Simon de Diesbach

CV

As part of my Master’s degree at HSLU D&K (Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts), I’m currently directing a short animation film and a series of videos where dance and movements are dialoguing with nature in a symbiosis. Using 3D laser scanning and motion capture technologies, I’m playing with limits, here is the preview!

I’m also working on the conceptual, technological and aesthetic research of a long term collaborative project in applied design, conducted by Christina Zimmermann and supported by the SNF (Swiss National Science Foundation). The transdisciplinary project is a digital archive of the work of the theorist Siegfried Kracauer, exploring new and more inclusive ways of visualizing and accessing scientific and artistic research.

While using technology as a creative tool, I question its role in seeking for an immaculate and photorealistic representation of the world for our memorial and sensorial perception, and how technology may encourage a form of consumption and overconsumption of nature, a nature that we threaten without any limits.

Where are the limits of digitalization, and where are our limits…

Ausbildung

09/2018 – 02/2022 Hochschule Luzern, Design & Kunst, Lucerne, Switzerland
09/2011 – 07/2014 Bachelor Media&Interaction Design, ECAL, Lausanne, Switzerland
08/2010 – 07/2011 Passerelle DUBS, Federal Maturity, Fribourg, Switzerland
08/2009 – 07/2010 Professional Maturity, EPAI, Fribourg, Switzerland
08/2005 – 07/2009 CFC Media Designer, eikon, Fribourg, Switzerland

Berufserfahrung

08/2020 – 08/2021 Art history and video teacher, eikon, Fribourg, Switzerland
11/2020 – 12/2020 Cinema4D Workshop, Eracom, Lausanne, Switzerland
08/2018 – 08/2021 After Effects Workshop, eikon, Fribourg, Switzerland
08/2017 – 08/2021 Artistic director, eikonlab, eikon, Fribourg, Switzerland
11/2017 – 12/2017 Stop Motion Workshop, Eracom, Lausanne, Switzerland
06/2015 + 06/2016 Expert CFC Media Designer, Eracom, Lausanne, Switzerland
08/2014 – 07/2018 After Effect and video teacher, Eracom, Lausanne, Switzerland
09/2014 – 01/2018 Co-founder and designer, Fragment.in Sàrl, Lausanne, Switzerland
08/2007 – 04/2008 Graphic design Internship, Atelier Roger Pfund, Geneva, Switzerland
2015 Collide Pro Helvetia 2015 AWARD, Arts at Cern

Künstlerische Projekte

2022 Limites, short film, 6 minutes
2021 Gespenster, short dance films, Natascha Moschini
2021 Limites II / Limites III, print series
2021 Horizon, Swear I love you, music video
2017 I, sculptures, in collaboration with Romain de Diesbach
2017 Black&Lights, interactive installation, in collaboration with Fragmentin
2016 2199, interactive installation, in collaboration with Fragmentin
2016 La garde, interactive installation, in collaboration with Fragmentin, Anita Hugi & David Dufresne srg-ssr-art
2014 Computer Orchestra, interactive installation, in collaboration with Jonas LAcote and Laura Perrenoud
2014 OccultUs, interactive installation in collaboration with Fragmentin

Evtl. Vorträge auf Fachtagungen und Podiumsgespräche

2017 Forum: Rencontre autour des nouvelles méthodes de narration, Flux laboratory, Geneva, Switzerland
2016 Talk with Fragmentin, Ligature, Connexion 5, Lausanne, Switzerland
2015 Talk with Fragmentin, Arts at Cern, CERN, Switzerland
2015 Talk with Fragmentin, Circle of Light, Moscow

Evtl. Ausstellungsbeteiligungen

2021 Limites II /Limites III, Musée des Beaux Art, 74e Biennale d’Art Contemporain: Une brève histoire des marges, La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland
2020 I, Ludwig Museum of Contemporary Art, Budapest, Hungary
2019 I, Mapping Festival, Geneva, Switzerland
2017 I, Villa Bernasconi, Grand Lancy, Switzerland
2017 OccultUs, Fantoche International Film Festival, Baden, Switzerland
2017 2199, Haus der elektronischen Künste HeK, The Unframed World, Basel, Switzerland
2016 – 2017 Black&Lights, EPFL Pavillon: Noir c’est Noir? Les Outrenoirs de Pierre Soulages, une exposition à la croisée de l’art et de la science, Lausanne, Switzerland
2016 La Garde, Dadadata.net, 45e Festival du nouveau cinéma Montréal, Quebec
2016 Computer Orchestra, TEDx PlaceDesNations, Geneva, Switzerland
2016 La Garde, Dadadata.net, Locarno Film Festival, Locarno, Switzerland
2016 La Garde, Dadadata.net, Hauptbanhof, Zurich, Switzerland
2016 La Garde, Dadadata.net, Natural Historisches Museum, Zurich, Switzerland
2016 Computer Orchestra, Rc4 Festival, Oi Futuro, Ipanema, Brazil
2015 Computer Orchestra, Saint-Ex, nuitnumérique#12, Reims, France
2015 OccultUs, Digit@rt: le tournant numérique de l'art Geneva, Switzerland

Contact

Works

2022 Limites