LIMBUS
Limbus is an ongoing series, started in 2011 with Limbus (Rage). It’s an exploration of video game environments from a different point of view from the players: underneath the levels.
The result is a dislocated universe made up of fragments. A nostalgic vision of a world that we observe from a distance, like a spectre, without being able to interact with it.
Initially, the Limbus series exploited bugs in games. Now it is produced using more advanced tools that allow greater control and complete freedom in framing and camera movements.
“By positioning the camera in impossible perspectives, such as beneath the ground, Arcier reveals hidden layers of these virtual worlds, transforming glitches from technical errors into aesthetic opportunities. Drawing on the concept of “limbo” as a state of ambiguity and incompleteness, the series presents these digital environments as fragile and transient, exposing the hollowness of the virtual spaces we inhabit. Limbus IV series invites viewers to reflect on the nature of virtual reality, subverting the conventional structures of video games to offer a philosophical meditation on presence and absence, unrealized potential and shadows of lost data.”
Matteo Bittanti (curator of VRAL and Milan Machina Festival)
For more information on this series and its approach, you can read the interview made for VRAL.
Limbus IV (2024) is based on Senua’s Saga: Hellblade II (Ninja Theory. Xbox game studio).
A poem written in collaboration with an AI and read by an AI completes the video.
LIMBUS III (2023) is based on A plague tale : Requiem. (Asobo Studio. Focus Entertainment)
LIMBUS II (2015) is based on GTA V. Rockstar Games
LIMBUS I (2011) is based on Rage video game, Id software
Music : Mira Calix, Wedding List
Exhibition / Projection :
“Imaginaire : Esthètique du virtuel et perception de la réalité », exposition de groupe, PrimoPiano LivinGallery, (Lecce, Italie) 2014
Atopic Festival (Machinima) 2011
They talk about it:
Interview on VRAL Milan Machinima Festival
Gamescenes
Art, Video, 2024
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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.
