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The Prix Ars Electronica Archive is a collection enabling search and viewing of all the submissions since 1987. The award-winning projects are documented with catalogue texts and audio-visual media. All other submissions can be searched by title/artist and displayed with year, category in list form. Please cite the credits (artwork name, artist and photographer) and only use the materials if your article is related to Ars Electronica.
rheo: 5 horizons
Ryoichi Kurokawa
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“Rheo: 5 horizons” is an audiovisual installation composed of five flat-panel displays and five multi-channel speakers. Each vertical image pairs with each mono channel sound, and each video is synchronized to each audio. They are juxtaposed in line like a five-member ensemble and they behave like five independent audiovisual apparatuses. The spatial cognition of the sound can be enhanced by being synthesized with the movement of image. That is, the behavior of the image indicates the sound source position, the sonic direction and drive. It provides the space to rediscover the sonic movement, position and the relation between ego and sound. These resonances have an impact on sensory perception and develop a similar synaesthetic experience. The sound is given extra width and depth by the integration of auditory and visual sense and it forms a spatial audiovisual construction that gives a new understanding of space.
The term “rheo” in the title comes from the Greek, meaning flow, current or stream. And this work translates temporal and spatial transition to audiovisual motion as dynamic fluid. It embodies the notion of fluid time by utilizing audiovisual composition in space. The integration of imagery and sound lays out a spatially temporal movement, direction, speed, shapes, colors, weights and textures on a parallel time line. It shapes the dynamic of moving sounds and images into a diagram. The multiple layered sounds and images create the time sculpture in the cycle of an eight-minute loop.
The term “rheo” in the title comes from the Greek, meaning flow, current or stream. And this work translates temporal and spatial transition to audiovisual motion as dynamic fluid. It embodies the notion of fluid time by utilizing audiovisual composition in space. The integration of imagery and sound lays out a spatially temporal movement, direction, speed, shapes, colors, weights and textures on a parallel time line. It shapes the dynamic of moving sounds and images into a diagram. The multiple layered sounds and images create the time sculpture in the cycle of an eight-minute loop.
Concept, direction, composition, programming by Ryoichi Kurokawa; Produced by Cimatics; With the support of Canon Europe; Format: installation / 5 HD plasma displays, five speakers; Year: 2010; Duration: 08:00 loop. http://www.cimatics.com; http://cpn.canon-europe.com
Ryoichi Kurokawa (JP), born in 1978. The world-renowned Japanese audiovisual artist Kurokawa’s works take on multiple forms such as installation works, recordings and concert pieces. In his language, a new international benchmark in the world of digital art, field recordings and computer-generated structures coexist in harmony and open the gateway to an imaginary world where complexity and simplicity alternate and combine in a strange symbiosis. In recent years, his works have been shown at international festivals and museums including the Tate Modern, Ars Electronica, Transmediale, Macaba, Shanghai eArts, and Sonar.