From Scenography to Planetary Network for Shanghai 2010

Franck Ancel

Born in 1970, France, Franck Ancel lives in Paris. He has been probing technology for more than fifteen years. He has traced the development from the avant-garde artists of the last century to the recent mutations of creation on a planetary scale. He has thus organized and coordinated symposiums, expositions, and performances in cooperation with associations and institutions. The last one was a retrospective on Jacques Polieri, the creator of "modern scenography," at the BnF. Since the attacks of 9/11, Franck Ancel has set up an interactive triptych probing "architecture - image - technology" on 20th century heritage sites. In 2002, he put it in the Le Corbusier/Xenakis convent; in 2003 in a classified theater in Catalogne; and in 2004 on the screen of Montparnasse Tower in Paris. Franck Ancel challenges the viewer outside traditional frontiers, by projecting a setting of a network of information on screens. At the same time, he analyzes this technique on a more theoretical level in texts and talk. It encloses thus in 2005 a cycle of five communications for five continents.