Mer rose claire

by Isabelle Arvers

2020

Mer rose claire

by Isabelle Arvers

2020

Digital art

Video art

Music and live performance

Digital art

Video art

Music and live performance

Mer Rose Claire is part of Arvers’ ongoing abstract machinima series La Mer (2016-) which depicts shapes and abstract landscapes created by the Moviestorm game engine.

Video projector

Suitable for all audiences

17 minute(s)

Italian

Update : 23/01/2023

Mer rose claire Digital Video Machinima (Isabelle Arvers)

Mer rose claire exhibited on Vral.org an online exhibition in the frame of the Milan Machinima Festival curated by Matteo Bittanti and Gemma Fantacci in January 2021 (Vral.org)

Mer rose claire - concert of Turzi Nuit Vernie On danse au Mucem 29 March 2020 (Georges Arvers)

Mer rose claire VJ performance during the concert of TURZI for la Nuit Vernie of the exhibition On Danse! at the Mucem (Georges Arvers)

Mer rose claire by Mike Theis and Eva Peelband

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Evocative of peaceful marine scenes, these videos produce an hypnotic effect on the viewer as abstract patterns, their folding and unfolding, become a generative matrix of what Georges Perec called species of spaces. This mesmerizing, rhythmic movement alters the viewer’s perceptions.

"Space melts like sand between the fingers. Time takes it away and leaves me only shapeless shreds of it: writing: meticulously trying to retain something, to make something survive: tearing out a few precise snippets from the emptiness that is digging itself out, leaving, somewhere, a furrow, a trace, a mark or a few signs."

To this dematerialization of the object, these "image movements" respond to the abstraction of the image produced by the game engine. The sea becomes abstract, filled with glitches and its image is transformed into a series of fragmented polygons that stretch under the eye of the virtual camera.