Artist Statement

Artistic concept:
Where It Wants To Appear/Suffer is a presentation of abstract phenomena. Simple surfaces meet. Their slow movements, their often fibrous textures, the chosen colors, the small amount of light that makes them appear … give the impression that different scales of representation are condensed: the three natural kingdoms (animal, vegetable and mineral), different environments (underwater or intra-body). Unexpected and unknown visual sensations are aroused more directly, in a strange intimacy, as if it would emanate from the origin.

Technical realisation:
Where It Wants To Appear/Suffer (World Tool Kit, C language) is the first step towards the creation of a virtual environment using real time 3D computergraphics. It will be immersive (a 360 degree panorama) and interactive: phenomena will react to the viewer’s behavior, the speed of his rotation, and his angle of vision. This explains why a little arrow appears sometimes, it allows the shapes to be approached or moved. It will disappear in the end. I animate one to three grids (10 X 10) by displacing their points (vertexes). My work concentrates on the sensitivity of texture, light, and color.

• Anne-Sarah Le Meur. Born in 1968, Anne-Sarah Le Meur received her Ph.D. in “Aesthetics, Science and Technology of Arts” from University Paris 8 in November 1999. Under the direction of Edmond Couchot, both her theoretical (Ph.D, articles) and practical research have dealt with the influence of 3D data processing on the imagination and shown in artworks. Her aim is to reveal how the expression of the body can be transformed. Her images and animations (Aforme: Some Skin Is Still Spreading, Outgest, In-Bees-Tween) haw been shown in France, Germany, England, Brazil, Hong-Kong and South Korea. She is now working on real time 3D images in interactive, immersive virtual environmentwork: Into the Hollow of Darkness, based on the viewer’s desire to perceive. Her first step is the animation Where It Wants To Appear/Suffer Having taught for two years at the Bauhaus-Weimar University in Germany, she is currently lecturer for the Arts Department of Paris University, Pantheon-Sorbonne.