The presence of someone else changes the environment in which we evolve. Through this modification, our behaviors change. Without seeing it, without knowing it really, we instinctively comprehend that somebody else is looking at us. By seeing it, by knowing it, we behave differently and pretty intriguingly to others.
In Vois moi à travers toi, not to see somemeone means being able to see him differently, look at him elsewhere, observe him through us.
[Design] Matthieu Courgeon and Ikse Maître
[Sound landscape] Michel Bertier
[Simulation and 4D GPU relativistic rendering] Matthieu Courgeon
[Motion sensing] Michèle Gouiffès
[Scientific content] Jean-Marc Bonnet-Bidaud, Hervé Dole, André Füzfa and Roland Lehoucq
The presence of a massive celestial body distorts spacetime. Through this deformation, light doesn't propagate along straight lines anymore but along a curved geodesic. If the massive body is located between an observer and a distant shiny object, the curvature of the light emmited by this one enables the observer to see it. This is the effect of a gravitational lens that brings a singular image to the observer's eye.
Vois moi à travers toi tries to make visible the distortions of spacetime and tangible the relativity between the visitor and the others through an interactive 360° video projection where the visitor is both the observer and the distant celestial body of the others at the same time. Visitors see themselves through them.
Vois moi à travers toi is a digital artwork created by des Vues de l’esprit; an opening of Le sas, science-art-society group ; was produced by La métonymie, in partnership with the IR4M, the Lab-STICC, the LIMSI, the Département Arts-Musique of the Université d'Evry Val d'Essonne, the CNRS and the Université Paris-Sud.
Vois moi à travers toi was realized with the images of the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope (CFHTLS), of the Hubble Heritage, of the Solar Dynamic Observatory (SDO-AIA) and of the IAS (helioviewer.ias.u-psud.fr).
Creation: Odyssée de la lumière, Cité des Sciences et de l’Industrie, Paris, France – from March 17th to November 1st 2015.
Similar interactive art-science artwork: des Mondes de traverse
Vois moi à travers toi
Relativistic composition for visitors, sensors, loudspeakers, computers and video-projectors