When we last left off, French digital arts pioneer Miguel Chevalier was blanketing the floor of a Moroccan church in a "magic carpet" of projected light. Now, he's taken his immersive, interactive sensibilities back home to debut Fractal Flowers, his all-new, all-around awesome installation at the Museum of Modern Art of Céret.Part of the museum's Exhibition artificial paradises 2014, Chevalier's newest features reactive "seeds" which grow and blossom into the flowers on screens surrounding the art space. When museum-goers get closer to the walls, the flowers droop, extend, and even suddenly burst apart. It's like seeing sunflowers turn towards the sun, but rather visitors are the source of energy these digitized blooms lean towards.
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Says Chevalier, "Like Alice who found herself on the other side of the looking glass, visitors are transported into a magical world, in the heart of a virtual, disproportionate and luxuriant nature." All I know is that after watching the video preview of the installation, I'm listening to '90s trance epic, "Castles in the Sky."
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