Marc Power

French painter, actor, film director and writer, born in 1966 in Cambrai, France, Marc Power has described the current mutations of the global society as The Renewal, Le Renouveau in French, which is a period in time that can be compared to the Renaissance in every aspects. Raised in Reunion Island, he studied politics and law in Aix-en-Provence, but then studied communication, media and arts in Montpellier, Marseille and Bristol, England. He is living in Paris since 1992. Being a cartoonist at first, he worked for two years as a journalist in CGA and met many of the digital imaging creators and scientists (Scott Fisher, Norman Badler, Karl Sims, ...). Author of a Thesis (The Human Figure in Computer Generated Animation (1992)), of a few novels, (Fragments d'une Vie Parallèle (1994), Petite Mécanique du Genre Humain (1995), Feu! (1997), Ciel! (1998), Terre! (1999), The Book of Love (2000)), of poems (Holy Spirit in the Sky (1996)) and essays (Essai sur la Couleur Rouge (1989), Le télétravail (1992), les images de demain (1993), la Morale RVB (1998), Le Renouveau (2000), Le Nouveau Modèle Social-Démocrate (2003)), Marc Power deliberately wrote all his late novels with an open internet connection so that readers can see the text being written in real time. He calls this technique Interactive Writing. The nephew of the French scientist Madeleine Castaing, who co-signed Jean-Marie Lehn 1987 French Nobel Prize, he got interested in genetics and biomolecular science and imagined a way to fight back AIDS viruses by altering their genetic materials in 1986. These ideas, exposed to great research companies, would eventually develop in what later became the "Antiretroviraux". A film director, he made films both in animation and in real-life that usually had a social background attached to them. Derrière le Soleil (1989), England for Ever (1991), The Museum of the Living art (1992), Highly Unreal Worlds (1992), False News (1992) are amongst them. As a creative director, Marc Power has ties with the Fashion world since 2000.

As a painter, he developed a way of merging Abstraction, Figurative art, and Expressionism from 1990 in Black and white drawings called "The Abstract Carricatures". He also started to use computers as a way of painting since 1984 and evolved toward pure digital painting. He used the Rorschach effect since 1984 too in order to paint portraits or still-lifes that were called "The Emotional Landscapes" and "The Butterflies". That was soon associated by critics with The Butterfly Effect which actually became the title of an exhibition. He painted "Papillons" adding any visual enhancing techniques including 3D ever since. Here's an example of his work :

Marc Power also worked to close the digital gap in Africa by creating "Informatique sans frontières" in 1995 that later became "Informations sans frontières" in 2004. It promotes Hydrogen as a replacement for fossil energies. He currently promotes Artists of any kind especially in the Music world...