SCOLYTES (april 2018)
Is an interactive installation set up during my 3rd year at ESAD Valence. It is a participative device about wandering a digital space, resulting in graphic experiments. It consists of a separate space in two parts by a wall. The left part only contains a base on which is placed a computer mouse, and the other has a 32" screen on which are displayed 3 red marks randomly placed.
This project is inspired by the traces left in the wood by the xylophagous insects (in particular by the typograph bostryches). I was particularly interested in the shape taken by these lines, and I looked for how I could restore them on various supports to keep the graphic interest.
The interactive installation invites, by binomial, to place each one on each side of the device. The one in front of the video restitution will have to give help the other navigate with oral instructions. During the whole operation, the person connecting the points must keep the mouse click activated. If they drop it, no matter how many markers are attached, the device will take a screenshot of the plot before erasing it and randomly moving the 3 markers. Each track is preciously preserved, producing a collaborative set of graphic creations presented in the same way as the xylophagous insect tracks.
Although the binomes are sometimes very cohesive and produce very similar patterns to the bark beetles, others transform them completely due to a misunderstanding of the indications or even a desire not to follow the instructions given to them. They then produce new unique patterns. True wanders on the digital medium and poetic diversions of the installation.
