Image Beyond the Screen

5Listening to Creators in Residence

5.1. Creators, a residence and a festival

Programs, computers and projectors are the daily environment for contemporary projection mapping creators. Just like painters, sculptors and artists in general, the skills they deploy require long-term learning, at least as much as they depend on a particular disposition to be created. The medieval apprentice painter lives with his master for five to six years and the first tasks he is initiated in are primarily material. As Pascale Bédard (2014, p. 51) says: “To be an artist is to practise a profession, that is, to acquire and put into practice skills in the accomplishment of a particular manufacture, that of a material or performative art object.” Thus, 17th Century Dutch painting frequently depicts the artist’s daily work in his studio as hard work. The painter is represented at work, with his tools: palette, brushes, knife, hand support, etc. However, David Hockney (2001) points out that art history frequently mobilizes faith in the artistic gift, which reduces our ability to think about the artist’s work in its multiple dimensions. In our case, the training in the practice and tools specific to projection mapping is long and complex. It requires patience from the creator to reach the knowledge of a tool and the ease of its practice.

As part of the first edition of the Video Mapping Festival, thirteen creators in residence at the Arenberg Creative Mine site produced works that were broadcast ...