{"id":12077,"date":"2025-02-28T16:44:57","date_gmt":"2025-02-28T16:44:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lichtrouten.de\/?p=12077"},"modified":"2025-03-19T15:16:04","modified_gmt":"2025-03-19T15:16:04","slug":"joanie-lemercier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lichtrouten.de\/en\/joanie-lemercier\/","title":{"rendered":"Joanie Lemercier"},"content":{"rendered":"

AI SUMMIT<\/p>\n

Using a portable laser display, French visual artist Joanie Lemercier projected images and texts onto the fa\u00e7ade of the Grand Palais in Paris ahead of the opening of the Artificial Intelligence Summit in 2025. For Lemercier, AI development with people like Elon Musk and Donald Trump is being driven by a far-right turbo-capitalism outside of any democratic process.<\/p>\n

JOANIE LEMERCIER<\/p>\n

Joanie Lemercier is a French visual artist and environmental activist whose work explores human perception through the manipulation of light in space. Working primarily with light projection and computer programming, Lemercier transforms the appearance of everyday objects and forms, bending reality to his imagination. His work transcends the flat surface, extending dimensionality through the interplay of light and shadow on materials such as wood, glass, paper, ceramics, textiles and water. Lemercier was first introduced to the process of creating art on a computer at age five by attending classes on pattern design for fabrics that were taught by his mother. This early education grounded his interest in physical structures: geometry, patterns, and minimalist forms. As Lemercier\u2019s work evolved, he began to explore these elements through the physics and philosophy of how light can be used to alter perceived reality.<\/p>\n

Much of Lemercier\u2019s practice is inspired by nature and reflects on the representation of the natural world through mathematics, science, and technology. Abstract environments rendered as refined grids, lines, shadows, and volumes give way to majestic landscapes assembled from these same minimalist forms. In recent years, Lemercier has become increasingly concerned with climate change and environmental degradation, lending his projection skills and artistry to activist causes and groups such as Extinction Rebellion, Les Soul\u00e8vements de la Terre, Ende Gel\u00e4nde, meticulously tracking and publishing his studio\u2019s carbon footprint, and supporting initiatives like #CleanNFT to encourage other digital artists to reduce their own environmental impact. His latest video installation, “Slow Violence”, premiered at Fundaci\u00f3n Telef\u00f3nica in 2021 on the occasion of the artist\u2019s first major solo show. It takes a look at the devastating effects of coal mining in one of Europe\u2019s oldest forests. Lemercier has been working with projected light since 2005 and co-founded the acclaimed visual label AntiVJ with artists Yannick Jacquet, Romain Tardy and Olivier Ratsi in 2006. He has been represented by a New York based gallery since 2010. Focusing his practice on installations and gallery work, he has been exhibited around the globe in institutions such as the China Museum of Digital Art in Beijing, Art Basel Miami, Sundance Film Festival, Espacio Fundaci\u00f3n Telef\u00f3nica in Madrid. He collaborates with several sound artists: Murcof, Flying Lotus, JayZ, Before Tigers, Thomas Vaqui\u00e9..
\nSince founding his creative studio in Brussels in 2013, Lemercier has been developing ever more ambitious installations, gallery pieces, and research experiments that expand the creative possibilities of projected light in space. In recent years, he has sought to completely dematerialize the projection surface, working with transparent materials and water mist.<\/p>\n

LINKS<\/p>\n

joanielemercier.com<\/a>
\n@joanielemercier<\/a><\/p>\n

FEATURED IMAGE<\/p>\n

Joanie Lemercier: AI Summit. Paris 2025. Photo: Joanie Lemercier.<\/p>\n

PROTESTS BY NIGHT: LIGHT FOR FREEDOM<\/h2>\n

Documentations of Art Projects \u2014 curated by Thomas Schielke.
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Alexis Anastasiou<\/a><\/h6><\/div><\/div>\n
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Delight Lab<\/a><\/h6><\/div><\/div>\n
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Joanie Lemercier<\/a><\/h6><\/div><\/div>\n
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JR, Darren Aronofsky<\/a><\/h6><\/div><\/div>\n
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Kein Bock auf Nazis<\/a><\/h6><\/div><\/div>\n
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Krzysztof Wodiczko<\/a><\/h6><\/div><\/div>\n
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Led by Donkeys<\/a><\/h6><\/div><\/div>\n
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No Somos Delito<\/a><\/h6><\/div><\/div>\n
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Rafael Lozano-Hemmer<\/a><\/h6><\/div><\/div>\n
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Robin Bell<\/a><\/h6><\/div><\/div>\n
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The Illuminator<\/a><\/h6><\/div><\/div>\n
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Vjaybombs<\/a><\/h6><\/div><\/div>\n
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Zentrum f\u00fcr politische Sch\u00f6nheit<\/a><\/h6><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/p>\n

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