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Since 1989, Martin Le Chevallier (France, b. 1968), has been working as a graphic designer.
Since 1996, he has conducted a personal artistic research on social and political issues, which led him to draw bills wildely displayed and then to make the cederom Gageure 1.0 (Wager 1.0, 1999) : a labyrinthic denunciation of the business discourse.

Afterwards, he produced Flirt 1.0 (2000), a game of seduction based on many excerpts of American old films and a videowatching game, Vigilance 1.0 (2000). From October 2000 to September 2001, he was resident at the French Academy in Rome where he dedicated himself to the evocation of a utopian society with his interactive film: Bliss. This “praise of inactivity” pushed him then to create another interactive film, Oblomov (2001) in which he juxtaposed the main character’s apathy with the viewer’s impatience.

He then explored once again this medium with One minute of silence (2003), an interactive installation conceived in collaboration with the writer Tiphaine Samoyault. In this piece, the viewer follows a journey in the thoughts and the perception processes of a group of people gathered after September the 11th.

In 2003, he realized two new critical projects: Safe Society, a video that parodies safety ideology and
Doro bibloc, a phone server dedicated to our urges to consume.

In 2004 he set up the existential turnaround of The Butterfly (Le Papillon, 2005), a new interactive video.