In April, Adelaide Festival Centre's Moving Image Program is exhibiting 'NEXT' by Jeremy Oury on our King William Road digital screens.
‘Generated with the help of AI, NEXT transports you to a future where humanity has irreversibly transformed its environment. It offers a nightmarish and predictive vision of what awaits us if we don't profoundly change our lifestyles. The idea is to present a silent witness to this transformation, based on material learned by artificial intelligence, a captivating exploration of our destiny through devastated landscapes that anchor these generated scenes in an almost recognizable near-future.’
As we are already in an urgent global crisis, NEXT, with the concept of Anthropocene, is a message ongoing and an issue reflecting. But it also represents hope, Through the intermediary of dancing bodies, NEXT symbolizes a reinvented humanity, evolving in a transformed environment.
NEXT raises contemporary questions around technology, cultural heritage and our future as a species.’ – Jeremy Oury
Jeremy Oury is a French artist who questions our perception of reality and our relationship to the digital environment through light, sound and space.
He focuses his artwork on research about illusions from geometric distortions, on the synaesthesia between sound and video, and on immersive forms to place the viewer at the centre of a minimalist virtual universe to disrupt his perception of space.
His groundbreaking work has been recognized and awarded in international video mapping and Fulldome festivals and exhibited at prestigious digital festivals and exhibitions worldwide.
Image credit: Jeremy Oury, NEXT, moving image (still), 6:20