The latest Numix Lab (between Brussels and Amsterdam, December 4-8, 2023) was an opportunity to examine the practices surrounding digital art and the places that host it. A very active 5-day immersion where Unframed Collection was able to set down its camera and interview those who connect XR creation with the general public. Fourth meeting : Laurent Dondey is…
The latest Numix Lab (between Brussels and Amsterdam, from December 4th to 8th, 2023) was an opportunity to examine the practices related to digital art and the venues that host them. An active 5-day immersion where Unframed Collection was able to set up its camera and interview those who connect XR creation with the general public. Second…
Can you tell us how this project was born?
Martine Asselin - We met because our two children attended the same school. Annick had written a piece about the inclusion of her child, and my son was about to enter her son's school. I contacted her because I wanted to know how her child's daily…
Director Adriaan Lokman, talks about his new VR film Flow, recently rewarded by the special Jury Prize at the 80th Venice International Film Festival.
Adriaan, you are a director and designer. What led you to work with the virtual reality format for your new artwork Flow? Is it adapted from your multi-awarded eponymous short film?…
In the same way as a tour, a temporary exhibition or mediation activities, an immersive experience can be the subject of an evaluation. This assessment can be carried out at several levels. A first level may consist of carrying out a diagnosis of the proposed experience. This audit could help find concrete ways to improve…
A virtual reality experience is "an in situ promotional product". With these words, Vincent Armitano Grivel describes the Lady Sapiens-inspired immersive installation deployed at the Saint Césaire Paleosite. A strategy that has paid off for this venue in the Charente-Maritime region, which in 2022 exceeded its usual annual average of 43,000 visitors by July.
There are…
According to Jean Davallon, mediation "aims to provide access to artworks for an audience, and its action consists of building an interface between these two foreign universes (that of the public and that of the cultural object) with the precise purpose of allowing the latter to be appropriated by the former." Just like with physical…
Marie, you are a writer and scriptwriter and have created two immersive experiences: 1,2,3…Bruegel! (Virtual Reality) and La Petite Danseuse (Augmented Reality). What led you to work on these new formats?
Marie Sellier - I have always sought to diversify my art practices in a three-dimensional approach: seeing, knowing and moving go hand in hand.…
Since 2016, 400,000 virtual reality headsets have been sold around the world. This profusion of equipment has led to many uses of VR in particularly varied fields of intervention: training, education, property, aviation, industry, medical, etc. The field of culture is no exception and a large number of projects are now enriching the editorial line…
According to a study by the Centre national du cinéma et de l’image animée (National Centre for Cinema and the Moving Image) (CNC, 2019), 41 % of French people have already tried out virtual reality. For the vast majority, this experimentation was carried out collectively in a public place (67 %). In 39 % of…