Quentin Destieu born in 1980 lives and works between Cahors and Marseille.
He was director and founder of the GAMERZ multimedia art festival in Aix-en-Provence and the Lab-GAMERZ, a structure dedicated to digital practices in the field of contemporary art. His work questions our condition within « a world saturated by media and technology », exploring borders and relations between technologies and popular cultures.
Founder of the Dardex art-group, his work has been exhibited in various festivals and exhibitions in France and abroad since 2003.
Associated artist at PAMAL, laboratory of media archeology, he is PhD at the Centre Norbert Elias “Contemporary Art and new digital factories”.
He also teaches in the department of Digital Creation at Aix-Marseille Université.
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Personal and collective exhibitions
2022 :
Exposition Court circuit, La labomédia, Le 108 Orléans, France
Festival Die Digitale Dusseldorf, Düsseldorf, Allemagne
Exposition, Artifice ♯ 05 Animal, Le Hublot, Nice
2021 :
Festival Safra’Numérique, Espace Safran, Amiens, France
H.O.Me., Kunsthaus Langenthal, Switzerland
Low Tech, Meyrin, Switzerland
2020 :
Festival Safra’Numérique, Espace Safran, Amiens, France
2019 :
Exposition, Autonomie zéro, Biennale Némo, Cité internationale des arts, Paris, France
Exposition Refonte, Octobre Numérique, Musée des antiquités, Arles, France
Exposition festival Scopitone, Nantes, France
Exposition Patate, Centre d’Art et de Design la Cuisine, Nègrepelisse, France
2018 :
Exposition monographique Master/Slave, Galerie des Grands Bains Douches de la plaine, Marseille, France
2017 :
Festival Sight + Sound Montreal, Canada
Co-Mutations, Parcours d’art contemporain de la vallée du Lot, France
Exhibition Private joke, Gallery Gouvennec Ogor, Marseille, France
2016 :
Exhibition De l’onde à la secousse Octobre Numérique, Arles, France
Exhibition Good luck archaeologists, Maribor, Slovenia
Exhibition Anarchronisme Espace multimédia Gantner, Bourgogne, France
Festival Safra’Numérique, Espace Safran, Amiens, France
2015 :
Festival Frankenstein Media, Avignon, France
Exhibition Détours, Valaurie, France
Exhibition Laps, Le Carreau, Cergy, France
Variation Media Art Fair, Halle des Blancs-Manteaux, Paris, France
Exhibition Refonte, friche de la belle de mai, Marseille, France
Exhibition Occur, galerie 22,48m², Paris, France
Exhibition Anarchronisme, IMAL, Bruxelles, Belgium
2014 :
Festival Accès(s), Pau, France
Art Hack Day, université Parsons, Paris, France
Fête des 01, Labomedia, Orléans, France
2013 :
Nuit blanche, Metz, France
Festival GAMERZ 09, Aix-en-Provence, France
Congrès de l’AMCSTI, École des Mines, Gardanne, France
Festival Zik Zac, Aix-en-Provence, France
Fête des 01, Labomedia, Orléans, France
Festival Enter 6, Biopolis, NTK, National Technical Library, Prague, Czech Republic
Exhibition Collective “20 ans de la Gallery Susini”, Gallery Susini, Aix-en-Provence, France
2012 :
Le Hublot, Nice, France
Ciotat Digital Art, La Ciotat, France
Festival GAMERZ 08, Aix-en-Provence, France
2011 :
Festival ENIAROF, Poitiers, France
Festival GAMERZ 07, Aix-en-Provence, France
Festival Amber, Istanbul, Turkey
Nuit Blanche, Amiens, France
Festival Lift Experience, Palais du Pharo, Marseille, France
Festival Enter 5, Datapolis, NTK, National Technical Library, Prague, Czech Republic
Festival Festival Bouillants #3, Rennes, Vern sur Seiche, Saint-Brieuc, France
Exhibition at Maison Populaire, Montreuil, France
2010 :
Festival GAMERZ 06, Aix-en-Provence, France
MFRU Festival, Maribor, Slovenia
Festival ISI, Rétrospective, Montpellier, France
Fête des 01, Labomédia, Orléans, France
Festival Bouillants #2, Brest, Vern sur Seiche, Saint-Brieuc, Rennes, France
Festival Micromusic et Pixel Experience #4, Gare de Coustellet, France
2009 :
Sensations Inouïes, El Mediator, Perpignan, France
Festival GAMERZ 05, Fondation Vasarely, Aix-en-Provence, France
Playground, Exhibition Personnelle, Nuit Blanche, Metz, France
2ème concours artistique du CCI, Palais de la Bourse, Marseille, France
Festival Enter 4, D.O.X., Centre for Contemporary Art, Prague, Czech Republic
Fête de l’Animation, Lille, France
Festival Hybrides, Kawenga, Montpellier, France
Festival GAMERZ 04, Aix-en-Provence, France
2008 :
Festival GAMERZ 03, Istanbul, Turkey
Salon Jeune Création, Grande halle de La Vilette, Paris, France
Exhibition Crossover Urban Art, Gallery Nikki Diana Marquardt, Paris, France
Web Flash Festival, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
Multiplace Festival, Bratislava, Slovakia
Festival Norapolis, Nouveaux Trinitaires, Metz, France
Festival Micromusic et Pixel Experience #2, Gare de Coustellet, France
Festival GAMERZ 02, Aix-en-Provence, France
2007 :
Exhibition Jouer au Réel, Médiathèque de Meudon la Forêt, France
Enter 3, Institut Français de Prague, Czech Republic
Exhibition CAMPING, École Supérieure d’Art, Aix-en-Provence, France
Festival Emergences, Maison de la Villette, Paris, France
Performances Cycle, La Vitrine, Maribor, Slovenia
Exhibition Coimbra / Aix-en-Provence, Gallery Santa Clara, Coimbra, Portugal
Festival Sloveniarof, Maribor, Slovenia
Festival Elektro-circus, Carpentras, France
Festival Histoires d’eaux, Histoires d’art, Gréoux le Bains, France
2006 :
Festival Expérience Numérique, Salon de Provence, France
Exhibition GAMERZ, Aix-en-Provence, France
Festival ENIAROF, Aix-en-Provence, France
Festival Arborescence, Aix-en-Provence, France
Festival Emergences, Maison de la Villette, Paris, France
Exhibition Provence / Pernambouco, Musée d’Etat de Pernambouco, Recife, Brazil
Festival SPA, Recife, Brazil
Festival Park in Progress, Marly-le Roi, France
Festival Un peu d’Alice, La Friche Belle de Mai, Marseille, France
Sperm Festival, Abaton, Prague, Czech Republic
Performance, Palac Akropolis, Prague, Czech Republic
2005 :
Conception et réalisation d’une édition L’USINE, index_01
Festival Aires Libres, Marseille, France
Festival Kinoleon, Lavoir Moderne, Paris, France
Exhibition Exploité Sans Complexe, Aix-en-Provence, France
Festival Expérience Numérique, Salon de Provence, France
Exhibition “Faut pas cracher dans la soupe”, Aix-en-Provence, France
Festival ENIAROF, Aix-en-Provence, France
Festival Elektro-circus, Carpentras, France