My name is Romain Tardy.
I was born in Paris on the 23rd of September, 1984. I studied art and design for 4 years, then I thought it was time to start doing something else.
My primary focus is to create tangible, offline art installations. I don’t consider my work as digital art.
I also do creative and art direction, as well as art consulting.
I design still and animated things (some are big, some are small, but the screen is not the limit).
This website shows a selection of works I’ve created over the past decade: it is a non-exhaustive portfolio.
I co-founded the European visual label ANTIVJ, and I have been active as an artist in this group from 2008 until late 2013.
Aalto / livevisuals was also my alias when playing live visuals in clubs (2005-2011).
After living in Paris for several years, I moved to Brussels, Belgium, where I currently live and work.
I also love my greenhouse.
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Such mystery / Much digital
Studio view
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Selected talks
• Meetfactory art center, Prague, March 2010
• Apple store Ginza, Tokyo, Japan, February 2012
• European Festivals Lab, panel about digital stage design, Lyon, France, May 2012
• Plaine Images studios, Lille area, France, March 2012
• French Institute of Prague, Czech Republic, October 2013
• Universidad Iberoamericana Puebla, Mexico, May 2014
• KiKK Festival, Namur, Belgium, November 2014
• AKQA Insights, Paris, France, May 2015
• AVA Festival, Belfast, Northern Ireland, May 2015
• Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria, September 2015
• Multiplica festival, Luxemburg city, Luxemburg, October 2015
• Resonate festival, Belgrade, Serbia, April 2016
• Mapping festival, Geneva, Switzerland, May 2016
• MTA Festival, Beijing, China, September 2016
• Fubiz Talks, Paris, France, September 2016
• Schiev festival, Brussels, Belgium, November 2016
• Dome of visions, Stockholm, Sweden, February 2017
• School of Architecture, Liege, Belgium, February 2017
• Genius Loci Weimar, Weimar, Germany, August 2017
• ENSAD (School of Art and Design), Nancy, France, October 2017
• PXL / MAD School of art, Hasselt, Belgium, February 2018
• Embed @ HOBO Hotel, Stockholm design week, Sweden, February 2018
• KLF @ Mironova art gallery, Kiev, Ukraine, May 2018
• Mapping festival, Geneva, Switzerland, May 2019
• Paris Electronic Week, Paris, France, September 2019
• LIFA Colloquium VII, Kiel, Germany, November 2019
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Press: see press section
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Member of the jury
• Rencontres Audiovisuelles / Mapping contest, Lille, France, September 2014
• Genius Loci Weimar , Weimar, Germany, 2014-2018
• Moscow Circle of light Festival, Moscow, Russia, 2015
• Audi Talents Awards, Paris, France, 2017
• Kiev light festival, Kiev, Ukraine, 2018
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Artist-in-residence
• CDA Enghien-les-bains, France, 2009
• Nabi Art Center, Seoul, South Korea, 2009
• Meetfactory, Prague, Czech Republic, 2010
• Visualiseringscenter C, Norrköping, Sweden, 2010
• Institut Français, La Habana, Cuba, 2011
• La Bellone, Brussels, Belgium, 2012
• Institut Français, Tokyo, Japan, 2012
• Centro de Diseño Oaxaca, Oaxaca, Mexico, 2013
• Musée de l'Elysée, Lausanne, Switzerland, 2015
• Perte de signal, Montréal, Canada, 2016
• Base sous-marine, Bordeaux, France, 2017
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Artist publications
• Borders at sea level in The absence of paths, Tunisian pavillion, Venice Biennale 2017
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Workshops
• "4x3" — 2nd year of graphic design, Lycée Charles de Gaulle, Chaumont, France, May 2009. In partnership with the International poster & graphic design festival of Chaumont.
• "Un peu moins d'image, un peu plus d'espace" (A little less pictures, a little more space) — School of La Cambre — From 1st to 3rd grade, all sections (art, graphic design, object design, stage design, typography). Brussels, Belgium, April 2013.
• "Poétique des échelles : image enfermée, image libérée " — HEAR (Haute Ecole des Arts du Rhin), France, March 2015.
• "Géopoétique d'une ville" — Master edition Université de Reims / Chaumont, May 2016.
• "An introduction to dome projection" — Mira festival, Barcelona, Spain, November 2016.
• "Building pictures with a techno-critical understanding" — Stockholm Dramatiska Högskolan, Sweden, January 2017.
• “La fabrique immatérielle” — Rencontres audiovisuelles / European mapping center, Lille, France, June 2017.
• “Pierres numériques” — ENSA, Nancy, France, October 2017 - January 2018.
• “Blue Hour” — 36Q Pavillion, Prague Quadriennial 2019.
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Awards & selections
• Honorary Qwartz award for Déshérence, 2011
• Pagan, part of the official selection of Artfutura film festival 2013
• The Ark, part of the official selection at Ars Electronica Festival 2014
• The Ark, Winner of 4ª bienal iberoamericana de diseño, Madrid, Spain, 2014
• The Great Indecision Council, Honorary mention, Prix Ars Electronica 2019
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The font used on this website has been designed by Bastien Sozoo from UPLAOD.
Portrait picture courtesy Andréa Aubert.