"Multidisciplinary artist and designer Maxence Duterne is inspired by a quote from the Swiss visual artist Silvie Defraoui: "A work is never created alone, but in conversation with the world." In response to this idea, Maxence used behaviours of the natural world to inform his creation of the Physarum Type Tool; a software that simulates growing nature. Like the unstoppable force of nature, Maxence's tool does not stop or rewind."
"When trying it out, "you can only contemplate its evolution as it seems to live on its own on the screen - you let go of the tendency to constrain other living organisms," Maxence says. When words are typed, the serif of each glyph begins forming conventionally before growing tendrils, mirroring the growth of roots. The project is open source, made at the designers Brussels alma mater LaCambre where graduated with a Bachelors in Typography."
"Maxence has also played with the possibilities of light in his project Tactile Light. Light - famously untouchable - is most commonly interacted with through its secondary state; reflection upon a surface. Maxence says, "This project explores capturing light itself as a touchable, physical phenomenon." Maxence uses custom DMX-controlled lights, a tool for controlling multiple light fixtures, programmed via Arduino and Raspberry Pi 5 running QLC+, a light controller software."
Maxence Duterne builds generative software and installations that emulate natural behaviors and make light tactile. The Physarum Type Tool simulates growth by allowing glyph serifs to form and extend tendrils like roots, evolving continuously without rewind. The tool is open source and was developed at LaCambre during a Typography bachelor's. Tactile Light uses DMX-controlled lights, Arduino and Raspberry Pi 5 with QLC+ to combine smoke and repurposed materials, producing environments where light feels tangible. Maxence draws inspiration from ecological behaviors and writers such as Jack Self, Ernesto Oroza, and poet Marwan Makhoul.
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