Antoine Schmitt, born in 1961 in Strasbourg, France, is a French contemporary artist, programmer and designer.

He creates artworks in the form of objects, installations and situations that explore the processes of movement in all their modalities and question their inherent conceptual problematics of a plastic, philosophical or social nature. Heir to kinetic art and cybernetic art, nourished by metaphysical science fiction, he tirelessly questions the dynamic interactions between human nature and the nature of reality. Originally a programmer in the field of human-computer relations and artificial intelligence, he places the program, a contemporary artistic material and unique for its active quality, at the centre of most of his artworks to reveal and literally manipulate the forces at stake. Antoine Schmitt has also associated this approach with more established artistic fields such as music, dance, architecture, literature or cinema, and has worked with Franck Vigroux, Atau Tanaka, Vincent Epplay, Jean-Jacques Birgé, Delphine Doukhan, K. Danse, Patrice Belin, Don Nino, Cubenx, Alberto Sorbelli, Matthew Bourne, Hortense Gauthier…. Theorist, speaker and editor of the gratin.org portal, Antoine Schmitt explores the field of programmed art.

Lives and works in Paris.

EDUCATION

Self-made artist
Diploma : Civil enginner, Télécom Paris 1984
Programming engineer in Paris and Silicon Valley, 1984-1995
Freelance programmer 1995-

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2021
Galerie Charlot, Paris, France
Centre d’Art Les Eglises, Chelles, France
2020
Microfolie Vandoeuvre, France
Microfolie Colombelles, France
Galerie Charlot, Tel Aviv, Israel
2018
Espace Jean de Joigny, Joigny, France
2015
La Filature, Mulhouse, France
MCL, Metz, France
Galerie Charlot, Paris, France
2013
Centre Bellegarde, Toulouse, France
Galerie Charlot, Paris, France
2012
Galerie Charlot, Paris, France
2011
Aksioma, Ljubljiana, Slovenia
Galerie Charlot, Paris, France
2010
Centre d’Art Seconde Nature, Aix-en-Provence, France
2008
Galerie numeriscausa, Paris, France
1999
Zoo Galerie, Nantes, France

GROUP EXHIBITIONS, CONCERTS
2021
Biennale Némo – 104, Paris, France
Deus ex machina, Soissons, France
Musée d’Art Moderne & Contemporain des Sables d’Olonne, France
Fondation EDIS, Avignon, France
Université d’Evry, Evry-Courcouronnes, France
Miroir de Poitiers, Poitiers, France
Festival Un Eté Au Havre, Le Havre, France
Festival ((OW-AO)), Chateauvillain, France
Festival Atmosphères, Paris, France
Centre d’Art Jean-Jacques Faussot, Tauves, France
Microfolie, Evry-Courcouronnes, France
Centre Culturel Bellegarde, Toulouse, France
ENSA Paris Val de Seine, Paris, France
Le Granit, Belfort, France
2020
Institut Français Conakry, Guinea
Biennale Chroniques, Aix, France
Festival LAPS, Meyrin, Switzerland
Microfolie Vandoeuvre, Vandoeuvre, France
Mains D’Oeuvres, St Ouen, France
Galerie Charlot, Paris, France
Microfolie Colombelles, Colombelles, France
Festival Un Eté Au Havre, Le Havre, France
CNCM Césaré, Reims, France
Fondation EDIS, Avignon, France
Galerie Charlot, Tel Aviv, Israel
Festival Forum des Arts Sonores – ALB’ORU, Bastia, France
Watermans, London, UK
2019
Le Ring, Toulouse, France
Festival Digital Choc, Tokyo, Japan
Festival Madatac, Madrid, Spain
ENSA Val de Seine, Paris, France
2018
Grey Area, San Francisco, USA
Art Fair Camera camera/OVNI, Nice France
Théatre Anthea, Antibes, France
Arrêt sur Images – Le Hublot, Nice France
Kinobeat Festival, Porto Alegre, Brazil
SP Urban Festival, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Festival Multiplicidades, Rio, Brazil
Galerie Charlot, Tel Aviv, Israel
Téatro Francés Alliance Française, Lima, Peru
Alliance Française, Arequipa, Peru
Exposition collective Corps Virtuels – APO33, Nantes, France
Festival Akousma, Montreal, Canada
ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany
Ciclo Extramuros Ex Teresa, Mexico, Mexico
Centro Nacional de las Artes, Mexico, Mexico
Festival Vision Sonoras, Morelia, Mexico
Festival Zou!, Hameau de la Brousse, France
Festival Soco, Montevideo, Uruguay
Festival Mutek, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Festival miXité, Carcassonne, France
Galerie Charlot, Tel Aviv, Israel
Festival Synthposium, Moskau, Russia
Festival Coder le Monde – Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
Sajeta Festival, Tolmin, Slovenia
Synthposium Festival, Moskau, Russia
Public Screens, Melbourne, Australia
Volta Art Fair, Basel, Switzerland
SOS-Art, Montreuil, France
Galerie Charlot, Paris, France
Mapping Festival, Geneve, Switzerland
Festival Delco, Nîmes, France
Ville A des Arts, Paris, France
IRCAM Paris, France
Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
Stuttgarter Filmwinter Festival, Stuttgart, Germany
2017
Festival TADAEX, Tehran, Iran
Biennale Nemo, Paris, France
Festival New Settings #7 at Théatre de la Cité Internationale, Paris
L’Attrape-Couleurs, Lyon, France
The Wrong Biennale, online
Festival Photophore, Tremblay-en-France, France
Exhibition-Charity Auction sale Christie’s, Fondation Meeschaert, Paris
Fondation Vasarely/Seconde Nature, Aix, France
Design & Artisanat d’Art – Hotel de Ville, Paris, France
Galerie Charlot, Tel Aviv, Israel
Sony Center Screen, DAM Galery, Berlin, Germany
Festival Orizonti Paralleli, Porto Vecchio, France
MART Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
Volta13, Basel, Switzerland
SOU Festival, Tbilissi, Georgia
stereolux, Nantes, France
Biennale Design, StEtienne, France
Le Cube, Issy-les-Mx, France
Le Générateur, Gentilly, France
Vivat, Armentières, France
Grey Area, San Francisco, CA, USA
Le Laboratoire, Cambridge, MA, USA
White Box, NYC, USA
Festival ChroniquesIII/Revelations, Marseille, France
Lo Pati, Amposta, Spain
2016
Institut Français Saint Petersbourg, Russia
Foundation Meeschaert Auction, Paris, France
Festival Home Cinema, Gare St Sauveur, Shenzhen, China
Anis Gras, Arcueil, France
Exhibition <>Reticular, St Etienne, France
Plateforme, Paris, France
YIA Art Fair, Paris, France
Daegu Art Museum, Daegu, South Korea
Nuit Blanche Paris, Paris, France
Institut Français, Tel Aviv, Israel
Festival Home Cinema, Gare St Sauveur, Lille, France
Auction MAT, Paris, France
Galeria Odalys, Madrid, Spain
Gaité Lyrique, Paris, France
Media Architecture Biennale, Sydney, Australia
Centre des Arts, Enghien-les-Bains, France
Festival Kernmacherei, Villingen-Schwenningen, Germany
Centre Pompidou, Metz, France
Grand Palais facade, Paris, France
Festival Tropisme, Montpellier, France
Metro, Kyoto, Japan
WWW, Tokyo, Japan
ICART Media Festival, Paris, France
Lieu Mutltiple, Poitiers, France
Mains D’Oeuvres, St Ouen, France
Arts Santa Monica, Barcelona, Spain
Festival The Wrong , Paris, France
2015
Festival TAKTS, Latvia
Biennale Selest’Art, Sélestat, France
Festival Ososphère, Strasbourg, France
Festival Transient, Paris, France
Festival The Wrong, Paris/Milan
Carreau de Cergy, Cergy, France
Planétarium, Vaulx-en-Velin, France
Philharmonie Luxembourg, Louxemburg
Philharmonie Paris, NEMO Festival, Paris, France
Journées Européennes du Patrimoine, Joinville, France
Festival Horizon Parallèle, Carcassonne, France
Festival Son MiRé, Fabrezan, France
ISEA15 Festival, Vancouver, Canada
Festival Media Art Future, Murcia, Spain
Festival Interstice, Caen, France
iMAL, Brüssel, Belgium
Festival Tropisme, Montpellier, France
Festival Musique Action, Vandoeuvre lès Nancy, France
Festival aCROSS’15, Plaisir, France
Radioland UK Tour, sounduk, UK
Le Hublot, Nice, France
EXIT, Creteil, France
Art Paris Art Fair, Galerie Charlot, Paris, France
Festival Nuit Numérique, Reims, France
Espace Gantner, Bourogne, France
Festival Orléanoïde, Orléans, France
2014
Festival Multiplicitades, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
La Filature, Mulhouse, France
Festival Bruits Blancs, Arcueil, France
Festival Kasseler DokFest, Kassel, Germany
Nuit Blanche, Charleville-Mézières, France
Festival Temps d’Images, Paris, France
Screengrab International New Media Festival, Townsville, Australia
BIT forms – Galerie Nery Mariño, Paris, France
Fenêtre Augmentée Chateau de Collioure, France
Festival Bains Numériques, Enghien-les-Bains, France
SCOPE Art Fair, Basel, Switzerland
Centre d’Art Le Lait, Albi, France
Festival Croisements, Galery Cmoda, Beijing, China
Nouveaux Monstres, Théatre de Colombes, France
Nuit des Musées, Musée Gallo-Romain de Fourvière, Lyon, France
Nuit des Musées, Musée d’Art Moderne, Saint-Etienne, France
Festival VIA, Mons, Belgium
Festival Tropisme, Montpellier, France
Coding Days, stereolux, Nantes, France
Festival Sound Surround, eWerk, Freiburg, Germany
Stuttgarder Filmwinter Festival, Stuttgard, Germany
2013
Nemo, Paris, Saint-Denis, France
Festival Orléanoïde, Orléans, France
Edith Russ Haus, Oldenburg, Germany
Seconde Nature, Aix, France
Mouvements et géométries de la pensée, Guyancourt, France
Slick Art Fair, Galerie Charlot, Paris, France
Show Off Art Fair, Galerie Charlot, Paris, France
Festival CRAK, Paris, France, Sept13
Festival Scopitone, Nantes, France, Sept13
Festival Flussi, Avellino, Italy, Aug13
Festival Futur En Seine, Paris, France
Festival Parizone@dream – Gaité Lyrique, Paris, France
Made In Light, Fondation Vasarely, Fondation EDF, Christies Paris
Scope Art Fair – Galerie Charlot, Basel, Switzerland
Festival Bruits Blancs, Arcueil, France
Festival Mutek, Montréal, Canada
Festival Störung, Barcelona, Spain
Mediacities Festival, Buffalo, USA
Le Bel Ordinaire, Pau, France
Césaré, Reims, France
Festival Empreintes Numériques, Toulouse, France
Festival Infecting the City, Cape Town, South Africa
2012
Sp Urban Art Festival, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Ososphère Festival, Strasbourg, France
Share Festival, Torino, Italy
FIAC Art Fair, FMAC, Paris
Slick Art Fair, Galerie Charlot, Paris
Show Off Lab, Paris
Elektricity Festival, Reims, France
Update_4, Brüssel, Belgium
Wilhelm-Hack-Museum, Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany
Parizone@dream Festival, Gaité Lyrique, Paris, France
Festival de l’Affiche de Chaumont, France
Conseil Général du Territoire de Belfort, Belfort
Art Karlsruhe, Galerie Charlot, Karlsruhe, Germany
Electrochoc Festival, Bourgoin-Jallieu, France
2011
ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany
Musée Départemental, Beauvais
Le Cube, Issy les Mx
Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
Kumu Art Museum, Tallinn, Estonia
New Forms Festival, Vancouver, Canada
ICT Art Center, Shenzhen, Shanghai, China
Exposition Medias Sociaux, Cap Sciences, Bordeaux
Centre d’Art la Briqueterie, Ciry-le-Noble
Exposition Paranoïa, Gare St Sauveur, Lille
Exposition Paranoïa, Maubeuge
Festival Exit, MAC, Créteil
Festival WRO, Worclaw, Poland
Festival l’Ososphère, Strasbourg
2010
Festival Rencontres Internationales Paris-Berlin-Madrid, Centre Georges Pompidou
Galerie G, Paris
Festival Art (Fair(e), Le Vigan, France
Festival 9. Augsburger Kunstlabor, Augsburg, Germany
Festival Meta.Morf 2010, Trondheim, Norway
Nuit Blanche, Brussels and Madrid
Festival Flux-S, Eindhoven, Netherlands
Festival ISEA2010 RUHR, Dortmund, Germany
Festival Désert Numérique, St Nazaire le Desert, France
Festival Bouillants#2, Brest, St Brieux, Rennes
Festival Luminato, Toronto, Canada
Festival “When Process Becomes Paradigm”, laboral, Gijon, Spain
Media Facades Festival, Berlin, Helsinki, Brussels, Linz, Madrid
Euratechnologies Center, Lille
Festival FIMAV, Victoriaville, Canada
Festival Rokolectiv, Bucarest, Romania
Festival Rencontres Internationales Paris-Berlin-Madrid, Tabacalera, Madrid, Spain
Espace Multimedia Gantner, Bourogne , France
2009
Nuit Blanche, Metz
Festival Ososphère, Strasbourg
Festival Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria
MAMA Art Center, Rotterdam, Netherlands
FILE festival, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris
Festival VOST OV/OT, iMal, Brussels
Festival International des Affiches et du Graphisme, Chaumont, France
Maison Populaire, Montreuil, France
Pass Museum, Mons, Belgium
Festival Des Souris et des Hommes, St Médard en Jalles, France
Festival Siana, Evry, France
Festival “Game if Up”, Vooruit Art Center, Gent, Belgium
Festival DID, Mailand, Italy
New Genre Festival at Living Arts, Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA
Exhibition “In Search of the Unknown”, NIMK Art Center, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Festival transmediale.09, Berlin, Germany
2008
Festival CIMATICS, Brüssel, Belgium
Festival des Musiques Libres, Besançon, France
Centre des Arts d’Enghien Les Bains, France
Collective exhibition Système C Festival de la coïncidence Mains D’oeuvres, St Ouen
Nuit Blanche, Paris
Festival Ososphère, Strasbourg, France
5th Seoul International Media Art Biennale, Seoul, South Korea
Festival Scopitone, Nantes, France
3rd Upgrade festival, Skopje, North Macedonia
Le Cube, Issy les Mx, France
Collective exhibition Holy Fire, iMal, Brüsel, Belgium
Collective exhibition Economie 0, Ménagerie de Verre, Paris, France
2007
Nederlands Instituut voor Mediakunst, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Festival Digitalis, Langogne, France
debalie center, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Slick artfair, Galerie numeriscausa, Paris, France
Nuit Blanche, Amiens
iMAL, Brüssel, Belgium
Festival Ososphère, Strasbourg, France
Festival Scopitone, Nantes, France
Collective exhibition pong mythos, Bern, Switzerland
Festival DEAF, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Festival Malaupixel/Pixelache, Ars Longa, Paris
Festival ‘the game is up!’, Vooruit Art Center, Gent, Belgium
Festival transmediale.07, Berlin, Germany
2006
Collective exhibition pong.mythos, Museum für Kommunikation, Frankfurt, Germany
MAEM’s Vth Festival of electronic art, Móstoles, Spain
Slick artfair, Galerie numeriscausa, Paris, France
Wired nextfest, New York, USA
Collective exhibition pong.mythos, Bern, Switzerland
Collective exhibition pong.mythos, Leipzig, Germany
Collective exhibition pong.mythos, Stuttgart, Germany
Point Ephémère, Paris
Flash Festival, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
2005
Le Cube, Issy-les-Mx, France
Festival nuit numérique #3, Reims, France
Festival VAD (Video i Arts Digitals), Girona, Catalogna-Spain
Galerie numeriscausa/Biche de Bere, New York, USA
Festival Ososphère, Strasbourg, France
Festival Internacional de Buenos Aires, Argentina
low tech [1] at Villa Arson, Nice, France
Festival club transmediale, Berlin, Germany
Festival NetMage, Bologna, Italy
2004
Collective exhibition Ecoute, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
Collective exhibition Drawn by Reality – Encapsulated in Life, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Collective exhibition Invisibile, Palazzo Delle Papesse, Sienna, Italy
Festival Ars Numerica, Montbéliard
Festival Voix Croisées, Strasbourg
Festival RIAM01, montévidéo Marseille, France
Festival CYNETart_04areal, Dresden, Germany
Festival Infiltration Digitales, Brüssel, Belgium
Nuit Blanche, Paris
Festival Villette Numérique, Paris
Festival MUSICA VIVA, Lisboa, Portugal
Festival de l’Ecoute, Arles
Festival Scopitone, Nantes
Espace Multimedia Gantner, Bourogne, France
Collective exhibition 10 years of Sonar, Madrid, Spain
2003
Laboratoires d’Aubervilliers, Aubervilliers, France
Festival MAEM, Spain
Centre d’Art bbb, Toulouse
Festival h2ptm, St Denis, France
Festival ars electronica, Linz, Austria
Collective exhibition, Le Triage, Nanterre, France
Festival de l’Ecoute, Arles
imal, Brüssel, Belgium
Festivals transmediale et club transmediale, Berlin, Germany
2002
Les Revues Parlées, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
Festival Generative Art, Milan, Italy
Festival Portées à l’écran, Maroquinerie, Paris
Violence online festival 3.0 (online)
Festival Art on the Net 2002 (online/Japan)
7th International Festival of New Film, Split, Croatia
Festival FILE02, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Festival wrong, Barcelona, Spain
Festival sonar, Barcelona, Spain
Festival cybersonica, ICA, London, UK
Festival Say Hello to Peace and Tranquility, Nikolaj Contemporary Art Center, Copenhagen, Denmark
Festival Kontrollfelder/Control Panels, hartware medien kunst verein, Dortmund, Germany
2001
Festival Virus, Batofar, Paris, France
Festival CYNETart, Dresden, Germany
Festival FILE_2001, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Festival Séances d’écoute, Aubervilliers, France
Festival transmediale.01, Berlin, Germany
Festival Nuits Savoureuses/Interférences, Belfort, France
2000
Festival ISEA, Paris
Festival Singuliers/multiples, Galerie ARTEM, Quimper, France
Collective exhibition Teleferique, Galerie Public, Paris
1999
Collective exhibition Salle d’attente.1, Galerie EOF, Paris
Collective exhibition Teleferique, Galerie Acces Local, Paris
Festival Medi@terra, Athens, Greece
Collective exhibition IIIe jours sur l’écriture interactive, Paris
Collective exhibition ZAC99, ARC, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris
Festival Champ Libre, Montréal
Collective exhibition Ouverture 4, Château de Bionnay, France
Collective exhibition anomos/déconnexion, Galerie Web Art, Paris
Collective exhibition Electrofolie 2, Dijon, France
1998
Théatre Contemporain de la Danse, Paris
Galerie Glassbox, Paris
Centre Culturel Français, Beirut, Lebanon
Collective exhibition Ouverture 3, Château de Bionnay, France
1997
Collective exhibition Version Originale, Musée d’Art Contemporain de Lyon

AUSZEICHNUNGEN UND ARBEITSAUFENTHALTE
2020
Prix Fondation François Schneider, Finaliste
2018
Grant CNC Dicream, Paris
Award Stuttgart Filmwinter, nominated, Stuttgart, Germany
2016
Award Media Architecture Biennale 16, nominated, Sidney, Australia
2014
Award Kasseler DokFest, nominated, Kassel, Germany
Award Screengrab International festival, nominated, Townsville, Australia
Award Bains Numériques Enghien les Bains, nominated, Enghien, France
Award Stuttgarder Filmwinter Festival, nominated, Stuttgart, Germany
2013
Grant ARCADI, Paris, France
2012
Award Share Festival, Torino, Special Mention
Residency Edith-Russ-Haus, Oldenburg, Germany
Grant CNC Dicream, Paris
Grant SCAM, Paris
Grant DRAC Loire, Regional French Culture Ministry, France
Award Voeux de l’Internet, Issy-les-Mx, FR, E-Toile d’Or catégory Art
Award New Technological Art Award, Brüssel, nominated
2011
Award Digital Turku, Turku, Finland, Special Mention
Residency La Vie des Formes, Montceau-les-Mines, France
2010
Grant CNC Dicream, French Govt, Paris
2009
Award Festival Ars Electronica, Linz, second price
2007
Award Festival transmediale, Berlin, second price
2006
Residency V2, Rotterdam
2005
Grant CNC Dicream, French Govt, Paris
2004
Award Festival CYNETart, Dresden, Special Mention
2003
Award Festival machinista, Russia
2002
Award Festival International UNESCO de Video-Dance, Paris, first price
Award Vida 5.0, Madrid, Special Mention
2001
Award Festival transmediale, Berlin, Special Mention
2000
Award Festival Interférences, Belfort, first price
1999
Award Möbius Prize, Paris, nominated
Award Festival medi@terra, Athen, first price

AUFTRÄGE
Public commission of perrenial urban installation, Antwerp, Belgium, ongoing
2011
Private commission of ephemeral urban installation, Fête des Lumières, Lyon

SAMMLUNGEN
Espace Gantner, Bourogne, France
Fond Digitalarti, Paris, France
Le Cube, Issy-Mx, France
Fond Municipal d’Art Contemporain, FMAC, Paris, France
Galerie Charlot, Paris
Foundation Artphilein, Switzerland
Foundation Fraenkel, USA
Foundation Meeschaert, France
Foundation Société Générale, France
Foundation Borusan, Turkey

Next exhibition in autumn 2023
RAWWAR, DAM Berlin, May 06 – June 25, 2022
AESTHETICA, DAM Berlin, May 30 – August 01, 2015