Furnished Fluid
This installation, which combines design models and real-time video, uses a power of art and science to propose a new methodology to reinterpret the value and appeal of industrial design.
Before the monitors, miniatures of chairs are arranged as a symbol of the 20th century industrial design. A simulation of the air flowing around the chair is displayed on the monitor.
Industrial design has been evaluated by form, textures and mass production possibility. By applying the shape of chairs to fluid simulation, the following question arises. The chair is not simply a device for sitting, but may also be functioning as a medium for tuning the air flow in the room?
There are many hidden superb views in our daily life. Computers are the third eye to capture them and reinterpret the world.
Artist Profile
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Photo: Shunichi Oda
Akira Wakita
脇田 玲
Akira Wakita is a creator of art works intended to reinterpret this world with visualization and simulation. He is also engaged in teaching young artists, designers and architects in Japan and abroad through Keio University SFC and SCI-Arc Tokyo Program. So far, his works have been exhibited at Ars Electronica Center, WRO Art Center, Japan Media Arts Festival, SIGGRAPH, Miraikan and others. Professor of Faculty of Environment and Information Studies at Keio University since 2014.