Body, Numbers, Light: Colour Phenomena of Eye-Ocean
Anne-Sarah Le Meur
Paris 1 University Pantheon-Sorbonne, Department of Arts, Paris, France
Published online: 17 December 2009
Introduction
From the beginning of the 1990s, Anne-Sarah Le Meur has been using computer and 3D softwares to create her images. Her research is stimulated by the opposition between the rigour of programming and the blurred outlines of artistic sensibility. How can one create poetically with the language of computer science? Could exploring with numbers the three-dimensional (3D) space produce different images, spaces, fancies or even another relationship with our bodies? Which of these are possible and why?
Anne-Sarah Le Meur has thus tested out diverse conventions of representation and 3D image constituents. 3D images have appeared which are ‘flat’, but offer a subjective depth (Some Skin Is Still Spreading, animation, 30 seconds, 1990 ; Eye-Ocean, animation, infinite length, 2007); sometimes very textured, layered images have emerged, opposed to linear perspective (Outgest, fixed images, 1991-1993; In-Bees-Tw..., animation, 8 minutes, 1994). Influenced by pictorial culture, the elements she uses to create are pixels, wire frame (mesh of lines that exists before the render of the form), temporal ‘underwears’ of the image as it is being displayed, light, etc. Her spaces become unexpectedly organic and strangely sensual.
Her current research, Into the Hollow of Darkness (2000–2009), is a 3D real time interactive 360 degrees panorama, composed of Eye-Ocean, the visual part, and Outre-ronde, the interactive part. Eye-Ocean generates non-realistic light phenomena: a black light and a coloured one playing together. Outre-ronde explores a counter-intuitive interactivity, limiting the power of vision, to develop another relationship with the image, rich in feelings, and heightening self-awareness in an abstract dynamic environment.
Images
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- Individual images (via thumbnails on the left) or as a
- Slideshow
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Citation
Anne-Sarah Le Meur, Body, Numbers, Light: Colour Phenomena of Eye-Ocean, Colour: Design & Creativity (4) (2009) 3.
URL: http://www.colour-journal.org/2009/4/3/
