Marie Sester (FR/USA)

Marie Sester works primarily with digital technology in diverse media and formats. Born in France, Sester began her career as an architect. However, her interest quickly shifted from designing spatial infrastructure to researching ideological structures and how culture and politics affect our sense of place.

After securing a residency in Japan in 1993, she began increasingly to explore public space, creating installations and experimental, 3D and interactive works. In 2000 Sester moved to the US, where she currently works in New York. She has received a Creative Capital Grant (2002), an Honorary Mention in Interactive Art from Ars Electronica for her installations and websites (2003), a Webby Award for Net Art (2004) and a place on TIME Magazine Online’s list of the "50 Coolest Websites" (2004). Sester’s recent interactive installations have been showcased at biennales in Seoul and Singapore (2008) and at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) and Tate Modern in London.

One of her interactive installation works, ACCESS, is part of the Z33 exhibition Architecture of Fear, and will be on display from 08.11 to 25.11.2011 in the public hall of building D at Hasselt’s PHL University College (Elfde Liniestraat, opening hours: 8am - 8pm). 

ACCESS is an anonymous tracking system that follows unwitting passers-by with a spotlight and an audio beam, thus combining the social control of contemporary surveillance technologies with our desire for entertainment and manipulation. The tracking system is activated and operated by visitors to the ACCESS website www.accessproject.net.

www.sester.net

This A-Z lecture is exceptionally at: PHL Elfde liniestraat 23, Hasselt. Building D (Corbu-Montessori  D123).
Afterwards, there is an opening reception and you can also see the work ACCESS, that Marie Sester shows in Architecture of Fear, the exhibition from Z33.

Entrance is free, but registration is required.
Save your seat and fill out the registration form for the A-Z lecture by Marie Sester here.