Adelin Schweitzer is a French contemporary artist, director and performer renowned for his technological detour and iconoclastic use of Extended Realities (XR). His creations go against the techno-solutionist ideology and belief in a technology capable of resolving all social, economic and environmental issues. They question the mutations that these imaginaries bring about in the social and political body. By inviting the public to experience these works, the artist develops a form of self-defense manual, unusual and mischievous, enabling us to rethink a society that has been nibbled away by technology.
Spectacular and sometimes absurd, his corpus is a call for collective debate on the structures of power in place. It poses essential questions: What remains of us once an immersive experience is over? What does it do to our bodies? Do we want to live in this virtualized reality? The appearance of his works is the antithesis of the cold, uncluttered design of the devices marketed by the tech giants. In fine, these paranoid, miraculous machines, designed by the artist himself from his hackerspace in Marseille, borrow their aesthetics from pop-culture, especially from science fiction.
He is a graduate of École Supérieure d'Art d'Aix-en-Provence (2004). His career as an artist now totals more than twenty works. His installations and performances have been programmed in France - the Chroniques Biennial in the South of France, ]Interstice[ festival in Caen, Les nuits de l'Ososphère in Strasbourg) and internationally (Ars Electronica, ARCO Madrid, Liverpool European Capital of Culture 2008, Marseille - European Capital of Culture 2013, PatchLab in Krakow, SAT in Montreal...). He is a speaker at key events in the XR sector (NewImages, Realities in Transition), in research establishments - ESAM Caen/Cherbourg, TALM Tours/Angers Le Mans - and higher education establishments - Creative Campus in Cagliari with Sardegna teatro.
Adelin is also the founder and artistic director of laboratoires deletere, a studio for production, distribution and transmedia experimentation founded in Marseille in 2017.
Spectacular and sometimes absurd, his corpus is a call for collective debate on the structures of power in place. It poses essential questions: What remains of us once an immersive experience is over? What does it do to our bodies? Do we want to live in this virtualized reality? The appearance of his works is the antithesis of the cold, uncluttered design of the devices marketed by the tech giants. In fine, these paranoid, miraculous machines, designed by the artist himself from his hackerspace in Marseille, borrow their aesthetics from pop-culture, especially from science fiction.
He is a graduate of École Supérieure d'Art d'Aix-en-Provence (2004). His career as an artist now totals more than twenty works. His installations and performances have been programmed in France - the Chroniques Biennial in the South of France, ]Interstice[ festival in Caen, Les nuits de l'Ososphère in Strasbourg) and internationally (Ars Electronica, ARCO Madrid, Liverpool European Capital of Culture 2008, Marseille - European Capital of Culture 2013, PatchLab in Krakow, SAT in Montreal...). He is a speaker at key events in the XR sector (NewImages, Realities in Transition), in research establishments - ESAM Caen/Cherbourg, TALM Tours/Angers Le Mans - and higher education establishments - Creative Campus in Cagliari with Sardegna teatro.
Adelin is also the founder and artistic director of laboratoires deletere, a studio for production, distribution and transmedia experimentation founded in Marseille in 2017.