▼Kinsokuchi

I held an exhibition at Hiro in Tokyo in January 2019. The site is Court-yard-Hiroo, a complex facility in a quiet residential area. The exhibition name is “Kinsokuchi” which is a Japanese term and means the tabooed area, and 3 artists displays their works made from the image of the word.

Artist : Uchiumi Taku, Yuto Hayashi, Takahiro Nomoto

Planning : Yuto Hayashi

Sponsorship : Court Yard Hiroo, Corp.Atom

Art works : 3 two-dimensional works, 1 three-dimensional work, 1 video work, 1 interactive art, some drawings

“Semiconductor-made terrible children”

Yuto Hayashi

PC, projector

▼What is LOVE established in virtual world?

At first, I introduce my work. When I considered about what the Kinsokuchi is for me, I thought of singularity. More than 100 years ago, Industrial Revolution let people to get hope in technology. It still continues now, but people have kind of anxiety as well on the other hand. 2 times of world wars, nuclear weapon, Chernobyl, these things were terrible enough to get anxiety for the future of science and technology. Therefore, interpreted virtual space as Kinsokuchi and make this work.

Through this work, I ask audience their physical relationship with me. It uses the visual image of audience with pc web camera without their consciousness, and children will be generated almost automatically. When they are playing, family pictures are taken, and other viewer could look at the records of others’. I designed real and certain communication to criticize thin communication like SNS.

I am guessing this work and exhibition was a good attempt for me to study the form of art works and how I can communicate with audience. This work can be established as a work of software like the form of game art, and also the images generated in operations can be art work. I can exhibit this work in some gallery, and it might be better to exhibit it on the Internet. I noticed that I do not have to exhibit in exist space. I have to consider the best platform for my works.

As mentioned above, this work is based on the sociological research, but I sometimes got the comments which mention my very personal things as well.

“I feel your lack and craving for family love.”

Certainly, the generated children are forced to move very lightly. The appearance looks almost pathetic. Furthermore, I agree to pointing out that I had a complex in family love. Looking back on my family, it should have been happy. My both parents are working with parenting 2 children. They have an own house and a car, and children are educated well. It should be an ideal model-like family in contemporary society, but something can not be fulfilled. This situation is probably common around the world and not unique to Japan.The tendency of the times and my personal experience and background cross. I realized this is a very important point for my art.

As you know, love is one of the most important things. It might be a trustworthy standard in alter modern world. Although I do not have any certain idea yet, I expect that there are new aspects of love at the future of technology : for example, love to ALife and love on virtual world.

(Omitted)

▼Summery

Work form of each artists were very different, and I considered what kind of form should be taken for the contemporary art now. Especially for the work which can be appreciated on the screen, actual place might not be necessary.

Japanese competition in art museum can no longer play roll for art. Looking back on art history, after frame of paint disappeared, art became the open work, then not only object but also the space was assumed as art work as well. it led curation idea. Artists should be conscious of curation as well now.

However in this exhibition, I can not reach the stage of curation. I am sure this experience leads my next better try.

2019.03

「禁足地」展示アーカイブ

media art work 「恐るべき半導体製の子供たち」