A Cosmic Movie Camera and a Biennial of Moving Images

When you click to enter the online virtual exhibition component of Biennale de l’Image en Mouvement from the landing page, you are immediately dropped into what appears as a typical street view on Google Maps. After a few seconds the image slowly begins to rotate in circular pans to allow you to take in the immediate environment, which is a representation of a block in the city of Geneva where Centre d’Art Contemporain is located – a post-industrial building that is the site of the Biennale exhibition. A low hum of street noise fills the soundscape, along with nondescript mood music that seems to be emanating from one of the Biennale’s commissioned video installations inside the space.