In ‘Fatal Attraction’, two infinite streams of red and yellow pixels flow towards each other from opposite sides of the screen, apparently moved by a strong attraction, all the while wiggling and twisting.

When one pixel touches a pixel of the opposite colour in this complex fluid universe, one is randomly annihilated. As the pixels are all attracted by the other colour, streams end up dissolving through repeated contact. Each time a pixel disappears, a new pixel of the same colour is created at the source of the stream, thus creating a never-ending situation.

‘Fatal Attraction’ speaks about strong but destructive relationships between people, populations, particles or thoughts – about how these structural situations tend to repeat themselves in cycles, with variations in shape, temporality or dynamic, but fatally with the same outcome.

The exhibited artwork, ‘Fatal Attraction’, is an unspecified recording of the original infinite generative artwork of the same name.

Visual artist Antoine Schmitt creates artwork in the form of objects, installations and performances to address the processes of movement and question their intrinsic problematics – of plastic, philosophical or social nature. Heir of kinetic art and cybernetic art, nourished by the philosophical side of science-fiction, he reveals and manipulates the forces at stake to confront human nature with the nature of reality.

With a minimal and precise aesthetic, Schmitt explores the field of programmed art. He is a theoretician, speaker and editor of the gratin.org portal. He has won multiple international awards and has been exhibited around the world.