Imagraph 瞼内映像投影装置
2020
Imagraph 瞼内映像投影装置
2020
Lived Montage / Le montage vécu (series)
Photo by Kai Fukubayashi
Photo by Goki Muramoto
Photo by Kai Fukubayashi
Photo by Kai Fukubayashi
Lived Montage is a project that reconstructs cinematic montage as a form of perception.
This project was inspired by an imaginary perception that came to me one day. In this perception, "when multiple individuals share the object of their consciousness, they also share the sensory information. I thought that this perception does not seem to fit with existing organisms, but that creatures with this perception are latent behind the vast lineage of biological evolution and our history of art and media.
To implement this fictional perception in the human body, I produced a set of multiple interconnected goggles. Each goggle has a camera, a display, and a stethoscope. The cameras of all the goggles are connected to the displays of all the goggles via radio. By controlling the traffic of images from the cameras to the eyes based on what objects they are looking at, the fictional perception is realized. The vision of others looking at the same object as you is edited into your own vision, triggered by your heartbeat. This rule of montage allows you to choose what you look at and guarantees the continuity of the object of your consciousness. Therefore, the cinematic image, composed of multiple perspectives appears as something through which we understand our surroundings and work our bodies.
Through this sustained experiment, I am inventing a new law of perspective in an age when images fly through the air instantly, but at the same time, it is an extension of the classical exploration of the universal relationship between things, others, spaces, and words, or "what sees what" in this universe.
Lived Montageは、映画的モンタージュを知覚の形式として再構築するプロジェクトである。「複数の個体が意識の対象を共有した時、感覚情報も共有する」という架空の知覚が起点となっている。 この知覚様式を人間に実装するために、複数の相互に通信するゴーグル型メディアが開発された。それぞれのゴーグルにはカメラとディスプレイが取り付けられており、そこから装着者の胸に聴診器が伸びている。参加者の視界(カメラ映像)はコンピューターに送られ、そこで「何を見ているか」によって映像がグループ分けされ、グループ内の映像を各々の心拍のタイミングに合わせてスイッチした動画が、各々のゴーグルに送り返される。ユーザーは自らと同じものを眼差した全ての人の視界が組み立てられた映画的景色を通して、空間を活動する。
このプロジェクトは、イメージが瞬時に宙を飛ぶ時代の新たな遠近法を探索するとともに、物/他者/空間/言葉の普遍的な関係、あるいは「何が何を見ているのか」という問題を調査している。
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APPARATUS
Model: Runa Miura Photo: Kai Fukubayashi
Model: Runa Miura Photo: Kai Fukubayashi
The participants’ camera images would be transmitted to a computer (via Wi-Fi/wires), which would group participants according to “what they are watching” known by sensors, and shuffles the images within this group according to the timing of each participant’s heartbeat. Then, these montaged images are sent back to the goggles.
Model: Runa Miura Photo: Kai Fukubayashi
The media apparatus for "Lived Montage" consists of multiple interconnected goggles. Each set of goggles has a camera and display attached to a wearable wooden box from which a stethoscope extends that is placed on the participant’s chest. The participants’ camera images would be transmitted to a computer (via Wi-Fi/wires), which would group participants according to “what they are watching” known by sensors, and shuffles the images within this group according to the timing of each participant’s heartbeat. Then, these montaged images are sent back to the goggles. In this way, a fictional mode of perception is realized in which “when the object of our consciousness is shared, the vision is shared(as a montaged cinematic view where their perspective switched with the timing of individual heartbeats).”
EXHIBITION RECORD
2024 "Experiment #4 for Lived Montage", Kitaya-Park, Tokyo
Support: Kitaya Park, Takuto Arizumi, Minori Manabe, Kai Fukubayashi
2023 ICC Kifs Program "Nice to meet me!", NTT InterCommunication Center [ICC], Tokyo
Support: ICC, TOKYO STUDIO, Takuto Arizumi, Minori Manabe, Yuri Yasui
Photo: Noriyasu Obushi
Photo: Noriyasu Obushi
2023 Demonstration, at Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology
Support: Wang Hanlin, Haruko Negami
"Le montage vécu," 3331 Arts Chiyoda, Tokyo
"Le montage vécu," 3331 Arts Chiyoda, Tokyo
"Le montage vécu," 3331 Arts Chiyoda, Tokyo
2023 Solo Exhibition "le montage vécu", 3331 Arts Chiyoda, Tokyo
Support: TASKO, Inami Lab, Morikawa -Narusue Lab, CG ARTs, Agency for Cultural Affairs of Japan
Photo by Shinsui Ohara
Photo by Shinsui Ohara
2023 "ENCOUNTERS", Special Exhibition “A Quarter-Century of Japan Media Arts Festival” Tokyo
Support: Inami Lab, Morikawa -Narusue Lab, CG ARTs, Agency for Cultural Affairs of Japan
2022 Demonstration, Komaba-sho-kukan, Tokyo, Japan
Support: Theater Company Shintaigengorou, Inami Lab, Morikawa -Narusue Lab
2020 Prototype Demonstration, warehouse TERRADA, Tokyo, Japan
Support: SONY, Inami Lab
Documents
Credit
Le montage vecú / Lived Montage (series)
Cinematographer: Kai Fukubayashi
Engineer: Goki Muramoto, Takeru Kobayashi, Takuto Arizumi, Minori Manabe
INAMI MONNAI LAB, RESEARCH CENTER FOR ADVANCED SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (RCAST), THE UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO
THE PROJECT TO SUPPORT EMERGING MEDIA ARTS CREATORS
CG Arts
MORIKAWA NARUSUE LABORATORY, THE UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO
JST Moonshot R&D Program Grant Number JPMJMS2292