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19/3/2010

Seiko Mikami

Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media YCAM, Yamaguchi

Curator: Kazunao Abe (YCAM)

Seiko Mikami creates precise depictions of the gradually transforming relationship between information technology and sensory perception in artworks focusing from unique perspectives on the human body and its forms of existence. This retrospective overview of her activities is a large-scale solo exhibition centering around a new installation piece (commissioned by and created at YCAM), shown here along with two related new works.

From perceiving cells to the coded individual.

The new piece titled "Desire of Codes", exhibited at YCAM's Studio A with 3 different pieces. One is consists of a wall installation of objects responding to the movements of audiences (see photo), "laser projector" was equipped with 6 robot arms are follow the movement of the audience from the ceiling and special 3.5m screen that resembles an insect's multifaceted eye. The entire inorganic apparatus begins to move like a wriggling living being according to the motion detected by built-in small surveillance camera in the exhibition space. The images recorded by these cameras are mixed with footage from surveillance cameras installed at places around the world. Create own database of audience's images the resulting fragmentary recombinations of time and space are projected onto a large insect eyes compound screen. The central theme of this exhibition is the state of a society in which programming languages, genetic codes, personal information, and even matters of individual interest and taste are being converted into codes. Audience who experience this artwork stands face to face with his or her own observed and encoded existence, the resulting data/codes, and ultimately, the repercussions of "the body as data" and "the desire of codes." By turning the audiences bodies into both the objects of observation and artistic expression, this work aims to redefine our position in a time when all kinds of environments – including those of everyday life – are increasingly being information oriented society.

Exhibited work
Seiko Mikami "Desire of Codes" (new work / commissioned by YCAM)
- Related works
Takashi Ikegami "MTM [Mind Time Machine]" (new work / commissioned by YCAM)
Seiko Mikami + Sota Ichikawa "gravicells - gravity and resistance" (revised version / commissioned by YCAM)
* "gravicells" exhibition date: January 24 (sun) - May 9 (sun), May 22 (sat) – June 6 (sun)
* Please note that the exhibition of "MTM" in the Foyer will be close on the following opening events: 20th of March from 18:00 till 19:00 and 21st of March from 13:00 till 16:30.
* Also exhibited during the same period is "for maria installation version", a new sound installation by Keiichiro Shibuya + evala.

Organized by Yamaguchi City Foundation for Cultural Promotion
In association with Yamaguchi City, Yamaguchi City Board of Education

Cooperation: Tama Art University Media Art Lab.; The University of Tokyo, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Department of General Systems Studies Ikegami lab; ATAK; DGN co., ltd.; Perfektron LLC.
Co-developed with YCAM InterLab
Produced by Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media [YCAM]

Design: Metaphor

Image: Seiko Mikami + Sota Ichikawa "gravicells - gravity and resistance"(revised version 2010 commissioned by YCAM)

Public Relations: Fumi Hirota, Aya Tatsumura
tel: +81-83-901-2222 fax: +81-83-901-2216 e-mail: information@ycam.jp

Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media [YCAM] Studio A, Foyer, and Studio B
Hours:
10:00-19:00
Closed Tuesdays (the next days if it falls on holiday)
Admission free

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