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"French-American artist Marc Fichou invites us on a fascinating journey into his creative process with this publication of his Carnet, or ""Notebook,"" one of many he has filled with the thoughts, puzzles, and lines of inquiry that have guided his work over the years in a variety of media, from video installation to sculpture and painting. This book lies in between image and text, philosophy and art, nature and artifice, the human and the technical - not to mention French and English, even diary and fiction. Do we look at it or read it? Or do we practice both at once, wrestling with the differences between seeing and thinking, contemplation and action, beauty and truth? Fichou takes this ambivalent experience as a starting point for explorations of a personhood that, defined since Descartes as a subjective ""inner life"" (core or essence) we control and express, feels increasingly decentered, networked, and cybernetic. His book is filled with paradoxes that for him attend this spatiotemporal change: Mobius strips, infinite sets, hypercubes, Torus shapes, and feedback loops all point to the emergent possibilities that exist for people who no longer exactly know themselves through traditional categories of identity, intention, autonomy. . .and indeed art itself. L'artiste franco-am�ricain Marc Fichou nous invite � un voyage fascinant au sein de son processus cr�atif avec cette publication de Carnet, un carnet parmi les nombreux qu'il a rempli de pens�es, questionnements, et recherches qui ont guid� son travail sur les ann�es dans une vari�t� de m�diums, de l'installation vid�o � la sculpture et la peinture. Ce livre se situe entre l'image et le texte, la philosophie et l'Art, la nature et l'artifice, l'humain et la technique (sans mentionner le fran�ais et l'anglais), et m�me entre le journal intime et la fiction. Le regarde-t-on ou le lit-on ? Ou pratiquons-nous les deux � la fois, confrontant les diff�rences entre voir et penser, la contemplation et l'action, la beaut� et la v�rit� ? Fichou prend cette exp�rience ambivalente comme le point de d�part d'explorations d'une identit� individuelle, d�finie depuis Descartes comme vie int�rieure subjective (noyau ou essence) que nous contr�lons et exprimons, qui se ressent de plus en plus comme d�centr�e, en r�seau et cybern�tique. Son livre est rempli de paradoxes, qui pour lui t�moignent de ce changement spatio-temporel: des rubans de Moebius, des ensembles infinis, des hypercubes, des formes en tore, des boucles de r�troaction; tous pointent vers les possibilit�s �mergentes qui existent pour ceux qui ne se reconnaissent plus tout � fait dans les cat�gories traditionnelles de l'identit�, de l'intention, de l'autonomie ... et d'ailleurs de l'art lui-m�me. ​"

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Marc Fichou was born in Paris and first came to the United States as a young man. He has been a practicing artist in New York and Los Angeles. He now lives with his partner and fellow artist Lauren Marsolier in the south of France. His video installation, painting, sculpture and other multimedia work can be viewed at his website: www.marcfichou.com.

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