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Toposcan / Ireland 2013

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Shiro Takatani 8 monitors with a 16:9 aspect ratio are connected in a horizontal row to form one overall image. Within this elongated image, an image the size of 1 monitor slowly moves from end to end, crossing the monitors. Ahead of the leading edge of the moving image, however, numerous colored linear images appear as though the 1-pixel-wide image at its tip has been stretched, giving the impression that the image is being woven out of these lines as it advances. Meanwhile, the trailing edge of the moving image is fixed in place 1 vertical pixel at a time, so that the still image appearing when it reaches the display's edge becomes what might be called the temporal trace of the camera's movement. The work displays three different modes of imagery: linear bands of color that will be composed into landscape footage, moving landscape footage, and still images in which the displaced footage has been fixed. It presents a visual experience through a method distinct from the two ways of recognizing space: human vision and the camera as an optical device attempting to grasp space based on that vision. For example, attempting to capture space by reproducing planar subjects with lines, like a scanner or photocopier, describes it as an image without vanishing points or depth, unlike perspective images based on linear perspective. It also captures the world through a method different from human vision. https://www.ntticc.or.jp/ja/archive/works/toposcan-ireland-2013/ Collection of Tokyo Photographic Art Museum Programming: Ken Furudate

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