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MIYASHITA Keita ‘Just a Bit of Those Things’

June 20–August 16, 2026

Outline

MIYASHITA has been focusing on modern infrastructure technologies such as information network, electricity, and communication. He continues to explore the relationship between technologies and humans by observing the changes and differences in ubiquitous phenomena, and using a method of building a system with a specific function through unique interpretation and analysis.

Blinking lights, rhythmic sound, and a low beat fill the exhibition space. Desk lights, light bulbs, and traffic lights are blinking. And the sound of cans being banged, wall knocking sounds, and mechanical switches clicking echo. The low beat is a sound resulting from the difference in power frequency between eastern and western Japan (50 Hz and 60 Hz). Behind these is the digital environment shaping our daily lives and commercial power supplied as basic infrastructure.
In a digital environment, all things are encoded into 0s and 1s. MIYASHITA's system converts this combination of signals that cannot be directly read by humans back into a perceptible phenomenon, suggesting the possibility of deciphering a unique message from it. And the device that converts AC power into sound provides an opportunity to rethink electricity as infrastructure and the information society powered by it.

This exhibit, created by reconstructing his past works, raises the question of how we can perceive the modern environment through “just a bit of those things” in life.

Works

Artists

MIYASHITYA Keita

Artist / Engineer / Improviser. His work explores the relationship between contemporary technologies—such as electricity, information, and communication—and humans, using systems and devices. He is also active in improvisation using the behavior of electric currents in electrical devices, like electric guitars, speakers, and analog mixers. “BEAT/BIT,” which is a work using a sound-based communication device, was selected as a Jury Selection in the Art Division of the 25th Japan Media Arts Festival (2022).

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