Born in 1959, Christian
Lavigne destined himself to become a scientist, often studying
mathematics. Writing poetry became his main activity. He contributed to
several magazines, and a poetry cabaret, directed a free radio show,
founded "L'Art Vu", a poetry and art magazine. Uniting writing
and design via mathematics he discovered the concept of
"Graphènes", graphic words inspired by a secret geometry, what
Kandinsky called "The vocabulary of shapes".
The Christian Lavigne's first artworks are linked to the abstract art tradition, but he developed a coherent personal poetical aesthetic universe, more and more based on mythologies and symbols. He uses to say that he likes to travel (by mind) in "distant cultures" (time or space distance).
The artist expresses his art with many different materials and techniques: research in the fields of transparency and fluorescence, electronic animation, computer and Internet technologies, use of high-tech machines (laser cutting, water jet cutting, 3D NC machining, Rapid-Prototyping). He created the words "ROBOSCULPTURE, TELESCULPTURE, and CYBERSCULPTURE" for actual or virtual computer sculptures. He is well known as a pioneer of these new disciplines.
In 1992, Christian Lavigne founded with Alexandre Vitkine the international artistic group "Ars Mathematica", for promotion of new technologies in sculpture, and realized "The First World Wide Exhibition of Numerical Sculpture" (Paris, 1993). This event becomes a network of simultaneous and interactive exhibition: INTERSCULPT, and is organized each 2 years in partnership with the Computer and Sculpture Forum (USA) since 95, FasT-UK (GB) since 97, DAAP Zone (UP in Cincinnati, USA) since 97, Prism lab in AZU (USA) since 99, U. of HongKong since 99, U. of Wanganui ( NZ) since 2001, and IIT of Kanpur (India) since 2003. See: www.intersculpt.org
The other main Ars Mathematica project is the CREATRON : an European research center for digital objects. www.creatron.org .
Christian Lavigne also develops many activities for the meeting of North and South cultures. He founded in 1998 the NGO TOILE METISSE (www.toile-metisse.org), to promote French speaking artists on the Web, and to teach multimedia and electronic arts, specially in Black Africa. TM was authorized by Agence de la Francophonie.
In 2004 he launched with the physicist Simon DINER the WEB CAST, Café des Arts des Sciences et des Techniques, a meeting every 1 or 2 months at the famous store "La Fnac Digitale" in Paris, where artists and scientists are invited. http://web.cast.free.fr .
Christian Lavigne thinks that XXI th century artists have to succeed a Nouvelle Renaissance.
The Christian Lavigne's first artworks are linked to the abstract art tradition, but he developed a coherent personal poetical aesthetic universe, more and more based on mythologies and symbols. He uses to say that he likes to travel (by mind) in "distant cultures" (time or space distance).
The artist expresses his art with many different materials and techniques: research in the fields of transparency and fluorescence, electronic animation, computer and Internet technologies, use of high-tech machines (laser cutting, water jet cutting, 3D NC machining, Rapid-Prototyping). He created the words "ROBOSCULPTURE, TELESCULPTURE, and CYBERSCULPTURE" for actual or virtual computer sculptures. He is well known as a pioneer of these new disciplines.
In 1992, Christian Lavigne founded with Alexandre Vitkine the international artistic group "Ars Mathematica", for promotion of new technologies in sculpture, and realized "The First World Wide Exhibition of Numerical Sculpture" (Paris, 1993). This event becomes a network of simultaneous and interactive exhibition: INTERSCULPT, and is organized each 2 years in partnership with the Computer and Sculpture Forum (USA) since 95, FasT-UK (GB) since 97, DAAP Zone (UP in Cincinnati, USA) since 97, Prism lab in AZU (USA) since 99, U. of HongKong since 99, U. of Wanganui ( NZ) since 2001, and IIT of Kanpur (India) since 2003. See: www.intersculpt.org
The other main Ars Mathematica project is the CREATRON : an European research center for digital objects. www.creatron.org .
Christian Lavigne also develops many activities for the meeting of North and South cultures. He founded in 1998 the NGO TOILE METISSE (www.toile-metisse.org), to promote French speaking artists on the Web, and to teach multimedia and electronic arts, specially in Black Africa. TM was authorized by Agence de la Francophonie.
In 2004 he launched with the physicist Simon DINER the WEB CAST, Café des Arts des Sciences et des Techniques, a meeting every 1 or 2 months at the famous store "La Fnac Digitale" in Paris, where artists and scientists are invited. http://web.cast.free.fr .
Christian Lavigne thinks that XXI th century artists have to succeed a Nouvelle Renaissance.