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Object B

exonemo

  • 2006
  • Installation
  • Commissioned by YCAM
  • World Premiere
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大きなサイズで見る

A strange coexistence of man and machine

This large-scale installation consists of an originally developed game based on a modified 3D shooting game, and odd-looking objects resembling robots.

Four large screens were arranged to surround the visitor in the exhibition space, projected onto each of which are video images of the modified game. Via computer mice and keyboards set up in front of the screens, visitors could create objects inside the game and control their positions, and furthermore, control the effect of gravity within the game setting.
In addition, three objects combining electrical tools and interfaces such as mouse and keyboard were installed around the visitor. Random operations of these objects triggered the input of various commands making the game characters move around freely.
The repeated synchronization and desynchronization of real and game environments around this arrangement of objects and terminals in the exhibition space upset notions of demolition and creation, sense and nonsense, to forge a unique new world in which the borderlines between man and machine, real and virtual have molten away.

The Game

Realized on the basis of the game engine of "Half-Life 2", a 3D shooting game developed by the American Valve Corporation and renowned for its high mod quality, and using free software for further modifying it into a new game called "Garry's Mod", was a new game world with perfectly unique objects, characters, interactions and physical laws.
Sceneries of the game as seen from the perspectives of its four characters - SORA (sky), JIMEN (ground), KEMONO (beast) and NINGEN (human) - were projected onto four large screens measuring 7.5 meters in width and 5.7 meters in height. The projection on the front screen represented the perspective of NINGEN, the only character that could be controlled by the visitor.

Profiles

exonemo

Group of artists

"exonemo" is an art unit of Kensuke Sembo and Yae Akaiwa. Since 1996, they have dealt with many experimental projects that can be seen only on the web. In 2000, their installation was first introduced in a special section at Rotterdam Film Festival. After that, featuring their unique style of connecting the web and the real space, "exonemo" participated in many exhibitions both at home and abroad such as Istanbul Biennale, Roppongi Crossing, and ARS Electronica (Austria). They are currently expanding the sphere of their activities; live performance at Pompidou Center in Paris by using musical instruments of their own making, and managing the Tokyo chapter of "dorkbot," a worldwide community "doing strange things with electricity." They won the grand prize of the Net Section of ARS Electronica in 2006. In 2008 "UN-DEAD-LINK" was held in Basel, Switzerland as their first solo exhibition abroad. Their activities are based in Tokyo and http://www.exonemo.com

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Exhibition

exonemo New Installation Exhibition

WORLD B/意識を裏返し、B面をPLAYせよ

Finished

Saturday, April 22 — Sunday, July 9, 2006

* Information in Japanese only

Tour2

September 15, 2006 — November 26, 2006

Connecting Worlds

NTT Intercommunication Center [ICC]

April 10, 2007 — 29

DEAF07

LP2

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Installation

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exonemo's works

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Works of 2006

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