Jean - Julien Pous works can be watched on his website via the links provided.
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| Barren Garden by Jean - Julien Pous re-edited for one screen to 11:15 min. 6K, 2022 |
The project is a hybrid animation / video installation spanning across 3 screens in a cubic room. It is a reflection on our place as humans in our environment, our relationship to it and to one another. The scenes take place in large, empty spaces made out of manufactured barren grounds. They stand for our isolation from nature and its elements, the frames in which we grow, and isolation imposed by those who govern us. There, a baby, a child, a woman, a man, look for shelter, for touch. Their voices resonate in the emptiness. They wear a cube as a helmet, around them appears another human, that could be their mother, their father, a friend, a caretaker. The human figure washes them slowly, gently. For a moment, the lost humans find in this virtual reality, this metaverse, some solace. Then the connection cuts. They are back to the empty space, alone with themselves. Somewhere at the back, stairs, a faint light from the top, suggests a way out.
A 3 x 3 min. piece, originally intended for 3 screens in a room it was part of the exhibition Scenery of the Emptiness, and Asia, a digital video & 3d animation installation at the Asia Culture Center in Gwangju, South Korea.
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| Mouvement by Jean - Julien Pous | 9:17 min., 6K, 2024 |
From the vast emptiness of the cosmos, vital energy emerges - Ki 기 (氣).
Lines and curves unfold, embodying the classical elements that make up
the matter of the universe: water, air, fire, and earth. From these
elements, the bodies of athletes in motion spring forth: those of
ssireum wrestlers (Korean wrestling), taekwondo and its ancestor
taekkyeon, and archery.
Immersive installation at the Korean Cultural Center in Paris
Part of the exhibition Noli : jeux coréens.
Both installation videos use the same AI which is called Oidn, Intel Open Image Denoise, which is stopped prematurely on purpose to keep all the AI artifacts, that are trying to guess a final image in a very noisy 3d render. This vibrating, painterly look is what I sought after, in attempt with maths to break the cold math look that 3d can sometimes have.