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“Resistance Array” [2026]

suzueri (SUZUKI Elico) + HIGA Satoru

Outline

The diagram of a network connecting the social media posts related to the pro-democracy protests in 2019 is projected on the wall. The recorded sound of the pro-democracy demonstration in Hong Kong is overlaid on the laser beams, and when the laser hits the handmade receiver mounted on the wall, the light is converted into sound and is outputted.

“Resistance Array” is a work applying laser beams to reexamine the historical relationship between media and communication, using visible light communication (VLC) which suzueri has been working on in recent years. Using the pro-democracy movement that spread globally via social media and the laser pointer protest, a method of demonstration, as the theme, it focuses on how information spreads as memes and how people form solidarity through it.

Projected on the wall are the connections between the posts regarding laser pointer protests in Hong Kong and Chile shared on social media centered around 2019, represented in a network diagram using machine learning. The laser beam follows the projected post (or spot), overlaying light and sound on the network diagram. By making memes visible and audible in this way, the transnational solidarity between civic movements is depicted. This work's title, which is named after an electronic component, also means a network of civilian resistance.

Also exhibited is “The Guitar Lesson” (2019), a video filmed by suzueri in the fall of 2019 while she was staying in Valparaiso during the Chilean social outburst. This work documenting the process of her learning to play the “El derecho de vivir en paz (The Right to Live in Peace)” (1971), a resistance song that has been sung and passed down locally, could be considered one way of inheriting and propagating memes.

Direction / device production / audio, video: suzueri (SUZUKI Elico) Visualization / technical: HIGA Satoru Device design / technical: SAITA Kazuki (Kinoshita Laboratory) Device case production: KANAZAWA Masanobu Audio source provided by September 13, 2019 Hognkongers Support: Project to Support Emerging Media Arts Creators, 2025

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