Preface Admission Works Artist's Biography Related Events Artists' Talk
		April 20 (Friday) - July 29 (Sunday), 2001 Anechoic Room
		Preface When our consciousness perceives an event, we record it by relating its space and time. If we can preserve and replay the event accurately, would it not be possible to make that very space a media through which to communicate the experience? Based on this concept, MAEBAYASHI Akitsugu has unveiled <<[I/O] distant place>>, the third and final of his series of works following <<[I/O] warehouse>> (media select 2000) and <<[I/O] white room>> (Studio of Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo). In this work, MAEBAYASHI experiments for the first time with an anechoic room. He takes advantage of the unique feature of the space, having no characteristic pertaining to the <<place>> such as echoes, etc. The work is realized under the assumption that there exists no substantial space that can be superimposed on or reproduced by the work. Each of the locations that MAEBAYASHI has visited is reproduced in an anechoic room through binaural recording. Visitors can simulate the locations that the artist has visited solely through auditory sensation.