Valentin Gillet [3d artist]
COLLABORATION with PIERRE ROUSSEAU
music video
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Visualisers for Pierre Rousseau’s Albums 'Mémoire De Forme' and 'Mode Par Défaut'.

DEUS ORDINATOR
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Gillet's personal project showed at Les Beaux Arts de Paris.

Deus Ordinator is a Latin term that refers to the invisible hand of God. The role of the digital mimetic double and its model, reality, is seemingly inverted here: a water and sand simulation encased in a mechanized wooden frame confronts a photorealistic CGI rendering of hand-drawn patterns in mud. Meanwhile in the background, the cyclic back and forth of the machine creates a hypnotic pace that can be heard throughout the exhibition space, silently echoed by a looped video of a suspended airborne thistle seed in a secluded room. Time is paused for the estranged viewer to look closer into the interstice opened by the pieces, in an attempt to uncover the inner workings at play within, and without.

Orlando by Nelson Beer
music video
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Collaboration with Swiss artist Nelson Beer on his music video.

Manifesting itself as an audio-visual collage of academic and non-academic writings and research materials, inherited familial memories, and encoded information, Orlando revolves around photogrammetry, a process by which three-dimensional information can be extracted from photographs. Orlando takes 'past' moment as starting points through which to generate an image of a greater whole, thereby pondering the potential effects of the indexical present - a direct attentional focus on "the concrete, immediate here-and-now," such as the reaction to a moment of sudden death - and the afterlives of this event.