In the installation, there is a space covered by translucent silver cloth, which is shaped after the Shidome vacant loft fifty strobe lights are installed on the grids near the ceiling) Visitors go down to the space, with a small wireless liquid crystal display in hand. The patterns of flash by the strobe lights change rapidly according to the dynamic information of tendencies from the serverm and the surrounding noise sound around the cloth also change mechaniccally. The visitorsÔ movements in the space are sensed and informed to the server to re-influence the space. Each visitorÔs display shows Quicktime Movie picture of one of the 10 sites from Shimbashi, which KR+cF analysed and reconstructed, according the tendencies. In this installation, urban flows appearing in the net space, intervened by many unspecified people, are restored physically in real space, and the excitement of flashes and sounds inside the silver membrane cuts up stable physically to craete an impression that the apparatus of scale in the space is momentarily transformed.
notes on IO_dencies, Kazunao Abe, Yukiko Shikata / Artlab in Artlab 7 IO_dencies quetsioning urbanity, Tokyo 1998



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1997


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