# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/fred-forest
# Generated: 2026-08-13T12:18:11.859Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/fred-forest"
name: "Fred Forest"
slug: "fred-forest"
description: "Fred Forest is a French new media artist. He makes use of video, photography, the printed press, mail, radio, television, telephone, telematics, and the internet in a wide range of installations, performances, and public interventions that explore both the ramifications and potential of media space. He was a cofounder of both the Sociological Art Collective (1974) and the Aesthetics of Communication movement (1983)."
tagline: "French artist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Forestfred.png?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "France"
  isoCode: "FR"
category:
  name: "Artists"
  slug: "artists"
profileType:
  name: "Artist"
  slug: "artist"
birthDate: "1933-07-06"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           40.74
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.2108
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A4%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B5%D1%81%D1%82%2C_%D0%A4%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%B4"
    title: "Форест, Фред"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D8%B1%D8%AF_%D9%81%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%B3%D8%AA"
    title: "فرد فورست"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D8%B1%D8%AF_%D9%81%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%B3%D8%AA"
    title: "فرد فورست"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Forest"
    title: "Fred Forest"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Forest"
    title: "Fred Forest"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Forest"
    title: "Fred Forest"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Forest"
    title: "Fred Forest"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Forest"
    title: "Fred Forest"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3086831"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump