New media installation : computer-processed landscapes where imaginary events based on japanese haïku occur according to a context analysis engine
Edition of 5

Produced by Le Fresnoy, Studio National des Arts Contemporains, 2004
Collaboration :
David Deraedt (Flash Action Script code)

Swallowing the clouds,
Rejecting the petals
The moutain of Yoshino.
Yosa Buson

A graphic composition seeking to reproduce a landscape evolves in a continuous and autonomous way according to a poetic algorithm. A more or less realistic landscape, seemingly fragile and precarious, lapses repeatedly and unexpectedly into  surrealistic and dreamlike worlds. The shifts follow a series of subtle and delicate graphic mutations but also unexpected events that create chaotic phases of deconstruction.
This project is mainly based on the ambivalence between figurative landscape and imaginary universes, on the confrontation between the real and the unreal, throught references to Japanese painting and poetry of the Monoyama (1573-1603) and Ero (1603-1868) eras. An algorithm inspired by Haïkus-short Japanese poems dating back to the end of the 17th Century-is the source ot these shifts, it determines the space of the evolutions in the landscape. The composition of the tableau is based on a pre-determined construction and relies on a database of graphic elements.
This digital tableau is then projected panoramically on a glass screen.