With Urban Spirits, French digital art pioneer Judith Darmont creates both digital street art and an interactive toolbox for urbanites and urbanists. Ephemeral, temporary and permanent art as a poetic and video arty proposition to deal with the urban space issue. 1\EPHEMERAL ART. Touring metropolis, intimate & mobile screenings turn out the street into an improvised theater. 2\TEMPORARY ART. URBAN SPIRITS CITY TOUR takes you to a virtual exhibition in town; a smartphone apps with augmented reality, to reveal a dematerialized exhibition. A contemporary art city tour to undergo. 3\PERMANENT ART with a DIGITAL SCULPTURE, a smart urban furniture to display and connect the Urban Spirits. Judith is a former painter and a French digital art pioneer. Her relentless creation, combined with a spirit of constant technological discovery push her into innovative artistic fields. In the early 90's, Beaubourg, La Vidéothèque de Paris, Le Palais de Tokyo soon hosted her digital paintings and her first installations. She multiplies artistic collaborations and her appearances on French and international stages. Today Judith is one of the most active digital artists in France. She set up several "multimedia bands" with electrojazz musicians or DJs and created an evolutive and poetic live visual performances. Judith has dedicated some of her digital creation for business/marcom events, festivals and shows. She creates digital content, installations and digital performances.

1. urban
spirits
A Digital Street Art Creation by
Judith Darmont
AT NIGHT, SPIRITS ARE IN THE CITIES..

2. SYNOPSIS
SPIRITS ARE _Judith Darmont travels the world and creates
IN THE video art portraits.
_These portraits are projected in cities at night.
CITIES Walls, doors, alleyways become improvised theaters,
ephemeral projection sites
AUGMENTED _Projections are filmed, geo-localized and made
available on-line on www.urban-spirits.com
POETRY _The city tour...With a Smartphone and an Urban
Spirits app the projections may be experienced
again at any time.

3. 4 STEPS OF CREATION
PORTRAITS PROJECTIONS INTERNET AUGMENTED
In each city, At night, the Web site, blog, REALITY
Judith Darmont portraits are social networks, Through geo-
meets with men projected in the streaming of the localization and
and women. city at human size projects: a entire equipped with a
She captures their and with a portable system is put in Smartphone, it is
voice, their motion, mini-projector. place for the possible to find
their face, their A poetic journey of spectator to be the projection
universe and digital tags in the able to constantly sites in each city
creates video art heart of the city. follow the evolution worldwide and
portraits. They are These happenings of the project. to visualize the
the spirits of the are announced portraits on your
city, the Urban through the web screen. A fun way
Spirits. site and social to experience the
networks. city tour again.

4. INTENTION
In our modern cities, we need connections.
The artist has a choice place in this quest.
Urban Spirits is a visual respiration in our lives, in our cities.
A reflection on the self and on the footprint we are leaving.
Creating encounters, connections, exchanges, staging
cultural diversity and its richness though intimate portraits.
Urban Spirits gives urbanites a voice and a motion; filmed
encounters will create the conditions required for an
exchange.
Using the urban space as vector for contemporary art,
accessible to all. Offer another look at the city,
more human, more poetic.
Putting technological innovation at the service of Art.

5. PARIS
NEW YORK
LONDRES
TEL AVIV
HONG KONG
MONTREAL
PEKIN
LYON
BERLIN
...

6. BIOGRAPHY
Judith created her first digital paintings in the
early 90s. Her relentless creation, combined
with a spirit of constant technological
discovery push her into innovative artistic
fields. Beaubourg, La Vidéothèque de Paris,
Le Palais de Tokyo soon host her creations.
She multiplies her artistic collaborations and
her appearances on French and international
stages.
Today Judith is one of the most active digital
artists in France. She set up several
"multimedia bands" with electrojazz
musicians or DJs and created live visual
performances. Judith also works on many
private events for branding, festivals and
shows. She creates digital content,
installations and digital performances.

7. PARIS
Production direction
Jean-David Abramowicz
+ 33 6 84 50 82 80
jda@urban-spirits.com
Press contact
Géraldine Blavier
+ 33 6 60 94 31 64
geraldine@urban-spirits.com
NEW YORK
Executive producer
Aurélie Cotugno
+ 1 917 547 3640
aurelie@urban-spirits.com
WEB SITE
www.urban-spirits.com