Vanishing Places
Vanishing Places is an audio-visual installation that investigates dialogues and tensions between the real and artificial. In keeping with the studios recent experiments with real-time generative visuals, Vanishing Places brings a new iteration of the intersection of digital life-simulating systems and organic interaction.
Ayumu Nagamatsu
FILE SÃO PAULO 2026: Inter-creativity – Art and Technology – Randomic Dimension
Electronic Language International Festival
ACW SunaoSystem – Japan
This work uses a sound file within a custom audiovisual system to generate and record visuals. Instead of CG software, all forms are produced in C/C++ with openFrameworks. The program detects audio attacks and autonomously changes scenes, effects, and parameters. Drawing on early CG methods such as randomness, coordinate transforms, continuous mappings, and fractals, it creates real-time images that are both geometric and photorealistic. The source code is fully open online.
BIO
Studied art history before moving into app development and generative art. He studied at Keio University, Japan, Kunstuniversität Linz, Austria, and in 2018 completed an MA in Media Art at IAMAS, Japan. His work, inspired by Generative Art and Visual Music, combines computational geometry with sound, video, interaction, and real-time environments.
The Flat Arc
Intent: Experimenting artistic freedom on data, a road to explore possibilities of telling abstract yet emotional stories not with literature but visuals corresponding to datasets. Method: Generative visual parameters based on World Urbanization Prospects data are governed by real time image/video synthesis, with the help of graphic manipulative software platforms and creative coding.