Manifesta purposely strives to keep its distance from what are often seen as the dominant centres of artistic production, instead seeking fresh and fertile terrain for the mapping of a new cultural topography.
Marie-Ange Guilleminot, Fabrice Hybert, FR
Fabrice Hybert and Marie Ange Guilleminot, Baby, 1996. Photo © Manifesta 1 / Jannes Linders.
Project and installation at V2_Organisation, Institute for the Unstable Media
With the assistance of a computer expert, French artists Fabrice Hybert and Marie Ange Guilleminot planned a digital project to make a “virtual baby”, a creature they could instruct and educate to become an intelligent child. When the baby was “finished” they would clone it and start anew. This process was videotaped and shown both on the Internet and in the format of a traditional painting.