Etienne Cliquet: Flottille

Etienne Cliquet created this video of micro-origami unfolding in water, caused by the paper absorbing water through capillary action. Cliquet, a multimedia artist based in Toulouse, France, creates origami diagrams with a computer, folds the designs with tweezers, and places them gently in water and records them unfolding.

He teaches at the Ecole Superieure des Beaux-Arts and has been researching computer-assisted origami since 2004. He describes his work (in English) on his site, Oridigami. DailyMotion has a video interview (in French) with the artist.

Alexandre Dubosc: Alimation

Alexandre Dubosc, a young French director and photographer, created this clever animation from food for the Annecy Festival, 2011. His Flickr site has a photo set that illustrates the making of “Alimation”. If you want to see more of his work, go to his site; the site is a bit tricky to navigate if you don’t read French. You can use Google Chrome to translate it but the layout makes it difficult to see the menus.