Custom drawing application designed for the show oXc by Pierre Sauvageot and Lieux Publics, projected live onto the facade of a building.
This is not about representing the Odyssey, but about immersing oneself in the language, the voices, the text, the images, the myths, the poetics, the instrumental colors, the sounds of the elements.
For this, there is no Ulysses or Calypso, no Cyclops or Nausicaa, but a series of singular, unique protagonists who monologue, recite, suggest, comment, and interact, each in a very specific form: song, drawing, shadow, burglar, facade chorus, crew.
Pierre Sauvageot offers us a magical and poetic interpretation of this work, written more than 2,000 years ago, a sonorous and humorous one, incredibly relevant today.
filigram is an expressive tool based on drawing gesture, gathering on the same canvas doodles made by people of different cultures in various contexts.
Filigrams are hand-drawn drawings made on a 2D surface, in a 3D world. Thanks to computers memory, this virtual “sheet of paper” becomes infinitely wide and allows for navigating inside the drawings.
This app was made originally made as a public-space installation where people could share a collective experience of drawing on the same canvas. Perspectives on others’ drawings sometimes leads to graphical compositions that could only be seen from a specific point in the virtual space, somehow like the paintings by Felice Varini.
Originally developped with Max, Filigram has been implemented in Java/Processing for availability in the browser, and OpenFrameworks for iOS/android support. Now outdated, the code is being refactored before moving to an open source repository at GitHub. Please contact if interested in the meantime.
