new work (no title)
Explaining the issue around the border of life and death.
And how technology is involved in to distinct this border now.
Idea came up from my experiences in the hospital when my mother (cancer) died in August, and my brother (traffic accident), my lover (AIDS) in the past.
How much the science can control this border.
How much our mind can control this border.
This is the border which all the humans have to confront some day.

teiji furuhashi?@?@oct. 1995

<<OR>>is a "gray humor" reflection on the zones between life and death.

Is death unknowable? Does it transcend experience? Is it visible only to the clinical eye of medical science? Or will technology change all that ...?
The promise of control, The promise of choice, The promise of parallel para-experience, As the human quest for knowledge/power fast approaches the limits of the tangible "real" what becomes of the instability of "real time" living ? Does our denial of uncertainty mirror ever closer to deathlike inevitability ?

OR Installation
Four body-length "laboratory slides" are laid out on a sterile white carpet, each "slab" consisting of two glass plates sandwiching an LCD film that switches ON/OFF between semi-opaque and transparent.

The glass and carpet serve to distress the projected images, and to obstruct /reflect/absorb sound. Four flat image-display sites as planar pools, presence without depth.

These, in turn, placed in grid formation as scanning/sorting "beds" in a hypothetical holding area, a zone of watched manifestation.

Unto these surfaces are mapped video transforms of seven men and women, multiple possibilities which at the point of projection are made singularly "real" while the remaining visions are stripped away as impossible unrealities. The computer-controlled laser disc system implicity renders forth only one sample out of many.

n contrast to the non-materiality of the visuals, the invisible non-directionality of sound shapes an unobtrusive aural ambience. Visitors are free to walk around in the room yet "outside" the sound, until hidden sensors detect their intervening movements, and arouse slight shifts in the planar foci, disturbances in the projected Images, displacements in the audio...