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Patrimoine & Culture
Fresque de Simon Renaud
📍 Chaumont, Haute-Marne
· 52000 Chaumont
À propos
For his fresco, Simon Renaud took as his starting point the Les Silos multimedia library, its architecture and its missions. His starting point is a familiar, everyday element: the barcode (a graphic sign that we rarely look at, as it is designed and read by machines), to create a monumental work that questions the transformations of digital technology on writing.
His fresco thus refers to the digitization of archives, summoning up the aesthetics of barcodes as the written form of the digital. With this fresco, Chaumont residents will have to decipher a hidden phrase. The key to reading the letters is to look at the counter-forms of each sign in the work. The artist wants to understand the limits of steganography (the art of hiding text in an image), in other words, how far can we go to continue to distinguish the text in the image? Using the principle of augmented reality, passers-by will be able to scan the fresco to access a virtual extension of the work.
Completed in January 2022, this black-and-white vinyl fresco stretches almost 40 meters from the Tôle bridge to Les Silos. To decipher, "the real is inscribed in the virtual":
His fresco thus refers to the digitization of archives, summoning up the aesthetics of barcodes as the written form of the digital. With this fresco, Chaumont residents will have to decipher a hidden phrase. The key to reading the letters is to look at the counter-forms of each sign in the work. The artist wants to understand the limits of steganography (the art of hiding text in an image), in other words, how far can we go to continue to distinguish the text in the image? Using the principle of augmented reality, passers-by will be able to scan the fresco to access a virtual extension of the work.
Completed in January 2022, this black-and-white vinyl fresco stretches almost 40 meters from the Tôle bridge to Les Silos. To decipher, "the real is inscribed in the virtual":
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