Isetan Shinjuku is hosting "DOORS: Near-Futuristic Art," an exhibition showcasing artworks incorporating modern technology, from February 17th to 22nd in the store's main building's 7th floor event hall.
In recent years, new technologies have been developed one after another, bringing about major changes in society. This exhibition features futuristic works by artists who are creating unprecedented works using digital and sensor technologies.
CG artist Jo Takayama will be showcasing his work "Orb" (54,000 yen including tax), which attempts to create a jewelry-like expression using intricate shapes shaped by a proprietary computer algorithm. The exhibition features CG videos created using his proprietary computer algorithm and 3D printed sculptures.
His work is largely left to the program, which continues to generate an infinite variety of patterns, accumulating a large amount of data. From this, he selects and composes the most beautiful pieces, which he will then exhibit in the form of video and still image panels.
The works range from abstract to concrete and decorative, but they are all created using homemade programs and no commercially available CG software. In particular, they use a uniquely improved algorithm called metaballs, which generates intricate patterns by applying the accidental shapes created by the metaballs themselves.
MATHRAX will be showcasing "Minamo of Light (Star)" (259,200 yen including tax), which expresses various shapes and colors by incorporating color data from the night view onto an original triangular LED board.
Yukino Oishi will be showcasing "Time continuity seen on her surface" (exhibition only), in which she has compressed approximately six hours of footage of herself into two minutes and 18 seconds and projected it onto a sculpture. Other works on display at the venue include "Untitled Composition" (172,800 yen including tax) by Kazuto Tanaka, which uses computer-generated mosaic-like abstractions of paintings by elementary school students; "GAUSSIAN" (38,880 yen including tax), an art object that uses metalworking techniques to create a three-dimensional graph of a mathematical function of two variables; and "Untitled" (194,400 yen including tax) by Kohei Kawasaki, which combines materials such as acrylic, oil, and LEDs in pursuit of structural beauty.
During the exhibition, on the 20th, from 2:00 PM to 2:45 PM, there will be a gallery talk by digital restorer Yasuzo Kobayashi entitled "Digital Science that Saves Craftsmen," and on the 21st, from 2:00 PM to 2:45 PM, there will also be a gallery talk by the exhibiting artists, featuring contemporary art collector Daisuke Miyazu.
