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"Essay on Invisible Functions"
1996
NAKAZAWA Hideki


photo: KIOKU Keizo

Selecting one from a list of words on a touch panel triggers the playback of a voice pronouncing the selected word. At the same time, the word is displayed on an electronic signboard, while a computer-generated image appears on a video screen. When subsequently selecting different words one after another, new images overlap with the initial one, resulting in such effects as deformation, locomotion, color changes or multiplication.

The list contains a total of 120 words, up to 20 of which can be selected at once to be consecutively activated. In addition to words with a meaning, the list also contains words chosen for their interesting pronunciation, so the selected words don't always make up sentences that make sense. As some of the images assigned to each word are rather abstract, the meanings of indicating words and indicated images don't necessarily have to match.

This work is a device for building sentences by selecting and combining words, and at the same time, for drawing pictures. It can further be considered as a device for assembling words by drawing and moving pictures. In this case, words function as commands that trigger visual displays along with various effects. Put simply, the work is a device for combining words and images through invisible connections based on the rules of a computer program.

NAKAZAWA Hideki Profile
Born 1963. After working as an ophthalmologist and as an illustrator, began to engage in artistic work in the form of acrylic paintings (1980s) and computer graphics (1990-96), creating humorous artworks with a pop feeling drawing on his versatile professional skills. In 1996, he produced "Digital Nendo," the world's first 3D Bitmap Software, before changing his style in 1997, when he started producing logic-based "Method Paintings" as a unique means for investigating the basics of conceptual art. In the "Serious Paintings" since 2006, NAKAZAWA reintroduced the colors he had banned from his "Method Paintings."
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NAKAZAWA Hideki

Date: May 25 (Sat.), 2013, 3:30pm– [Finished]
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