Jean-michel Rolland

Jean-Michel Rolland, a musician for a long time and a painter, focuses on video art to make his two favorite medium meet: sound and image. At the origin of each of his creations, musicality plays a role as important as image does and each one influences the other by transmediality. The result is a series of experimental videos where sound and image are so inseparable that the one without the other would lose its meaning.

He particularly appreciates using short sequences (samples) and repeat them all along his experimentations, wishing to transfigure commonplaces into coherent work. The sequences are treated as mere utensils, found objects, used to create visual and musical compositions at a time.

Exhibitions
- ARTAQ 2012 (with Mention from the jury)
- COLOGNE OFF
- DIGITAL GRAFFITI (I won the most innovative work prize with "Neons Melody")
- VIDEOFORMES 2012 - Clermont-Ferrand
- ART SOUTERRAIN 2012 - Montréal
- BERLIN INTERNATIONAL DIRECTORS LOUNGE 8
- MADATAC03 - Madrid
- KLEX 2011 and 2012 - Kuala Lumpur
- 24EMES and 25EMES INSTANTS VIDEO
- PIXELPOPS 2011 - Paris
- VAFA (Video Art For All) - Macao
- NIFF (Naoussa International Film Festival) 2011 and 2012
- K3 International Short Film - Austria

Awards
Most innovative work at Digital Graffiti (Alys Brach, Florida, USA)