bergery's translations of Simone Weil
-> shard of an art philosophy
-> 3 pioneer interactive works
-> movies & video art
-> Jim Campbell's site

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