Contact
January, 2008
Video of the installation in situ.
United Visual Artists have created a new site specific work for the Oyane Plaza, in the Roppongi Hills district of Tokyo, to mark the opening of UK-Japan 2008. Contact is a responsive floor based installation which allows visitors to use their kinetic energy to generate audiovisual forms that will interact with the user, and communicate with each other. Contact marries advanced computer vision techniques, physics simulation and a unique display surface to create an experience that aims to highlight the results of peoples interactions with each other, and their environment.
Sound by Matthias Kispert.
Commissioned by the British Council, Tokyo.
LED screen and video processors supplied by Hibino.
Hereafter - Mori Tower
January, 2008
In addition to the world premiere of Contact, the British Council supported the installation of Hereafter on the 52nd floor of the Mori Tower, Tokyo as part of the launch of UK-Japan 2008.
Hereafter deals with the very human issues of memory and perception - how spaces are changed over time by human presence - or lack of it. The piece resembles a conventional mirror, but upon closer inspection reveals itself to be something else entirely. Hereafter forces viewers to re-evaluate how time continues without our consent or control.