Valentin Sismann

Desktopsongs is a cycle of video pieces questioning our relationship with technology. Each work - inspired by desktop movie practice - is a musical system dependent on a visual process, tending towards an economy of the device. The cycle includes Screensong, questioning data privacy, Simonsong, questioning technological hegemony in the world of contemporary music, Playpausesong, questioning mass media consumption, and Playersong, questioning the mediatization of weapons over the Internet.

Through video, Valentin Sismann develops a body of work based on reflections on media, music and fixed media writing . Inspired by the processes of electroacoustic composition, these works tend towards the construction of new devices. It's a continuation of his musical thinking, inextricably linked to a play with the technological orthoses of memory: recording media. His major cycle of video works - entitled Desktopsongs - illustrates all these preoccupations, while other works such as Plasformes and Autoportrait also have pictorial stakes, in the manner of moving paintings.