- Generative and interactive virtual-reality installation
- Conception and images by Miguel Chevalier
- Music by Jacopo Baboni Schilingi
MIS - Museum of image and sound - Sao Paulo - Brazil
projection on 280 degree wall
2 computers, 4 videoprojectors, 4 speaker, 42 inches touch screen
Software: Claude Micheli
Technical production: Voxels Productions
Technical collaboration: Modelling 3D: Pascal Maillard
Terra Incognita is an interactive virtual-reality work imagined as an immersive installation projected onto a 280 degree curved screen. This new work creates a fantastic island, the viewer-actor can explore with the help of an interactive map on a touch screen. The geography of this territory stems from a prior cross-sectional scan of a brain. One enters interactively into the branching and pathways of the two hemispheres, and this tactile dérive is like an eye that moves about within cerebral interstices that have become a navi-gational dashboard.
A territory of thousands of colored pixels raised to the power of a multiplicity of worlds filled with the sensations of diversified spaces delineate the relief of this island made up of “mountains”, “valleys”, “rivers”, “beaches,” and a surrounding “sea”. These pixels generate reinvented universes, such as Coral Trees, Compass Cards, Flying Carpets, Death Valley, and so on.
This unbounded poetic imaginary plunges the viewer into purely digital, artificial world enhanced with the generative music.
http://www.miguel-chevalier.com/en
