Media Mediums

Jeff Guess et Gwenola Wagon

Recherche, exposition et publication

2014

Exhibition, lectures, performances, discussions and concerts

Telegraphy, ghosts, computer networks, materializations, mesmerism, spirit telegraphy, clairvoyance, television, ectoplasms, electronic voice phenomena, telephony, suggestion, extraterrestrials, aether and fluids, radio, mind reading, cybernetics, telepathy, cryptography… The research project Média médiums is an exploration into a wide range of experiences, practices and dispositifs related to the archeology and prospective futures of various communication technologies and their historical relationship to what are considered to be more occult phenomena. http://www.mediamediums.net/

An exhibition was organized at the Ygrec gallery (Paris, april-juin 2014) which presented a selection of works in dialogue with archives, histories, protocols and devices linked to the possibility of transporting thought and intelligence at a distance.

Public events consisting of lectures, performances, discussions and concerts accompanied the exhibition. A public seminar, lectures and discussions on the history of telecommunications and spirit phenomena, brought together students from the classes “Communication Protocols : Technology and the Spirit World” (Jeff Guess, Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Arts Paris-Cergy) and "Histoires de Fantômes et de Machines” (Gwenola Wagon, Université de Paris 8). Both the seminar and the events are available as podcasts.

Martin Howse, Earth interpreter - All my life's buried here, heap earth upon it
Suzane Triester, Cybernetic Séance, 2009-2011
Jeff Guess, Self Sorting Document, 2014, Photo : Rachel Van de Meerssche
Concert Gauthier Tassart, Weird Mix, 2014, Photo : Rachel Van de Meerssche
Thomas Bethmont + Mathilde Chenin, Groupe de Recherche en Homéopathie Binaurale Empirique, 2014, Photo : Rachel Van de Meerssche
Thomas Bethmont + Mathilde Chenin, Groupe de Recherche en Homéopathie Binaurale Empirique, 2014
Collection of books Média médiums, Photo : Rachel Van de Meerssche
Photo : Rachel Van de Meerssche
Julien Prévieux, What shall we do next?, 2007-2011, photo : Guillaume Onimus
Thomas Bethmont + Mathilde Chenin, Groupe de Recherche en Homéopathie Binaurale Empirique, 2014, photo : Guillaume Onimus
Jean-Louis Boissier, Crassula ubiquiste, 1985-2014
RYBN, Data Ghost, 2014, photo : Guillaume Onimus
RYBN, Data Ghost, 2014, photo : Guillaume Onimus
HEXEN 2.0, Historical Diagrams, photo : Guillaume Onimus
Jean-Louis Boissier, Crassula ubiquiste, photo : Guillaume Onimus

Collection of books

A collection of 20 books, made in collaboration with Jérôme Saint-Loubert Bié was published - Philippe Baudouin, Jean-Louis Boissier, Stéphane Degoutin, Leif Elggren, Renaud Evrard, Raphaël Faon, Nicolas Gourault, Jeff Guess, Noël Lafargue, Lauren Moffatt, Ayuko Nishida, RYBN, Jeffrey Sconce, Noah Teichner, Gwenola Wagon, and Anne Zeitz.

Press

MCD n°75, special edition on Media Archeology, october 2014

Marie Lechner, Libération, 16 may 2014

Artco magazine, june 2014

Diffusion

Média médiums, Collection des livres, Vitrines du Tarnac, Labex Arts-H2H, 2016

Média médiums, exhibition, events, books, Ygrec, ENSAPC, Paris, 2014

Annexes

Credits

Méryll Ampe : Concerts for headphones

Jean-Philippe Antoine : Concert + Seminar

Philippe Baudouin : Lecture + Book + Seminar

Thomas Bethmont : Exhibition + Performance

Jean-Louis Boissier : Exhibition + Lecture + Book + Seminar

Olivier Bosson : Performance

Pierre Cassou-Noguès : Seminar

Mathilde Chenin : Exhibition + Performance

Dieter Daniels : Lecture

Stéphane Degoutin : Exhibition + Film + Book

Vanessa Desclaux : Seminar

Leif Elggren : Concert + Book

Vincent Epplay : Concert

Renaud Evrard : Lecture + Book

Raphaël Faon : Book

fleuryfontaine : Exhibition

Gabriel Gelineo : Concerts for headphones

Nicolas Gourault : Books

Jeff Guess : Curator + Exhibition + Performance + Book

Emmanuel Guez : Seminar

Martin Howse : Performance

Jean-François Jégo : Lecture

Jean-Noël Lafargue : Book

Nicolas Maigret : Seminar

Lauren Moffatt : Book

Ayuko Nishida : Book

π Node : Performance

Julien Prévieux : Lecture + Exhibition + Performance

Sébastien Rémy : Exhibition

Pascal Rousseau : Lecture

RYBN : Exhibition + Book

Jérôme Saint-Loubert Bié : Graphic Design

Jeffrey Sconce : Lecture + Book

Gauthier Tassart : Concert

Noah Teichner : Book

Suzanne Treister : Exhibition

Nicholas Vargelis : Lighting

Gwenola Wagon : Curator + Exhibition + Film + Books

Anne Zeitz : Book + Seminar

With support from: Labex H2H-Arts

École Nationale Supérieure d'Arts Paris-Cergy Université Paris 8

YGrec

Archives Nationales

EnsadLAB

École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs de Paris