Eric Filion

Éric Filion is a producer, designer and a scholar in the field of virtual reality. The main focus of his work is the design of three-dimensional environments.

His work and performances have been seen around the world in digital festivals such as Mutek, Elektra, Live Performer Meeting (LPM), Festival Futura, AVITUK, MTL Mapping, Music Gallery, Eastern Bloc, SAT, Nuit blanche, Festival 404, SHARE among others.

Eric holds a master’s degree in virtual reality and participates in research workshops, presents readings at many events such as Festival Regard, co-production Fr-Qc, Composite, RIDM, Vector Festival , XYZ Challenge, Amber Platform. In addition to teaching interactivity and virtual reality at NAD (UQAC) in Montreal, Éric produces and realizes many immersive projects broadcasted around the world.

ARTWORK

Kowloon remix
Video and Talk

BIOPHYSICAL ENVIRONMENT

Microapartments (evolution between man and space) have been increasingly common since 2013 in the West, when regulations changed to allow developers to overcome the shortage by converting offices into housing while freeing themselves from surface areas. minimal living space.

This new trend of “micro spaces” (biophysical environment) suggests questions about the interaction between health and the environment and the adoptive evolution of humans to spatial contractions of living space. The relationship between health and the environment have been taken into account for many years by very diverse disciplines (biology, medicine, toxicology, epidemiology, etc.) to identify and assess the impact of a certain number of components present in the environment on the human body.

Today, due to the profound upheavals caused by technological changes on the natural and human environment, increasing attention is paid to the importance and the role of environmental risks on human health. In this perspective, studies have clearly shown that the biological, physical and psychosocial quality of an environment is one of the determining factors in the state of health of individuals. While scientific research in the medical and biochemical fields has above all identified strict correspondences, based on a causal relationship between a substance or an environmental factor and a health disorder, health-environment relationships are in fact very complex and often difficult to understand. establish.

Like Chinese “apartments” the size of a bed and a cage or internet cafes in Japan where it is possible to rent a cubicle as a residence, what do our emotions offer to this dysfunctional futuristic projection? However, the spatial space of habitation continues to be reduced to our societies. Can a minimal space engender a feeling of psychosocial security? And is it possible to evoke a new type of “emotional instability” neurosis specific to the tendency to reduce our living spaces?

Artwork Link
https://youtu.be/Bg-K24Lz-W0
https://nokami.com/kowloon_remix.html