Autogenesis 16

I INVENT THE STATIC FILM

Today, at the end of my life, my palette of colours is digital, virtual. I have become the caveman who inscribes his life, his works, his archives and his thought upon the walls of his quantum cave. My wall of expression is made of dark matter; it is merely the shadow of matter from elsewhere. What I draw upon it becomes a static film that the visitor sets in motion by moving through my digital work: https://mathius-toerau-art.alainmathius.chatgpt.site (in French, English and Tahitian).

It is not merely an artist’s website, a virtual museum, an autobiography or a digital library: my work brings all these forms together within an evolving, visitable structure that is itself a work.

Since I fit into no known category of artist, I call this digital form: static film. A static film is a work whose elements are fixed, but whose reading is mobile. Nothing moves by itself: the texts, images, works and fragments of life remain still. Movement exists only through the visitor’s navigation, which arranges their succession and produces their montage.

I thus demonstrate a new way of creating with digital technology: I do not adapt my thought to the constraints of a program; through language, I directly direct the construction of my work. Artificial intelligence is neither its author, nor its co-author, nor its source of inspiration; it remains my tool of realisation. Thus, the form of my language remains at the service of my thought.

Mathius TO’ERAU
The Suréviste — Tahiti, 2026