Nicolas Darrot, 2016
Luminous projector, telescope mount
Concept developed in collaboration with physicist Olivier Dadoun (Nuclear Physics and High Energy Laboratory LPNHE, IN2P3 CNRS/Pierre & Marie Curie University/Paris Diderot University)
A high-definition image of the universe, produced by the WISE satellite, is the invisible core that the Faun algorithm uses to read. Each pixel of the image is thus expressed by its luminous value, its color, its order in the file, as well as the galactic coordinates to which it corresponds. At the cost of a literal reading of this image, Faun invites us to an extensive exploration of the visible universe. The progression of the algorithm in the image, from the center and moving away in centrifugal spirals progresses towards the edges of the cosmos. Faun carries out a space exploration which simultaneously transforms this journey into a temporal sequence scheduled to last forty years, before exhaustion of all the pixels composing the initial image.
Faun is also visible online: www.faune.xyz
Workshop space, 5th floor, 10pm-7am
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