平川 紀道

global bearing

source: counteraktiv

Born in 1982. His works, centralising in real-time processed, computer programmed audio visual installations, have been shown at national and international art exhibitions as well as the Media Art Festivals. He is a recipient of many awards including the Excellence Prize at the Japan Media Art Festival in 2004, and the Award of Distinction at Prix Ars Electronica in 2008. Having been involved in a wide range of activities, he has worked on a concert piece production for Ryoji Ikeda, collaborated with Yoshihide Otomo, Yuki Kimura and Benedict Drew, participated in the Lexus Art Exhibition at Milan Design week. and has started live performance as Typingmonkeys.
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source: aksiomaorg

Global Bearing questions our “feeling of reality” as the artist attempts to challenge our perception of the “ground beneath our feet”, which we usually consider to be a flat plane. The installation enables us to explore “Earth” through an interface combining a concave screen with a vector which we operate ourselves: by moving a positioning device in the horizontal and vertical planes, similar to a gyrocompass, we seem to travel across the globe. Suddenly we must regain our bearings as we experience the Earth as a sphere. Through an accelerated level of interaction and a sensory experience, the spectator is “thrown into the void of outer space”.

A graduate of the Information Design Department of Japan’s Tama Art University, Norimichi Hirakawa reconstructs universal and other phenomena on a sensory level in the form of installations. His work entails not only device or algorithm design which enables analogue input for digital systems, but also AV programming and spatial design. For his installation Global Bearing he received the Excellence Prize at the Japan Media Arts Festival in 2004.
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source: iddtamabiacjp

この作品は自作のインターフェイスにより「地球」を感覚的に探査できるインタラクティブ・インスタレーションである。手で垂直と水平の間を自在に操っていくと、地球の裏側にまでも到達していくことが可能である。丸い地球は足元に広がる大地と一致してないというスケール感への疑問から生まれたこの作品は、文化庁メディア芸術祭で「優秀賞」を受賞した他、幾つもの公募展で優秀賞を受賞した。作品は東京都写真美術館、山口情報芸術センターなどでも展示された。