| | The Maurice Benayoun's big questions (Is the Devil Curved ? 1995) | | In Is the Devil curved ? , the visitor goes once again in quest of truth. In Is God flat ? the spectator locked up between the brick walls of a room, digs corridors in the walls in which plane and moving representations of God appear. | video |  | In Is the Devil curved ?, as paradoxical as it may seem, we dig labyrinthic corridors through the sky,. The clouds are cut in real time as the spectator moves. This air architecture has a purpose . We discover supple organic shapes slowly moving in portions of space. As we come closer, those plump shapes change their behaviour. They are not insensitive to our « contact ». The unveiled « diabolo » of offered flesh shivers as we approach and we understand that we are in front of an evil seduction game. Little by little, one discovers that those almost sensual shapes, (angels or devils?), rich in successive experiences, tend to a curved ideal of seduction. As a matter of fact, the shape of the « diabolo » adapts itself step by step to the spectator's desire.
Don't we have here a TV channel fantasy : creating shapes able to learn by themselves how to seduce the audience ? | | This is a diverted use of what we call « artificial life », which beyond simple demonstration, talks about life (the purpose of art) by placing shapes in space. The visitor of this virtual world truly exists within this world changing at his contact. The meaning itself is in this relation. The interactive realism lies in the transposition of laws that rule the world in laws that rule the meaning. | Is God flat ? Is God flat ? and Is the Devil curved ?
Two Virtual Reality devices (VR) bases on the same principle ... | | |
