Six Musical Compositions
Created from the Color Elements of
Edgar Degas' Pastel Works.
Artist: Kenji Kojima, 2023
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私のアートは、主に視覚と聴覚の関係を探求しています。 私は共感覚者ではありませんが、画像には音や音楽に近い要素が含まれていると思っています。 私の作品はバイナリカラーデータから音楽を作成するアプリの動作をビデオにします。 作品のコンセプトは、20 世紀初頭のロシアの作曲家アレクサンドル・スクリャービンの影響を受けました。 私たちの環境は、本質的に混沌とした情報で満たされており、世界の認識は視覚「目」と聴覚「耳」のフィルターを通した、感覚データの組み立てに依存していると私は考えています。私たちの物理的境界を超えた世界は、暗号のような情報に満ち溢れています。私たちは感覚、主に目と耳を使って、この混沌としたデータを解読し組み立てて理解しています。 21 世紀では、アクセス可能な情報はすべてバイナリです。 私たちは常にバイナリレコードの海に浸かっており、このデジタルの複雑さを私たちの感覚で理解できる形式に解きほぐし、視覚と音のシンフォニーを組織しています。 この作品は、エドガー・ドガのパステル作品を視覚の素材として制作しました。 ビデオの冒頭で色彩のカオスが、ワンタイムパッドというデコード技術によって、パステル画「二人のダンサー」の色彩パレットに変換されます。 ビデオの中核は、ドガのパステル画 6 作の画像データからの音楽の作曲です。色彩の要素はランダムにバイナリで抽出され、私が開発したアルゴリズムを使って 12 音階に変換され、ピアノで演奏されます。 新型コロナのパンデミックが起こる前、私は「Four Seasons」というプロジェクトに取り組み、エコロジーをテーマに探求するビジュアルおよびオーディオプロジェクトのビデオ・アートを作成していました。 しかしパンデミックによる制限により、私は屋内に閉じ込められ創造的なソース素材を求めて、無限のインターネット空間を探索するようになりました。この旅を続けながら、私は著作権のない歴史的な写真・サイレント＆トーキー映画、古典絵画から近世絵画まで創作範囲を広げ、芸術の探求を続けてきました。 デジタルアート全盛の今日、私たちはデジタルアートを再考し、新たな価値を与える必要があります。 NFTアートのような金融デジタル商品ではなく、デジタルアートの本来の価値は無限にコピーできることが最大の能力です。 私のビデオは無料でコピーして共有できます。ビデオをアートとして認められる場合は、アーティストにいくらでも寄付できます。 たとえアートと認めなくてもそれを持つことは可能です。 しかしあなたが決めたように、それには芸術的価値はありません。 ただの電子ゴミです。 私は市場価値よりも個人の鑑賞者を尊重ています。 Hide: Japanese / 日本語 My art primarily explores the intriguing relationship between the visual and the auditory. Although I'm not a synesthete, I suspect that the visuals contain elements similar to sound or music. My artwork creates music from binary color data. This concept was influenced by the early 20th-century Russian composer Alexander Scriabin. I believe that our environment is filled with inherently chaotic information, and our perception of the visual and auditory world depends on the intricate assembly of this sensory data through the filters of our eyes and ears. In essence, the world beyond our physical boundaries is a reservoir of code-like information. We decode and make sense of this chaotic data using our senses, primarily our eyes and ears. In the 21st century, all accessible information is binary. We are constantly immersed in a sea of binary records, and we untangle this digital complexity into a format understandable to our senses, orchestrating a symphony of sight and sound. This artwork executed the pastel works of Edgar Degas as visual material. At the beginning of the video, the chromatic chaos of Degas' pastel palette was transformed into the palette of "Two Dancers" through a decoding technique that was a one-time pad. Six short musical pieces were composed from his six pastel works. Color elements were randomly extracted in binary form, transformed into 12-tone musical scales using an algorithm I developed, and played on the piano. Before the COVID-19 pandemic, I worked on the "Four Seasons" project, creating videos for visual and audio projects that explored ecological themes. However, pandemic-induced restrictions kept me indoors, prompting a virtual exploration of the boundless internet for creative source material. Continuing this journey, I have expanded my creative scope to include historical non-copyrighted photographs, silent and talky films, and classical to early modern paintings to continue my artistic exploration. In today's age of digital art, we need to rethink digital art and give it a new value. Unlike financial digital products like NFT art, the value of digital art is its great ability to be copied infinitely. My video is free to share, and you can donate any amount to the artist if you approve of the video as art. Even if you disapprove, you can have it. But it has no artistic value, as you have decided. It's just electronic garbage. I respect the individual viewer more than the market. Show: Kenji Kojima's Biography
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Kenji Kojima is a digital artist. He has been experimenting with the relationships between perception and cognition, technology, music, and visual art since the early 1990s. Primarily he has interested in the relationship between seeing and hearing. He was born in Japan and moved to New York in 1980. He painted egg tempera paintings that were medieval art materials and techniques for the first 10 years in New York City. His paintings were collected by Citibank, Hess Oil, and others. The personal computer improved rapidly during the 1980s. He felt more comfortable with computer art than paintings. He switched His artwork to digital in the early 1990s. His early digital works were archived in the New Museum - Rhizome, New York. He developed the computer software "RGB MusicLab" in 2007 and created an interdisciplinary work exploring the relationship between images and music. He programmed the software “Luce” for the “Techno Synesthesia” project in 2014. His digital art series was exhibited in New York, at media art festivals worldwide, including Europe, Brazil, and Asia, 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. He started the new series "The Musical Interpretation of Paintings and Photographs" which creates music from image data in 2021. LiveCode programmer. https://kenjikojima.com/ Hide: Kenji Kojima's Biography Preliminary Studies: Bitwise Splitting and Merging Pixels • A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte • Wheat Field with Cypresses • Metamorphosis: Caterpillar to Butterfly • One Minute Degas" x 6 |