Kenshu Shintsubo
+ Takashi Ikegami
Rugged TimeScape
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<SpecialTalkshow> Kenshu Shintsubo x Takashi Ikegami x Myeong-hee Lee ー 27 Mar. (Sat) 18:30 - 20:30 Admission: 500 yen *Need Advanced Booking at FOIL GALLERY |
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GALLERY is pleased to announce an exhibition "Rugged TimeScape"
by Kenshu Shintsubo + Takashi Ikegami, from 12th March to 3rd April,
2010. This show will present photographic works created in collaboration
with Kenshu Shintsubo, a photographer and a complex systems science
researcher Takashi Ikegami. Shintsubo has established his career as a photographer by starting shooting landscapes and recording on the field, with interests in "environmental information" in nature. Acrossing other medium and realms, he has also actively participated in collaboration projects with musician, programmers and architects recently. Particularly in the series "Binaural-Scape", which he has been working on since 2001, Shintsubo has been exploring new experiment of photographing continuously-flowing linguistic performances and geographical spaces on the web without using camera. While studying Complex Systems Science, Ikegami has produced various art works such as the installation of using generator of Taylor-Couette Flow at NTT Intercommunication Center (Tokyo, 2005) and the installation "filmachine", unique 3D sound system co-produced with a musician Keiichiro Shibuya, at Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media (Yamaguchi, 2006) among others, those installations have been highly admired domestically and internationally. In this exhibition, Shintsubo and Ikegami will present the possibility of landscape photographs by their collaboration work "Rugged TimeScape". The photographs in "Rugged TimeScape" is originally images of fluid objects like lights, smokes, clouds and forests taken by Shintsubo, but once they are converted to digital image data and applied to an advanced program Ikegami created, the visuals of the works are radically textualised. Here the idea of subjective time existing in each landscape is embodied in the images. Trusting what we see and hear, we tend to have an illusion that we understand everything of the world. By touching this work, however, we will re-recognize the existence of what is hidden in our daily life. In the meantime, the pure beauty of the waves and geometric patterns appeared in the works will also surprise the viewers. Sound installation by Keiichiro Shibuya + evala, which is also created based on the photographs' digital data through a particular programming, will be also shown, in addition, booklet "Rugged TimeScape" for this exhibition will be released with limited 1000 copies. Through the collaboration with various different realms, new possibility of photographic expression will be challenged in this exhibition. |
| Kenshu Shintsubo Profile | Takashi Ikegami Profile |
| Born in Tokyo, in 1968. He has established his career as a photographer since 1996, after experimented video works using pictures and sounds recorded on the field. Centering on the photography and video works, he has continuously produced his own art works while also actively collaborated with professionals from other realms such as the architecture, electric music, film, literature and information design. |
Born
in Nagano, in 1961. Graduated from the University of Tokyo, Department
of Physics in 1984 and also received Ph.D of the same university
in 1989. While teaching at the University of Tokyo as a professor
at Department of General System Studies, Graduate School of Art
and Science, he has been playing active part in the projects to
connect the realm of art and science, as a researcher of Complex
Systems Science. |
| Keiichiro Shibuya Profile | evala prfile |
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Born
in 1976. Sound Artist. Established his label “port” in 2004. Has
been involved in projects ranging from sound design for various
media, to system design for SONY’s and other manufacturers’ products
incorporating cutting-edge technology, next to releasing radical
works of electronic music and performing live in Japan and abroad.
He also frequently lectures at the University of Tokyo and Tokyo
University of the Arts. http://port-label.jp/ |
Special Thanks: Yuta Ogai (Ikegami Lab, The University of Tokyo), Ryoji Tanaka (Semitransparent Design), ATAK, port, epSITE, ABEISM, Tokyo Color Kogeisha, KiKi inc., Frameman, Daikanyama Studio