Cross Media Storytelling with Geoffrey Lillemon A peek into the birth, lifespan, conflict and death of storytelling through the technology and art spectrum. Presented live at FITC Amsterdam 2014 on Feb 24-25, 2014 More details can be found at www.FITC.ca

2. Shark Ink on Beast Therapy
- Video Art 2013

3. ARTIST STATEMENT
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My work explores the coexistence of the digital and physical through this subconscious realm – the space that lies
somewhere between the real and the imaginary, the space
where they interact.
In taking the traditional mediums, like painting and
drawing, and adding various levels of interactivity and
animation to them, I create digital pieces of art that
showcase how when art and technology engage, they begin
to dance. By maintaining a rough edge to the technology,
one can filter through and weave stories in the viewer's
mind by creating frantic, hallucinatory visuals of digital
affection.
Whether electric unease in portraiture or psychedelic
mapped interiors, it offers hauntingly seductive environments to lure the viewer in, to have unpredictable interactions with it, and to feel immersed in it. This way,
the viewer can see how we are constantly in a process of
masking, concealing, advancing, and retreating from the
space of the real.

4. Bio
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Geoffrey Lillemon brings a classic romantic painting and drawing style to technology to reinterpret artistic practice. As one
of the leading artists in digital practices, Lillemon has consistently foregrounded the interplay between the digital and physical world in his work, blending the traditional mediums with
emerging technologies. This had lead to personal and commercial work which is recognized as contemporary art.
Lillemon has exhibited and spoken internationally, giving lectures and exhibitions to global audiences in the digital arts community.
He was the Invite d’Honneur at the Centre Pompidou, was a
founding member of studio Champagne Valentine, exhibited
the net art project Oculart for a decade, designed textiles and
animations for Bernhard Willhelm, collaborated with Iris Van
Herpen on numerous projects, and was the supported artist for
the Adidas Global “Collider” Campaign.
Most recently his worked “Like to Death” was introduced into
the Boijmans Museum show Dataism.

5. Faceless - Gif Art
2013
http://geoffreylillemon.com/bernhardwillhelm/
Description:
FACELESS is a two-part exhibition exploring a phenomenon
present all around us: the fashion of “facelessness” that appeared in
the creative arts at the beginning of this century and has remained
popular since then. The exhibition reminds us of the impact that
media-generated images can have on the creative arts and the ways
in which they respond to public images, pop culture, and the mainstream in general.

6. Like to Death - Net Art
www.liketodeath.com
2013
Currently installed at the Boijmans Museum Rotterdam
Description:
With every ‘like’ the figure of death disintegrates a bit more until
nothing is left. By not ‘liking’ the project, on the other hand, you
keep the work. It takes 20,000 ‘likes’ to destroy the figure altogether.
The project is referencing the end of the curse of social media digital networks that can likewise only be destroyed if a huge number of people give them up.

7. Sphinx Skins - Photography
2010
Currently showing at the Cat Museum Amsterdam
Description:
A series of feline fashion portraits which brings together for the first
time the unique mind of Europe’s leading cat photographer Geoffrey
Lillemon, with the creations of haute cat couturier Sofie Zwerver.

8. A Mens Underwear Commercial- Video Art, 02:00 min
https://vimeo.com/51215704
2012
Node Exhibition Description
When looking at Geoffrey Lillemon’s work, we may first think of disgust, voyeurism, infantility or white trash cultural pessimism. However, there’s more going on: by mixing human desires with the coldness of technology rather drastically, he creates the possibility that
replicas of human beings might not be ‘uncanny’* any more. It seems that human instincts
have to be adjusted to the digital world first. Lillemon uses representations from the recent
history of art in order to show where humanness within the digital world might be found
in the future. Zombies couldn’t be any less zombie-like than this.
* ‘uncanny’ describes the phenomenon that digital human replicas look almost, but not
perfectly, like actual human beings.

9. The Nailpolish Inferno- Virtual Reality Installation
2013
Behind the doors of a 180mb installed $trip Club, an overdose of virtual reality violates the art
patrons purity by the tempation of a holographic hell.
Interview
http://postmatter.com/#/currents/the-nail-polish-inferno/

10. Waxflatter- Interactive Painting
http://www.geoffreylillemon.com/old/waxflatter
2011
An interactive painting with capabilities that change as the song progresses allowing for rotatable display, color changes, particle explosions, warping and video dismantling. Viewers can skip to any one of the 8 edit points in the video to explore different ways to twist
and manipulate the dark world of Geoff Lillemon’s art. Play with it carefully as it can get in your head and control your dreams, but
fear not and have fluid visions when we drink, sleep, and breathe.

11. My Lover the Server- Installation/ Mixed Media
www.mylovertheserver.com
2011
The exhibition offers an increasingly powerful interaction between viewer and artist , asking: is expressing love through icons, animations, video and .gifs the new bouquet of roses? How are romantic communications intensified and changed via the Internet? These
questions will resonate with anyone who uses communication technology in daily life, particularly online social networks like Facebook,
Hyves, and Skype, where flirtation has no face and high school obsessions re-emerge from the past. In short, the vast majority of the Net
generation will be provoked and stimulated by My Lover the Server.

12. Rainbow X Apocalypse- Video Tryptic
https://vimeo.com/30012100
2011
Rainbow X Apocalypse is a video installation inspired by the 2012 end of the world doomsday prophesy. In the face of this looming
dystopia, what do we choose? Absolute death or virtual reality? Rainbow X Apocalypse challenges viewers to explore the possibility of
metaverse, an afterlife for avatars, a continually shifting space for our souls to live on for eternity.

13. Slut Tricks- Video Art Series for Sedition
2013
A series of interactions between the scantilly clad claws of the seductress and
the eyeball.
http://www.seditionart.com/geoffrey-lillemon/slut-trick-1

14. Image of Edessa- Net Art
www.image-of-edessa.com
2013
It takes the idea of a looping image sequence that has no beginning or end which creates a looping moment in time, a 4d
sensory expererience, therefore the idea of a timeless relic allows
for worship without the pressure of the hourglass. Avatars are a
particularly powerful and personal graphical representation of
identity which individuals construct consciously and carefully.
As visual representations they are a key determining factor in
how people perceive the identity we are promoting. They are the
bodies we wear in cyberspace.

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Smokie and Lady Cronus- Video Art, 5:00 min
https://vimeo.com/72763172
2013
Lady Cronus seduces Smokie the fish.

16. The Garden of Lobgina- Net Art
http://geoffreylillemon.com/interactive-garden/
2013

17. Oculart.com- Net Art,
http://www.oculart.com/old/archive/
2000
Oculart was a 10 year old net art project wich is widely acclaimed for pioneering an immervise
online experience, specifically the Net Art Movement. The surreal and painterly interactive
animation style transfers the user into a surreal dimension which has no beginning and no end.

18. EXHIBITIONS
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2013
“Like to Death” Boijmans Museum
“Geoffrey Lillemon x Grace Tang” Carbon Festival, Melbourne, Australia
“Geoffrey Lillemon” NODE13, Frankfurt, Germany
“Geoffrey Lillemon” Maison des arts de Créteil, France
2012
“Geoffrey Lillemon” Dutch Design Week, Eindhoven, Netherlands
“RAINBOW X @ TINAB” Prague, CZ
“Fever Beach,” Aphids Atelier, Melborne, Australia
“Mor Mor Ingrid,” Click Festival, Helsingor, Denmark
EXHIBITIONS
2011
“Game City, Rainbow X Apocolypse,” Digital Triptic Installation, Den Bosch, Netherlands
“Define Divine Film Design,” Eindhoven, Netherlands
“Rainbow X Apocolypse,” ISEA Istanbul, Turkey
2010
“Ghostgarden Project,” Ars Nova Museum, Finland
“Sphinx Skins,” Katten Kabbinet Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2009
“My Lover the Server,” Concrete, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2008
“Ghostgarden Project,” Botanical Gardens, Sydney, Australia
2006
“Oculart,” Servicio-Ejecutivo, New York, United States
“Oculart,” Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
“Oculart,” Museo Tamayo, Mexico City

19. TALKS & LECTURES_
2013
Spring Festival, Graz, Austria (31/5)
RMIT, Melbourne, Australia
Carbon Festival, Melbourne, Australia
CrossLab, Rotterdam, Netherlands
FITC , Amsterdam, Netherlands
NODE13, Frankfurt, Germany
2012
OFFF, Barcelona, Spain
Film Academy, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Toca-me Design Conference, Munich, Germany
Click — New Media Art Festival, Helsingør, Denmark
Resonate: Belgrade New Media Festival, Belgrade, Serbia
2011
Isea (International Symposium of Electronic Arts), Istanbul, Turkey
Dazed and Confused Festival, London, United Kingdom
Davd, Digital Analogue Festival, Dusseldorf, Germany
2010
Interactive Screen, Banff New media Institute, Banff, Canada
Sofia Design Week, Sofia, Bulgaria
Playgrounds, Tilburg, Netherlands
Creativity Online, London, United Kingdom
2009
Floating Points, Emmerson College, Boston, United States
Flash in the Can, Amsterdam, Netherlands
OFFF, Lisbon, Portugal
2008
Upgrade!, MAD Gallery, Eindhoven, Netherlands
New Media Awards, Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia
Flash on the Beach, Brighton, United Kingdom
2007
Champagne Valentine, X-media Lab, Singapore
FITC Hollywood, United States
2006
Adobe MAX Conference, Singapore
Adobe MAX Conference, Seoul
Adobe MAX Conference, Taipei
FITC Toronto, , Toronto, Canada
2005
Mobile Digital Commons Network Event, Montreal, CA
Flash Festival en France, Paris, France
Flash Forward NYC, New York, United States
Museo Tamayo, Mexico City, Mexico

20. NETWORK
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CHAMPAGNE VALENTINE
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GEOFFREYLILLEMON.INFO
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GEOFFREYLILLEMON.COM
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21. THANK YOU for YOUR TIME