By creating a touch surface, it made the experience simple and really clear. In the end, there were 4, one for the trunk, one for the roots and two for the leaves, one left, one right. The team had to decide how many contact surfaces they wanted to have and where they wanted them, to be able to create the animation.

The team decided to use the Touch Board to make a touch-enabled model of the tree. The artists wanted the human to interact with nature (often a fragile object in their hands). The idea was that the interactive connection between the small and the big tree would strengthen the message of the piece. The small tree was printed prior to the residency as the artist that made the big tree had the design ready. Accompanying the piece is a 26cm heigh 3d printed version of the tree, allowing the audience to interact with the media using the device to alter components of the visual display. The setup is a 3m heigh polygonal tree made of glass fibre and steel which is projection-mapped. With a game of going back and forth between the natural and the artificial being the main focus of the immersive experience. The succession of the different scenes in the video tells the common history of the three territories, the heavy transformations of the industrial era, the digital transformation, and the ecological transition. You can hunt Nature with a fork, yet she will still hurry back. 'Naturam expellas furca, tamen usque recurret'. The title of the art installation is taken from a quote by the Latin poet Horace. Visual Artist Jules Huvig walks us through the art installation from building it to exhibiting at the video mapping festival.

Video Mapping Festival #2 : YET SHE WILL STILL HURRY BACK, CITÉ DES ÉLECTRICIENS, BRUAY-LA-BUISSIÈRE - mai 2019 from Rencontres Audiovisuelles on Vimeo. The residency took place in Wallers-Arenberg Creative Mine in the Haut-de-France and was produced by the Lille-based non-profit 'Les rencontres audiovisuelles'. The goal was to produce a unique video mapping installation on the theme of reconstruction that offered an immersive experience for the audience. The interactive projection mapping was created during an art residency, gathering 6 artists from the 3 partner regions of the Weimar Triangle.

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