“We see thousands of different pictures every day in news, art, fashion, internet ads, Facebook,” says Caillard. “Everything is together without any organization. People start to lose the ability to reflect on what they are looking at.”

Caillard arrived at the UI concept after visiting Paris’ famous museums. He saw visitors looking at masterpieces for five seconds at a time, the same way they look at pictures on a mobile phone, and then move on to the next painting.

An Apple product user himself, Caillard adopted the “highly recognizable” interface for the series titled Art Games. “I imagined people playing with art around them, like they would do playing with pictures on their iPhone/iPad,” says Caillard.

Caillard is not against tech and its tools. Indeed, computers and software are what allow him to render his virtual Louvre. Yet, the ubiquity of mobile devices plays into his suspicion that people are spending dwindling amounts of time in interaction with physical objects.

“Digital technology is changing the way we consume culture,” he says. “This is neither good or bad. A lot of very interesting art emerges from new tools of expression. But, like any change, it will take time for people to understand that we need art of the past and masterpiece paintings [in order] to make something interesting with digital creation. The future will let us know.”

Images: Leo Caillard

Authors: Pete Brook

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