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cloud forest fujiko nakaya, shiro takatani

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https://special.ycam.jp/cloudforest/#/works/park https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYiABkySpmU This exhibition views “environment” as something connecting reciprocal domains such as <generating>, <permeating>, and <reflecting>. Many movements, including land art and earth art, have used the environment as a setting or element of art, but this exhibition seeks new “environments” within media art's essential creativity and exploratory qualities. It is an attempt to open “environment” through information technology as something linking multiple domains, producing mutual environmentality = an “environmental sphere.” The concept of expressing “environment” as a transformation of space, rather than a materially added exterior, will carry a strong, quiet assertion today. At the globally acclaimed Osaka Expo of 1970, attention focused on the activities of the American experimental group E.A.T. (Experiments in Art and Technology), realized in the Pepsi Pavilion. Collaboration between artists and scientists and the participating artists’ innovative ideas produced pioneering, astonishing results exploring the relationship between environment and art. This exhibition regards the period from then to the present, its 40th anniversary, as a major turning point from a progressive view of science based on material productivity to invisible information capitalism, and critically examines E.A.T.’s ideas and achievements. By interpreting advanced ideas and initiatives in art and science, incorporating perspectives from contemporary information sociology and environmental creation, it reveals present-day realities and new environmental elements. This exhibition was conceived around Fujiko Nakaya's “fog sculpture,” first presented at the Pepsi Pavilion of the Osaka Expo, and the thinking and expression of the late David Tudor, who handled the interactive sound there. The main venues inside and outside YCAM exhibit “fog sculptures” displaying various forms. A new installation incorporating Tudor's pioneering idea of soundscapes through environmental reflection is also unveiled. This can be called a collaborative attempt to create a new environment by Nakaya, artists including Shiro Takatani from the generation that grew up after the Expo, and YCAM staff. Using information technology, works incorporating diverse changes in human perception alongside natural changes give sensory form to an entirely new, critical “information environmental sphere.” https://special.ycam.jp/cloudforest/#/works/patio https://special.ycam.jp/cloudforest/#/works/foyer https://special.ycam.jp/cloudforest/#/works/park

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