Interactive Art 10: Dear World...Yours Cambridge

Miguel CHEVALIER Dear World… Yours, Cambridge from Claude Mossessian on Vimeo.


In this art piece, Miguel Chevalier imagines a number of different graphic universes. These are generated in real time and use their own “digital” language to illustrate and interpret a wide variety of subjects including Academic Excellence, Health, Africa, Biology, Neurosciences, Physics and Biotechnologies. A colourful living universe is discovered and constantly renewed. Everything floats, branches out, appears and disappears, always turning into something else. Colored lines of light sketch out mental landscapes before our eyes.

For example, to illustrate Stephen Hawking's research about black holes Miguel Chevalier imagines an immersive environment made up of thousands of constellations that plunge the viewers into the mystery of the universe. Each of the projections invites the audience into a magical and poetic atmosphere where science meets spirituality. The soft light and the wealth of colours from the digital installation is in resonance also with the light from the stained glass windows. The installation gives the building life before our eyes, creating an unprecedented visual experience.

Again this art piece is about bringing life to a static object. In this art piece, projections of different visuals are used to create an immersive environment for the viewer. It seems by surrounding the viewer with enough stimulus to allow one's imagination to recreate the experience, one can essentially create the illusion of life on a static object such as a cathedral.

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