Digital by Nature

Miguel Chevalier

In Digital by Nature, digital art pioneer Miguel Chevalier takes you on a journey into a world where technology and nature meet and (surprisingly) enhance one another.

Algorithms

Many of the works in the exhibition are interactive. Algorithms generate images that are constantly changing, partly in response to visitors’ movements. Music, movement and imagery merge together. Some installations are accompanied by compositions by Jacopo Baboni Schilingi. Technology creates art, such as a robot that produces drawings on the spot.

Art history

At the same time, the work is not detached from art history. Chevalier brings an age-old theme into the present: the landscape, nature as a mirror of humanity. This is a theme that also lies at the heart of Museum de Fundatie’s permanent collection. This gives rise to a dialogue between the past and the present, between analogue and digital, between what grows and what is made.

Career

The exhibition is Miguel Chevalier’s largest solo exhibition in Europe to date. It brings together around 120 works from all stages of his career, ranging from early computer-generated works and pieces created with the aid of AI to large-scale interactive installations in which you yourself determine the image through your movements.

Digital by Nature

It is an exhibition that you don’t just look at, but also feel and experience. ‘Digital by Nature’ is an exhibition for anyone who is curious about where art and technology intersect – and about what connects us to the world around us.

Kunsthalle München

This exhibition was organised by the Kunsthalle München in collaboration with Museum de Fundatie.