Eric
Viennot (author/director)
Eric Viennot was born in 1960 in Lyon, France. He
trained as a visual artist and, in the 1980s,practiced
photography, painting and video-making. With the Equipage
10 group, he took part in several multimedia exhibitions,
showing his work in France, Germany, Italy and Denmark.
He passed the CAPES and Agrégation competitive
examinations in fine arts, then taught at the University
of Paris 1 (Panthéon Sorbonne) for five years.
In 1990,he founded the Lexis Numérique production
studio with Marie Viennot and José Sanchis.
A pioneer in the use of synthetic images, from 1994
he took part in many multimedia projects as graphic
designer and artistic director.
In
1998,he created the first part of the Uncle Albert
adventures collection, for which he has won many international
awards. He continues to develop the collection through
books, CD-Roms and a forthcoming animated cartoon
series.
For Eric Viennot, video games are a new medium that
make it possible to tell stories in a totally original
way. He is interested, first and foremost, in interactive
fiction because he is convinced that, a century after
the dawn of cinema, video games will soon become a
new narrative form, rich in emotion and the stuff
of dreams.
Last
June, Eric Viennot was awarded the 2003 Interactive
Creation Prize by the SACD (Société
des auteurs et compositeurs dramatiques), along with
Jean-Pierre Jeunet (cinema),Peter Brook (theater),
Zabou Breitman (young movie talent).
