De Rerum Natura (work in progress)

Interview (only infrench)

Video Installation with stereoscopic images
Music : André Serre-Milan

Shot : Jean-René Lorand / Laura Henno - Particles 3DSMax : Michel Digout Stagiaire : Adeline Ternant

Coproduction : Le Fresnoy, ARTZOYD, Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle de Lille , Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle de Paris . Bourses : DICRAM , Aide à la Création Nord-Pas-de-Calais, Bourse d'aide à la création musicale contemporaine Nord-pas-de-Calais (Artzoyd).

A text by Lucrece, a philosopher in Antiquity, has been the motivation for this project.

In his text, Lucrece mentions atoms in perpetual motion, the elementary particles which produce, through innumerable combinations, life forms. These particles can be compared in contemporary science to 'Brownian' motion, the internal unstable structure of matter (invisible to the human eye), which we only see in stable shapes. These are the forms around us.

The main idea is to experiment with the images as representations where the visible shape appears in terms of an perpetual motion of matter.
A catalogue of a large number of stereoscopic images of stuffed animal is mapped with 3D animated particles.

In the installation the spectator will have the sensation of penetrating this matter of particules and feel the unsettled nature of the living forms. The spectator will wear stereoscopic glasses. An original spatialized soundtrack has been composed by André Serre-Milan (electracoustic musician).