TAB Event - Kei Komachiya "Materia ex machina"

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At NTT ICC Inter Communication Center
Media: Video installation, Digital

Technology and science have been defining factors of artistic expression in the history of painting. The codes and conventions of perspective that were evolved during the Renaissance, Newton's optics, painting colors in aluminum tubes developed in the mid-19th century, and the Munsell color system are fine examples. One can only image people's surprise when they encountered paintings with colors, techniques, and themes that had never been seen.

The installation featured here is a new form of painting with techniques and medium discovered in the digital world. It can be categorized as media art utilizing new media such as digital technology and 3D printers. Komachiya is involved in a research project "Creating 21st century art form based on digital media" hosted by CREST and JST and he continues to explore possibilities of expression through the digital medium as a newly discovered form of painting material. Developing a new form of painting medium takes on the challenge of new expression. It widens the range of our visual experience and provides opportunities to consider the meanings of expression and viewing experience in the new media.

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[Image: "I'm the painter with my pocket calculator. I am adding and subtracting. I'm controlling and painting. By pressing down a special key, it continues painting" (2007) LCD / Oil Painting Simulator, 19inch]

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