Microcosmos
Live digital performance
//macroscopic capture and generative imaging
2023 - 2025
Microcosmos is a live video creation designed to accompany performances of ambient electronic music. It takes the form of a visual composition, weaving in real time between macroscopic video capture of mineral or vegetal objects and music-influenced generative imagery. The work gradually transforms into a dive into the minuscule, becoming evolving cartographies.
The performance was created during a residency at the Daigo-Ji buddhist Temple of Kyoto in 2023 as part of the Matter's whisper exhibition project. Conceived as part of a collaboration with musician Yuri Urano, designer Nina Fradet and glass artist Keiji Okushima, the work was translated into several live performances in situ during the exhibition.
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/Protean forms
At the heart of the performance is an installation in which fragments of plants, mushrooms or minerals are filmed in real time, animated by rotating mobile trays. These fragments become successive image sources, interchanged on their supports by the artist following the evolution of the music. The images captured by this system are then linked to a generative digital process modulated in real time in response to variations of the music.
The macroscopic scale defines a type of observation at the very limit of the human gaze. Attempting to position ourselves at the boundary between the visible and the imperceptible, allows the fragments filmed to appear on a scale of detail inaccessible to the eye. If the object remains the same, it is our gaze that opens up to a hidden unknown.
Interacting with the music via signal acquisition, and influenced in real time by the performer via various control interfaces, the generative processes used here transform video into infinitely alterable material. The result is an ever-changing image that ebbs and flows between naturalistic retranscription and the emergence of abstract cartographies. In this way, the generative image tends to bring performance closer to living form. Through this project, a protean work is formed, constantly changing and adaptable in relation to the place where it is deployed, by collecting debris or plant samples from surrounding nature.
Microcosmos
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Live digital performance
//macroscopic capture and generative imaging
2023 - 2025
Microcosmos is a live video creation designed to accompany performances of ambient electronic music. It takes the form of a visual composition, weaving in real time between macroscopic video capture of mineral or vegetal objects and music-influenced generative imagery. The work gradually transforms into a dive into the minuscule, becoming evolving cartographies.
The performance was created during a residency at the Daigo-Ji buddhist Temple of Kyoto in 2023 as part of the Matter's whisper exhibition project. Conceived as part of a collaboration with musician Yuri Urano, designer Nina Fradet and glass artist Keiji Okushima, the work was translated into several live performances in situ during the exhibition.
>> About
/Protean forms
At the heart of the performance is an installation in which fragments of plants, mushrooms or minerals are filmed in real time, animated by rotating mobile trays. These fragments become successive image sources, interchanged on their supports by the artist following the evolution of the music. The images captured by this system are then linked to a generative digital process modulated in real time in response to variations of the music.
The macroscopic scale defines a type of observation at the very limit of the human gaze. Attempting to position ourselves at the boundary between the visible and the imperceptible, allows the fragments filmed to appear on a scale of detail inaccessible to the eye. If the object remains the same, it is our gaze that opens up to a hidden unknown.
Interacting with the music via signal acquisition, and influenced in real time by the performer via various control interfaces, the generative processes used here transform video into infinitely alterable material. The result is an ever-changing image that ebbs and flows between naturalistic retranscription and the emergence of abstract cartographies. In this way, the generative image tends to bring performance closer to living form. Through this project, a protean work is formed, constantly changing and adaptable in relation to the place where it is deployed, by collecting debris or plant samples from surrounding nature.