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Pureφ - Abstract Painterly Interface

Akihiro KUBOTA

  • 2008
  • Installation
  • Commissioned by YCAM
  • World Premiere
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Interface projected as a painting onto a large screen.

Four digital cameras installed in front of the screen continuously monitor the movements of visitors in a tiered field. While movements caught by these digital cameras are normally vectorized on a computer, and dots on the screen are randomly fluidized based on those data, here human bodies and faces are reconstructed like perfect mirror images as soon as they are recognized by the computer. Furthermore, the lights illuminating the field change their colors in response to visitors' movements, which at the same time affects also the projected images on the screen.

Profiles

Akihiro KUBOTA

Sound and Software Artist

Akihiro Kubota (Dr.Eng. Artist/Designer/Engineer/Performer etc.) is a professor of the Art & Media Course, in the Department of Information Deisgn at Tama Art University. He has been exploring the world of hybrid creation which crosses and combines various domains. Most recently he has been investigating projects such as satellite art (artsat.jp), biomedia art (bioart.jp), digital fabrication (fablabjapan.org), social material (monofactory.nakadai.co.jp) and sound performance using DIY instruments (hemokosa.com). His recent works include "materialAV" (2003) at ICC Tokyo, "Connected Spaces" at NIME06 Paris and "Algorithmic Free Improvisation: Prepared & Processed Guitar Performance" (2009) at Culture Lab, Newcastle University.

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Exhibition

ミニマム・インターフェース

Finished

Saturday, November 1, 2008 — Sunday, February 8, 2009

* Information in Japanese only

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Installation

120

Akihiro KUBOTA's works

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Works of 2008

35

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