Geomancy

Geomancy is a 3D-animated video essay blending advanced digital cinematography with poetry. Drawing inspiration from science fiction, fantasy, computer graphics, and experimental artificial intelligence, Geomancy unfolds a fictional, critical ecosystem where tech-enhanced beings seamlessly merge with a nature that constantly shifts and adapts. This is the photorealism of a dream, where chaos and the sublime take on vivid, tangible forms. 

Edited in real time, the video responds to live data — weather patterns, lightning frequency, solar radiation — allowing Earth’s natural rhythms to shape both its narrative and pace. The result is a cinematic experience that feels aleatory, perpetually shifting, and inherently fragile. 

Sybil Montet, Geomancy (2024) is presented as part of the exhibition Hybrid Futures: Rhizomes, Meshworks & Alter-Ecologies, organised and produced by Elektron.
Curators: Vincent Crapon & Françoise Poos.

Sybil Montet
Geomancy
2024
Video essay — CGI animation, CGI physics simulations, poetry, live data, AI
12min/​infinite 
Com­mis­sioned by IFA — Are You For Real & HEK Basel

Concept: Sybil Montet
Production: IFA Visual Arts, HEK Basel
Creative technician: Sybil Montet (CGI, text, AI voiceover)
Phil Rohr (programming, AI, web), Pavel Seldemirov (touch designer and interactive scenography supervision)
Musical score: Davor Bokhari (Dark0)
AI voice-over sound design: Jordan Pereira (Crowd187)