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Just alive (with no particular aim) 20221203

The Dual Nature of Technology: From Convenience to Wild Innovation

Technology, the driving force of our modern world, has been harnessed primarily for one overarching purpose: to make human lives more convenient. It’s an undeniable fact that the relentless march of technological progress has transformed our existence in ways our ancestors could hardly have imagined. From the invention of the wheel to the development of smartphones, technology has been our constant companion, enabling us to accomplish tasks with greater efficiency and providing us with instant access to a wealth of information. The convenience brought about by technology is evident in almost every aspect of our daily lives. From the moment ...
Multi-Standard

Multi-Standard

Asias, in natural, should be very organic. They have mechanisms of self-organization and independent.But those organic systems sometimes face a variety of standards, biases and/or colored spectacles.In my artwork series of “Asia with Multi-Standard”, I express that those organic systems are facing such multi-standard and they show organic systems another aspects (or misconception). Asia with Multi-Standard 202109241342 Those standards sometimes are sticking rules while other cases there may be several conflicting yardsticks. In “Asia with Multi-Standard”, you can see some has only single axis set of x-y while another ones have several tilting axis. In Asia(or city) in the real ...

DigitalMicroscope

Geometry is metaphysical. There are no straight lines, no smooth surfaces, no solid cubes or spheres in this world. They are just in your brain.Even if you look something has a smooth surface, you will find lumpy points if you look them with high-spec microscope. What reminded us that there are no smooth surfaces was the idea of Fractal.You can easily find lumpy points when you zoom Mandelbrot set.Rather, you will be feeling that everything in this world consists of granular substance. And that recurses in details; – Those ones that you felt “granular substance” also consists of another lumpy ...
C(imm) 403

Asia (in my mind)

To me the word “Asia” is not the name of geographical area, but more abstract concept that expresses something like “self-organizing life form”.So it could be reworded as “life” or “city”.Actually, I used the word “city” for my art works before I use the word “Asia”.For instance, here were series of my art work in 2011 named “C(imm)”, which stands for “City (in my mind)”. C(imm)-403 (with-Faeru-music-track version) – teshnakamura 2011 You might feel that this object should not be something expressed as “city” but some life form.But to me, city looks pretty much a life form and so does ...

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