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Art x Science Cross Talk vol.1 "'Hitoshi Nomura: Perceptions -Changes in Time and Field' x 'It's a Tasty World -Food Science Now!'"

The National Art Center, Tokyo
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The National Art Center, Tokyo is holding "Hitoshi Nomura 'Perceptions -Changes in Time and Field'" from May 27th (Wed) through July 27th (Mon). Hitoshi Nomura started tackling photographic expression in the late 1960s and has attracted much attention by realizing the visualization of "gravity" and "time". In closely observing the transformation of things, Nomura began to ask himself some fundamental questions: "What is it for an object to be present here and now?"; "What is the world that consists of objects and time?" He then embarked on further explorations of not only subcelestial phenomena but the sky, universe and DNA.

In this talk event, the center's researcher Shoichi Hirai and science communicator of the National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation Yoshiko Morita will discuss from both artistic and scientific viewpoints about one of Nomura's works on view "The Cultivation of Vegetables Using Chromatic Language or Seeing the Reflection", the work composed of plants irradiated with light-emitting diodes (LED). They will examine the growth of plants initiated by LED and the difference in the growth of each plan generated by the difference in types of language (colors of LED) used.

This talk touches upon the topics that are closely related to an exhibition "It's a Tasty World -Food Science Now!" being held at the National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation from November 21st (Sat) through March 22nd (Mon), 2010. In the year that Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries of Japan launched a project for researching the effects of LED on the growth of agricultural products, this timely event will provide both art lovers and science lovers with an opportunity to enrich their understandings of Nomura's work and the close relationship between art and science.

Location: The National Art Center, Tokyo 3F Research Rooms A & B
Capacity: 60 persons
For general audiences
Reservation not required.

Schedule

Jul 10 (Fri) 2009 

Opening Hours Information

Hours
10:00-18:00
Closes at 20:00 on Fridays and Saturdays.
Closed
Tuesday
Open on a public holiday Tuesday but closed on the following day.
Closed during the New Year holidays.
FeeFree
VenueThe National Art Center, Tokyo
http://www.nact.jp/english/
Location7-22-2 Roppongi, Minato-ku, Tokyo 106-8558
AccessDirect walk from exit 6 at Nogizaka Station on the Chiyoda line, 4 minute walk from exit 7 at Roppongi Station on the Hibiya or Toei Oedo line.
Phone03-5777-8600
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