Jean-François Guiton

Jean-François Guiton (born June 28, 1953 in Paris ) is a French installation and video artist . He lives and works in Bremen .

biography

Guiton studied from 1980 to 1985 at the Düsseldorf Art Academy and was a master student of Fritz Schwegler . Since 1982 he has dealt with the medium of video in his artistic work. From 1987 to 1998 he taught fine arts and visual communication at the École supérieure des arts décoratifs (ESAD) in Strasbourg.

Since 1998 he has held a professorship with a focus on experimental film at the University of the Arts in Bremen . There he teaches in the contemporary media studio . Guiton's teaching deals with the tension between external time and personal time. It is about sound-image-sculpture, the entanglement of time and space, real and virtual spatialization.

Awards

• 2008: Art Prize of the Board of Trustees of the Plastics Industry
• 1990: Winner, 4th Marl Video Art Prize
• 1988: 1st prize, Festival for Film and Video in the Visual Arts, Rotterdam
• 1984: 1st prize, First Videonale , Bonn

Web links

• Literature by and about Jean-François Guiton in the catalog of the German National Library
• Search for Jean-François Guiton in the SPK digital portal of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation
• Jean-François Guiton at artfacts.net
• Homepage of Jean-François Guiton , accessed April 29, 2014.
• Atelier for contemporary media at the HfK Bremen