VIRLAB
Virlab is a web3D experimentation about viruses choreographies.
It enables one to choose the protagonists of a dance, to create
one's own scene, then to impulse the "dancers" so
that they develop random choreography.
Viruses
displacements are generated by the simulation of physical reactions
(friction, elasticity, gravity, collisions). It 's by adding
complex reactive phenomena that virlab gives a sensation of
free movments. The spectActor, by his action, is adding an exterior
disruptive event, and allows to escape from the linearity of
animation. The sum of possible events makes the action open,
alterable and alive.
VIRUS
Whether they are organic, moral or numerical, viruses generate
a feeling of panic. That anguish, which is justifiable, but
mastered with difficulty , grows in reaction to the -potential-
dangerousness of contagion, to the invisibility of the "foreign
body" and to the loss of integrity of the victim, to his
or her deterioration.
What may seem disquieting is that the exponential development
of panic, after the existence of the virus has been announced
, is similar to the system of viral contagion; it's an extremely
powerful psychological syndrome.
Then the possibility of exploiting that syndrome is activated.
The stunning awareness bred by the threat of that "virtual
and exponential enemy" justfies resorting to any antivirus
or remedy : best ones as well as worst ones .
Is organic, moral and numerical contagion an alibi for the withdrawal
of bodies and minds, for the closure of physical and virtual
territories?
DANCING
Moving, instable, multiple, cross-disciplinary bodies and objects
are an important source of inspiration for my work. Their meeting,
juxtaposition, merging or mutation breed a dynamic setting in
motion and legitimate their existence on the Internet medium.
Dancing as climactic field of the freedom of bodies, minds,
occupied spaces.
Dancing
as the area of the multiple, of the interdependance.
Dancing
as a space of experimentation and fiction.
FICTION
It's above all a work of fiction. Altering and exploiting differently
simulation, a tool which is meant for concrete applications,
enable the artist to disrupt its traditional codes, to make
his own an already connoted space, thus expressing a wish for
cross-disciplines in order to disclose its machinery in a better
way.
That
mixing of genres might lead the viewer to call into question
the codes of the received information.
grégoire
zabé, 2004