LINES (TRAITS)- 1989

 

Stéphan Barron and Sylvia Hansmann followed the Greenwich Meridian by car from the English Channel to the Mediterranean Sea and from Villers-sur-Mer to Castillon de la Plana.

With their car fax they regularly sent images and texts about their trip to other faxes located in 8 different European locations (among them was Ars Electronica).

The straight line drawn by the two artists was materialised by fax  Transmissions in the 8 exhibition spaces and in the spectator's mind by imaginary lines, projections of the original meridian.

Stéphan Barron and Sylvia Hansmann thus created a new representation of line, one of the first symbols of humanity, a mental representation that integrated space, time and the human imagination. Pierre Restany talks about the "fractalisation of the meridian".

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Lineas (Castellano)

The catalogue of LINES, including texts by Pierre Restany, Markus Müller, and Mario Costa is an art edition designed by Stéphan Barron and edited by Rien de Spécial.
	The Meridian touching the Channel at Villers-sur-mer (Normandy)

	The video LINES (on the artwork LINES) is distributed by Heure Exquise!
Pause on the meridien

 

 

Texts on Lines project : HATTINGER Gottfried , "Linien von Stephan Barron und Sylvia Hansmann", Ars Electronica Festival Programm, Im Netz der System, sept. 1989, Linz, p.30   "El centre Espais entra en un viatge artistic a traves del telecopiador", Avui, 6 Sept. 89, Barcelona   BARBU Théo, "The fax a new medium arouses new concepts", Artspeak, Novembre 1989 Vol XI n°5, New York   COSTA Mario, "Il viaggio di Stéphan e Sylvia ", in catalogue du projet Traits, Ed. Rien de Spécial, Secqueville-en-Bessin, 1990 French translation, "Le voyage de Stéphan et Sylvia"   ENGEL Jürgen, Ein Salto..., Artist Kunstmagazin, février 1991 n°8, Brême, pp.10-11

The 848 telefax of LINES

CAPELLA Anna, "Installacio del projecte Linies", Catalogue Espais Activitats 1989, Ed. Espais, Girona, 1990, p.159

 

CHABERT Ghilaine, "Un support artistique inattendu : La télécopie", Le journal du te´le´phone, Avril 1990 n°7, pp. 51 à 55

 

"Linien", Kunstforum International n°101, Juin 1989, p. 432

 

BARRON Stéphan," Lines: A project by Stéphan Barron and Sylvia Hansmann ", Connectivity : Art and interactive Telecommunications, Leonardo, Vol 24 n°2, 1991, Berkeley, pp.185-186

 

MÜLLER Markus,"Linien", in catalogue du projet Traits, Ed. Rien de Spécial, Secqueville-en-Bessin, 1990

French translation : "Traits"

 

POPPER Frank, L'art à l'age électronique, Ed. Hazan, Paris, 1993, p.133

 

FALGAS Jordi, "Stéphan Barron i Sylvia Hansmann", Punt Diari, n°3295, 24 Sept. 1989, Ge´rone

 

RESTANY Pierre,"The meridian or the fractalized line", in catalogue du projet Traits, Ed. Rien de Spécial, Secqueville-en-Bessin, 1990

 

More detailed texts on this artwork are available from Stéphan BARRON's HDR on Technoromanticism's website and in the Earth Art CD Rom