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François Perrin Clima
From April 4 through May 2001, the Galleria Maria Cilena was host to clima, a solo show by François Perrin, which considered the concept of climate in both real and virtual space.
The exhibition offered a variety of sensory experiences: humidity, smell, light, sound, and a three-dimensional space in an interactive real time, where the visitor can move around and communicate in a virtual climate.
clima is the name of a virtual three-dimensional space on the Web, hosted on “activeworld” virtual groupings. The space offers an alternative to the video game aesthetic; on Internet it is possible to perceive the presence of intense graphics. The central idea of the space is to generate a change: to make the virtual climate—the spaces, the sensitive areas, the high or low optical pressures—felt by people.
The installation consists of two spaces: one physical, the other virtual. Although the first space seems empty, in reality it is made up of sensitive areas that are activated by the visitor’s random movements. When triggered, patches of humidity, light, aeration, smell, and sound appear.
This combination of elements creates a microclimate, which is reproduced in a virtual version of the space: a three-dimensional interactive website that can be surfed.
The aim of the installation is to consider the evolution of space towards a progressive dematerialization. For this reason, Perrin utilizes insubstantial elements—such as air, water, light, sound, and smell—as alternatives to the omnipresent material forms found in artistic projects of the past.
In our ever-denser urban environment, emptiness has, in many ways, gained in value.
And this is the impulse behind Perrin’s installation: to make a connection between the virtual space in which we spend more and more of our time (and in which we encounter the same problem: visual
overload) and her proposed version of surfing the web in an interactive three-dimensional space, whose structure evokes the real space of the first room.
The two-stage nature of Perrin’s installation hints at the gradual disappearance of the boundary between real and virtual space. The two parts of her work cannot be considered individually—their materiality is fluid—and illustrates Perrin’s interest in the meeting of new technologies with projects concerning space. The architecture of the new millennium will consist of a blend between real physical space and the virtual architecture emerging from the digital territory of the web.
Objects, spaces, and buildings can now be constructed and used in a global network: this is the new architecture of fluidity, in which the real and the virtual move ever closer to total fusion.
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Clima
2001
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