2016
drawing on paper made by a robot
29 x 42 cm
unique artwork

In his new plotter drawing series, Joanie explores the capacities of a drawing machine. Creating visuals with repetitive patterns, complex and detailed compositions, the use of a robot will reveal mechanical glitches coming from the machine, wear and ink glitches coming from the pen, crashes and unfinished lines coming from the custom software.

The drawings are not perfect and so original shapes emerge from artefacts.

2016
drawing on paper made by a robot
29 x 42 cm
unique artwork

In his new plotter drawing series, Joanie explores the capacities of a drawing machine. Creating visuals with repetitive patterns, complex and detailed compositions, the use of a robot will reveal mechanical glitches coming from the machine, wear and ink glitches coming from the pen, crashes and unfinished lines coming from the custom software.

The drawings are not perfect and so original shapes emerge from artefacts.

2016
silkscreen print on paper
59 x 49 cm
edition 2/12

Lemercier’s obsession in representing natural lanscapes was held down by current computers ability to model reality: the inner structure of clouds being one of the most challenging to recreate with software, many of his attempts to represent skies with digital tools fell flat.

During a flight above the Alps, the artist captured real clouds with ideal lighting conditions, and used a “weighted Voronoï ” algorithm to transform them into a monochrome screen-print. The reduced amount of dots gives a sense of volume, transparency and particles density that our computer models would fail to preserve.

2016
high resolution screen
97 x 56cm
edition 1/6

A contemplative journey across the generative landscape depicted in “la montagne”. Motion and perspective brings a different sense of scale, details and space. Despite the minimal monochrome wireframe aesthetics inherited from earliest videogames, the viewer might perceive details in rocks, erosion, sand valleys, all made from a single line of code.

2016
print on paper
video projection
custom mapping software
492 x 260cm (custom size)
edition 1/6

distorted by an algorithm. The procedural landscape  questions the connection between nature and code, what if our reality could be recreated, simulated with mathematical functions.

A layer of projected light bring shadows, and bring the illusion of depth and blurs our sense of distance. Days, nights, seasons bring life to the wallpaper landscape, distorting our perception of time and space.