Kenji Kojima / 小島健治
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Kenji Kojima's Biography
I have been experimenting with the relationships between perception and cognition, technology, music and visual art since the early ’90s. I was born in Japan and moved to New York in 1980. I painted egg tempera paintings that were medieval art materials and techniques for the first 10 years in New York City. My paintings were collected by Citibank, Hess Oil, and others. A personal computer was improved rapidly during the '80s. I felt more comfortable with computer art than paintings. I switched my artwork to digital in the early '90s. My early digital works were archived in the New Museum - Rhizome, New York. I developed computer software "RGB MusicLab" in 2007 and created an interdisciplinary work exploring the relationship between images and music. I programmed the software “Luce” for the project “Techno Synesthesia” in 2014. My digital art series "Techno Synesthesia" has been exhibited in New York, at media art festivals worldwide, including Europe, Brazil, Asia (except for Japan), and the online exhibitions by ACM SIGGRAPH and FILE, etc. Anti-nuclear artwork “Composition FUKUSHIMA 2011” was collected in CTF Collective Trauma Film Collections / ArtvideoKoeln in 2015. LiveCode programmer. After Corona, he started the project "From classical paintings to music" by searching for materials on the Internet. Latest Project Digital Drawing "PORTRAIT ICONS". Kenji Kojima Resume
小島健治 略歴
日本生まれ。コンピューターを使用した、知覚・認識・時間の関連を探求するアートをニューヨーク市で続けています。ニューヨークに住み始めた1980年からほぼ10年間は、ビザンチンから初期ルネッサンスの技法エッグ・テンペラで現代絵画を描き、シティバンク、ヘス石油等のコレクションになりました。その頃コンピュータは急速な発展を遂げ、90年代始めからデジタルにアートの可能性をより感じてスイッチしました。20世紀の主なデジタル作品は、ニューヨーク市ニューミュージアム（Rhizome）にアーカイブとして保存されています。2007年コンピュータ・アプリケーション「RGB MusicLab」を開発。RGBミュージックは、画像のカラーデータをアルゴリズムで音楽に変換するプロジェクトです。これは感覚から作られたビジュアル・ミュージックではなく、コンピュータを使った確実なデータに基づいて、視覚と聴覚の境界を越えるテクノロジーで共感覚を探求するアートです。2014年にプロジェクト・タイトルを「Techno Synesthesia（テクノ共感覚）」と改め、ビデオの時間軸からの音楽変換を始めました。RGBミュージック＆テクノ共感覚シリーズは、ニューヨーク市の個展、世界各地のメディア・フェスティバル（ヨーロッパ・ブラジル・中東・日本以外のアジア）、オンライン・エキジビション （ACMシーグラフ2015：米国コンピュータ学会CG部会）、FILE：電子言語国際フェスティバル）等で展示されました。福島原発事故の報道写真を音楽に変換して時間軸に並べビデオに編集した「コンポジション福島2011（日本未公開）」は、世界各地のメディア・フェス等で公開され、アートビデオ・ケルンのトラウマフィルム・コレクションに保存されています。アート・プロジェクトを開発しているプログラミング言語 LiveCodeの「初心者開発入門 (日本語)」を執筆。コロナ以降素材をネット上に求めてプロジェクト「古典絵画から音楽」開始。最新プロジェクト デジタル・ドローイング「PORTRAIT ICONS」。
Artist Statement
I have been thinking the sense of visual and audio has strong connections. Some people believe a painter Wassily Kandinsky was a synesthesia artist. But I have a suspicion whether he had synesthesia abilities or not. Artistic intuition is important, but the ability of synesthesia is too uncertain. In spite of that, I thought the sense of vision and the sense of hearing might have common areas. A composer Alexander Scriabin tried another way. He composed symphony "Prometheus: Poem of Fire" in 1910. He imagined a symphony of sound combined with a symphony of light. He made his system that was the 12 color circle. The top of the color circle was Red and C. Each color was assigned to 12 keys. The idea was based on Isac Newton's color wheel. He wrote the light (luce) part of the score by musical notations in the symphony. But his vision did not realize the technological limits of his own time. 100 years later, the performance of his work was realized by recent technologies. Composer Scriabin explored the common information of visual and auditory with the art of different expressions.
I was more interested in Scriabin's method than using intuition for synesthesia art. We can use computer technology in the 21st century. I developed an algorithmic composition program "RGB MusicLab" in 2007 that converted computer color data to 12 tone notes. The color value 120 is the middle C on a musical scale. Also, I found binary is a new art material. The current project "Techno Synesthesia" is based on RGB Music technology.
A cyborg is a radical evolution of physical extension that uses science and technology in the 21st-century. We have evolved extremely slow to recognize the surrounding environment by sensory organs such as visual, auditory, tactile, and others, and realized them as reality. However, we have not known how we perceived our environment and boundaries of sensory information, and how we handled them and chose our actions. What was the difference between human beings and deep-sea creatures have evolved distinguishing information from the outside world? The project "Techno Synesthesia" inherits the predecessors and experiments the fusion and compatibility of multiple sensory organs by computer technology.
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"Stop, Caution, Walk" by Kenji Kojima
Egg Tempera, Gold Leaf on Panel. 10x10" Triptych, 1980
Kenji's Egg Tempera Paintings 1980-2004
I started my artist career in 1980 as a contemporary egg tempera artist.
A personal computer was improved rapidly during the '80s.
I felt digital art was more comfortable and clean.
I switched my artwork to digital in the early '90s.
Now I am interested in how we perceive the outside world
more than constructing physical art.
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Ongoing Group Show
SOJOURNER INAUGURAL JURIED EXHIBITION
446 West 34th Street, 4th Floor, New York, NY
Exhibition: February 9 to March 15, 2023
Project
"The Interpretation of Painting by Binary"
Project 2023
kenjikojimany/Icon Drawings
Open Project Site
One Dollar Bill Delusions
Morphing 57 Portrait Icons
Art Festivals in 2023
Toulouse, France on March 15 - April 2, 2023
XXVIe Rencontres Internationales Traverse
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April 20 - September 15, 2023, BROWARD College, Weston, Florida
THE ELASTIC MIND
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July 4 - August 28, 2023, São Paulo, ,Brazil
FILE "Electronic Language International Festival" 2023
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What Madame Cézanne was thinking.
Participated Art Festivals in 2022
45th AAIFF, New York on Aug.3 - 13, 2022 (Media Category is still opening online)
Asian American International Film Festival 2022
the new media category
Artist Kenji Kojima: The Great Wave / Red Fuji / Choju Jinbutsu Giga
São Paulo, Brazil on July 13 - August 28, 2022
FILE 2022 (Electronic Language International Festival)
Withering Tulips: Mystic Chord / Whole Tone Scale / Twelev Tone Scale
Toulouse, France on April 6 - 30, 2022
XXVe Rencontres Internationales Traverse
The angel Gabriel is about to tell
Traverse Video Catalogue 2022
New November 2022: Portfolio 2022 - 2021
Selected 12 artworks, Artist Statement & Project Description
Open: English / Japanese(日本語)
Project "The Musical Interpretation of Visual Data by Binary"
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I have thought seeing and hearing have a relationship between them. I executed that in cross-media through computer art. After the COVID-19 pandemic, I refrained from going out for video shooting. I recall I could download public-domain images of paintings, photographs, and films from the Web site. I thought It was an opportunity to reflect on the analog art history in the digital world. All media in human history are now reduced and recorded as binary. Cave artists found earth color, and they started painting. I used binary as a fundamental art material like an earth color pigment for cave artists. The binary data can be exchanged for other sensory data. Whether it is practical and valuable for business or not. It is a different story. I am talking about art. I like binary because it is clean. The Binary is on and off. It is empty. I can have a light mind. 21-century is tremendous changes in civilization, including in the global environment. The modern world expanded too much material desire. I disagree with the vandalism of climate activists, but I feel a kind of sympathy for their stuck feelings. Since the last century, we have made too many material artworks on this earth. Museums will not be able to store too much artwork shortly. The minimum manner by artists can do is not to pollute and destroy the global environment with garbage objects named artwork. Now we must change the aesthetics and values of the modern world. Show: Jaoanese / 日本語
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私は、見ることと聞くことには、関連があると考えてきました。このプロジェクトは、コンピューター・アートとしてそれを試みています。COVID-19 パンデミックの後、私はビデオ撮影のために、外出することを控えていましたが、すぐにアートの素材として、パブリック ドメインの絵画、写真、映画等を、ウェブからダウンロードできるのに気づきました。これはデジタルの世界から、アナログアート史を振り返る良い機会でした。現在、人類史に現れたメディアは、すべてデジタルに還元され、バイナリで記録されています。洞窟のアーチストは、土の顔料を発見して絵を描き始めました。私は洞窟アーティストの顔料のように、最も基本のアートマテリアルとして、バイナリを考えています。バイナリのデータは、他の感覚データと交換ができます。それが実用的で、商業的な価値があるかどうかは、別の話です。私はアートについて話しています。バイナリは電気的なオンとオフです。物質としては空です。バイナリはクリーンで、気持ちを軽くします。21世紀は、地球環境を含めた文明の大きな変化の時代です。近代世界は、物質的欲求を拡張しすぎました。気候変動活動家の荒らし行為には、同意できませんが、彼らの行き場のない感情には、ある種の共感を覚えます。前世紀以来、私たちはこの地球上であまりにも多くの、物質的な芸術作品を作ってきました。美術館はまもなく、多すぎる現代アートを保管できなくなるでしょう。アーティストが地球にできる最低限の事は、アートワークという名前のゴミで、地球環境を汚染したり破壊したりしないことです。今私たちは現代物質世界の、美意識と価値観を変えなければなりません。 Hide: Japanese / 日本語 |
January 2023
Music Interpretation Paintings by Binary
Portraits with Dogs
Painting by Thomas Gainsborough
Three minutes digest
  
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January 2023
Music Interpretation Painting by Binary
Mr. and Mrs. Andrews, 1750
Painting by Thomas Gainsborough
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December 2022
Goldfish by Henri Matisse, 1911
data reading in French: Audrey
Music Interpretation by Binary
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November 2022
I'm uncomfortable with NFT art.
One Dollar
All Copies are Genuine
Created Music from Visual Data of One Dollar Bill
 
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This work "One Dollar" is licensed under
a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Go Open Project Page: One Dollar and Others
日本語で「note」に書きました
NFTアートに違和感を感じています / メディア・アート「One Dollar」
October 2022
I'm uncomfortable with NFT art.
Hong Kong One Cent
"Hong Kong One Cent" is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0.
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November 2022
I'm uncomfortable with NFT art.
Crowd Gathers Outside
the Stock Exchange after the 1929 Crash
"Crowd Gathers Outside" is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0.
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October 2022
I'm uncomfortable with NFT art.
Unemployed People Gathering Outside City Hall
in Cleveland, Ohio, Oct. 9 1930
"Unemployed People Gathering Outside" is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0.
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October 2022
I'm uncomfortable with NFT art.
Great Depression Soup Kitchen Opened in Chicago, 02-1931
"Great Depression Soup Kitchen" is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0.
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October 2022
I'm uncomfortable with NFT art.
One Yen
Portrait: Ninomiya-Sontoku, First Issued in 1946, Suspended in 1958
"One Yen" is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 .
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October 2022
I'm uncomfortable with NFT art.
The Creation of Adam
Fresco by Michelangelo, Part of the Sistine Chapel Ceiling
"The Creation of Adam" is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 .
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October 2022
I'm uncomfortable with NFT art.
Tulip Bubble Burst
Painting by Hans Bollongier 1639
"North by Northwest" is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 .
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November 2022
The Music Interpretation of Movie by Binary
Breathless (1960 trailer)
Directed by Jean-Luc Godard, Starring Jean Seberg and Jean-Paul Belmondo
Created MIDI Piano from Visual Data by Kenji Kojima
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November 2022
The Music Interpretation of Movie by Binary
The Lady Vanishes (1938 film)
Directed by Alfred Hitchcock, Starring Margaret Lockwood and Michael Redgrave
Created MIDI Piano by Kenji Kojima
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September 2022
The Music Interpretation of Movie by Binary
Casablanca (1943 film) Trailer
Starring: Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman
Directed by Michael Curtiz, MIDI Piano by Kenji Kojima
"Casablanca" is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 .
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September 2022
The Music Interpretation of Movie by Binary
North by Northwest (1959 film) Trailer
Starring: Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint
Directed by Alfred Hitchcock, MIDI Piano by Kenji Kojima
"North by Northwest" is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 .
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September 2022
The Music Interpretation of Movie by Binary
A Farewell to Arms (1932 film) Last 7 minutes
Starring: Helen Hayes, Gary Cooper
BGM: Wagner's opera Tristan und Isolde, MIDI Piano: Kenji Kojima
"North by Northwest" is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 .
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September 2022
The Music Interpretation of Movie by Binary
Alexander Nevsky
Battle on The Ice
Directed by Sergei Eisenstein and Dmitri Vasilyev, Music by Sergei Prokofiev
MIDI Piano by Kenji Kojima
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September 2022
The Music Interpretation of Movie by Binary
Royal Wedding
Every Night at Seven: Fred Astaire and Jane Powell
1951 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer musical comedy directed by Stanley Donen
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July 2022
The Music Interpretation of Painting by Binary
Michelangelo di Rosa, The Boy in the Red Vest
Four Paintings by Paul Cézanne
Three Minutes Digest
 
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Michelangelo di Rosa, The Boy in the Red Vest
Full Edition 13:02
The impression received from the outside world becomes music in your mind.
When you express the music on a canvas, a painting is born.
July 2022
The Music Interpretation of Painting by Binary
Who is the Young Woman at a Table?
Painting by Paul Cézanne
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July 2022
The Music Interpretation of Painting by Binary
Las Meninas / Painting by Diego Velázquez
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July 2022
The Music Interpretation of Painting by Binary
Albrecht Dürer Self-Portrait with Fur-Trimmed Robe
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May 2022
The Music Interpretation of Painting by Binary
Madonna Enthroned
Cimabue & Giotto
voice: Alice
 
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May 2022
The Music Interpretation of Painting by Binary
7 Portraits by Paul Cézanne
What Madame Cézanne was thinking.
Three Minutes Digest
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What Madame Cézanne was thinking. Full Edition 14:15
1) Portrait of Madame Cézanne 1885-1887
2) Madame Cézanne in a Red Dress 1885-1887
3) Madame Cézanne in a Yellow Armchair 1888-1890
4) Madame Cézanne in a Yellow Chair 1888-1890
5) Portrait of Madame Cézanne 1890
6) Madame Cézanne in the Conservatory 1891
7) Madame Cézanne with Green Hat 1891
Apr. 2022
The Music Interpretation of Painting by Binary
Vincent van Gogh's Seven Self-Portraits
What made Van Gogh cut off his Ear. 1887-1889
Three Minutes Digest
 
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Seven Self-Portraits 21:00 / Three Self-Portraits 10:00
1) Self-Portrait / Spring 1887 /
2) Self-Portrait with a Straw Hat / Winter 1887-88 / 1)
3) Self-Portrait as an Artist / Early 1888 /
4) Self-Portrait (dedicated to Paul Gauguin) / September 1888 / 2)
5) Self-Portrait / 1889 /
6) Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear / January 1889 / 3)
7) Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear and Pipe / January 1889 /
Apr. 2022
The Music Interpretation of Painting by Binary
The Effect of Cataracts on Late Years Claude Monet.
8 Paintings 1916 - 1925
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Eight Paintings 24:15 / Four Paintings 10:00
1) Water Lilies, Willow Reflections 1916-19
2) Water-Lily Pond and Weeping Willow 1916
3) The House among the Roses 1917-19
4) Weeping Willow 1918
5) Weeping Willow 1918
6) The Japanese Footbridge 1920-22
7) The Rose-Way in Giverny before 1922
8) Wisteria circa 1925
Mar. 2022
The Music Interpretation of Painting by Binary
It compiled 12 videos of this project in 50 minutes.
 
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1) The Happy Accidents of the Swing by Jean-Honoré Fragonard
2) The Burning of the Houses of Lords and Commons, 16 October 1834
by Joseph Mallord William Turner
3) Still Life with a Ginger Jar and Eggplants by Paul Cézanne
4) Original Wood Block Painting by Katsushika Hokusai
5) Original Wood Block Painting by Katsushika Hokusai
6) Manuel Osorio Manrique de Zuñiga by Francisco de Goya y Lucientes
7) Juan de Pareja by Diego Velázquez
8) the Costume as Eliza Doolittle in Pygmalion Tilla Durieux by Auguste Renoir
9) Elizabeth Farren by Sir Thomas Lawrence
10) Annunciation Triptych by Workshop of Robert Campin
11) from the Unicorn Tapestries The Unicorn Rests in a Garden
12) View of Toledo by El Greco (Domenikos Theotokooulos)
Mar. 2022
The Red Rock by Paul Cézanne
data reading in French: Audrey
Music Interpretation by Binary
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Jan. 2022
Still Life by Paul Cézanne
with a Ginger Jar and Eggplants
with Apples and a Pot of Primroses
data reading in Japanese: Kyoko
data reading in Chinese: Sin-jin
Music Interpretation by Binary
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Jan. 2022
The video is constructed with 4 short videos total.
"Robert Campin meets Paul Cézanne"
"Paul Cézanne meets Robert Campin"
"13 language voices"
Leaning Tables
Music Interpretation by Binary
 
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Image: Annunciation Triptych by Workshop of Robert Campin, ca.1427–32
Image: Still Life with a Ginger Jar and Eggplants by Paul Cézanne, 1893–94
Dec. 2021
Monk Kuya Passes in Front of Simone Martini
Visible Voices
Music Interpretation by Binary
Duration 4:35
Feb. 2022
Choju Jinbutsu Giga
鳥獣人物戯画
Music Interpretation by Binary
Animals Bathing and Swimming
Duration 5:20
Dec. 2021
Auguste Renoir meets Sir Thomas Lawrence
Actresses
Music Interpretation by Binary
Duration 2:55
Dec. 2021
Vincent van Gogh Self-portrait
No Bandaged and Bandaged
Music Interpretation by Binary
Duration 5:50
First Version, Dec. 2021
Robert Campin meets Paul Cézanne
Leaning Tables
Music Interpretation by Binary
Duration 4:55
Left Image: Annunciation Triptych by Workshop of Robert Campin, ca.1427–32
Right Image: Still Life with a Ginger Jar and Eggplants by Paul Cézanne, 1893–94
 
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3 Cypresses Paintings by Vincent van Gogh
Road with Cypress and Star
Wheat Field with Cypresses
Cypresses
 
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Most people tend to talk about the madness of Van Gogh's paintings
but he painted the influence of Pointillism with optical consideration.
The piano music in the video converted the binary data of colors
of strokes and dots collected from Van Gogh's paintings into music.
Original 6 Paintings by Vincent van Gogh.
Self-Portrait with a Straw Hat
First Steps, after Millet
Olive Trees
The Sower
Wheat Field with Cypresses
Cypresses
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Lascaux-IV 10 3 minutes Digest  
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Lascaux-IV 11 3 minutes Digest  
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Binary as an art material: The Unicorn Rests in a Garden from the Unicorn Tapestries |
Binary as an art material: The Swing The Happy Accidents of the Swing by Jean-Honoré Fragonard |
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Binary as an art material: Cypresses by Vincent van Gogh |
Binary as an art material: Wheat Field with Cypresses by Vincent van Gogh |
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Binary as an art material: Studies for the Libyan Sibyl by Michelangelo Buonarroti |
Binary as an art material: Smile by Leonardo da Vinci Smile Score (24 pages) Download |
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Binary as an art material: Boy in Red Manuel Osorio Manrique de Zuñiga by Francisco de Goya y Lucientes |
Binary as an art material: Hermann von Wedigh III by Hans Holbein the Younger |
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Binary as an art material: Annunciation The angel Gabriel is about to tell Workshop of Robert Campin |
Binary as an art material: Saint Andrew by Simone Martini |
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Binary as an art material: Tilla Durieux the Costume as Eliza Doolittle in Pygmalion by Auguste Renoir |
Binary as an art material: Elizabeth Farren by Sir Thomas Lawrence |
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The visual data was collected in 3 places randomly every 4.2 second then they were converted into musical notes. Duration 03:46 |
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The visual data was collected in 4 places randomly every 3.2 seconds then they were converted into musical notes. Duration 02:57 |
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The visual data was collected in 6 places randomly every 3 seconds then they were converted into musical notes. Duration 04:23 |
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The visual data was collected in 4 places randomly every 2 seconds then they were converted into musical notes. Duration 04:40 |
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The visual data was collected in 6 places randomly every 3 seconds then they were converted into musical notes. Duration 04:35 |
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2015 - 2021
Techno Synesthesia:
Bees, Birds, Speech, Lumière and Other Series
2014 - 2018
Four Seasons Studies, Space-Time Drawing
Archway, Fountain in New York City
Subway, Street, Others and Studies
Media Performance Noh [I-MY]
Anti-Nuclear Artwork
Composition FUKUSHIMA 2011
Created music from press photos on internet
RGB Music 2007 - 2019
The application develpoment
which converted image data to musical notes
Cipher 2013, 2014, 2016
Cipher Music / Split & Merge AudioVisual
CipherText Project / 暗号計画
Encrypt Image / 暗号画像
Web Applications English & Japanese
時間系不定時報
JIKANKEI “FUJYO JIHOU” 2002 - 2012
The Sun goes around on Spaceship Earth.
JIKANKEI is a software art. It displays angles of the Sun
and local times of cities and places on the Earth.
2014 -
News / Exhibitions in Cyber and Real World
LiveCode 6 Programming Tutorilal (Japanese)
LiveCode 6 プログラミング初心者開発入門 (日本語)
１つのソース・コードから Mac, Win, Linux アプリを同時に作成する
about Techno Synesthesia in Japanese by the artist Kenji Kojima.
シナステージア（共感覚）とテクノロジーによる
相互拡張感覚のアートについて：小島健治
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