Biennale Art and Technology 2024

26. Oktober 2024 bis 23 Februar 2025 Beijing, China

Earthwise

"Eau de Jardin" von Christa Sommerer & Laurent Mignonneau, Abteilung Interface Cultures,  wird ausgestellt.

Eau de Jardin is an interactive installation which transports visitors into the imaginary world of virtual water gardens. The image of “Eau de Jardin” consists of a triptych, a three-sided projection screen onto a 12 x 3 meters vaulted screen that creates an immersive and reflective virtual water garden. When visitors approach themselves towards the amphorae, the plants capture the visitors presence and use the occurring tensions to draw virtual water plants on the large projection screens. The virtual plants on the screen resemble the real aquatic plants in the amphorae.The images of the virtual plants are reflected through a virtual water surface and a merging between virtual plant imagery and reflected plant images occurs.The more visitors interact with the real plants the more the virtual scene of aquatic plants builds up on the screen and all changes in the users’ interactions are translated and interpreted. This leads to constantly new water garden images as their composition reflects the visitors’ amount of interaction with the real plants.

www.interface.ufg.ac.at/christa-laurent/EauDeJardin
www.bmeia.gv.at/earthwise-beijing-art-technology-biennale-2024