Hypercodex x Centre de design
Through collage and random overprinting, participants were invited to create new visual narratives around the notion of landscape.
The collective compositions were then assembled by Ève Laguë from Hypercodex to form an animation in continuous transformation, playing with the themes of perpetual motion and programmed randomness that are at the heart of our research-creation project.
Each participant was invited to create 3 visuals according to 2 main constraints, one relating to the layout (the plans) and the other to the mediums. They had to compose 3 separate landscape images (foreground, main subject, background) using at least one of the 3 available mediums (collage, ink/lacquer, patterns), working only with shades of grey.
The 3 images made by each participant were then combined to create random landscapes (foreground from person A, main subject from person B, and background from person C).
Each participant received a printed copy of each of the 3 combinations generated from their 3 initial images.
The workshop, which focused on the dichotomy between the use of a matrix and the random result of combining different images, was held with the support of the Centre de design. The event took place in the context of the Centre’s current exhibition Dumouchel: matrices et estampes, which focuses on the key role matrices play in Albert Dumouchel’s work.
The Hypercodex team would like to thank the participants and the Centre’s team for their enthusiastic collaboration.