VIRTUAL DREAM CENTER 2.1
03/25/2018
Virtual Dream Center 2.1
Application for Mac and PC that features the exhibitions :
Raphaël Fabre, « The Curator (introduction) »
fleuryfontaine, « Les éléments tombent du ciel »
Baptiste Caccia, « Aller-retour »
GRIG, « Summoning Aku Aku »
Jean-Baptiste Lenglet, « Endless Collage City »
Level design : Nicholas Steindorf
Sound design : Augustin Steyer
Raphaël Fabre – The Curator (introduction)
2018
The Curator (introduction)
Video game : Raphaël Fabre
« Exhibitions are kind of ephemeral moments, sometimes magic moments, and when they’re gone, they’re gone. In this case, not only am I relieved that this « show », this bottomless void the artist has forced us to see, is gone for good, but I would kill to erase it entirely from my memory. It is so arrogant, it is so pretentious and pointless, I find myself waking up at night in anger, sweating my hate for this emptiness. It’s a game alright, but a game of frustration and ego. »
Extract from the press release « A poor player », by Myron Bates
fleuryfontaine – Les éléments tombent du ciel
2018
Les éléments tombent du ciel
Procedural environment : fleuryfontaine
« In the same time, a young girl was travelling along the same intertwining of terraces, stairs and pillars. At the upper level, it was like a field of houses, she thought, although the words are neither enough to characterize the horizon in front of her, nor to describe its delicate composition. The tortuous surface of the scenery recalled the complexity of all sociality as much as its shape evoked the territorial abstraction of Klee in Highways and Byways. »
Extract from the press release « Les éléments tombent du ciel », by Data Rhei
Baptiste Caccia – Aller-retour
2018
Aller-retour
Virtual exhibition : Baptiste Caccia
« Navigating through the world of images and reproductions, Baptiste Caccia takes the viewer to an experience of a virtual world where his practice becomes an overwhelming dream-like sequence. The French artist defies the rules of representation and distort our perception of the substance of an image. What makes an image? What becomes one? What can it do? Here are the questions laid in front of us by Caccia in this project. »
Extract from the press release « Aller-retour », by Damîen Bertelle-Rogier
Jean-Baptiste Lenglet – Endless Collage City
2018
Endless Collage City
Virtual exhibition : Jean-Baptiste Lenglet
« The most simplistic assumption about the museum’s architecture (as a man-made construction) would be: it needs to be the ideal carrier of the objects it contains. What does ‘ideal’ mean here? Maybe something not too far from a certain kind of aptness, or functionality, though sometimes an urge for the spectacular kicks in. On the other hand, I am seeing flashes of a dissonant image – the figure of a man approaching the Alte Nationalgalerie in Berlin. It is a scene from Alfred Hitchcock’s Torn Curtain (1966), in which Paul Newman enters deserted galleries, and finds himself trapped in a dreamlike situation. (…) »
Extract from the press release « Something to Bump Into », by Enrico Camporesi
