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"Field-Works" is a series of projects which reconstrust collective memories into cyberspace as a kind of video archive by using position data captured by GPS and moving image captured by Video. The project started from 1992.
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In 2005, two projects launched in Graz, Austria and Geneva, Swiss. Both are interview projects and discuss the identity of the city. "Landing Home in Geneva" is now already exhibiting at the Centre pour L'image Contemporarie, Saint Gervais Geneva. press page. The project initiated with prof.Jean-Louis Boissier and Daniel Pinkas and produced with Haute Ecole d'arts appliques de Geneva. The show includes "Impressing Velocity 1992","Field-work@Hayama 2000", "Field-work@Alsace 2002", "Mersea Circles, field-works@Mersea island 2003", "Landing Home in Geneva 2005" opened from 7th of Sep. until 16th of Oct.2005. Masaki interviewed 7 professional interpreters who was born in outside Geneva and after moved in Geneva by some reason. The left their home land, but keep mother tangue, and they landing in Geneva? All interviews started at their home or apartiment and end a place where they could remind themselves comfortable or wish to invite Masaki. Contents focuses the place and border between country and language and video interviews are ordered according to the geographical positions which collected by GPS. This is the first time to use Panoramic lens for video recording and is projecting a cylinder shape in the cyberspace. Of course the cylinder shakes, moves, travels along the movement of the camera man and he can not escape from being recorded. It arises several philosophical problems along eye gaze, vernishing point, and projection. "Talking Tree" is also a project started with interviews. It started with one of the oldest lady in the city of Graz and she gave us her friends contact for the second branch of the interview, and then we have more connections and connections, interviews expanded like this, and the shape of the connecitons grows like a tree. It was commissioned by KUNSTHAUS, Graz. This will be installed and exhibited from 30th of Sep. |
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Project "Mersea Circle" 2003-2005:
Collective memory project with local living people in Mersea island located near Colchester, Essex in England. Visitors are invited to walk on the edge of island with video camera and GPS for recording the position and interests which will be reconstruct cyber-archive. Art event was already happen at the local site on 16th and 17th of August in 2003. The final result will be shown at firstsite gallery in Colchester, Essex in Nov. The piece is now parmanently installed in the Martello Tower, media center in Jaywick, Essex, UK. It is the new step for extending spiral lines for the future. Project commisioned under "Coast Digital" East Essex Council. Realized with Future Physcal, Shinkansen, and Firstsite. |
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Project "Alsace" 2002:
Collections of interviews with local inhabitants and passengers around the border between France and Germany. Whole interviews are located in the place where the interview was done and replayed as it was done according to the postion and movement of the camera. Project was realised in August and September in 2002 under the support of ZKM | Center of Art and Media in Karlsruhe, Germany. Currently the piece is touring to KIASMA, Finland, starts from 28 June until 28 September, from ZKM within the big exhibition "Future-Cinema." Also the exhibition moves to Tokyo at NTT/ICC in Dec. 2003.
Artist page "Field-Works@Alsace" at ZKM page and video document was made by channel ARTE.
Project "Lake_Shinji" 2002: Sharing collective memory by using the lake_Shinji as a drawing pad. Over 50 people which include local fisher men, bicycler, yacht men and so on, were gatherd to collect their persnal positions and video data on the days 27th, 28th of July, 2002. Project realised with Shimane Art Museum in Matsue. Part of the images were collected in realtime at the gallery in the museum. Japanese only pages which were actually used at the event is here(supported by AU, KDDI). Final lines and images can be seen in Black/White and in Color with white background. Project "Mt.Fuji" 1992-94: Impressing Velocity 1992-4 at ICC". High resolution computer rendered images in 1994 at HERE. |
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Project "Tsumari" 2000:
Project realised within the "Tsumari-Triennale 2000", a workshop with local junior high school students. See images of "Experiencing Issun-Boushi". |
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Project "Hayama" 2001:
First experiment using 3DM sensor which captures orientation data of the camera which can record where the camera was towarding. "Field-Work@Hayama." Exhibited in Yokohama Triennale 2001, Yokohama, Japan, Ars Electronica Festival, Linz, Austria, and Transmediale, Berlin, Germany. |
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