Presentation

The e-magiciens – European meeting of the young digital creation – organized by the Chamber of Commerce of Valenciennes, is the European festival dedicated to the students, the teachers and the professionals, who work in the digital technology area. Three days devoted to meetings, screening, testimonies, and experimentations.

Round table discussions, conferences, lead by professionals, artists, digital technicians.

The short-features and the students’ interactive works are presented during all the festival. Some of these works will be award-winning or encouraged. The students’ authors are there to support their works. They can then meet more experienced artists, whose works are screened or exhibited by their side.

During three days, the students bustle in rooms and passageways of the Phénix Theatre.

Chained Animation, an exquisite corpse, carried out by 13 European students team.
On the spot, the participating students begin the day before the opening of the festival. They have 3 days to carry out a digital animation of 10 seconds, with as the beginning and end imposed, a reference picture chosen by the guest artist. The festival makes at their disposal computers with software (2D, 3D, compositing, montage…) in the Phénix Theatre.
The last day, the 12 sound animations and the credits are edited end-to-end by the chained animation coordination team. Each team and composer will present their works, successively in the morning. The public and the participants will discover the global work, end to end, in the closing evening.
Guest artist: the collective “Jeanclode”

Battle R, a collective work at the Phénix Theatre, based on 12 multimedia teams of 2 students. Each team has a graphic designer, a developer and a musician. In 3 days, each team has to carry out an interactive work (in association with Gobelins, l’Ecole de l’Image).
Guest artist: Luc Courchesne

Zone Z is an exhibition of interactive works produced by students from different universities.

Photo and video reporting carried out by the students of Supinfocom Valenciennes and a newspaper dedicated to the festival and published by the students of The School of Architecture of Marseille.