ABSTRACT
Paranormal Panorama was the title of the installation, and was on view from November 8, 2013 through January, 2014 at the Mackey Garage Top Gallery in Los Angeles. The LA-Vienna exhibition program was curated by the MAK-LA Director Kimberli Meier and made possible by the Austrian Federal Chancellery/Arts Division. Viollet's rendered mountains seem at first glance more elaborate than the mundane scenes of colors and, at times, cubes presented in the Cornell Box; the latter evoke the rather humdrum ambition to produce a realistic and entirely data-based image. For one, photographing a hermitically sealed box is impossible, but rendering one is not. Light bounces when it reflects off surfaces, and diffuse lighting calculations in the computer model assume a closed interior environment. In the computer, the processes used to capture images and calculate light are separate; they are not simultaneous. The computer image is made after the light processes are calculated, making it possible to visualize a hermetically sealed interior.
