Non posso nascondere la mia passione per questa etichetta visuale Anti Vj che ho visto in varie kermesse internazionali di Videomapping. Il loro co-fondatore è Joanie Lemercier. Stile semplificato, geometrico delle proiezioni architetturali e audiovisual performance, decisa propensione per il B/W.
Lemercier lavora autonomamente come artista digitale nella fotografia, nel video e come progettista per musei “aumentati”. Mi sembra particolarmente significativo il suo tema dell’interattività usando tecnologia comune, non particolarmente sofisticata.
Recentemente sta sperimentando installazioni interattive che mi hanno particolarmente incuriosito e una curiosa proiezione senza schermo dal titolo No-logram INTERACTIVE SCREENLESS PROJECTIONS che sembra direttamente uscita dal film Minority Report.
No-logram
INTERACTIVE SCREENLESS PROJECTIONS
II’ve used various techniques to explore similar aesthetics: peppers ghost (used in the Tupac Coachella concert), semi transparent screens, mirrors and lenses, which are often referred to as “holograms” but are in fact cheap tricks and just 2d projections.
To avoid misleading use of the word hologram (remember the heated debate with Kickstarter’s CEO about the Holus scam?), I use the term No-logram (not a hologram).
I’m now developing a technique using super fine particles of water, high pressure gaz and custom nozzles, to create true volumetric projections, and build large installations in public spaces. Technically there is no limitation in size / scale.
I use common tracking technologies (depth sensor and image analysis) to allow interaction between the user/audience and the projections.
My works explores geometric patterns, repetitive shapes in nature, and the similarities we can witness when looking at the structure of the universe at various scales. The volumetric projections are also a great medium to question the nature of reality, and how technology can modify our perception of the world we live in.
Nimbes
Audiovisual piece – 15 minutes
by Joanie Lemercier and James Ginzburg
Nimbes explores the ontology of observation and its relationship to cosmogony, notions of intelligence and individuality.
As a universe comes into being, emergent structures arise and determine its unfolding. From the perspective of observation, intelligence is an emergent property of the universe in which we find ourselves. As if from a desire to participate in the process of unfolding, we create both architectures and narratives, repetitions of the cosmogony, microcosms of the universe, in which all our actions find symbolic expression on a macrocosmic scale. But within this process, questions arise, linear continuity is interrupted by the uncertainties of the hypothesis of stability on which we base our solid notions, which have provided the foundations for our architectures, the grounds of our narratives. Observation however, the thread which unites all experience, a lens that can not see itself, invisibly and perpetually remains.
Recording sessions at Kraftwerk, Berlin.
VISUALS:
Joanie Lemercier
Software development: Nikolay Matveiev
Laser scan of a forest by Ecosynth project
MUSIC:
James Ginzburg
Contrabass – Yair Glotman
Percussion – Brandon Rosenbluth
Location Recording Engineer – Kai Schoormann
Special thanks to Laurens Von Oswald & Kraftwerk Berlin
PRODUCTION:
Artist production – Juliette Bibasse
coproduced with SAT Montreal.
Photos at Satosphere by Sebastien Roy.
