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Eyjafjallajökull Eyjafjallajökull an audiovisual installation by Joanie Lemercier (AntiVJ) Inspired by the icelandic volcano, which wreaked travel havoc across europe in april 2010, Joanie Lemercier [AntiVJ] presents the latest incarnation of its audiovisual mapping project. Painted directly onto a large wall, a wireframed scenery is slowly revealed by gentle light effects. The audience’s sense are progressively challenged as optical illusions question their perception of space. VIDEO OF THE PIECE: http://vimeo.com/32811205 The installation has been presented in the following places: - Empac, New York, USA: 30 April - 2nd May 2010. - London, UK: 10-14/11/2010, Onedotzero festival, BFI. - Bristol, UK: 3/12/2010, Plan 9 exhibition space. - Beijing, China: 17 Dec 2011 - 03 Jan 2012, China Millennium Monument Museum of Digital Arts, JOANIE LEMERCIER - Né le 21 Juin 1982 a Pithiviers, France. Expartié en Angleterre en 2004, Joanie Lemercier commence a décliner son travail de graphiste sur des formats différents, (graffiti et peinture grand format, vidéo projection en clubs et galleries). Rapidement repéré par la scène électronique Anglaise, il se produit dans de nombreux clubs et festival a travers le pays, puis a travers l'Europe (Glastonbury [UK], Printemps de Bourges [France], Electric picnic [Ireland], clubtransmediale [berlin]) et co-organise une soirée Audiovisuelle a Bristol: "Cuisine", ou il invite la plupart de ses artistes visuels favoris (Legoman, Studio_VJ, Sanch). Petit a petit, Joanie Lemercier se tourne vers de formats de projection différents (multi-projection, supports en relief, matériaux transparents) en s'éloignant radicalement du format standard "écran rectangulaire plat" et en explorant la technique du mapping, des 2006, puis en présentant ses premieres installations audiovisualles (Light sculpture, clubtransmediale Berlin: http://antivj.com/clubtransmediale/ ) Avec d'autres Artistes Européens, il va créer en 2007 "AntiVJ", un label visuel dont le travail est basé sur l'utilisation de la lumière projetée dans l'espace tridimensionnel et sa perception par le spectateur, et qui a pour vocation de produire et développer installations, lives audiovisuels et projection architecturale. Les différents projets du label ont depuis été présentés dans de nombreux festival internationaux (eArts [Chine], Sondgo [Corée du Sud 2011 Collaboration avec le musicien Flying Lotus (Warp): show audiovisual a La Roundhouse (Londres). 2011 Présentations et workshop dans trois écoles primaires (3 semaines), a l’école des Beaux Arts de Mulhouse, écoles d’Architecture de Helsinki et de Nantes. ], multiplicidade [Brésil], Mutek [Canada], Onedotzero [NY]). Projets et étapes importants: 2006 Commence a expérimenter avec la technique du mapping 2007 Installation Light Sculpture V1 au festival Club Transmediale, Berlin http: www.antivj.com/clubtransmediale/index.htm 2007 Premier mapping architectural de grande envergure, Light Up Bristol – www.vimeo.com/859097 2008 Mapping architectural pour Nuit Blanche Bruxelles – www.antivj.com/nuitblanche_bxl/index.htm 2008 Résidence et nouvelle installation au festival eArts, Shanghai - http://vimeo.com/4098730 2009 Commence a expérimenter avec la stéréoscopie 2009 Mapping du grand orgue de la cathédrale de Breda, Hollande http://antivj.com/grote_kerk/index.htm 2009 Premier mapping architectural en Corée du Sud, dans la ville de Songdo – www.antivj.com/songdo/ index.htm 2009 Développement de la première version du Mapping Software ANTIVJ 1.0 - www.mediasandbox.co.uk/ antivj 2009 Commission du Technology Strategy Board Anglais pour explorer de nouvelles techniques de présentation de contenu stéréoscopique - www.pmstudio.co.uk/project/projecting-holograms 2009 Le Stereoscopic show en tournée au Brésil www.antivj.com/pog 2009 Nouvelle création: projections mapping sur une tapisserie des Gobelins de 1787, parlement de Bretagne, France 2010 Nouvelle création Eyjajallajokull développée pendant la résidence a Empac/NY,commissionnée par onedotzero www.antivj.com/empac 2010 Mapping AntiVJ sur le château des Ducs de Bretagne, présenté dans le cadre des journées du patrimoine. Scopitone, Nantes. 2010 Premiers tests dans le dôme stéréoscopique NVC, en Suède. 2010-11 Scénographie du projet Murcof + AntiVJ, présenté au Canada, Mexique, Italie, Portugal, Chine. 2011 Nouvelle installation Light Canvas présentée a Oslo Lux, Norvège, puis a Wellington, Nouvelle Zélande. 2011 Premiere exposition solo au lab-labanque a Béthune, France.2012 Préparation d’une nouvelle exposition a Brooklyn, NYC, avec 6 pieces prétentées. ANTIVJ, VISUAL LABEL AntiVJ is a visual label, initiated by a group of European-based artists whose work is focused on the use of projected light and its influence on perception. Stepping away from standard set ups and techniques, AntiVJ presents live performances and installations to challenge the senses featuring video-mapping, tracking, stereoscopy and holographic illusions. Taking visuals away from the restrictions of flat rectangular screens and into the real world, the label transforms objects, sculptures or ject; or buildings into hypnotising canvasses to create immersive site- specific experiences. Over the last few years AntiVJ artists have been working on all kinds of projects, from large scale mapping projections (the Old Port’s metallic conveyor’s tower at Montreal’s Mutek festival; in Songdo, South Korea’s futuristic city-proon the 25m high baroque organ of the Cathedral of Breda) to installation work (the Light Sculpture installation series showcased at Club Transmediale ’07, Geneva’s Contemporary Art Center ’08 and New York’s Empac festival ’10) to space/stage scenography and audiovisual collaborations (developing tools to produce and control in real-time 3D stereoscopic content for French retro-futurist electronic band Principle of Geometry). www.antivj.com http://blog.antivj.com FROM LEFT TO RIGHT: - Architectural mapping in Songdo, South Korea. - Audiovisual performance on Breda cathedral organ, for the cultural night, Netherlands. - Light sculpture v2, BAC Geneva, Switzerland. - Murcof + AntiVJ, Mutek Montreal, Canada. Eyjafjallajökull an audiovisual installation by Joanie Lemercier (AntiVJ) Story Last year, onedotzero approached me to be part of one of their event, a festival they organised at empac, upstate New York, with a selection of screenings, installations and live performances http://empac.rpi.edu/ events/2010/spring/onedotzero/ The original plan was to fly to empac to do a 3 weeks residency, to develop a new project from scratch, which would involve projection mapping onto objects, a sound track by minimal techno producer Sleeparchive, and potentially a live performance on the day of the opening. As the video explains, the original idea and schedule felt apart when the volcano erupted, and the 3 weeks long residency turned into just 5 days on site, to setup the installation and prepare a live performance. 2D/3D mapping Considering the constraints, it wasn't realistic anymore to plan any 3D mapping, or project onto a complex structure. The tools and workflow I was using at the time, wouldn't have worked with only a few days for production, so I decided to use a different technique: a projection mapping, but this time on a flat surface, an idea that is similar to an experiment I did in Bristol back in december 2008 for a gig with dubstep producer Shackleton. http://blog.antivj.com/2009/live-painting-shackleton/ http://vimeo.com/2690618 The idea here is to project a layer of light onto a painted visual, and use this "virtual layer" to create depth effects and enhance the visual by adding colors, animations and motion to the still graffiti. I liked the challenge of using the production tricks I've learned from architectural mapping projects, and play around with the audience visual perception, to make this 2D visual appear as if it was an actual three dimensional structure. Technically, this process is almost like "reverse mapping", as all the production can be done on a computer, without worrying about projector alignment, and I just trace / draw over a projection of the still image I designed. This, compared to a complex 3D mapping such as a baroque architecture project (http:// vimeo.com/3041995), is a total relief. Minimal vs organic I've been obsessed by geometry and minimalism for years, and most of my work has been very clinical, cold, and more abstract that figurative or realistic, and I wanted to start working with more organic shapes, and start using curves, less angular patterns. Being fascinated by the relationship between maths, geometry and nature, and I wanted to explore that idea in my work, and incorporate some visual elements that would connect geometric patterns and ocean waves, terrain, mountains relief, wind, snow and rain motion. I started off with a simple grid with a 100x100 resolution, in a x-y-z space, and I set a rule of only moving theses points onto the Y axis to generate a series of 3d models, as a starting point to find inspiration for the project. I started manually, but to make the patterns more interesting, I starting using different kind of noises: perlin noise http://www.noisemachine.com/talk1/ , simplex noise, turbulence and voronoi, I could then turn my grid into landscapes, ocean, dunes, mountains, by only playing around with the noise values: scale, offset, contrast.. STILLS OF THE EARLY EXPERIMENTS OF GRID DISPLACEMENT AND SHADING. STILLS OF THE EARLY EXPERIMENTS OF GRID DISPLACEMENT AND SHADING. THE SAME GRID BEING TURNED INTO A VOLCANIC LANDSCAPE After
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