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miguel chevalier magic carpet in Milton Keynes
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from Designboom.com

http://www.designboom.com/art/miguel-chevalier-magic-carpet-milton-keynes-virtual-reality-installation-07-22-2016/

in the british town of milton keynes, miguel chevalier has installed a generative and interactive virtual-reality installation that creates an immersive atmosphere of color and shapes. ‘magic carpet’, a project first presented in 2014, comprises a spectrum of multicolored graphic scenes composed of thousands of patterns, pixels, cells, and geometries. visitors are invited to explore and walk on the kaleidoscopic carpet, changing its characteristics as they move around the space.

miguel chevalier: ‘magic carpets’ 2016, milton keynes, UK
film © claude mossessian

commissioned by the 2016 milton keynes international festival, ‘magic carpets’ fills the floor of middleton hall in centre:MK over the course of the 10-day festival — on from now throughout july 24, 2016. in its design, miguel chevalier has drawn from the iconic shapes associated with milton keynes’ cityscape, featuring patterns that come alive, blend together and create new and surprising compositions.

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Tetro+A media art agency
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Tetro+A is an arts and culture production unit that develops original artistic projects for worldwide distribution.

Tetro+A is an arts and culture production unit that develops original artistic projects for worldwide distribution.

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• CHRISTOPHER BAUDER • WHITEVOID

Christopher Bauder is director of the WhiteVoid studio in Berlin. He is active where art, design and technology meet, creating interactive installations for museums, festivals and other cultural events.His projects focus on the translation of bits and bytes into objects and environments and vice versa. Space, object, sound and interaction are the key elements of his work.

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• JORAN BRIAND •

In order to understand the work of an architect, or a designer, to perceive truly the direction of his line, we have to consider his counterpoint, his perspective line. For Joran Briand, it’s the ocean. If he is now known for his urban inclusions –he has conceived the huge concrete nets on both the Mucem and the Jean-Bouin stadium for Rudy Ricciotti, in collaboration with Etienne Vallet – this young designer, keeps looking for the sea, open waters, the constant flow of waves unfolding.

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• MIGUEL CHEVALIER •

Born in 1959 in Mexico City. Resides in Paris, France since 1985. Since 1978, Chevalier has focused exclusively on computers as an artistic means of expression. He quickly secured a spot on the international scene as a pioneer of virtual and digital art. Miguel Chevalier continues to be a trailblazer, and has proven himself to be one of the most significant artists on the contemporary scene.

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• BENOÎT CHALLAND •

Ben is a creative image maker focused on 3D illustration, design and art direction. His work encompasses a large range of 3D field creation, design, CGI retouch and digital art. Native of a village in southern France, he made his senior studies in Lyon, then moved to Paris. He begins as digital art director within a small agency. He will evolve into agencies such as Publicis, We Are Anonymous and Serialcut Madrid. After several years working in web and animation, he devoted himself entirely to still image today, to satisfy his taste for detail and composition. Search ideas, be in a creative and dynamic sphere, still lean is what he loves. It’s his work environment. He worked for Adobe, IBM, JP Gaultier, Nespresso, Nissan and agencies such as BETC, Grey, Havas WW, Hello Monday, PsyOp L.A, TBWA. His work has been featured into magazine like Wired, Fast Company, The Sunday Times, Vogue, Page and online presse like Fubiz, LeMonde.fr, It’s nice that, Form fifty five, FastCo design, Phaidon…

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• USMAN HAQUE • UMBRELLIUM

Umbrellium is a collective of architects, designers and creative technicians who specialize in producing participatory urban spectacles.

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• VINCENT LEROY •

Born in 1968, Vincent Leroy is active on the contemporary art scene, designing works in motion that combine technology and poetry.

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• PITAYA •

PITAYA is a creative studio founded by David Lesort and Arnaud Giroud. After a technical training cursus, respectively in metalworking and woodworking, the duo met during their industrial design’s study. They quickly abandon the rigid side of their initial training for a more artistic vision, and specialized in the light field.

In 2006, The studio from Lyon participated at his first event and creates thirty light chandeliers that have been installed in the public space during the Festival of Lights in Lyon.

Therefore, PITAYA has created new light projects and exhibit them in these new urban festivals, like if it was big open air galleries. Year after year, while it participates to these artistic events, the studio has gained visibility and experience.

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• ROMAIN TARDY •

Romain Tardy is a visual artist who currently focuses primarily on digital art. His installations, which often use the technique known as videomapping, are designed to be experienced in situ, using light as a means of enlarging existing architecture or structures of his own creation.

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• PIERRE & JOËL RODIÈRE • TRAFIK

Trafik is a French creative studio, founded by Pierre & Joël Rodière, that specializes in graphic and multimedia development. It explores the shared ground between visual and graphic art creations, and interactive artistic experiences. This strategy, which draws on various aspects of digital culture such as user-friendliness, community, exchange and participation, enables the studio to create uninhibited, playful and unique projects.

Digital frescos in Cathedral by Miguel Chevalier
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Complex Meshes 2015
Generative and interactive virtual reality intallation
 Music: Jacopo Baboni Schilingi

Generative and interactive virtual-reality installation

Lumiere Festival, Durham Cathedrale, Durham, United Kingdom

 Curator: Curators : Helen Marriage / Artichoke

Software: Cyrille Henry / Antoine Villeret

Technical production: Voxels Productions

Durham Cathedrale / The College
Durham DH1 3EH
United Kingdom

From 12nd to 15th of November 2015

From: 11/12/2015 To: 11/15/2015

http://www.lumiere-festival.com/

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For the “Lumiere” Festival, Miguel Chevalier presents the premiere of his new artwork “Complex Meshes” in Durham Cathedral, a building constructed at the end of the 11th Century and which represents the most accomplished example of Norman architecture in England.

Following Chevalier’s “Magic Carpets”, projection on the floor of the nave of the former Casablanca Cathedral in 2014, “Complex Meshes” is a monumental projection at dusk on the exceptionally designed ‘ribbed vault’ ceiling of the central nave; a daring architectural feature which was way ahead of its time and which announced the beginning of the Gothic art style in architecture.A mesh is a three-dimensional object consisting of vertices, edges and faces which form polygons, used in modeling or architecture. For this piece, the use of numerous wireframe meshes becomes an aesthetic in itself. Different colored weaving patterns composed of triangles, quadrilaterals and other polygons overlap, evolve and transform slowly in real time. This huge virtual light curtain twists, moves and resizes to create diverse and complex shapes. The surface is deformed to generate the abstract landscapes of a living universe which is constantly evolving.

These vivid colour grids create surprising “trompe l’oeil” effects which disrupt the perceptions of the visitors by creating the sensation of moving arcs. By its use of this technique, this installation refers to artists of kinetic art and Op Art (Bridget Riley, Victor Vasarely, Jesús Rafael Soto, Julio Le Parc …) who conducted the research on the movement and illusion optics which prefigured digital art.

Furthermore, this interactive work uses sensors to detect movement of visitors in the nave of the cathedral. Their movements alter the light fresco that evolves during night and in this way the visiters directly impact the structure of the work. The visual experience is also enriched by the music of composer Jacopo Baboni Schilingi. “Complex Meshes” highlights the architecture of the site through light and gives the building life before our eyes. This digital installation is in resonance with the high technicality of the cathedral’s ribbed vault, made of diagonally intersecting Romanesque bows, that prefigure the ribbed Gothic style and which allowed large gaps in the supported walls for vibrant stained glass windows to bring light to these cathedrals.

These structures and designs are enhanced by the fluid universe of “Complex Meshes” as it amplifies the space and brings further light into the nave. Both visually and sonically, this piece resonates perfectly with the rose windows and archetechtural structure of the building.

“Complex Meshes” creates a magical atmosphere. It’s pixel skin becomes one with the stone and gives off a radiant energy and visitors are invited to sit on the benches and raise their eyes to the ceiling. They are offered a kaleidoscopic experience which symbolizes the infinity of Nature and Creation and which transforms the vault of the nave into a constellation universe. This poetic installation invites us to dream with the language of spiritual elevation as it reflects the invisible and shows us the very essence of things.

– See more at: http://www.miguel-chevalier.com/en/complex-meshes?position=0&list=jzpqrqtmfdu-L1l6NW3D58tomjjw8sZzYT2GLirZihY#sthash.YaLNq0Ne.dpuf