Big in Japan

tangible ocean is progressing….. somehow it does :-)

hide from futurelab told me i should visit his office in tokyo, what i did. the office is in a nice district of tokyo in ikejiri – west of shibuya. well a company rented a old high school and is renting classrooms to other companies. a lot of them related to media and art.

this is hides friend taizo, who introduced me there. really nice guy. unfortunately i came late and he had to leave early so we didnt meet for sooo long, but maybe next time.

and his small office

i met shiho from lessrain she is very nice ad invited me for having a drink in the night, but i had to leave tokyo. next time in tokyo i definetly will go there again to have some more time there….

kanazawa is not close to ogaki but definetly worth a visit, if you wanna see some nice architecture for some very nice japanese garden.

this is the 21st century museum from sanaa.

this floral wall is lovely.

it is full of different rooms. this one is for example open. impossible to describe the feeling sitting there. you have to be there. one of the best spaces i have ever been. its actually very simple. four walls – all the same as below and the ceiling has a big hole to the open air. well somehow everything is very well calculated. it seems that you only hear sounds that are coming exactly from above. somehow you are capsulated in the middle of the city but you have no ceiling so somehow also not capsulated because you can hear the sounds of birds flying above the roof and feel the open space. so you dont really know where you are – with very simple methods. bravo – i love it.

a second installation that was really cool and simple was that one. a swimming pool. actually it is just a ceiling made of glass with a little bit water on it. so it seems you are standing infront of a swimming pool. but as people are entering the room below and you can see they are not wet and walking in normal way, things change. or actually it doesn’t. only your picture in the head changes. very interesting. nice interactions from insiders and outsiders of the pool are happening.

back to tokyo again, this time icc was not closed so i went there and by incident i met one guy from the cherry blossom party with ichiro. he had a meeting with the curator of icc and he introduced me to her. she said she is interested in seeing some of my works. so next time in tokyo maybe i can meet her. well to the exhibition. i saw christa and laurents work which is an installation in the entrance hall. i didnt really understand it because everything was in japanese. only very basic information was provided in english. thumbs down icc.

this installation “juggler” from gregory barsamian was very impressive. a huge ringelspiel that has 16 frames of an animation as parts. the whole things starts to turn and in a certain speed the animation is playing. watch and enjoy.

famous tenori-on from toshio iawai was also there. i have seen it at ars before. i love it. really nice tool.

i also liked this installation very much. you get a card with a number written on it an you have to pass gates to make arithmetic calculations. the aim is to reach 73. then you are allowed to leave the arithmetik garden from masahiko sato and takashi kiriyama. after leaving succesfully you get a receipt with your path and time. very nice and simple thing.

after icc we went to see yokohama. actually we went to see one building…. i was with architects ;-)