Appearance and Disappearance MARL
Exhibition: Art and education experiment site – Plastic Art and Mixed Media University of Tsukuba The Museum of Modern Art, Ibarakimaterial: Cosmic ray detector, LED, Acrylic
Earth, Water, Cosmos
Scintillation detector, photomultiplier, LED
” Musium of Natural Science”
– Niigatamatsnoyama Echigo-Tsumari Art triennial 03 –
Revelation-Instalation by the cosmic rays
-Perpendicular-2002
Although I’m nothing but a mediator to visualize a natural phenomena, through this activity I indulges myself in contemplation. Even I sometimes experience that an uneasiness feeling which we feel before an unpredictable light cycle will change to an easiness feeling. I suppose the reason is that we feel the existence of the space, but moreover, we feel the meaning or the will for our existence though the work.
In the work “Perpendicular”, I have made a situation that spectators can face to the energy lines. Those 256 red LED disappear as soon as the cosmos light reaches to them.
-Parallel-2002
Audience is led to an adjacent room through a small square tunnel opening to a red-colored room. There, they will find a darkened space with two mirrors, one on the ceiling and the other on the floor, to invite them to the world of infinite reflection.
They are enclosed within blue gleaming beams infinitely stretching high upwards and deep downward.
One event triggers a totally contrary consequence, but one is not allowed to see the two opposing phenomena simultaneously.
The universe inherently has such structural contradiction.
-Parallel-2002
Audience is led to an adjacent room through a small square tunnel opening to a red-colored room. There, they will find a darkened space with two mirrors, one on the ceiling and the other on the floor, to invite them to the world of infinite reflection.
They are enclosed within blue gleaming beams infinitely stretching high upwards and deep downward.
One event triggers a totally contrary consequence, but one is not allowed to see the two opposing phenomena simultaneously.
The universe inherently has such structural contradiction.
Chiba City Museum of Art 2002.9.Apr – 2.Jun
COSMOS
COSMOS is a work of art that casts light onto the escalator hall of New Tokyo International Airport. During the day, the space is filled with colorful beams, as the sunbeam and lights from dicromirror mix with one another.
Every half hour, the shade on windows falls, to prompt a spectacle of light and sound.
Four different spectacles are presented each day: for morning, for afternoon, for evening and for night.
The common theme is the magnificent universe that sprawls from the earth to the cosmos.
Music:
Christophe Charles
Mutual painting:
Satoshi Hasegawa
Mobile, Lighting Plan :
Osaka Takuro
Narita New Tokyo International Airport
2002
Human Genome
When remains of a human body are cremated, the Human Genom-chromosome that contains information unique to the particular human being-is discharged and travels into the air.
Through the window-long and narrow (20 cm X 4m) with the stripe-pattern
comprising from prism and polarizing glass, symbolizing disposition of genes-rainbow-colored beams penetrate and project themselves onto the walls of escalator halls.
The beams shift, constantly throughout the year, according to the change in position between the earth and the sun.
Photo by Kazumasa Sako
2002 North Yokohama Funeral Hall (Architect:Minoru Takeyama)
Light direction
Neon lamps have been set in the hollow of steel frames (Form is H) and surrounded walls of the equipment tower. The theme of the neon lamps is “change of color”.
photo by S.Anzai
2000 DaikanyamaAdress(Tokyo Daikanyama)
Spectral Direction
Dichroic color filters change light colors through them upon an incidence angle of light.
Color shadow through filters always change with movement and seasonal altitude of daylight. In the night-time, more than 20 programs are available by using artificial light, which brings the effects of transmission, reflection and refraction.
*Neon, dichroic color filter
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Photo by S.Anzai,Takuro Osaka*
2000 DaikanyamaAdress (Daikanyama Tokyo)
Light·Flicker
This is glazed bridge between a building and a building.
Pedestrians feel day light through glass, but they are not conscious of outside scene. Glasses and seals are used in order to realize such conception.
Pedestrians experience flicker and change of daylight.
Photo by S.Anzai
2000 ShibuyaMarkCity(Tokyo Shibuya)
Blue atmosphere
The earth is protected from the sun wind, radiation and ultraviolet rays. They are weaken the magnetic field and the atmosphere. When they reach to the ground, the cosmic ray is not an exception and turns into muon without harm for life.
Thin and blue atmosphere has protected lives as the skin of the earth from the past to the present.
Scintillator, blue LED, steel
6500x200x2700(h) mm
Photo by Mareo Suemasa
1999. GALLERY KOBAYASHI (Tokyo Ginza)
Appearance and Disappearance ’98
A sensor of plastic scintillator has been set up in this gallery to visualize the cosmic ray. The cosmic ray falls on the earth from the cosmos all the time.
Green light-emitting diodes (“LED”) go out when plastic scintillator reacts to the cosmic ray, and their silhouettes remain. After a while, LED gradually begins to radiate their light. A thousand of LED repeat going on and off because countless cosmic rays come flying to our surroundings.
Birth and disappearance of the cosmos and lives are expressed in this work by using. The cosmic rays coming from explosion of supernovas. My intention is to tell about the world newly opened by science to people’s mind from an artistic point of view.
L’OREAL Prize (L’OREAL Art and Science Foundation)
*Scintillator, photomal, amplifier, LED, neon, cloth for tent.
*3600x1600x200mm
Photo by Kazumasa Sako
“Appearance and Disappearance” 1998 GALLERY KOBAYASHI (Tokyo Ginza)
Lighting Wing
This sculpture of a wind has wings of some polarized light glasses and prisms. Polarized light glass has opposite colors of transmission light and reflection light. The sculpture gives off different color with daylight and artificial light.
* 2400x2400x4200(h) mm
** 1800x1800x3600(h) mm
* photo by Kazumasa Sako
** photo by Takuro Osaka
*1998 (Tokyo Kamata)
**1996 (Kagawa Takamatu)
Techno Cosmos
These industrial parts, one of the local products of Ota Ward, Tokyo, were corrected in public from factories. They are hung in the space of a stairwell in the ward office. This display consists of eight hundred thirty-six parts classified in one hundred three items.
We can see this display closely from third floor to ninth floor.
Brilliancy of technology is shown with a top part of rocket, a radar cover of jumbo jet, two propellers of YS11, many parts of cars etc. This is a time capsule for the future, and also, it is the cosmos.
*Display Design Excellent Work Prize and Special Prize (Japan Display Design Association)
1800x1200x3000(h) mm
Photo by Kazumasa Sako
” Techno Cosmos ” 1998 (Tokyo Kamata)
Shadow
How much is the influence of genuine darkness and a flash to human mental state and physiology?
Oya quarry’s underground has large darkness space. Programmed strobe lights project turning shadows of visitors. They even feel a sense of floating by simultaneous blinking of all strobe lights in the second half of the program.
Photo by kazumasa Sako
“Suuko” 1997 13 Sep.-12 Oct. OYA Stone Musium (Tochigi Utsunomiya)
GROUND-Appearance and Disappearance
A sensor of plastic scintillator has been set up in this gallery to visualize the cosmic ray. The cosmic ray falls on the earth from the cosmos all the time.
Green light-emitting diodes (“LED”) go out when plastic scintillator reacts to the cosmic ray, and their silhouettes remain. After a while, LED gradually begins to radiate their light. A thousand of LED repeat going on and off because countless cosmic rays come flying to our surroundings.
Birth and disappearance of the cosmos and lives are expressed in this work by using. The cosmic rays coming from explosion of supernovas. My intention is to tell about the world newly opened by science to people’s mind from an artistic point of view.
*Scintillator, photomal, amplifier, LED, neon, cloth for tent.
*3600x1600x200mm
Photo by Koichi Hayakawa
Photo by Kazumasa Sako
“Catching the Light”1997 21 Nov.-23 Dec. O Art Museum (Tokyo)
GROUND-Vol.2
The cosmic ray is one of invisible radiation and go through our bodies 200 for second. This system change the cosmic ray into weak light at the moment scintillator senses it. Visitors noticed they are surrounded in many twinkling rays when their eyes become accustomed to seeing in the dark space about 10 minutes after entering the gallery.
*Material – plastic Scintillator, Fiber glass, L.E.D. strobe light
Photo by Kazumasa Sako
” GORUND Vol.2 ” 1996 1-13 Jul. GALLERY KOBAYASHI (Tokyo Ginza)
Reflection
For daytime, many mirrors reflect some scenes, and from evening, inside neon lamps turn on a light to correspond traffic. Artificial lights and daylight are combined to match with surroundings in this art product.
These neon lamps repeat to fade in and to fade out slowly. Blue neon lamps turn on a light from 5 p.m., and all neon lamps give off beautiful lights and colors like breathing at 8:30 p.m.
Photo by Kazumasa Sako
1996 (Tokyo Toshima)
Luminous Map
A blue neon line of this “Luminous Map” express Akebono Street in Ikebukuro, Tokyo, and other geometrical pattern signify some facilities of government office.
While the “Reflection” on the West Side shows direct neon light, on the East Side all lights are indirect in the “Luminous Map”.
Photo by Kazumasa Sako
1996 (Tokyo Toshima)
Rebirth
I made life environment with light and water in underground space of darkness, and grew plants for one month. The temperature was kept usually at 11°C.
*Neon, mercury-vapor lamp, the artificial ground (barley).
*2500x9000x200mm
Photo by Kazumasa Sako
” hari-no-kairo ” 1995 17 Sep.-8 Oct.OYA Stone Musium (Tochigi Utsunomiya)
ISSEY MIYAKE
Domestic exhibition for L’EAU D’ISSEY (water of ISSEY), perfume for men.
“Flow, Water, Light, Wind, and Scent”.
20 bottles of perfume are placed on the windows of 20m-length steel box. Each bottle is lighted up with an inside FL lamp of the box and a Halogen-spotlight from the ceiling. The basic light is sun streaming through the leaves of the trees to the floor and the wall. Day light changed gradually from morning with the sun movement. Simultaneously, drift of people and flow of fragrance created good atmosphere of the hall.
1995 Exhibition of L’EAU D’ ISSEY POUR HOMME
