Isabelle Arvers
zabarvers@hotmail.com 
http://www.isabelle-arvers.com
France : +33 661 998 386

New Media Curator and Project Manager 
Specialized in the fields: net works - new forms of images – digital games

Curator 

« Gamerz 05 », Fondation Vazarely, ARCADE, Aix en Provence, from 26 nov  to 4 dec 2009
Artists : Rick Castro and Tania Fraga and selection of Machinimas.

« Gamerz 04 », Scène Numérique, Galery Susini, Aix en Provence, 8 jan yo 6 feb 2009
Invitation of Alex Stockburger and selection of Machinimas.

Playing to real, Médiathèque de Meudon, France, Nov 2007
- Artistic direction of an exhibition of art and video games – videos, interactive installation, sculpture.
Artists : Damien Aspe, Quentin Despieu & Romain Senatore Dardex M2F, Vittoria Polatto, Yann Groleau, Jakub Dvorski

Articule 3, Scène Nationale de Bonlieu, Annecy, France, march 2007
- Artistic direction of an exhibition of emerging swiss artists in video and animation.
Artists : Angela Marzullo, Patrick Tschudi, Collectif-Fact, Sylvie Fleury, Eleononora Sinestra.

Bitfilm Festival, Hamburg, Germany, 2004 & 2006
- Artistic direction of a gameboy music night with « T & J » and a screening program with the documentary « 8bit : the movie » - november 2006
- Artistic Direction and Content coordinator of the “Nuit Numérique” an event decicated to French creation with DJ le Druide, the VJ's Bowling Club and a video clip programm by the company Yellow House. November 2004

Mal au Pixel Festival exhibition, a french-finnish festival held in Paris, 2006
Artists : Sven König (CH), Fabric (CH), Orgsmobile (FI), Platoniq (ES), Animaatiokone (FI), Amy Franceschini (US). Workshop : Politics of the Play a workshop by Amy Franceschini on the  27th april 2006.

No Fun ! Games and the gaming experience, Bergen, Norway, 2005
PIKSEL, Festival for free, and open source audiovisual software and art
Artists: Robert Praxmarer (AT), Time’s Up (AUS AT), Malte Steiner (DE), Drone & Soup (CH CAN), Codenerror (AT) 

Reactivate, Experimedia State Library, Melbourne, Australia, 2004 
Artistic Direction and Content coordinator for the game art exhibit Reactivate on the relationship between games, cinema, art and music. 

Mind Control, Banana RAM, Ancona, Italy, 2004 
Artistic Direction and Content coordinator for the net.art section of the new media and art festival Banana RAM on the theme of Mind Control. 

Project Manager 

Producer, WJ-Events, 2008-2010
Production managment, partnerships management, project development.

Project manager for the swiss artist Sylvie Fleury, since august 2006

Conception and managment of the artworks database (1500 artworks) documentation.
Production managment, press and public relationships.

1st EditionVillette Numerique, Grande Halle de la Villette, Paris, 2001-2002 

Artistic Direction and Content coordinator for “Villette Numérique”. 
The first edition of a Biennial dedicated to digital creation and new medias. 
Curator for Playtime - the video game exhibit. 
Curator for the net.art gallery dedicated to “audio games”. 
Artistic coordinator for the Digital Film Program: Festivals des Festivals. 
Content Editor for http://www.villette-numerique.com: managed and coordinated the content for the website and produced all the online interviews of participating artists. 

Web portal Gizmoland.com on digital culture, Paris, 2000 -2001 

Digital Arts Editor: work included interviewing and selecting worldwide visual artists for the online gallery: digital artworks, short films, animations, computer games sold by downloads at Gizmoland, a website dedicated to digital culture. (online from May 2000 to January 2002) 
Coordination and promotion of “Video Cuts”: Electronic music and Digital Video Awards, organised two screenings of the « Video Cuts », Cinema of Tomorrow, Pompidou Center, Feb. and June 2001. 
Artistic Direction & Events Manager for the opening of Gizmoland website (Live by Juan Trip' - F Com, V Jays “Machine Molle”) 

Art3000 / Le Cube, Paris, 1999-2000 

Pre-production for ISEA2000 (International Symposium for Electronic Arts):  international relationships. 
Executive producer of the exhibition called the”3 general meeting of interactive writing”, 3e EGEI, Forum des Images Paris 1999 an exhibit dedicated to generative displays. 
Artistic Direction for the CD-Rom section of the exhibition: Shift control, Audiorom, U.K; l'Alphabet, JJ.Birgé, FR . 

New Media Consultant 

Gameplay, Itau Cultural, Sao Paulo & Mostravideo, Belo Horizonte, Brasil, aug 2009
4 programs of 1h30 Machinimas movies a,d conferences of presentation.

Récréations, Scène Numérique, Aix-en-Provence, 12 feb 2009
Artistic Direction for a Screening of Machinimas and conference.

Festival Art Futura, Barcelone, Espagne, from 26 to 29 oct 2007
Artistic Direction for a Screening of a documentary « 8bit : a documentary about art and games » by Marcin Ramocki and Justin Strawhand.

Animation Film Festival Annecy, june 2007
Artistic Direction for a Screening of Machinimas and conference.

Flash Festival, Centre Pompidou, Paris, may 2006 & may 2007
Carte Blanche to Isabelle Arvers for a machinima program : screening of ten short films created with game engines.

Némo Festival, Regional cultural action in Ile de France, Espace Cartier, Paris, april 2006 & 2007
Artistic Direction for a Screening of a documentary « 8bit : a documentary about art and games » by Marcin Ramocki and Justin Strawhand.
Artistic Direction for a Screening of a talk show in a game space : This Spartan Life. (2006)

Mapping Festival, BAC, Geneva, Switzerland, april 2007
Artistic Direction for a Screening of a documentary « 8bit : a documentary about art and games » by Marcin Ramocki and Justin Strawhand.

Ciant & Sperm Festival, Prague, february 2007
Artistic Direction for a Screening of Machinimas at Cinema Svetnor
Artistic Direction for a Screening of swiss animation and videos in the Sperm Cinema.

Art+Games, Brussels, Belgium, december 2006
Artistic Direction for a Screening of a documentary « 8bit : a documentary about art and games » by Marcin Ramocki and Justin Strawhand.

Médiathèque de Gravelines, 27 october 2005
Focus on the brazilian animation film festival Anima Mundi & Marcos Magalhaes, his founder.

Cinema of Tomorrow, Pompidou Center, Paris, 2003, 2005
- Artistic Direction and Content coordinator for the “Web plasticians”, a monthly event that focus on the web practice of international contemporary artists. Special issues: Vjingin april, Machinimain may and 8 bits musicin june 2005. Focus on the brazilian festival of internet movies Fluxusonline in december 2005.
- Artistic Direction and Content coordinator for the “Turn around the web”, a monthly event that focus on the web production in a country or a continent. Special issues: East Europe Invited artist: Vuk Cosic. Feb. 2003.  Australia Invited Curator: Antoanetta Ivanova, June 2003. Greece - Dec. 2003. Invited artist: Miltos Manetas. 

High Score, City of Boulogne Billancourt, France, 2004 
Artistic Direction and Content coordinator of a night dedicated to 8bits and gameboy music with the new Yorkers Bubblyfish and Glomag, Gameboyzz Orchestra from Poland and Teamtendo from France. Conception and moderation of a debate about the Game Design. 

Wifiledefrance, Region Ile de France, Paris, 2004
Artistic Direction and Content coordinator for the wireless art event Wifiledefrance with the artists Yuri Gitman and Carlos Gomez de Llarena from NYC and Pavu.com, Daisy Chain and Steffen Rault. 

Conferences  & Lectures & Guest Professor

« La lévitation dans les jeux vidéo et la réalité virtuelle », Ecole d’art Aix-en-Provence, 17 déc. 09
« Art et pensée collaborative », Ecole Supérieure d’Art de Bourges, le 7 janvier 2009.
« Pensée collaborative, économie, social, politique, art », Haute Ecole d’Art, Genève, oct. 08
« Les scénographies de l’interactivité, création et jeux vidéo », Beaux Arts de Marseille, fév. 08.
« Les jeux sonores et interaction avec des espaces virtuels », Ecole d’Art, Aix-en-Provence, janv. 08.
« La création en réseau et les nouveaux lieux de monstration », Haute Ecole d’Art, Genève, janv. 08.
« Les Machinimas : un nouveau genre cinématographique », Imaginove, Lyon, octobre 2007.
« Management for middle managers », learning and animation, M&P, Marseille, since 2007
« Communication & Internet », Master Pro, Aix en Provence University, since 2007.
« Museums and digital medias » Information and Communication University, Annecy, since 2006.
« What is Machinimas », Bâtiment d’Art Contemporain, Geneva, 16 november 2006.
« Relation between art and video games in France», Digifrance, HTC, Helsinki, 3d june 2006.
« To Play in family», Cité des Sciences et de l’industrie, Paris, 25th april 2006.
« Games vs networks », Ecole Supérieure de l’Image, Poitiers, 5 & 6 april 2006.
“Reactivate : Curatorial's talk“, Symposium Game Time, ACMI, Melbourne, 2004. 
“French digital creation“, School of Visual Arts, New York, 2004. 
“How Curating new media”, Pompidou Center, Paris, 2004. 
“Art and video games”, Fine Art School, Dijon, 2004. 
“The Web documentary”, General Meeting of Documentary, Lussas, 2003. 
“ Curating new media in a game room “, Festival Transmediale 03, Berlin, 2003. 
“ Video Games and Electronic Music “, Pompidou Center, Paris, 2002. 
“ How to distribute short films on the net “, Pompidou Center, Paris, 2001. 

Jury member 

ACME Commission, subsidies for multimedia artists and projects, Paris, 2003/2007. 
Flashfestival, Art, Webactivism and Game Awards, Paris, 2003/2004/2005/2007. 
Fine Art School, Art & Medias, Geneva, 2006.
National School of Games and interactive media, Angoulême, France, 2006.
Web animation film festival - Anima Mundi web - Rio, Brasil, 2005.
Festival Fluxus Online - Film for Internet, Sao Paulo, Brasil, 2005.
E-magiciens, Interactive Artworks Award, Les Gobelins, Paris, 2004. 
E-magiciens, Digital Video Award, Valenciennes, 2000. 

Training 

1997:	Master in European Cultural Managment, University of Paris 8 
Thesis: « Digital arts : a step towards a new aesthetic ? » 
1996:	Diploma in Political Science, Political Science Institute, Aix en Provence 
Specialised in Information and Communication. 
Thesis: « Digital virtuality as a way to understand reality » 
1992:	BADegree in Art History, Contemporary Art, Aix en Provence University.