Seiko Mikami: “Desire of Codes” Installation
[Sample: 02:13 minutes]
Commissioned by the Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media
The show has ended, but if you had a chance to participate you know that the concept is ingenious, creepy and beautiful. From the moment you step into this space your every move and sound is recorded from a bank of mechanical “tentacles” attached with cameras. These data then form a collective experience — a mashup — projected in hive-like fashion through a “compound eye [which] visualizes a new reality in which fragmentary aspects of space and time are recombined.” Seiko Mikami’s creation explores “information society and the human body,” according to the artist’s notes.
[Source]: Read more about this fascinating installation and the process here.
[Detail]: “Each device senses with insect-like wriggling movements the positions and movements of visitors, and turns toward detected persons in order to observe their actions.”
[Detail]: “The ‘individual’ visitor in a double role as a subject of expression and observation.”
[Posted] January 03, 2012
