Breathing City
Cities are often spoken of as being opposite to nature. Cities are believed to destroy nature and threaten other life forms. However, for urban dwellers, cities are an ecosystem for living, and they themselves seem to function as one ecosystem, including human beings. Also, many cities, including Tokyo, were not designed by a single person, but naturally created in the past through people’s activities. Its growth process can be regarded as a single organism.
This work is set up in Roppongi, the center of Tokyo, and is a device for feeling the breathing of the city as if it were alive. The 8K resolution 3D projection is not rendered in advance, but is generated in real time in response to the audience’s noise and movement and constantly changesg. I want you to feel the breath of this huge cities life through an overwhelming video experience.
Planning and Production : Atsushi Tadokoro + Jin Sato
Technical collaboration : ASTRODESIGN Inc.
Artist Profile
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Atsushi Tadokor
田所淳
Creative Coder. He performs audiovisual live coding performance. Recent years, he exhibited installation works using audio and visuals at Ars Electronica Festival, Art Photo Tokyo “ARIGATO SAKURAGAOKA” etc. He wrote books about creative coding and live coding, and his website https://yoppa.org affected creators in Japan.
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Jin Sato
佐藤 仁
Born in Hiroshima. In 2007, Sato joined Astro Design company.
He started as a hardware engineer and was in charge of developing broadcasting equipment as well as 3D visual and 8K visual equipment. Currently, he is working on 8K projector and converting AI images into high vision. He hosts Movie for Art, Design and Data(MADD.) with DVTS consortium of SFC Institute of Keio University.