BIOGRAPHICAL CATALOG OF THE MODEM'S COVERS AUTHORS

141 2016 FILM-MAKER AND ARTIST Modem Men’s Modem New-York /LA Fall-Winter 2016-2017 Covers by YACINE AIT KACI FREE COPY - NOT FOR SALE modemonline.com NEW YORK LOS ANGELES FALLWINTER 2016/17 Yacine AIT KACI , the creator of ELYX , is a French author, film-maker and artist, born in Paris in 1973. After studying at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs in Paris, he is one of the pioneers of digital creation. He realized interactive media such as DVD-Rom Louvre, scientific animations for television and digital art with the creation in 2000 of Electronic Shadow with the artist and Belgian architect Naziha Mestaoui , and it focuses on the relationship between different practices (art, architecture, design shows, live.). Connecting sciences, art and philosophy, Electronic Shadow conceives a personal poetic language, using the last technologies to design emotions and experiences for the audience. Their work were rewarded by many prices such as Japan Media Art Festival Price in 2004 for «3 minutes /2 », and their installations are shown all over the world (MOMA in New York, the Grand Palais, Palais de Tok- yo or Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, Museum of Contemporary Photography in Tokyo, Biacs – Biennale of Contemporary art of Sevilla, SESI in Sao Paulo, MOCA in Shanghai.. ). For some specific projects, they collaborate with architects such as Jakob+MacFarlane for the Frac Center Orléans in 2012 or with the choreo- grapher Carolyn Carlson for « Double Vision » (2006). In 2011 he created the ELYX character, which he projected into the post-digital age via the Instagram and Facebook social networks. Elyx is a transmedia hero, travelling between the simple sketch to reality, passing by digital world and new dimensions with humor and poetry. Invited into traditional media, he gently pe- netrated the real world: in 2015 he became the first virtual ambassador of the Uni- ted Nations ; in 2016 he interpreted the role of a virtual dancer in a Carolyn Carlson show ; in 2016 he was chosen by the Town of Paris for its greetings campaign.