Digital Shock @ L'Institut franco-japonais de Tokyo
DIGITAL NATURE is part of DIGITAL SHOCK, a series of events celebrating digital art and new media @ l’Institut franco-japonais de Tokyo (ongoing, till March 7th 2012)
DIGITAL NATURE
Despite an apparent irreconcilable opposition, the digital world is not just an inorganic construction, while nature also contains artifi ce. In “Digital Nature”, as visual performances, voice, dance follow one another in a natural landscape, stretching space and time, piling and overlapping like a canon, an ambivalent sensation arises from the mix of organic and digital textures. Let’s experience these sensations, wandering together in this unexpected nature, across blurred perceptions.
2/25 (Sat) 16:00~22:00 @ L’Institut Franco-Japonais de Tokyo
http://www.institut.jp/ja/evenements/11487 Free Entrance
PROGRAM
The performances, intertwined, mingle and fade, as night is falling.
16:00 Live Painting Start – Takeru Amano
17:30 Shadow Performance Start Unit Ambivalent
18:00 Voice Performance Start – MOCCA
18:45 Performance Start crewimburnny x Live Video by ZEVS
19:30 Performance Start Takashi Yamaguchi (visual) x Miki Isojima (dance) x Artlism (sound)
21:00 After party
ARTISTS
Mocca’s voice is a mix of farsetto and feminine pastoral voice. When we listen to her voice we can never forget. Playing with various genres, her voice creates an overwhelming presence, as a fascinating instrument.
«crewimburnny» considers the movements of women from two different points of view – boys’ delusional fantasies and girls’, lovely and aesthetic. They depict dreams, reality and emptiness which lie between those two irreconcilable perspectives.Their performance, which uses some feminine movements and some venom of ironical features, captivate the audience immersed into the «crewimburnny» world. Sometimes dancers are raw and relaxed and it creates a unique lazy aura on the stage.
He started his music career as Track Maker in band. Since 2005, he started musical activity as «hajimeinoue». His track is based on painterly contexture, with so sweat electric sound and various beats. He does Live gig so dynamically,with real time magical sound making. His tracks are offered to various Artists, Companies.
Fraqsea «aya» has started her solo musical project in 2009. Her composition is absolute free, over genre – Electronica, Ambient and so on. All her tracks give you magical dream, like fairy story. She keeps to collaborating with many international artists and creates new personal musical world.
Painter / sculptor. Born in 1977, Tokyo. Takeru Amano moved to New York in 1997 for 3 years to study printmaking. When asked to describe his work, Takeru answers: black and white, woman and man, belongs and not belongs, from painting and printing, to sculpting and designing, delicate it might, an artistic mind with following eyes of various field of life.
«Shadow picture» is a performance unit formed in 2004. They mix shadow, light, dance, sounds and moving image, focusing on the sensation of space and time.Using both light enhancing colors and the fluctuation of the natural illumination, they present original sound and visual live performance of body and puppet immersed in light and shadow. They create surprising pieces which propose sensorial experimentation, filling people and space with sounds and images that stretches imagination.
ZEVS was an early and influential graffiti artist and active as a tagger in Paris in the 1990’s. He is named after a regional train, Zeus, that almost ran him over one day he was down in the metro. Working with other French names of the second half of the 1990’s like André and Invader, Zevs has been among the prominent figures who pioneered the French street art scene. By the end of the 90’s he became known for his poetic drawings of shadows in Paris. Later he ‘bombed’ models on the billboards between the eyes.
Choreographer & Dancer, Miki Isojima was born in 1983 in Hachinohe, Aomori. She learnt modern dance with Mieko Nakamura and took part in performances of ‘Mika Kurosawa & Dancers’. In 2004 she formed a dance group called ‘Pink. In 2006 she graduated from ‘Japan Women’s College of Physical Education’ in Tokyo and she started her solo works. From 2008 she got a Scholarship of Japanese Government Overseas Study Programme for Artists in Berlin, Germany. In 2010 she went back to Japan and formed a her group ‘ Mirai dot co’.
Born in 1976 Kyoto. Motion graphic creator and visual artist. Now focused on motion graphics that involve programming, media art, music videos, and stage movies. His CG work is used at SIGGRAPH 2001 Electronic Theater. In 2006 he and a duo of drummers started an interactive motion graphics trio, called «d.v.d». They won Honorary Mention at Prix Ars Electronica’08.
Supported by:
Mugenkai Communication ｜M Daikanyama ｜Canon Marketing Japan Inc. ｜Neon Magazine｜Luftzug ｜Kissing Kourami｜Centre Pompidou
Organized by:
Hors Pistes Tokyo Executive Committee ｜L’institut Franco-Japonais de Tokyo
