Jean Detheux
- Director
- Editor
- Writer
Born in Belgium, Jean Detheux received his academic training at the
Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts de Liège. Immigrating to Canada in 1971,
he taught at various art schools in Canada and the U.S. He has
exhibited his paintings and drawings in solo and in group shows, in
Europe, Singapore, Lebanon and the Americas. His work can be found in
many private and public collections. He has also given numerous talks
about the phenomenology of vision and the process of creation (member
of the Husserl Circle in 1981), he now lectures extensively on subjects
such as "Animating in a different key" (in French and English). He has
written, in English and French, many articles on art and animation,
reviews of festivals, symposiums, books and software, published by
Animation World Network, Sage Publications, International Journal Arts
and Technology, The Wig and more. After nearly 4 decades of dedicated
work with natural media, sudden serious allergies to painting materials
forced him to give up "real" painting for digital technology (in 1997).
This brought him almost "naturally" to animated film ("time-based
art"). He has since made numerous films (with the National Film Board
of Canada and with many composers such as Jean-Philippe Collard-Neven,
Jean Derome, Michael Oesterle, Hubl Greiner, Thierry Van Roy, Wilfried
Jentzsch, Pierre Jalbert, Mikel Kuehn. Jean René, Benjamin Irwin and
Michaela Eremiasova, worked with the Quatuor Bozzini, the Quatuor
Danel, the Eastman Triana, the Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble and the
Quadro Janas ensemble). His films which are regularly appearing at film
and animation festivals around the globe. His films are also screened
during music festivals, often with musicians performing the music. He
also takes part in real-time performances, either as solo visual
artist, or in collective improvisations (as with filmmaker Pierre
Hébert in a "four hands in the same frame" setting).