Hugo Arcier

Visual artist. Paris. hugoarcier.com

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I am happy to share with you my new creation, the film Clinamen made for l'Opéra de Paris. It is a work on the representation of movement, as well as a tribute to Lucretius' atomist physics.

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I am nominated for the Opline Prize 2017. Votes are now open : apps.facebook.com/mes-sondages/concours-oplineprize-2017

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I give for free a virtual reality experience called "Lost in aberrations", inspired by optical art and kinetic art. This experience is a sensorial travel intented for curious minds that loves to play with their perception. Lost in Aberrations involves retinal persistence and tridimensional sounds that saturate the user of visuals and acoustics stimuli. Trailer: https://vimeo.com/213372298 Curious minds can go on itch.io and download the project: https://hugoa.itch.io/lost-in-aberrations

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Say hello to N°130 Creative Studio!

http://no130.io/

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A little montage of my work on #softlove live performance. 

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“Ghost City” video installation.

Hugo Arcier. 2016

Visible until July 9th at “Fantômes numériques” exhibition

http://hugoarcier.com/ghost-city/

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FPS

Interactive installation by @hugoarcier lets you illuminate a gaming space with gunfire, inspired by the terrorist attacks in Paris last year:

FPS is a post November 2015 Paris attacks art piece. The artist deals with blindness hijacking video game codes, in particular of first person shooter game. The only visible elements are pyrotechnic effects, gunshots, muzzles flashes, sparks, impacts, smokes. All these elements reveal a decor and impersonal silhouettes, innocent persons denied by the subjectivity of the character we incarnate. From dark to light, a blindness is replaced by another one. Gunshots after gunshots a memorial is created before our eyes. 

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Trailer of my interactive installation "FPS", visible at "fantômes numériques" exhibition.

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Preview of the futur video installation “Ghost City”. It will be visible first at my solo exhibition “Fantômes numériques” at Lux Scène Nationale from April 28 to July 7 2016.

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In exactly one month: opening of my solo exhibition at Lux – Valence !

More teasers / trailers to come.

http://www.lux-valence.com/calendrier/fantomes-numeriques/

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HUGO ARCIER

We are so pleased to have the innovative HUGO ARCIER as part of our Design Lab Team. Read his bio below and be sure to check out the new promo video that Hugo made to celebrate the third edition of Prix Cube, International Digital Art Prize for Emerging Artists! 

Hugo Arcier is a French digital artist (actually he is an artist in a digital world) who uses 3D computer graphics in various ways: videos, prints and sculptures. Devoted first to special effects for feature films, he has worked on numerous projects with prestigious directors such as Roman Polanski, Alain Resnais or Jean-Pierre Jeunet. This profession has allowed him to gain a deep understanding of digital tools – in particular 3D graphic images – which is essential for the birth of his projects.

He regularly does commissioned works that uses computer graphics, like in 2012 the album cover “Cruel Summer” for Kanye West. Along with commercial work, he develops plastic and reflective works that meticulously dissect the specificities of this new medium, 3D computer graphics. He develops increasingly ambitious projects, initially only films and now other forms like prints, sculptures, and installations, such as the “Nostalgia for Nature” series. Also addressing design through 3D printing, he is the creator of innovative objects (generative design from connected applications, hacking industrial furniture…His artistic works have been featured in numerous festivals (Elektra, Videoformes, Némo, etc.), galleries (Magda Danysz, Plateforme Paris, etc.), art venues (New Museum NY, New Media Art Center of Sichuan Fine Arts Institute, Le Cube, Okayama Art Center, Palais de Tokyo, etc.) and contemporary art fairs (Slick, Show off) around the world, making him a recognizable figure in the world of digital art. 

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Interview done for the exhibition "Game / Video Art. A Survey", during the XXI International Exhibition of the Triennale di Milano. I will show there my video "11 executions".

From April the 2d to September the 12th 2016.

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Short video about the Prix Cube. 3D printed trophy.

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My interactive installation "Degeneration" is visible online in the virtual museum Paper-Thin:

http://www.paper-thin.org/

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My film Nostalgia for Nature was shown at the exhibition “The Fate of Image” at the New Media Art Center of Sichuan Fine Arts Institute in Chongqing (China)

http://hugoarcier.com/en/the-fate-of-image/

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"11 EXECUTIONS" confronts armed violence and modern terrorism to video games artificial intelligence (AI). These video are machinimas, that means they uses a real time engine, very often from video game (here GTA V). They are inspired in their form by the short film Elephant by Alan Clarke.

It is for the artist a way to use the power of simulation of video game and try to clear up the motivation of these incomprehensible acts. Here is the device: in each video one execution of one or more civilian is committed, the reactions are generated by the AI of the game. The artist do not have any control on these reactions and also do not know by advance who will be killed. Each scenes (same killer, same place) is done twice in order to show the horror of coincidence and randomness.

The video was presented at "Si vis pacem, para bellum" exhibition at Plateforme Paris Gallery. The opening was November the 13th.

http://hugoarcier.com/en/si-vis-pacem-para-bellum-plateforme-paris/

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“8 steps to enlightenment” was my first project in VR.  It was presented at Le Palais de Tokyo (Paris) the 22th november 2015.

It was a collaborative artistic project by:  Aramique, Mau Morgo, Gary Gunn, Marta Armengol, Guillermo Santoma, jeff Crouse, Nicolas Dufoure, Hugo Arcier.