Willy Le Maitre
2021Occupy Image
Willy Le Maitre
The conventional use of parallax in 3d media presumes a coherent Cartesian space. The meshing and sequential dissolving of varying perspectives and disparate spaces in Occupy Image destabilizes the illusion and expectation of space. What is expressed in its place is an expanded sense of parallax in regards to depth perception. One where depth is a negotiation of difference to be perceived by combining the here with a formally unrelated there, and there and so on.
Occupy Image
W*E*N’S Now
Willy Le Maitre
To recognize what is percieved by the eyes; we consider the image we see and compare it with another retrieved from memory. The images in W*E*N’S Now segue into one another in a continual morph. The video meshes the pickings of my episodic database of 3d snapshots into what is meant to evoke the feeling of the navigation of thought and mental images. The imagery’s vivid appearance and 3d depth illusion contribute to a second order having been there’ experience. Like all photos they are of the world stopped. The images interact in the picture’s composition with an instability that resembles an any-moment; the interchange that contrasts the seen with a recalled image.
W*E*N’S Now
Chiral Eyes
Willy Le Maitre
The short experimental narrative depicts the dual nature and internal negotiations of a polarized individual. The subject appears on-screen as two opposing versions of the same person. The viewer's left and right eyes see isolated portrayals of the individual. The unique presentation offers two distinct perspectives. Viewers of the work can read the narrative in variable ways by alternatively blinking or covering either of their eyes. While wearing polarized glasses, both views are combined to produce the stereoscopic 3d image.
Chiral Eyes
Outlook Expressed
Willy Le Maitre
This short stereo 3d video is about looking as primal form of transformation. Spherical entities progress through various spaces, their surface appearance responds to environment -- joining occasionally. The frame moves from the surface of our sphere up to the sky - an appreciation for the porous membrane that envelopes us in space.
Outlook Expressed
After The Ediacaran
Willy Le Maitre
Drawing inspiration from theories derived from studies on the traces of the Ediacaran period identified in shale found near Banff Canada. The theory is that at this period, creatures evolved the faculty of sight, from which an explosion of diversity in life form and appearance ensued. The stereo-3d animation begins by parading a series of stills. Using an edge detection algorithm and paint tool to sample the stills - brush strokes behave like cellular automata - painting the dance of appearances.
After The Ediacaran
Edia’s Dividuals: The Distributed Self in Digital Space
Willy Le Maitre
Edia is a screen-based presention depicting a cosmology of digital space.The base elements of the screen signal are shown as building blocks for a threshold space that is neither interior or exterior proper. The space is revealed to be creative, infinite and non contiuous. Distributed throughout, we see a metaphysics of interior human space as an exploded view of the self. The self no longer confined to an individualist notion.
Edia’s Dividuals: The Distributed Self in Digital Space