TOP Preface Admission Map Works "CAN YOU SEE ME NOW?" "TRUCOLD" "Beyond Pages" "Your Kidney Supermarket" "Frequency and Volume-Relational Architecture 9" "Vinyl Video" "LEGIBLE CITY" "db" "Juggler" "Seven Memories of Media Technology" "Audible Distance" Participating Artists Art meets Media screening Media online Guided Tour Talk January 22(Sat.) "Meet the artists" February 5(Sat.) "Meet the artists" February 26(Sat.) Artists' Talk March 5(Sat.) "Media online" March 12(Sat.) "Present of Madia Art" Performance February 22(Tue.)-27(Sun.) "CAN YOU SEE ME NOW?" Workshop Animation-table "Move in a second! Animation workshop" ""Invisible Fields" try out"		January 21(Friday) - March 21(Monday), 2005 Gallery A, B, 5F Lobby, Entrance Lobby Works "AUDIBLE DISTANCE" 1997 MAEBAYASHI Akitugu ICC Collection Three participants enter a pitch-dark room 5 x 5 meters in size, equipped with head-mounted displays and sensor systems. Spherical graphic objects shown on the displays, and the amplified sounds of the other participants' heartbeats are the only means of locating each other. One can measure the degree of intimacy in personal relationships by the distance between individuals, as we generally back off when meeting strangers but move closer in the case of friends. MAEBAYASHI Akitsugu encodes optically and acoustically through variable sounds and images of pulsating spheres the "distance" between individuals that is usually determined instinctively, and anonymizes the persons concerned by highlighting only the relationships among them. In the case of the participants at "Audible Distance", the visible/audible and the real "distance" between them get mixed up, according to whether the three are strangers, friends, or a mixed group of two friends and an unknown third. This work is at the same time an experiment to show how people choose to communicate when they are uncertain about their relationships to those around.