Gravity and Resistance project

Past and Future plan for “Gravity and Resistance”.
"Gravity and Resistance" is being developed into different versions. Currently it is an ongoing project, and in 2004, after the exhibition at YCAM, it will tour in Europe.

[Project biography]

Tower Project 1994- unfinished
Look up to God, a striving for power, for communication tower, Symble for city as sightseeing,
This project will researching and concerning towers in the world.

POOL 2000- unfinished
The version of the virtual pool form centering on the layer of sound is also a project in a present progressive as "Gravity and Resistance."

Particle Version Jan 2003
"Gravity and Resistance: The Version of particles", Tama Art University, Media Center, Jan 2003, Tokyo.
The work of "a particle and a flow" builds the dynamics place of temporarily to the real space near an experience person, and a thing like gravity, resistance,

The Version of the Anechoic Room March 2003
"Gravity and Resistance: The Version of the Anechoic Room", NTT Intercommunication Center [ICC], March 2003, Tokyo.
The installation of this version generates a magnetic field of 'gravity' and 'resistance' by way of creating a 'virtual' dynamic field within an anechoic room.

"High Line" Architectural Plan May 2003
High line -chain process of directivity.
We considered the plan of the architecture competition of a high line which became the discontinued line of NY.
This also uses gravity and directivity and expand area to architecture field.

at V2_Rotterdam, Workshop and Symposium June 2003
"Gravity and Resistance": Workshop and Symposium, "micro gravity"V2 Organisate Rotterdam The Netherlands, June 2003.

“gravicells – gravity and resistance”,Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media (YCAM)　May to June, 2004.
This is an installation in which the real time movements and changes of all the participants generate and affect GPS, directional sound, LED light, and projection images of geometrical data, and the participants experience the whole space change.

[during preparation]

■　Profiles of Artists:
Mikami Seiko
Artist.
Since 1984, she has exhibited installation works centering on the theme of information society and body. She was based in New York 1992 to 2000. Since 1995 - present time, her works became interactive media art installation incorporating human perception. In 1996, she produced "Molecular Informatics" for Canon ARTLAB Project Exhibition, using the eye tracking technology. Since then, it has been modified to updated versions, and toured through Europe including Rotterdam DEAF (Dutch Electronic Art Festival, the Netherlands, 1996), Miro Museum (Spain, 1999) and Transmedialle, Berlin (Germany, 2002). In 1997, she showed "World, Membrane and the Dismembered Body," a work of hearing and internal-body sound, chosen as a permanent collection at the opening of NTT/ICC (Inter Communication Center) and Nantes Museum of Fine Arts (France, 2000). She is currently based in Tokyo, and teaching at Tama Art University of Department of Information Art and running Media Art Lab. The collection of works was published from Diputacion de Malaga of Spain in 2004.
http://www.idd.tamabi.ac.jp/artworks/index.htm

Ichikawa Sota
Architect. The head of "doubleNegatives."
Since 1995, he has started a project on the theme of spatial expressions, to investigate different potentials in bringing architecture into existence, based on the relationships between body and viewpoint/observatory-point. In 1997, he participated in a project "IO�DENCIES" in Tokyo produced by Knowbotic Research, German media artist group. In 1997, he joined Lifescape Institute, and was engaged in the basic and practical architectural design of "Hinaya Project," a "sukiya" construction of Arakawa Shusaku and Madelaine Gins. In 1998, he founded "doubleNegatives," an architectural unit that consists of professionals with different backgrounds. While working as an architect and director, he personally develops software, net-art, and conducts VJ at club events. In 2000, he took part in "Kankaku (Sense) Museum" founded in Miyagi Prefecture, and produced "dqpb #2.0-dynamic quadruple phonic building," a permanent interactive work for the museum.
http://www.doubleNegatives.jp

■ Project’s biography.
:"gravicells-gravity and resistance", [YCAM] Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media, May15　to June20 2004, Yamaguchi, Japan.
:"micro gravity" symposium and a workshop, V2 Organisate, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, June. [2003]
:"gravity and resistance: The Version of the Anechoic Room" .NTT Intercommunication Center [ICC], March, 2003, Tokyo, Japan.
:"gravity, resistance: particle and flow version" Tama Art University media center hall, January, 2003, Tokyo, Japan.