ARTIST
NAME
Shunichi Kasahara × Kezzardrix × Satoru Higa
PLACE
Tokyo City View (52F, Roppongi Hills Mori Tower)GoogleMap
DATE
2021/05/12~2021/06/08
TIME
10:00~20:00

Fragment Shadow

This is an interactive system that allows us to interact with the transformed self of real physical shadows. Fragment Shadow system creates a unique projection space with a large screen surface from multiple projectors by comprehensive spatial geometry and color calibration process. When human bodies enter the projection space, shadows are no longer just usual black visual objects. Fragment Shadow generates various visual expressions in the optical shadow such as fragmented, transformed, textured, and even immersed in the graphics. Your real shadow is restructured into novel visuals unexpectedly, yet with infinite resolution and zero latency since the shadow is a physical phenomenon. We still recognize transformed shadows as “self” and attribute those transformations to ourselves.

Credit

Concept and Research
-Shunichi Kasahara (Sony CSL)

Visual System
- Shunichi Kasahara (Sony CSL)
- Ryo Kanda(Kezzardrix)
- Satoru Higa (Backspace Productions Inc. )

Sound Design
- Shotaro Hirata (moph records)

Technical Assistant
- Kye Shimizu(Sony CSL)
- Kazuma Takada(Sony CSL)

*This work is partially supported by the Cybernetic being project under JST Moonshot R&D Program (Grant number = JPMJMS2013)

Artist Info

Shunichi Kasahara
Shunichi Kasahara
Researcher, Sony Computer Science Laboratories, Inc. Ph.D. in Interdisciplinary Information Studies. He is leading "Superception" research projects: computational extension of human perception and investigation of the self in human-computer integration. He also conducts interactive exhibitions and social implementation as well as academic activities.
Kezzardrix
Kezzardrix
Visual Artist / Programmer. Creating live visuals for a variety of artists under the name Kezzadrix. He creates live visuals for a variety of artists as well as participates in developing applications, stage productions, and installations. He is a profound collaborator, working closely with a variety of collectives such as the black metal unit "VMO", visual artist group "HEXPIXELS" with Satoru Higa, and "SJQ++", which won the Award of Distinction at Are Electronica. He resides with HIP LAND MUSIC: INT and also backspacetokyo, a programmer collective focused in the field of expression.
Satoru Higa
Satoru Higa
Born 1983. Drawing on his experience working as a programmer and visual artist on a wide variety of projects incorporating realtime 3D graphics, computer vision and other advanced programming technologies, Higa is active across such diverse fields as installation, stage art, VJ-ing and live performance. Launched the lab space “backspacetokyo” in 2015.
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