BENJAMIN BARDOU

Mare Nostrum II
202555 secondsAI, pointclouds, volumetric video, 3DGS

In the latent space, images lie dormant. These images, figured as isolated points, seem fragmentary; yet when connected, a form emerges—like the ancient constellations once traced across the night sky.

This project seeks to explore that logic: to wander through the latent space, selecting distant points and linking them by a path. The line is never neutral: it generates movement, tension, an image in the making. In this way, a cartography of time takes shape, where each point is a fragment of memory and each connection an attempt to give meaning to what traverses us.

It is not about amassing images, but orchestrating their relations. Like the cartographers of old, who invented worlds by linking faraway lands, we trace here the constellations of an inner and collective space—made visible through artificial imagination.

Series

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