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Interactive Art Auszeichnung - Award of Distinction 2008

a plaything for the great observers at rest

norimichi hirakawa
In the installation “a plaything for the great observers at rest”, the audience can control the viewpoint and switch between a geocentric model and a heliocentric model by operating the device, a conceptual model of the sun and the earth. But the operation of a moving eye is a kind of privileged power, which the unmoving observer can achieve using only paper and pen, a telescope and his own imagination. The act of re-adjusting the core of the world is a truly dynamic and exciting experience, but only in the conceptual phase. This concept led me to call this artwork “plaything”.
Norimichi Hirakawa (JP), born in 1982, graduated from Tama Art University (information design department) in 2007. He reconstructs universal and underlying phenomena at the sensory level of the audience and releases them as installations. His work Centers around not only device design or algorithm design that enables analog input for digital systems, but also includes AV programming and spatial design. He is responsible for the total implementation of the artworks. http://counteraktiv.com