SIGGRAPH2001 Art Gallery N-Space
2001年8月12日-17日
ロスアンゼルスコンベンションセンター、ロスアンゼルス、アメリカ

アメリカ計算機学会コンピュータグラフィクス部会の国際会議・展覧会SIGGRAPH2001において、空間に約400個のLEDの光と金属製のベルの音をコンピュータで立体的にコントロールする参加型のインタラクティブインスタレーション「Omnipresence ver.1」の展示、発表をおこなった。

This work consists of roughly 550 motors which make music by ringing bells while light-emitting diodes (LED) flash on and off in the darkness. The sound the viewer hears is only the slight sound of the copper bells themselves with no electronic processing or amplification. The luminescence of the LEDs is also something quite subtle. What this work offers its audience is a chance to watch carefully and listen consciously. In our day-to-day lives, we come in contact with so many “things” and pieces of information that we may have gradually lost the inclination to actually watch and listen; to experience our surroundings. We must learn again how to watch and listen, to recover the will to experience our natural environment. The twentieth century was an age of mass production and mass consumerism. Our lives depended upon the consumption of huge amounts of energy sources such as petroleum as well as enormous amounts of other natural resources. However, it is said that fossil fuel sources such as petroleum will play out after another hundred years or so; meanwhile destruction of the natural environment around us continues, the environmental crises deepens, and in many ways eats away at our existence. Upon the threshold of the twenty-first century, one can only assume that we are facing an inevitable change in our lifestyles and concept of values.