"Critical perspectives:Japanese Media Art Production"-Yukiko Shikata

Critical perspectives ——
Japanese Media Art Production

A & T FORUM: CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES IN ART AND TECHNOLOGY
November 4, 2009 Yukiko Shikata

Japanese mental & cultural tendencies

1. Homogeneity
2. Liquidity
3. Eclectic feature
4. Exquisite feature
5. Tactile feature

Ceaselessly the river flows, and yet the water is never the
same, while in the still pools the shifting foam gathers and is
gone, never staying for a moment…

—— Chomei Kamono “Hojoki(An Account of My Hut)” (1212)

Japanese took the foreign thought, technologies and
systems and modified them to be fit into the things
purely Japanese-like. Japanese history proves the
words of Aristotle that all true creation starts from
mimesis.

—— Octavio Paz, “Tiempo Nublado” (1983)

Experimental films of
Experimental Workshop (1951-)

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“Form in Created” (1953) "Adventures of the Eyes of Mr. W.S., a Test
Composition: Hideko Fukushima, Pilot” (1953) Composition: Katsuhiro
Music: Kazuo Fukushima Yamaguchi, Music: Hiroyoshi Suzuki

Katsuhiro Yamaguchi
“Vitrine” series (1953)

*paintings &sculptural figures behind the glass
to be perceived by the views moving around.

Gutai group (1950s)

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Saburo Murakami “Lacelation
of Paper” (1955)

Atsuko Tanaka “Electric Kazuo Shiraga
Dress” (1956) *performative painting
body.

C.T.G. (computer technic group)

“Computer is a Good Illustrator - Random Kennedy” (1967) “Computer Art” exhibition poster (1968)
*Drawings, outputted by X- Y- plottor by IBM, etc was
shown as multiples of silk screen or off-set printing.

E.A.T. (experiments in art and technology):
“Froats” by Robert Breer, Fog by Fujiko Nakaya,
Pepsi Pavillion, Osaka Expo (1970)

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Fujiko Nakaya Fujiko Nakaya “Statics of an Egg” (1973)
“Friends of Minamata Victims
- video diary” (1972) *The video trying to make the egg stand on the
Co-produced by Hakudo Kobayashi desk triggers the sensitive feedback between the
egg, person.
*Video was used for triggering
communication between the resisting young
people, and with public on the street.

Fujiko Nakaya
“Fog Sculpture” series

Guggenheim Museum Bilbao (1997) “Forest of Fog” Showa Memorial Park,
Tachikawa (1992)

Eiichi Izuhara “Com Tree” (1973)

*The engineer developing CAD realized the
program to generate tree-structures, by
collaboration with computer artists.

Minoru Yoshida “Synthesizer Jacket” (1974/2000)
*Wearable jacket with the analogue synthethizer on it.

Minoru Yoshida “Bisexual Flower” (1970)
*By the water flows down, the flower-like sculpture
blooms up with the sound of analogue synthesizer.

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Masaki Fujihata Masaki Fujihata “Forbidden Fruits” (1990)
“Torso [Geometric Love]” (1987)

*Both sculptures are algorithmically produced and output physically.

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Masaki Fujihata “Beyond Pages” (1996)
*Book becomes interface for the user to interact beyond the real and the virtual.
The work also refers to the relation between the sign and image.

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Masaki Fujihata “Nuzzle Afar” (1997)

*Users become avatars and interact in a virtual space.

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Masaki Fujihata “Field Works” (2001)
*User can experience the perspective of artist equipped with GPS and video camera
moved around the sites, such as in Alsace, in a virtual space.

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Toshio Iwai “Time Spectrum II” (1985)
3D Animation made while he was student of Tsukuba Univ.
The movement of paper dolls changes accoring to the sound.

Toshio Iwai
“Piano - as image media” (1996)

*Anybody can play piano freely by using the
simple interface. Scores turns to the projected
lights, then reach to the piano.

Toshio Iwai
“Marshmallow Scope” (2002)

*Through this dool-shaped scope, the time and spa
is modified by realtime computer process.

Toshio Iwai “TENORI-ON” (2008)
music instrument produced with YAMAHA

Dumb Type “S/N” (1994)
The performance, followed by the installation, provoked
discussions by raising social, political issues -- gender,
sex, HIV, etc. -- as the performers told their stories by
traversing beyond real and fiction.

Teiji Furuhashi “LOVERS” (1994)
co-produced with Canon ARTLAB
*The first and last solo installation of Teiji Furuhashi,
the leading member of Dumb Type who confessed his
suffering of AIDS at the performance “S/N”.

Dumb Type “Voyage” (2002)
*The installation version was consisted of
geographical map image projected on the floor,
overlapped by the scanning map images, with
the sharp sound and laser lights. The body of the
viewer is also scanned and projected.

NTT InterCommunication Center[ICC]

www.ntticc.or.jp
Tokyo Opera City Tower, Hatsudai (Nishishinjuku area), Tokyo

Sendai Mediatheque (Sendai, since 2001)
Architect: Toyo Ito.
Municipal mediatheque with exhibition space, city library and café, art shop. Iintroduces
media
art works tentatively.

Media Centers in Japan
Miraikan (Tokyo, since 2001)
Miraikan / National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation:
Has permanent exhibition of several media art works and also produces art & science exhibitions.

YCAM (Yamaguchi, since 2003)
Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media. Architect: Arata Isozaki.
Municipal media center with studios for the media art and performance, cinema, city
library, media lab for production and restaurant. Focuses on experimental media art
and many works have been already toured in and out of Japan.

Kazuhiko Hachiya
“InterDiscommunication Machine” (1991)
*The participants exchange what they see. Trying to communicate
by watching the behavior of self from the perspective of the other.

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Kazuhiko Hachiya
“PostPet” (1997-2006)
*Virtual pets deliver your e-mails but sometimes behave weird.
© Sony Communication Network Corporation

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Kazuhiko Hachiya “Open Sky” (2003-)

*Fantasic R&D project inspired by the anime “Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind” (Dir.
by Hayao Miyazaki). The artist seeks to fly with DIY personal plane with jet engine.

Maywa Denki “Nonsense Machines” exhibition
(2004)

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*Maywa Denki (fictional company) produces humorous instruments with eccentric
ideas and play them live by wearing the costume of engineers. Instruments are
produced for the market. Management by the Yoshimoto Entertainment Co.

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Motoshi Chikamori + Kyoko Kunoh “KAGE” (1996)

*Different virtual “KAGE(shadows)” appear by touching the cone-shaped
interfaces. A Poetic work by connecting the virtual and the real.

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Ryota Kuwakubo “PLX” (2001)

In this hand-made game, the lights appears the same
position on displays, but each plays different games/stories.

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Ryota Kuwakubo “Loop Scape” (2003)

In this hand-made shooting game, you might be killed
by your own shot because of the round shape of display!

Ryota Kuwakubo

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“Duper/Looper” (2001)

“Bitman” (1998-99)

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“VideoBulb” (2001) “Prapared Radio” (2006)

exonemo “FMS (FragMental Storm)” (2000) *sample images (collage)
*This software remixes the retrieved texts and images realtime from the web sites, through
the search engine, by typing in the words whatever in your mind.
Like the floating fragmented “memories” to be accidentally combined like a storm…

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exonemo
“VHSM (Video Hack Slash Mixer)” (2003)
*Images from 3 video projectors overlapp. Each projector shows R, G, B.
The fan attached in front of each projector cuts up images and project
on the wall. Images are consisted of old personal films of the citizens &
from Internet. The audience can interfere the images by own shadow.

exonemo “Object B” (2006)
*4 projections on the cube, sharing the virtual space of modified shooting game. 3 of 4 “users”
are hand-made junk machines being automatically activated, and one real user plays the game
together. By shooting, new object appears and starts to accumulate.
Terribly nonsense; asking the notion of “interaction”.

exonemo
“The Road Movie” (2005)
for “MobLab” project
During the 3 week-journey of “MobLab” project by bus + mobile technology,
exonemo captured the surrounding photos of bus every 5 min., then released the
whole journey in the downloadable PDF files, to be folded as Origami. People can
keep the whole journey as hundreds of bus paper models..!

Seiko Mikami + Sota Ichikawa “Gravicells” (2004)

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Seiko Mikami + Sota Ichikawa “Gravicells” (2004)
*Within the space a virtual field of gravity and opposing force
pull against one another. The entire space changes as the
movements of users are converted into dynamic image,
sound and light in real-time.

doubleNegatives Architecture “Corpora in Si(gh)te” (2007-)

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doubleNegatives Architecture “Corpora in Si(gh)te” (2007-)
Virtual architecture being generated according to the environmental data, fed by
the smart network of sensors outside of the building. Each node autonomously
judges environmental conditions and the stability of the structure, based on
which the structure as a whole (the Corpora) changes, continuously.

Ryuichi Sakamoto + Shiro Takatani
“LIFE - fluid, invisible, inaudible …”(2007)

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Ryuichi Sakamoto + Shiro Takatani
“LIFE - fluid, invisible, inaudible …”(2007)
Images from projectors attached above the “screen” with water
and fogs shines down, connecting the imagery while
ceaselessly melting, floating endlessly. The combination of
images, the sounds are randomly chosen and never the same.

Norimichi Hirakawa “DriftNet” (2007)

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Norimichi Hirakawa “DriftNet” (2007)
Big waves surge in a screen-filling computer-generated
ocean. When you move, as if crawling through the waves
of information generated from the data, you see a link
emerging between the waves.

Ryoji Ikeda “data.tron” (2008)
Space consisted of huge amount of mathematical data, or abstract
images. And white noice. Extreme, Immersive, sublime direction.

Ryoji Ikeda“test pattern [nº1]” (2008)

Keiko Kimoto
“Ambiguous Green” (2008)

*This room, shown at ICC, consisted of two
rooms; the existing project "Imaginary
Numbers" in the first room, and output
generated in real-time in the back room.

Keiko Kimoto “Imaginary Numbers” (2002)
These beautiful and delicate images, evocative of natural phenomenon such
as spirals and whorls, are created using simple mathematical formulae.

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Keiko Kimoto
Experiments of running “Coupled Oscillators” or “Reaction Diffusion System” (ICC, 08- 09)

In a back room, 400x400 oscillators were connected and run 10 months for the real-
time process of creation. Visitors could observe them slowly changing as though a
living form. They gained a complexity that was unpredictable from any of its components.

Two vectors in Media Art

1. Showing the Japanese tendencies by using technology:
Design, Play, Entertainment-oriented. Narrative,
representative.
ex. Toshio Iwai, Maywa Denki, Kazuhiko Hachiya, Ryota Kuwakubo

2. Taking meta- and critical-approach, asking the role of
media, art & technology, the way of perception:
Abstruct, process-based.
ex. Masaki Fujihata, Dumb Type, Seiko Mikami, dNA, Keiko Kimoto

Mission G: sensing the earth

May 16, 2009 - February 28, 2010@ICC “Open Space2009”
@ NTT InterCommunication Center[ICC]

doubleNegatives Architecture / Hajime Narukawa /Pachube+M.K.I.
+M.K.I./ PACT SYSTEMS / Yusuke Murakami + The 50th Japan Antarctica
Research Expedition+National Institute of Polar Research

COOP
HIMMELB(L)AU:
FUTURE REVISITED
September 19 - December 23, 2009 NTT InterCommunication Center[ICC]

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