JOFFROY CHANDOUTIS Ismaël

Ismaël Joffroy Chandoutis is a French artist renowned for his work on cinema, contemporary art, and post-photography. Using a range of digital tools, the artist creates works in a documentary style with hybrid forms (video, installation, live performance…). His works explore the themes of digital identity, memory, and more generally, the transformations brought about by technologies in the post-truth era. They question the invisible and the unspeakable, the process of producing “reality,” and the interstices between the real and the virtual.

By using gaming technologies such as Unreal or Deepfake (generative artificial intelligence), Ismaël Joffroy Chandoutis contributes to questioning the limits of post-internet documentary cinema and the trend of media convergence. These artistic gameplays are all areas of expression for the profound subjects that shock our society. His methodology leads him to consider technology as a continuous process of research and experimentation that is part of his work. In Swatted (2018), the artist hacks images that he creates and captures in real-time while playing a video game. By modifying the graphic rendering, he removes textures from certain areas to obtain a wireframe aesthetic, which he then uses to stage stories of online players.