2.8.10

Open Space 2010

I visited a gallery at the NTT Intercommunication center(ICC)at the beautiful Tokyo opera city tower. The exhibit was called Open Space 2010. Open Space includes a gallery, a library, a mini-theater, and a lounge.
Here's some of the work i really enjoyed:

"Juggler"
Gregory BARSAMIAN

Strobe lights render three-dimensional animation in the dark. Figures toss telephones into the air. These phones transform from nursing bottles to dice before they return to the figures' hand. The work employs the theory of photogene to express anticipations and dissensions within the relationship between humankind and machines.
























"Morel's Panorama"
FUJIHATA Masaki

A panorama camera is installed in the center of the room. This camera is able to capture its entire surrounding by shooting images reflected by the hemispherical mirror. The shot images are transformed into cylindrical shapes using computer software and projected onto the walls in real time. Furthermore, in another cylinder that appears on and off, pre-recorded footage of the artist himself is also mapped in the same way. The camera lens is pointed towards the photographic subject as a surrogate for our line of vision, but in the case of a panorama lens that can shoot a range of 360 degrees, there is no such thin as being "behind the camera." That is to say, people are made to be the photographic objects at the same time as they are the viewers and are transformed into the viewed. In this regard the panorama camera can be said to have properties that are very close to those of mirrors, but unlike with mirrors, the line of sight is not directly in front of the lens. Furthermore, because computer image processing technology is used in this work to reproduce the images, the viewer can see from the outside panoramas in which their own image has been captured and a structure created in which the relationship between the subject and the object is superimposed in multiple layers.

















"Marshmallow Scope"
IWAI Toshio

If you look into the monitor mounted in the white marshmallow-shaped object, you will see the surrounding landscape changing as if time is going forward and backward or the passengers or objects distorted. What you see is a result of the real time manipulation and deformation of video imagery and the flow of time that was shot with a video camera and stored in the computer. "Marshmallow Scope," with its lovely and friendly shape, can serve as a window through which you can look into another world that has a different time-flow from that in the real world we know.

























"The Tenth Sentiment"
KUWAKUBO Ryota

On the front of the model train running around the darkened room is a small, lit-up LED light. This train slowly navigates the room, which contains various large and small "objects," according to the model rail route, throwing the shadows of the "objects" onto the walls and ceiling as it goes. Due to the movement of the light source, the shadows of the stationary "objects" move as images like views from the carriage windows, surrounding viewers with images as if they were passengers riding on the train.

















"A Parallel Image"
Gebhard SENGMÜLLER & Franz BÜCHINGER

Some 2,500 photoconductors whose electric resistance changes depending on the brightness of light detected, have been attached to one of the two panels suspended from the ceiling. The same number of light bulbs has been attached to the other panel, and the two panels are connected with copper wire so that the position of each photoconductor on one panel corresponds with that of a light bulb on the other panel. When the brightness of light hitting photoconductors changes, this is reflected by the brightness of the corresponding light bulbs on the opposite panel, and the images captured by the "camera" panel with the photoconductors is conveyed as is to the "monitor" light bulbs on the opposite panel.






http://www.ntticc.or.jp/Exhibition/2010/Openspace2010/index.html

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