Neon Minuit

France

Neon Minuit is a duo of artists using digital tools to capture pieces of reality to stage them in their playground: the virtual world. Their artistic approach is inspired by scientific experimentation and serendipity. Using video game tools, they explore and experiment with new ways of perceiving realities, apprehending new spaces and creating illusions. Like modern magicians, they make pixels sing and polygons dance.


Their work is based on the subject of reality. Léon and Dorian scan sculptures, monuments, people or even landscapes that they encounter. This material captured by photogrammetry allows them to explore spaces composed of clouds of points. It is the memory of a past, a spatial memory. This substance allows them to compose works between reality and the virtual, the photo and the screen, the film and the game. It is in these intersections that they deploy a particular aesthetic composed of thousands of suspended points.


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Heterotopia - Le rêve

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The work tells the birth of a shared imaginary space. It opens the virtual space to the bodies of the spectators by mixing the capture of a volumetric camera and mapping. This chapter is part of the work Heterotopia which explores the spaces connecting us to our utopias. Here we embody a dreamer lying on his bed. Projected on the ceiling, a giant screen becomes the mirror of a nocturnal imagination where we see our own body floating in space. Floating in a sky of memory, our body travels through pieces of spaces and objects belonging to the memories of Neon Minuit. The subject is no longer the object seen on the screen but the relationship we have with it. The memories are treated aesthetically as a cloud of points. Cut out, sculpted, colored, the cloud becomes a fantastic decor linked to our reality. The colors evoke a day lit by a rainbow, an afternoon where the sun becomes the multicolored neon of a megalopolis. This technique allows to visually reformulate the motif of an unconscious, an intangible matter.

technique

3d

format

landscape

duration

09:43

year

2021

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