The Quarxs Computer Animated Series

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1 Maurice Benayoun

2 Bio Born in Mascara, Algeria in 1957 Currently based in Paris Employs various media, often combining video, virtual reality, the Web, wireless technology, performance, public-space largescale art installations and interactive exhibitions - During the 1980s, Benayoun directed video installations and short films about contemporary artists, including Daniel Buren, Jean Tinguely, Sol LeWitt and Martial Raysse. - Co-founded Z-A in 1987, a cutting-edge computer graphics and Virtual Reality lab

3 The Quarxs Computer Animated Series - The intro from 1991 series - The first high definition TV 3D computer graphics series to be given awards globally.through it s realism it questioned scientific truth and distortion.

4 The Tunnel under the Atlantic VR, networks, video and audio communication, music - A televirtual event linking the Pompidou Centre in Paris to the Museum of Contemporary Art of Montréal in September of The Tunnel enabled hundreds of people from both sides to meet

The Tunnel under the Atlantic VR, networks, video and audio communication, music - Within the symbolic matter between the two points, the geological strata have been replace by iconographic strata.

5 The Tunnel under the Atlantic VR, networks, video and audio communication, music - Within the symbolic matter between the two points, the geological strata have been replace by iconographic strata. - Each time somebody digs they reveal new layers of pictures taken in the history of the two cultures - This collective exploration uncovers fragments of rare or familiar pictures, each of which becomes an opportunities to wake up the collective memory of the participants. - Each digger has a unique experience

are digging, they can converse with people on the other side of

6 The Tunnel under the Atlantic Museum of Contemporary Art of Montréal - Tubes are about two meters in diameter - While viewers are digging, they can converse with people on the other side of the Atlantic - It took about 6 days for diggers from each continent to meet

7 The Tunnel under the Atlantic Pompidou Centre, Paris - Viewers who come later have the option of exploring paths dug previously, or digging their own paths. - Each of the tube ends was filmed using four camera, so video and audio data from the digger would be re-encoded into spaces which that person dug up

8 Cosmopolis Interactive installation and VR telescopes - Large scale installation consisting of 12 virtual reality telescopes and 12 projected screens showing an always changing urban panorama

9 - The views from the VR telescopes are captured and displayed over the projectors

- The panoramas are not what one would expect from a touristy viewpoint, but layout the major urban issues: transportation, environment, architecture, energy, health - The viewers in the middle

10 - The panoramas are not what one would expect from a touristy viewpoint, but layout the major urban issues: transportation, environment, architecture, energy, health - The viewers in the middle become purveyors of the City of Tomorrow, a product of intersecting gazes and experiences - At regular intervals, the big panorama is replace by one of the urban landscapes, depicted via a scanning action that sweeps the entire circumference of the central space - It displays key areas in the form of words, sounds, and video images - In various spots, it points out the limitations of an urbanist course or the solutions found in other places that can be adopted

11 - cosmopolis.avi Cosmopolis Interactive installation and VR telescopes

12 e-spotting 9/11 Internet VR installation - By using indexing internet news sources, the web allows Benayoun to get real-time images of the world state of mind - Visitors explore the data as a 3D VR globe, viewed from the inside, out - The net functions as a world-wide nervous system

- Data was analyzed for 3200 cities to measure 11 different emotions: Mad, outraged, shocked, terrified, bad, sad, nervous, glad, excited, proud, and satisfied - Maps are

13 - Data was analyzed for 3200 cities to measure 11 different emotions: Mad, outraged, shocked, terrified, bad, sad, nervous, glad, excited, proud, and satisfied - Maps are dynamic, so as the spotters watch a particular area, they can begin to observe changes and shifts - The entire dynamic map was compiled based on news stories from 9/

14 - The emotion maps are further transformed into a musical score, producing euphoric, enigmatic or pathetic music from it

15 NeORIZON Urban art interactive installation - NeORIZON is an urban interactive art installation produced for Horizon Outdoor exhibit during earts Festival in Shanghai, in October of 2008

16 - For Benayoun, this project began with a conception of what a skyline is - The skyline of a city defines its profile and it becomes the visible part of it s identity - The city hides it s horizon line by creating a new one - As the city expands, it neutralizes identities

- Basically, the project consists of an invasion of what are called IDWorms - They invite people to look inside, then they convert them into 2D (QR)Codes which are an apparently neutral way of

17 - Basically, the project consists of an invasion of what are called IDWorms - They invite people to look inside, then they convert them into 2D (QR)Codes which are an apparently neutral way of identifying people and objects - They all look the same if you don t know how to decipher them - Over the internet, anyone can get their own 2D code and use it as a personal signature - These codes are able to be read using a cell phone camera

18 NeORIZON Urban art interactive installation - There is no person, animal, or even object, which cannot be tagged through this ID code. - Also becomes a method to find out about the people we meet

by the IDWorms - The visitors are converted into the very texture of the city - As the fabric extrudes out from the screen, it

19 - In a central location, one large video screen shows the virtual cityscape which is continuously growing - At the bottom of the screen, the ground moves away like a long surface of fabric mapped with thousands of ID codes representing people captured by the IDWorms - The visitors are converted into the very texture of the city - As the fabric extrudes out from the screen, it forms cubes and volumes, building a continuously growing city - Benayoun describes it both as a sculpture and a processing machine

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