Seiji Hori, Shinji Sasada, Keiko Takahashi

ARTWORK

installation art / interactive art

analogue / digital / installation / interactive / multimedia / public space / real-time / sound-image interaction

2001

Rakugaki is an interactive drawing installation with sound. It brings back your childhood memories or simply lets you have fun. When you play the trumpet or the drum, a line appears. It starts to bend and wiggle, to transform into animals, a fish, etc. When you play the bells, figures start to revolve happily! When you play the shaker, the cube turns freely! It’s like a snow shaker. This project is situated on the borderland of the analogue and the digital. The essence of this artwork is combining visual effects and the real-time interactive nature of computer technology, to see how the latter can interpret sound and transform it into a line, which it then animates. The ultimate aim of this work is to be exhibited in public areas such as subways, atriums and shops where there is a large open space and a large number of people can experience the work. (...) (T.K., S.Sh., H.S.)

Vision - Image and Perception (exhib.)