DE RERUM NATURA
DE RERUM NATURA (TRAILER). 2019
Hugo ARCIER.
Video format 4K (3840 x 2160), 25 frames per seconde
8 min 27 s
“Of all the objects there are what we call simulacras, kinds of lightweight membranes detached from the surface of the body, which fly in all directions in the air.
… subtle figures and images are emitted by objects, and emerge from their surface: these images, let us give them by more or less the name of membranes or of bark, since each of them has the shape and appearance of the object, whatever it may be, including it emanates to wander through space. »
Lucrecius
The video installation De Rerum Natura is a poetic and hypnotic exploration of the disappearance of nature.
As for the 2016 Ghost City video installation, the video De Rerum Natura is directly related to Lucretius’ eponymous text and the passages describing the simulacres that are membranes or “barks” emitted by objects. It is fascinating to note that Lucretius highlights here a constituent element of the virtual worlds: the fact that they consist only of (hollow) surfaces . The virtual object cutting system implemented in Ghost City to reveal that these objects are in fact only surfaces is here transposed to a plant universe, made up of branches and tree trunks.
Art, Video, 2019
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LIMBUS
Sometimes a bug in a video game can be magic. It gives the keys to a normally unexplored area, beyond, in the limbo of the game.
CLINAMEN
Video
EDEN
Immersive artwork (virtual reality)
inLAND
Audiovisual live performance
DE RERUM NATURA
Video
NAVIER-STOKES OR THE BEAUTY OF THE CRESTS
Video
OVERVIEW
live audiovisual performance
#SOFTLOVE
Audiovisual creation for the live show “#softlove”
CIEL DE TRAINE
Video creation for a musical performance of Nihil Bordures
STRUCTURE #01
360° VR video
FPS
Interactive installation.
GHOST TREE
Interactive sculpture
GHOST CITY
Video installation
11 EXECUTIONS
“11 EXECUTIONS” confronts armed violence and modern terrorism to video games artificial intelligence (AI).
LOUISE ROAM “THE WALK”
Official music video for Louise Roam “The Walk”
CAMGIRL ODALISQUE
“Camgirl odalisque” aims to establish a connection between classical nude artworks and a more contemporary vision.
HNN “JE PARS”
Official music video for HNN
FOLDED NATURE
The hallucination is in fact a set of memories, where the colors of a real nature mingle with the folds of a pop-up book nature.
UNFOLDED NATURE
…The result of this is a distraught vision of a destructured nature, an artefact formed with multiple shreds, that Arman would have designate as « archaeology of the future ». A puzzle for future generations, for the day nature will have disappeared.
SURFACE MOUVEMENT – SURFACE LUMIERE
The digital material in this film is a repository and only exists thanks to the creations of Len Lye; but also, as in a painting by Soulages, it forms, transforms and emits in its turn.
L’AFFAIBLISSEMENT PROGRESSIF DES RESSOURCES
Thanks to the movement we distinguish a hollow character caught in a stylised snow storm. He walk and slowly exhausts himself…
NOSTALGIA FOR NATURE
Nostalgia For Nature is a full 3D computer graphics film.
NOSTALGIA FOR NATURE – WIREFRAME
These white lines on black reveals the raw beauty of 3D.
NOSTALGIA FOR NATURE – INSTALLATION
This installation is the litteral representation of the link (fight?) between the real and the virtual.
FICTION 1
This full 3D computer graphics film draws from the events that struck Japan in March 2011, and more specifically, the way the events were covered in the media.
FICTION 2 or a gentle evocation of radioactive particles.
This series follows “Fiction 1” a work inspired by the events that took place in Japan, March 2011. We are in this series after the tsunami.
ARTEFACT
The aim of the Artefact series is to highlight those ‘material accidents’ in 3D computer graphics, and by doing so, to showcase the way in which the artist takes a ‘trial and error’ approach.
