Featured Artist – THE BIG PICTURE

Desire of Codes

Michael Knoll — Mon, 16 Jul 2012 14:05:14 +0000

Opening: Do/Thu 30. 8. 14:30
Führung mit Seiko Mikami: Sa/Sat 1. 9. 16:00
Do/Thu 30. 8. – So/Sun 30. 9.
Do/Thu 30. 8. 10:00 – 21:00, Fr/Fri 31. 8. – Mo/Mon 3. 9. 10:00 – 19:00
LENTOS Kunstmuseum Linz

Seiko Mikami’s large installation “Desire of Codes” demonstrates how the boundaries between the body of data in the virtual world and the physical body in the real world are becoming blurred in the context of Information Society.
The nightmarish setting of this interactive work consists of three parts: a white wall on which 90 insect feeler-like objects with build-in surveillance cameras are mounted (Ninety Wriggling Wall Units); six giant robot arms equipped with video cameras and laser projectors hanging from the ceiling (Six Multi-perspective Search Arms); and a round projection surface 3.5 meters in diameter. This Compound Eye Detector Screen resembles an insect’s multifaceted eyes.
Visitors become cognizant of being in the viewfinder of a perfect piece of surveillance machinery. Highly sensitive cameras and microphones register the slightest movement and sounds beyond the range of human hearing. Whatever is registered is stored in a high-performance databank that is the actual core of “Desire of Codes.” On the large screen, installation visitors experience the real-time projections of their own images; these sequences are interspersed by older footage within the system as well as images from surveillance cameras in public places worldwide.

Desire of Codes is a commissioned work by YCAM//Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media (JP) and has been exhibited at ICC Tokyo, Dortmund Center for Art and Creativity, and Künstlerhaus Wien.
Kazunao Abe (Curator, YCAM/Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media / JP); Satoshi Hama, Soichiro Mihara, Richi Owaki ( YCAM InterLab / JP), Norimichi Hirakawa (JP), Ryota Kuwakubo (JP), TAKEGAHARASEKKEI, Tama Art University, Course of Media Art (JP)

Desire of Codes – Guided Tour with Andreas Broeckmann (DE)

Michael Knoll — Mon, 16 Jul 2012 14:04:59 +0000

Opening: Do/Thu 30. 8. 14:30
Guided Tour with Andreas Broeckmann (DE): Sa/Sat 1. 9. 16:00
Do/Thu 30. 8. – So/Sun 30. 9.
Do/Thu 30. 8. 10:00 – 21:00, Fr/Fri 31. 8. – Mo/Mon 3. 9. 10:00 – 19:00
LENTOS Kunstmuseum Linz

Visitors become cognizant of being in the viewfinder of a perfect piece of surveillance machinery. Highly sensitive cameras and microphones register the slightest movement and sounds beyond the range of human hearing. Whatever is registered is stored in a high-performance databank that is the actual core of “Desire of Codes.” On the large screen, installation visitors experience the real-time projections of their own images; these sequences are interspersed by older footage within the system as well as images from surveillance cameras in public places worldwide.

Featured Artist: Seiko Mikami

Michael Knoll — Wed, 11 Jul 2012 13:13:35 +0000

Seiko Mikami (JP) beschäftigt sich in Gestalt großer und Raum füllender Installationen seit den 1980ern mit den Verbindungen von menschlichem Körper und Informationsgesellschaft. In den 1990ern ist sie verstärkt zu interaktiven Arbeiten übergegangen, in die sie die menschliche Wahrnehmung einbezieht. Dazu zählen das 1996 im Canon ARTLAB verwirklichte eye tracking-Projekt Molecular Informatics und eine 1997 am ICC in Tokyo geschaffene Installation rund um den Hörsinn und Klänge aus dem Körperinneren. Gravicells (2004 am YCAM) beschäftigt sich mit dem Schwerkraftempfinden als sechstem menschlichen Sinn.

Außerhalb Japans, wo die Künstlerin einen Lehrstuhl an der Tama Art University innehat, sind ihre Arbeiten vorwiegend in Europa und in den USA gezeigt worden. So beispielsweise auf Medienkunstfestivals wie DEAF (Rotterdam), der transmediale Berlin und TESLA Berlin, dem Digital Culture Festival in Großbritannien und der Ars Electronica 2005.

Desire of Codes

Do/Thu 30. 8. – Mo/Mon 3. 9.
Lentos Kunstmuseum Linz