Nevermore
Online Project, Yokohama, JPN, 2020
Grants: Ogasawara Toshiaki Memorial Foundation, Public Resources Foundation, Yokohama Arts Foundation
Nevermore is a project to literally paint back an ordinary scene—which is lost in the COVID-19 pandemic all over the world—in actual size by a paintbrush with chroma key processing for moving images. The fruit of this project is a video installation using time-lapse movies.
Today, virtual reality—a huge digital platform increasing the width, depth, and density rapidly—has been infiltrating into our reality. Computers often make us reconfirm replicability/un-replicability, traceability/un-traceability, reversibility/irreversibility, and momentariness/permanence of various technology, and our reality is made from intersections between them and material actuality. Nevermore plainly gives shape to the force and functionality of the image in the current “Reality” situation.
Today, virtual reality—a huge digital platform increasing the width, depth, and density rapidly—has been infiltrating into our reality. Computers often make us reconfirm replicability/un-replicability, traceability/un-traceability, reversibility/irreversibility, and momentariness/permanence of various technology, and our reality is made from intersections between them and material actuality. Nevermore plainly gives shape to the force and functionality of the image in the current “Reality” situation.
Nevermoreは映像のクロマキー効果を援用して、世界中で失われてしまったありきたりな日常の光景を、絵筆一本で原寸大に文字通り「描き戻す」プロジェクトである。
現在、私たちの「現実」には、仮想現実―巨大なデジタルプラットフォームが深く入り込み、その広さ、深さ、そしてその密度を加速度的に増している。コンピュータによって私たちが頻繁に再確認させられる、様々な技術の複製可能性/複製不可能性、可逆性/不可逆性、瞬間性/永続性、それらが物質的現実と交差したものが私たちの目に触れている「現実」である。このような私たちの現実におけるイメージの力と作用・反作用が、Nevermoreによって端的に形象化される。
現在、私たちの「現実」には、仮想現実―巨大なデジタルプラットフォームが深く入り込み、その広さ、深さ、そしてその密度を加速度的に増している。コンピュータによって私たちが頻繁に再確認させられる、様々な技術の複製可能性/複製不可能性、可逆性/不可逆性、瞬間性/永続性、それらが物質的現実と交差したものが私たちの目に触れている「現実」である。このような私たちの現実におけるイメージの力と作用・反作用が、Nevermoreによって端的に形象化される。
Nevermore
Online Project, Yokohama, JPN, 2020
Grants: Ogasawara Toshiaki Memorial Foundation, Public Resources Foundation, Yokohama Arts Foundation
Selected Exhibition: ICC Kids Program 2022: Tools for Play, NTT InterCommunication Center [ICC] , Tokyo, JPN
Online Exhibition: Hyper ICC, NTT InterCommunication Center [ICC]
Co-Curation: KUNOH Kyoko, HATANAKA Minoru
Curatorial Team: YUBISUI Yasuko, KASHIMADA Tomoya
Exhibition Direction: KUNOH Kyoko
Hyper ICC Direction: TANIGUCHI Akihiko
Online Exhibition: Hyper ICC, NTT InterCommunication Center [ICC]
Co-Curation: KUNOH Kyoko, HATANAKA Minoru
Curatorial Team: YUBISUI Yasuko, KASHIMADA Tomoya
Exhibition Direction: KUNOH Kyoko
Hyper ICC Direction: TANIGUCHI Akihiko
Online screenings:
Maebashi Media Festival 2020
Ars Electronica .ART Global Gallery