Geomancy is a 3D-animated video essay in which advanced digital cinematography merges with elemental poetry. Augmented beings morph with syncretic nature in a constantly evolving stream. This is the photorealism of a dream, where chaos and the sublime feel vividly real. The video is edited in real time, driven by live data such as weather patterns, lightning frequency, and solar radiation. Earth's natural flows shape the narrative and rhythm of the sequences, creating a cinematic experience that is aleatory, in constant flux, and fragile. The symbolism aligns with an order beyond the viewer or the artwork itself. A fictional critical ecosystem, informed by science fiction, fantasy, computer graphics, and experimental AI applications, Geomancy was originally conceived as an immersive installation. Here it makes its debut as a web experience.
Biography
Sybil Montet is a French artist and 3D director. Her work explores various esoteric potentials of emerging technologies and their influence on the collective unconscious, but also the formal and phantasmic synchronicities between computation and the living world. Between 2016 and 2020 she was part of core.pan, a French-Czech artistic duo. She is currently working on new film and sculpture commissions for exhibitions in South Korea, France, and the United States.