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Campus Tokyo | Hybrid Ego
Campus Tokyo | Hybrid Ego
I was really impressed with the Campus Tokyo exhibit, which displayed a number of student and faculty work developed at the University of Tokyo from the departments of Information Science, Information Studies and Engineering. It proves that art schools aren't the only breeding grounding for the next generation of new media artists.
One of the pieces that I particularly liked was “Sticky Light” because of its lo-fi approach. A red laser that projects a circle travels along patterns that it sees below it, following lines or bouncing off dark tape and small squares. There were different examples shown; one followed a maze pattern, another was a game of pong where the boundary edges are analog pieces of black squares that you move around randomly. The paradigm of edge detection is one we're already quite familiar with, but the aesthetic quality of the laser seems novel and entrancing. I'm not excited anymore by technologies that I've seen already, unless they're used in unusual ways.
“Boxed Ego” is a box within a corner of a room that you approach; it has two “peepholes” on one corner of the box, and if you look in and utter a sound, you see a video image of yourself (from behind) inside of the box. The image fades over time when you remain still. It's kind of creepy to see an image of yourself inside of the box, in that you are observing yourself in real-time looking into the box. It's one of those recursive effects that completely catches you off guard. See a video here.
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ReBlogged by jacqueline on Sep 6, 2008 at 02:34 PM
Posted by jacqueline on Sep 6, 2008 at 02:34 PM
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