Seiko Mikami Art Work “Desire of Codes”

[Art and Digital Culture Berlin “transmediale2007"]

---Outline of “Desire of codes"
“Desire of codes" expresses chain of our social codes. This work is an interactive installation that sixty moving structures with the cameras and lights are move in the direction, which an audience behavior. These moving structures are gathering such as a mosquito and a firefly via the audience's movement and walks. When sixty moving structures are follows audience's movement, and these structures move to the vertical axis direction and the side shaft direction. Furthermore, light and camera are installed in these structures, and the control that light and camera follows also with the audience's movements. These moving lights have range of calculations from 0 to 10. The wall set up 19 sensors and each sensor has ultrasonic sensor and combined with the infrared rays sensor, and audience's position recognition made a system with the precision. If you are not move in this space and like disappear your body, these structures also stop. An upgraded version will be small surveillance cameras and small microphones are attaching 60 moving structures. 60 images from these cameras and microphones go through video projection and speakers at real-time for 60 different images and sound on wall of the other side of installation.

 
[" Desire of Codes" at open studio at TESLA Berlin and Berlin transmediale.2007]

--Background of“Desire of Codes”
At present, ID or Code of the consumption society is decided, and the bar cord which takes root continues the progress more at present. The moment a desire occurred, we can satisfy a desire, and take a moment, and individual information is encoded. In the information-oriented society which accelerates, by reading the amount of information of the bar cord Much individual information is being encoded in the information-oriented society. For example, it is possible to put a chronic disease, allergy constitution in the hospital consultation card, [sm-doc04.jpg] information on the photograph of the face in the security camera, in the passport, the criminal personal history, in the driver's license card have violation one's personal history and DNA of your relative. If you bought a book for friends via Internet, This data is analyzed and you get information from this company related friends book over and over even if it is not your interest. If personal information protection bill was carried out in one code, in this data or code is really you? Or front of me is really you?　 I do not make this work to make an alarm and I express existence whether "real body is you" whether "your data are true".If a cord has desire, it may be said that it is our desire. In this way my concept shifted from "a body as a perception" to "an individual as information society" and I came to have a close relation to more society issue.

[Desire of Codes" at open studio at TESLA Berlin and Berlin transmediale.2007 ]

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