With a selection of movie scenes articulated around three themes, Lionel Maes let us drift into imaginary worlds where bodies dematerialize, enter and navigate digital spaces; machines, networks, cyberspaces. What promises the experience of diving into the machine makes in terms of movement, actions possibilities, and limits? What happens to the body during this experience?
The Landmower Man, Bret Leonard, 1992, Poster.
Dive into the Machine
Humans dive into the inside of the machine.
- Colossus, The Forbin Project, Joseph Sergent, 1970
- Hackers, Iain Softley, 1995
- Johnny Mnemonic, Robert Longo, 1995
- The Lawnmover Man, Bret Leonard, 1992
- Tron, Steven Lisberger, 1982
The Machine enters Us
Human body is seen, improved or modified by the machine.
- The Terminal Man, Mike Hodges, 1974
- Matrix, The Wachowskis, 1999
- Transcendence, Wally Pfister, 2014
The Machine Walks Out of Itself
The machine becomes autonomous, outside of itself.
- Transcendence, Wally Pfister, 2014
- Her, Spike Jonze, 2013
- Demon Seed, Donald Cammell, 1977
About
Lionel Maes is an artist, developer, graphic designer and teacher. He is a founding member of the code and graphic design studio La Villa Hermosa (Brussels). He teaches digital design at ERG (École de Recherche Graphique, Brussels). His work focuses on the development of alternative methodologies and processes in art and design in which questions of networks, negotiations, dialogues, protocols between machines, between humans and between humans and machines are addressed.