Artist Statement 

Screening 3D animation, 1992

A computer-animated fantasy about virtual worlds (hardly in its infancy back in 1992).

Half knight in shining armour, half shrimp, Virtus, our virtual double, explores a labyrinth, a metaphorical stand-in for cyberspace. He whisks like the wind through a maze of tunnels, encountering chimerae and mysterious fighters on his way. 

• Cécile Babiole (born 1956, FR) lives and works in Paris. Literature and arts studies. She is a video maker and 3 D animation designer and director. Awards: Imagina, Images du Futur, Ars Electronica, Festival de l’Audiovisuel Museographique, The Locarno Festival, SCAM Prize, Villa Medicis Hors les Murs Grant. Video works: Bula Bula, portrait of six aboriginal painters from Ramingning – Australia (1993), Virtus, computer-generated images music video for Canal+TV chanel(1992) , awarded by the Imagina, Locarno and Images du Futur Festivals, Le Pepin Geant, computer-generated images music video over an Arp sculpture for the Georges Pompidou Center series L’Art en Jeu (1992): awarded by the Imagina Images du Futur Festival and Festival de l’Audiovisuel Museographique Festival (1992). Les Xons: Crac Crac et Baston, feature film series in computer-generated images, awarded by the Ars Electronica Festival in Linz – Austria (Ex Nihilo/Mac Guff Ligne 1992) Realites Virtuelles,  documentary film for the french TV channel Canal + (1992), Menagerie, video creation for the french TV channel Canal + (1988), Tourenis, video creation for the American Center in Paris – France (1986) http://www.babiole.net
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