{"id":97,"date":"2010-09-21T12:12:15","date_gmt":"2010-09-21T11:12:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hugoarcier.com\/test\/?p=97"},"modified":"2026-03-26T12:32:38","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T11:32:38","slug":"degenerescence-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hugoarcier.com\/en\/degenerescence-ii\/","title":{"rendered":"DEGENERATION II"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"576\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/-1vF-FzBqes?si=p0pbKsMoD8cVprQV\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/hugoarcier.com\/test\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/DEGENERESCENCE_atlecube1.jpg\" alt=\"DEGENERESCENCE_atlecube\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1612\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hugoarcier.com\/test\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/DEGENERESCENCE_atlecube1.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/hugoarcier.com\/test\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/DEGENERESCENCE_atlecube1-320x213.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><br \/>\n<em>In situ. Solo show at Le Cube<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cAll my 3D objects are afflicted with a degenerative disease.<br \/>\nGripped by terror, they understand what fate awaits them.<br \/>\nGradually they disintegrate, face after face they lose their appearance, with a fatal outcome.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>In this way the 3D objects die.<\/strong> \u00bb<br \/>\nThis work is an evolution of my concept called &#8220;degeneration&#8221;, created in 2007, and applied to a video.<\/p>\n<p>Video shows the fact that I am more interested by <strong>the transformation process<\/strong>, by the animation that goes from a \u201cnormal\u201d object to a degenerated object, than by the stage of the object \u201cfaceted\u201d in itself.<\/p>\n<p>For this degeneration, I put emphasis on the obvious, which viewers tend to forget in front of a 3D animated or special effects movie, that 3D objects are made up of faces (polygons) and perhaps paradoxically the fewer the faces the more visible they are.<br \/>\n3D is also<strong> a way for me to represent physical degeneration<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Exhibitions \/ Festivals :<br \/>\n&#8220;AV@AR 3.0 The Art of French New Media&#8221; (Beiing, China) 2014<br \/>\n&#8220;Lighting, Frequency, Essence&#8221; (Chengdu, China) 2014<br \/>\n&#8220;Display&#8221; (Wuhan, China) 2014<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/hugoarcier.com\/en\/le-cube-nostalgie-du-reel\/\">&#8220;Nostalgie du r\u00e9el&#8221;<\/a> Le Cube, (Grand Paris, France) 2013<br \/>\nLouis V.E.S.P gallery (Brooklyn NY, USA) 2011<br \/>\nAbove Ground Animation (Los Angeles, USA) 2011<\/p>\n<p>They talk about it:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/thefoxisblack.com\/2010\/11\/18\/degeneration-by-hugo-arcier\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Fox Is Black<br \/>\n<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/graphism.fr\/degeneration-une-femme-en-3d-qui-devient-polygone\" target=\"_blank\">Graphism.fr<br \/>\n<\/a>This is paper<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nerdcore.de\/wp\/2010\/11\/19\/degenerated-3d-modell-art\/\" target=\"_blank\">Nerdcore<br \/>\n<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/minimalexposition.blogspot.fr\/2010\/04\/hugo-arcier-degeneration.html\" target=\"_blank\">Minimal Exposition<br \/>\n<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/jijatsi.tumblr.com\/post\/633708242\/all-my-3d-objects-are-afflicted-with-a\" target=\"_blank\">Jijatsi+Voggis Orb+Eorbs<\/a><br \/>\n<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.random-magazine.net\/2010\/11\/degeneration\/\" target=\"_blank\">Random (links about art &#038; technology)<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cAll my 3D objects are afflicted with a degenerative disease.<br \/>\nGradually they disintegrate, face after face they lose their appearance, with a fatal outcome.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":130,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,14],"tags":[139],"class_list":["post-97","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-art","category-video","tag-highlight"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>D\u00e9g\u00e9n\u00e9rescence II - Hugo Arcier<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/hugoarcier.com\/degenerescence-ii\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"D\u00e9g\u00e9n\u00e9rescence II - Hugo Arcier\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"[:en]\u201cAll my 3D objects are afflicted with a degenerative disease. 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