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“Desire of Codes” [2010/11]

MIKAMI Seiko

Outline

Desires inspired by a system of multiple views and perspectives and this installation involving visitors as subject s of both observation and expression.

This interactive installation consisting of three parts. A large number of devices resembling tentacles with built-in smallcameras are placed across 1,5m x 4,5m wall [90 Wriggling Wall Units] ,while six robotic search arms equipped with cameras and laser projectors are suspended from the ceiling in the center of the exhibition space [Six Multiperspective Search Arms]observe and follow visitors with insect-like wriggling moves. Furthermore, a giant round-shaped screen that looks like aninsect's compound eye is installed in the back of the exhibition space.

[Compound Eye Detector Screen]. Projected onto this screen is a complex mixture of images transmitted from the wall-structures' built-in video cameras, and footage recorded by surveillance cameras installed at various places around the world, stored in the Desire of Codes database. In addition, superdirective microphones set up at various places inside the venue pick up voices, machine sounds and other noises in the installation space caused by visitors and by the work itself. Based on the conditions of each of the three parts, sounds are culled from a database of previously recorded audio files, to generate a constantly changing acoustic setting. The installation' s acoustic environment and projections, together illustrating a new reality of fragmentarily recombined aspects of time and space, investigate into contemporary appearances of human corporeality and desire via the visitor as a subject of expression and surveillance at once.

Excerpt from "MIKAMI Seiko Desire of Codes" (2011)
ABE Kazunao (YCAM Curator)
YCAM InterLab. (ITO Takayuki, MIHARA Soichiro, OWAKI Richi, HAMA Satoshi)
KUWAKUBO Ryota, HIRAKAWA Norimichi, ICHIKAWA Sota, KANECHIKU Hiroshi, TAKEGAHARASEKKEI
Perfektron LLC., Nakadai Co., Ltd.

Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media [YCAM] "Desire of Codes"

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