Marie-Jeanne Gauthé
Marie-Jeanne Gauthé is a video scenographer, a renowned expert in ‘large-scale images’, a field in which she has worked since the mid-1980s. Recruited by ETC in 1984, immediately after a fairly classic arts education (national school of decorative arts, then national school of applied arts and arts professions in Paris), she begins to work with Jean-Michel Quesne on the mega-concerts given by Jean-Michel Jarre (Houston and Lyon, in particular). She then founds her company, Light Motif, in 1988, and takes exclusive charge of the large-scale projections used in Jarre’s concerts. She will then work for other music stars (Johnny Hallyday, Céline Dion and Mylène Farmer), theme parks (Puy du Fou, Disneyland Paris), for the Crazy Horse, Cirque du Soleil… and for the Festival of Lights in Lyon starting in 2009. Marie-Jeanne Gauthé thus experiences first hand the huge technological changes in the field of large-scale image projection, from the age of slides on hand-painted tempered glass right up to video mapping, through systems entailing the scrolling and rotation of large images and, above all, the arrival of monumental video projection (which she considers the most important revolution in her sphere).