Project by HOKORI Computing
 (Katsuki Nogami
Artist
Concept，Video,Sound

Kazuya Horibe
Engineer, Researcher
Research

Ritsuko Miyake
Artist
Hardware

Tatsuya Ishikawa
Engineer,  Artist
Hardware，Research)

Hokori is Japanese word, which means dust.Japanese usually separate Hokori and dust.Dust means more natural which called Chiri,Hokori means more artificial dust.It is born in a person's living environment and is composed of various materials including artifacts and natural objects such as fibers, dandruff, red pollen, earth, earth fragments, gobs of pathogenic bacteria, and gray It is a mass. And hokori gathers voluntarily in places where people do not act such as the ruins where people disappeared and the back of electric appliances, and it is formed by accumulating it without anyone noticing. Focusing on face-to-face and temporal nature of this man's work and hokori formation process, I thought that hokori is an organism living symbiotically behind people's lives. hokori as a living body becomes existence only at that place due to the environment such as people's living at spontaneous place of occurrence, temperature, humidity, wind, topography. The nature exposed to the spontaneous environment of this hokori has also appeared in its etymology "standing out". In this exhibition, using the characteristic that the hokori is charged, it generated electric field by static electricity and caused hokori movement. Hokori in the electric field shows uncontrollable behavior to us due to its interaction with the in-box environment such as its lump condition, attraction and repulsion forces between slugs, sand topography, humidity, and temperature. Since it converges to a stable state when it constantly continues to be charged, running the charging device in a non-regular fashion and executing static elimination position-specificly opened the environment to the outside of the box and gave the space-time distribution of the electric field. As a result, the behavior that hokoli responded to the flow of the people at the venue was realized and expressed the face-to-face relationship with people. By doing so, I described how hokori confronts the environment opened with will. Hokori got out here. In addition, the hokori displayed here is what we plan to discard as garbage in a familiar cleaning shop, and collected near the venue.

Nowadays, due to the rapid development of AI, the definition of life is also fluctuatin.Could we call intelligence  a human?How about YouTuber?Many dead person are still in social media.
Man Ray entitled a photo of "big glass" by Marcel Duchamp as "Dust Breeding".He called it breeding as if it were life.It is a factor that can be said to be an artifact, born of necessity rather than accidentality. It is ready- maid, which is also a trace of electronic appliances and human beings.It makes us feel like the shadow of capitalism.Andy Warhol stated excessive capitalism.This HOKORI shows the end of that capitalism.
This is critical and contemporary discovery of material such as error in the modern era where everything is going digitalized and virtualized.
Also in digital world,HOKORI never happen,it should be removed.But those error has a bunch of infromations and memory.AI tried to remove noise sound from Japanese old movie"Rashomon".But it was representation of summer to Japanese.Like this,error has meaning depends on people.We should focus on error in digital age.


Tachihokoru

Project with Taiki WATAI
This work is a work which installed social media timeline in real space using smart speaker. Summoned a Bot account (programmed) that is  like scape on the Internet, said to be more than the number of real users.Twitter bot is up to 4.8 million. Anonymous Bot are set to continue talking even in the absence of a human being.Troll bot speaks the lines from Social media. They are anonymous actors speaking human language. However, due to error of speech recognition and misunderstanding of AI when accrossing multiple languages, conversation becomes more and more distorted.When you see the scape which comes from internet in the reality, it looks surreal.It shows distortion due to offline and online conversion, and imperfections of modern technology.In fact, most of all conversation on the internet is one-way,so this work is called "Monologues".  It is a contemporary work thinking about the current state of smart homes that have always put the house online.

Border of various language make distortion of universal.That shows that we misunderstand each others.I saw that scene many times on 4ch.Some people are using Google translator.But it convert badly and with rudeness.Language has indigenous philosophy.

In this time,I'm planning to let it connect more online.People can talk to these speakers in this room from video chat.Or how about putting public place with waterproof speakers.It can be open private talk like timeline of social media.

The concept of contemporary art that Marcel Duchamp changed is giving  new value to ready-made by showing a new perspective.
This work has only used Google service and the function of WebAPI which can be used by anyone and cited real Tweets picked up by negative keyword.And I put it in different situation.
Andy Warhol showed capitalism with mass production.But the landscape on the internet that is not visualized in the material world is the contemporary of that capitalism.There are covered by mass of advertisement and social. In other words, this work is a work that connects contemporary art which suggested by them to a modern society.


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