
Miguel Chevalier French, b. 1959
Software: Cyrille Henry
Frame: 184 x 112 x 16 cm (72 1/2 x 44 1/8 x 6 1/4 inches)
In an atmosphere saturated with data, a planetary eye emerges from a network of circuit lines. Silent yet omnipresent, it shimmers with digital flows, mapping a hyperconnected humanity, where each signal reveals a trace, a movement, a memory.
Created in collaboration with artificial intelligence, this work questions our relationship to the visible, to traces, and to intimacy in a world now driven by information streams. But this eye is far from neutral: it embodies constant algorithmic surveillance, a contemporary echo of Orwell’s Big Brother. The AI, like a quasi-biological entity, observes, anticipates, archives — continuously redrawing our connection to reality.
Between aesthetic fascination and underlying tension, Retina Artificialis exposes the ambivalence of the digital gaze: a tool of control as much as of contemplation, a global memory as much as a loss of the invisible. What remains of our freedom in this dazzling constellation of pixels?