Liquid Cinema
Ana María Gómez López and Philippe-Alain Michaud discuss aquariums, both in their role within the history of early cinema and as a conceptual model for contemporary moving image.
Philippe-Alain Michaud is the film curator at the Musée National d’Art Moderne – Centre Pompidou, in charge of the film collection. He is the author of Aby Warburg et l’image en mouvement (Macula, 1998), Le peuple des images (Desclée de Brouwer, 2004), Ames primitives, figures de film, de peluche et de papier (Macula, 2005), Sur le Film (Macula, 2016) and has written numerous articles on the relationship between film and the visual arts. He has curated several exhibitions, including Comme le rêve le dessin (Musée du Louvre/Centre Pompidou, 2004), Le mouvement des images (Centre Pompidou, 2006), Nuits électriques (Musée, de la photographie, Moscou et Laboral (Gijon, Spain) 2007, Tapis volants (Villa Medici, Rome et Les Abattoirs, Toulouse) 2010, Images sans fin, Brancusi photographie, film (Centre Pompidou, 2012), Beat Generation (Centre Pompidou, 2016).
Ana María Gómez López is an interdisciplinary artist, writer, and educator. Her practice centers on self-experimentation, definitions of biological life, legacies of utopian thought, and archival research in the history of science. Ana María was selected for a 2023 CIFO-Ars Electronica Award, to be exhibited at the Lentos Kunstmuseum. Her work has been shown at the deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Fonds d’art contemporain Genève, Rijksmuseum Boerhaave, V2_Lab for Unstable Media, Rencontres Internationales, and DOK Leipzig. She was a resident artist at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten and has held fellowships at the Osler Library for the History of Medicine, Beinecke Rare Books and Manuscripts Library, International Institute for Social History, and Max Planck Institute for History of Science. Ana María was a 2015 recipient of the Premio Nacional de Artes (National Award in the Arts) in Colombia.