Electronic Shadow - Biographie



		Naziha MESTAOUI was born in 1975 in Brussels, she has a diploma of Architecture (LaCambre, Brussels). She used to work in the field of architecture and urbanism dealing with technologies. Yacine AIT KACI was born in 1973 in Paris and studied graphic design, video and multimedia (Ensad). He had a career in cultural multimedia as designer and director (Le Louvre, DVD-Rom) and worked for the french television. They both met in 2000 and decided to operate a fusion between their fields of creation. Established in Paris in 2000, Electronic Shadow is a hybrid design platform whose activity is based on research and innovation on both the artistic and technological point of view (patented system based on space/image projection). This pluridisciplinary approach allows original propositions which merge both space and image, material and light in the most diverse contexts from art to architecture, design, scenography, ... For about five years, Electronic Shadow multiplies exhibitions (NY MoMA, Centre Georges Pompidou, Musée d’Art Moderne de la ville de Paris, La Villette, KunstlerHaus, Japan Media Art Festival Etc.) and creates applications from this artistic research in many different fields: design (Giorgio Armani, Cassina, Boffi, Etc.), museum scenography (Palais de la découverte, Cézanne 2006). Electronic Shadow started in 2006 to explore live performance and stage design with a new kind of show, merging choreography and image, in collaboration with the great choreographer Carolyn Carlson (Double Vision). Electronic Shadow won several international awards, including in 2005 the Grand Prix of Japan Media Art Festival. >> Download brief presentation in PDF (english)

		Yacine AIT KACI ( 1973 ) >> Biography before Electronic Shadow 1994 à 2000

		NAZIHA MESTAOUI ( 1975 ) >> Biography before Electronic Shadow 1996 à 2000

		Expositions et réalisations 2006-2009 Frac Centre Competition The team Jakob MacFarlane + Electronic Shadow (1% artistic) laureate of the architecture competition for the construction of the FRAC Centre . Inauguration in 2009. Double Vision Choreographic and video scenographic show in collaboration with the star choregrapher Carolyn Carlson. International tour in 2007 - 2008 2006 “Cézanne, Bastide du Jas de Bouffan” Electronic Shadow redonne vie aux murs du grand Salon de la Bastide de Paul Cézanne à l’occasion du 100ème anniversaire de sa mort. FIAC 2006 (Foire internationale d’art contemporain) – Paris Scenography of the exhibition “les espoirs de la création” for the Comité Colbert File Festival – Sao Paulo H2O - Interactive installation Camera Obscura Interactive table –French cultural centre Milano 2005 Personnal exhibition Fondation Vasarely, Aix-en-Provence, 3 month personnal exhibition on 800m² Salon du Meuble de Milan Interactive installations "H2o" and "Focus" for the 70th anniversary of Boffi 2004 Cassina "Chaud et Froid " interactive lightning scenography, Paris Designer's Days Paris "H20", Boffi Bains Paris, interactive scenography Trophy Laval Virtual 2005 Architecture, Art et Culture Musée d'art et d'industrie de Roubaix - La Piscine The Bride, video installation, in collaboration with Crstof Permanent exhibition Pavillon de l'Arsenal Animated and interactive illumination of the 40 m² model of Paris 2003/2004 Espace EDF Electra "Ex-îles", interactive installation in the exhibition "Voyages d'Artistes" Trophée Laval Virtual 2004 Art et Culture Centre Georges Pompidou "Grammaire de l'interactivité" interactive installation in collaboration with Bertrand Duplat 2003 Musée d'Art moderne de la Ville de Paris "3 minutes ²", video scenographic installation created for the Nuit Blanche Grand Prize of the Japan Media Art Festival 2004, Art section. 2002 Centre culturel français de Palerme Architecture and design of the center V-Med2.0 Artistic interactive installation simultaneously presented in Palermo and Helsinki. 2001 Museum of Modern Art (MoMa) "l'Echarpe communicante", communicating clothing presented in the context of the "Workspheres" at the Moma in collaboration with Crstof 2000 "I-skin", interactive installation presented at the Musée des arts décoratifs in Paris and the Beauté en Avignon Prizes and awards Grand Prix Japan Media Art Festival 2004 Art Division for 3minutes² Honorary Mention Ars Electronica 2004 Interactive Art Trophée Laval Virtual 2005 Architecture, Art et Culture Japan Media Arts Festival Excellence prize Art division pour l’installation H2O international Competition for Media Arts Trophée Laval Virtual 2004 Art et Culture La visite virtuelle - DVD ROM du Louvre conception and art director: Yacine Aït Kaci FLECHE D'OR - Fnac EMMA AWARD - category art & culture INVISION AWARD - category General Interest PC HOME AWARDS (UK) Most innovative product in all categories, MILIA D'OR - nomination DVD-ROM … PRIX du ministère de la recherche 1999 PRIX LEONARDO - Prix international Science et audio-visuel 1999 For the TV subjetcts realised for the « Archimede » TV show broadcasted on Arte. City planning competitition, Thessaloniki 1997 cultural capital ‘’Redesign of the civic Axis, Thessaloniki’’- 4th prize. Project: Liquid Axis