Mathieu Briand
Year born:
1972
Location:
Marseille, France
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Mathieu Briand, an emerging French artist, creates work that challenges our notions of a visual language by drawing on sources outside of traditional art practices. His art encompasses electronic media and music, the sciences, and technology. His piece SYS*05.ReE*03/SE*1MoE*2-4 is a group of cyberhelmets that the viewer wears and allows the user to switch his or her own perceptions to those of another user in an endless loop of visual intrusions. The viewers connect through the cyberhelmets, creating a mental space that moves within the architectural space. The result is what the artist calls a “controlled schizophrenia.”