« The time will come when men such as I will look upon the murder of animals as they now look on the murder of men. » Leonardo da Vinci.
« Vaches » is a series of 5 videos that questions our relationship to the animal world. Are we hopelessly carnivorous or is veganism the future of humanity? Will we ever be compassionate enough to give up our animality and satisfy our appetites without killing? The videos in the « Vaches » series are photovideographies, photographs that transform over time to change status and become works of video art. By manipulating the pixels of the original images according to algorithms generated with Processing software, they represent the torments that we inflict on so-called cattle animals.
Jean-Michel Rolland is a French artist born in 1972. A long time a musician and a painter, he brings together his two passions - the sound and the image - in digital arts since 2010. Through video artworks, generative art, audiovisual performances and interactive installations, he questions the temporality, a genuine fourth dimension inherent to moving image, as well as the duality between his two favorite mediums, the sound and the visual. His formal research is guided by the desire to reveal the intrinsic nature of our perceptual environment and to twist it to better give new realities to the world around us. His works, always very experimental, are a reflection of the sometimes unexpected internal world of their author and are however the object of an important diffusion abroad and several of them have been rewarded for their originality.
