Eyjafjallajökull
Joanie Lemercier [ANTIVJ]
Inspired by the Icelandic volcano that disrupted international air traffic in April 2010, Eyjafjallajokull is an audiovisual incarnation of mapping.
Using subtle lighting effects projected on a wall directly painted by the artist, a wireframe landscape slowly emerges, making play with optical illusions that disrupt our perceptions of space.
Born in 1982 in Pithiviers (France), Joanie Lemercier lives and works in London. He started to diversify his graphic art work with different formats (large-scale graffiti and painting, video projections in clubs and art galleries).
Quickly discovered by the British electronic scene, he has worked in many clubs and festivals around the country and across Europe. He helped organise an audiovisual evening in Bristol, Cuisine, to which he invited many of his favourite visual artists. He started presenting his first audiovisual installations in 2006.
Together with other European artists, he created [ANTIVJ] in 2007. The work of this visual label is based on the use of light projected into a 3D space and its perception by the viewer. [ANTIVJ] focuses on producing and developing installations, live audiovisual shows and architectural projections. The label’s various projects have since been presented at many international festivals.
Eyjafjallajokull
2010, audiovisual installation
Inspired by the Icelandic volcano that disrupted international air traffic in April 2010, Eyjafjallajokull is an audiovisual incarnation of mapping. Painted directly onto a large wall, a wireframe landscape slowly emerges through subtle play with light. The viewer is simultaneously hypnotised and disoriented by the effects of light creating 3D optical illusions on the flat surface.
Fascinated by the relationship between light and human perception, Joanie Lemercier seeks to escape our relationship with the flat, rectangular screen. Since 2006, he has been developing tools and techniques that have led him to view the world around us as a potential projection backdrop. For Eyjafjallajokull, he developed a programme enabling him to produce and generate 3D images in real time, while experimenting with a new mapping technique approach to recreate an illusion of depth and relief on a flat backdrop. Going far beyond the aesthetic aspect, our perception of space is challenged here.
Joanie Lemercier
Born in 1982 in Pithiviers (France), Joanie Lemercier lives and works in London. A visual artist fascinated with the relationship between light and human perception, he seeks to escape our relationship with the flat, rectangular screen, and since 2006 has been developing tools and techniques which have led him to view the world around us as a potential projection backdrop.
In 2007, he and other European artists joined together to create the ANTIVJ visual label, whose work is based on the use of light projected into a 3D space and its perception by viewers. AntiVJ focuses on producing and developing installations, live audiovisual shows and architectural projections. Most of its projects use mapping and stereoscopy, a 3D-relief projection technique. Lermercier developed a programme that enables him to produce and generate 3D images in real time, while also experimenting with a new mapping technique approach, to recreate an illusion of depth and relief on a flat backdrop, as can be seen in his projects Light Canvas and Eyjafjallajokull.
