Thierry Geoffroy (born 1961), also known as Colonel, is a Danish-French artist. Living in Copenhagen First documented in the 11th century, Copenhagen became the capital of Denmark in the beginning of the 15th century and during the 17th century under the reign of Christian IV it became a significant regional centre. With the completion of the transnational Oresund Bridge in 2000, Copenhagen has become the centre of the increasingly integrating, Denmark Denmark is a constitutional monarchy with a parliamentary system of government. Denmark has a state-level government and local governments in 98 municipalities. Denmark has been a member of the European Union since 1973, although it has not joined the Eurozone. Denmark is a founding member of NATO and the OECD. Denmark is also a member of the. Conceptual Conceptual art is art in which the concept or idea(s) involved in the work take precedence over traditional aesthetic and material concerns. Many of the works, sometimes called installations, of the artist Sol LeWitt may be constructed by anyone simply by following a set of written instructions. This method was fundamental to LeWitt's definition artist specialized in format art Format art focuses on the actualization of a concept. Inspired by televisions TV program format the art format makes room for adaption as part of the interaction with human participants and external factors. The format in it self is only a potential - like a recipe.

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Thierry Geoffroy has worked with format art Format art focuses on the actualization of a concept. Inspired by televisions TV program format the art format makes room for adaption as part of the interaction with human participants and external factors. The format in it self is only a potential - like a recipe since 1989 when he wrote a manifest on 5 types of moving exhibitions(Manifeste – Les differents Types de moving Exhibitions). Since then he has worked on several other formats, his most famous being Emergency Room Emergency Room is a format art project by Thierry Geoffroy, changing every 24th hour. The project has been activated in Copenhagen, Berlin, P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center og Athens, which has toured internationally and has been shown at P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center in New York New York City, the most populous city in the United States, is known for its status as a financial, cultural, transportation, and manufacturing center, and for its history as a gateway for immigration to the United States. According to the U.S. Department of Commerce, it is also a destination of choice for many foreign visitors. Both state and.

The format art Format art focuses on the actualization of a concept. Inspired by televisions TV program format the art format makes room for adaption as part of the interaction with human participants and external factors. The format in it self is only a potential - like a recipe of Thierry Geoffroy is created to be actualized in multiple locations, every time adding new knowledge to the format. The method is inspired by the TV program format A program format is a license to produce and to broadcast a national version of a copyrighted foreign television program and to use its name. Formats are a major part of the international television market: Art institutions wanting to use an art format must purchase a license and agree to use the original title, the architectural concept and the methods. As in TV Television is a widely used telecommunication medium for transmitting and receiving moving images, either monochromatic ("black and white") or color, usually accompanied by sound. "Television" may also refer specifically to a television set, television programming or television transmission. The word is derived from mixed Latin vast documentation is always created with video and photo material as central elements.

Thierry Geoffroy's formats always involve many participants - often several hundreds - and is occupied with social psychology Social psychology is the study of the relations between people and groups. Scholars in this interdisciplinary area are typically either psychologists or sociologists, though all social psychologists employ both the individual and the group as their units of analysis: conflicts, collaboration, etc.

Besides a long and norm-challenging, often humouristic, unusual and immense art production Thierry Geoffroy has also made several productions for Danish national television DR2 DR2 is a Danish television station. It is part of Danmarks Radio, the public service broadcasting company of Denmark. Among these the programs "Capitain" (1999), ”Immigranten” (2001), “Photographe“ (2002) and "Protest Underwear" (2005). The choice of media is frequently changing and is usually concerned with the contemporary. News papers, radio, fashion industry, telephones, internet domains A domain name is an identification label that defines a realm of administrative autonomy, authority, or control on the Internet, based on the Domain Name System, parties, music festivals, performance A performance, in performing arts, generally comprises an event in which one group of people behave in a particular way for another group of people (the audience). Sometimes the dividing line between performer and the audience may become blurred, as in the example of "participatory theatre" where audience members might get involved in, myspace MySpace is a social networking website. Its headquarters are in Beverly Hills, California where it shares an office building with its immediate owner, News Corp. Digital Media, owned by News Corporation. MySpace became the most popular social networking site in the United States in June 2006. According to comScore, MySpace was overtaken and facebook Facebook is a social networking website launched in February 2004 that is operated and privately owned by Facebook, Inc., with more than 500 million active users in July 2010.[N 1] Users can add people as friends and send them messages, and update their personal profiles to notify friends about themselves. Additionally, users can join networks are among the elements of the artists crossmedia praxis.

Central to the philosophy of Thierry Geoffroy seems to be the concern that contemporary artists have an obligation to confront current thematics – “emergencies”. This is especially evident in Emergency Room Emergency Room is a format art project by Thierry Geoffroy, changing every 24th hour. The project has been activated in Copenhagen, Berlin, P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center og Athens and the Awareness Muscle format which goal is to train the collective “muscle of awareness”.

Parallel to the artists conceptual work with format art Format art focuses on the actualization of a concept. Inspired by televisions TV program format the art format makes room for adaption as part of the interaction with human participants and external factors. The format in it self is only a potential - like a recipe he has also worked with subjects such as immigration, multiculturalism, colonialism, tourism, hypocrisy and the role of the artist.

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Thierry Geoffroy, 2007

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