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Sabine Gruffat

Born 1977 - Bangkok, Thailand

Sabine Gruffat is a French-American artist who works with experimental video and animation, media-enhanced performance, participatory public art, and immersive installation. In this work, machines, interfaces, and systems constitute the language by which she codes the world. The creation of new ideas means inventing new ways of using existing tools, crossing signals, or repurposing old hardware. By actively disrupting both current and outmoded technology, Gruffat questions the standardized and mediatized world around us. She has produced digital media works for public spaces, as well as interactive installations that have been shown at the Zolla Lieberman Gallery in Chicago, Art In General, Devotion Gallery, PS1 Contemporary Art Museum, and Hudson Franklin in New York.

She is also a filmmaker with a special interest in the social and political implications of media and technology. Her experimental and essay films explore how technology, globalization, urbanism, and capitalism affect human beings and the environment. These films seek to empower people, encourage social participation, and inspire political engagement. Sabine's films and videos have screened at festivals worldwide including the Image Forum Festival in Japan, the Ann Arbor Film Festival in Michigan, and Migrating Forms in New York, the Viennale, MoMA Documentary Fortnight, Cinéma du Réel at the Centre Pompidou, 25FPS in Croatia, and the Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival.


Available Titles by Sabine Gruffat

Title Year Runtime Collection
Amarillo Ramp 2017 00:24:10 Single Titles
The Ataraxians 2004 00:05:43 Single Titles
Baghdad Plan is a Success 2007 00:02:44 Single Titles
Black Oval White 2009 00:02:56 Single Titles
Bomb Parts 2007 00:03:20 Single Titles
Brave New World 2015 00:06:40 Single Titles
Framelines 2016 00:10:14 Single Titles
Head Lines: Hybrid Film Trilogy 2007 00:09:06 Single Artist Compilations
I Have Always Been A Dreamer 2012 01:17:07 Single Titles
Jaws 2009 00:08:00 Single Titles
Jaws 2 2009 00:09:23 Single Titles
Low Pay and Broken Promises 2007 00:03:04 Single Titles
Michoacan: La Muerta 2006 00:16:54 Single Titles
Mountain 2009 00:15:25 Single Titles
Moving or Being Moved 2020 00:10:54 Single Titles
Oscillator Color 2009 00:11:18 Single Titles
Take It Down 2019 00:12:37 Single Titles
To The South Was 72 2005 00:11:02 Single Titles
Video Animations 2009 00:47:16 Single Artist Compilations

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