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Charlotte Davies - Éphémère, Responsive Environment 1998

Posted by Veroniki Korakidou on March 24, 2011 at 12:54pm

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Ephémère (1998), is an interactive fully-immersive visual/aural virtual artwork which furthers the work begun in Osmose (1995)."Ephémère is iconography evolved through Davies' long-standing practice as a painter, and, as in Osmose, is grounded in 'nature' as metaphor: archetypal elements of root, rock, and stream etc. recur throughout. In Ephémère however, this iconographic repertoire is extended to include body organs, blood vessels and bones, suggesting a symbolic correspondence between the chthonic presences of the interior body and the subterranean earth."Reference:http://www.immersence.com/ephemere/index.php

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Veroniki Korakidou March 28, 2011 at 2:57pm

"Issues of embodiment vs. disembodiment and the perception of space obviously play a central role in the artistic explorations of virtual reality. Only a few virtual-reality environments which completely immerse a viewer into an alternative world have been developed within an art context, and Canadian artist Charlotte Davies’s (b. 1954) Osmose (1995) and Ephémère (1998) are classics of the genre." (Original Reference: Christiane Paul, Digital Art, London: Thames and Hudson, 2003: 126) Quoted from: "Reshaping Spectatorship: Immersive and Distributed Aesthetics" by Edwina Bartlem published on-line in: The Fibreculture Joural, Issue 7 2005: distributed aesthetics URL http://seven.fibreculturejournal.org/fcj-045-reshaping-spectatorshi...