NEO-OPHEDIEN, Responsive Art System. This system presents a robotic sculpture that wears an articulated video membrane inspired by the anatomy of snakes. Ancient stories recounted speak of primordial ophidians whose serpentine bodies created the winding rivers carved through Earth’s crust. Longpré’s creature initiates its own narrative of metamorphosis and evolution with this system. made up of modular sections, autonomous and sensitive, her creation moves with its own logic and behaviour, camouflaged against changing video environments and textures. Neo-Ophidien pushes Longpré’s experiments with the transformability of the video membrane even further than former projects, and explores the possible transmutations of the projected images and the general structure. Daily visits to the gallery are required to study the morphology of this constantly changing performance as it unfolds.
