Simon de Diesbach
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…
simondediesbach@gmail.com / simondediesba.ch / vimeo.com/simondediesbach
Contents
CV
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
Film limites
Logline (or short synopsis):
In a forest that he digitized, Simon runs.
Synopsis / Summary / Résumé
- EN: In a forest that he digitized, Simon runs.
Within an autobiographical narrative, running embodies the intimate link between the protagonist and the forest, a forest that has witnessed a multitude of personal events and that is now being destroyed by a gravel pit. Immersed in an ambivalent world between realism and dream, Simon questions the reasons that pushed him to digitize the forest. He questions his relationship with the living world and the limits of digital representations of nature.
Regie / Direction / Régie
Ko-Produktion / Co-Production
Hochschule Luzern Design und Kunst / Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts
MA Film
Fred Truniger
Credits
- a film by Simon de Diesbach
- Story, Design, Look Development: Simon de Diesbach
- 3D rigging: Simon Ott, Michael Zünd
- Compositing: Simon de Diesbach
- Voice: Patric Reves
- Music composed :Gwenael Magnenat
- Music Mix & Preparation: Thomas Gassmann
- Foley Artist: Dieter Hebben
- Sound Design & Mix: Thomas Gassmann, Jorrit Stadelmann
- Mentors: Jochen Ehmann
- Production Support: First Jean
- Co-production: HSLU Design & Kunst MA Film / Fred Truniger
Technische Angaben / Technical information / Informations techniques
- Herkunftsland/Origin/Origine: Schweiz / Switzerland / Suisse
- Produktionsjahr/Year/Année: 2022
- Dauer/Duration/Durée: 7' 30"
- Verfahren/Process/Processus: Farbe/Color/Couleur
- Technik/Technic/Technique: 3D laser scan / Motion Capture
- Grösse/Size/Taille: 1998x1080
- Format/Format/Format: HDV
- Aspekt/Aspect/Aspect: work in progress
- Ton/Sound/Son: 5.1 Surround
- ISAN: 'work in progress
Weitere Informationen / More information / Informations additionelles
- Schule/School/Ecole: Hochschule Luzern, Design & Kunst http://www.hslu.ch
- Modul/Module: MA-Abschluss
- Mentoring/Mentorship/Mentorat: Jochen Ehmann
- Werkzeuge/Tools/Outils: Faro 3D Laser scan / Xsens Motion Capture / Computer
- Software: Houdini / Xsens / Davinci Resolve 17
- Zielgruppe/Target audience/Public ciblé: Jugendliche / Adult
- Genre: Sci-Fi Drama / Docu / Essaie / Experimental
- Musikliste / Music Cue Sheet:
Works
- limites 2022[1]
