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"PIKA DON" is the Japanese word for the Atomic Bomb immediately after it was dropped. Japanese people didn't know about the New Bomb. The Bomb was called "PIKA DON". "PIKA" is the Flash and "DON" is the Explosion Sound.
"PIKA DON" is the Japanese word for the Atomic Bomb immediately after it was dropped. Japanese people didn't know about the New Bomb. The Bomb was called "PIKA DON". "PIKA" is the Flash and "DON" is the Explosion Sound.
The video proclaims "This Planet is Our Home" in 24 languages. Modern civilization has pursued material wealth for a better life. However, excessive material consumption is a serious threat to the survival of living things. It is now widely recognized that the production of materials beyond what is necessary for human subsistence threatens the survival of living things. This has led to many conflicts and environmental pollution. To solve this problem, we need to re-examine the diversity of values and lifestyles around the world and redefine the concept of wealth. The above points have in common that acquiring more things does not necessarily lead to future happiness or fulfillment. We must coexist on this planet. Failure to do so will lead to the extinction of humans and all living things. We must rethink what abundance and happiness mean. We don't have enough time to live comfortably on another planet. Space exploration only worsens the environment by emitting huge amounts of CO2. We should use the brainpower and science of space exploration as a resource to improve the ecology.
Moderate protest than throwing tomato soup at the paintings:
The video can be freely distributed. At the end of the 20th century, the artist Kenji Kojima stopped making material art that left traces of waste in geological formations. He did not want the artwork to become an object of material desire. A large part of the Anthropocene is the accumulation of limitless material desire in a monetary economy. We artists are also faced with the need to reconstruct our way of life. The greatest feature of digital art is that real art can be copied infinitely. It destroys the greedy material possessions of money worship, restores art's extraordinary financial commodity value, and revives its connection to the individual viewer. He tries to eliminate the abnormal financial situation of art embedded in capitalism and give it a different meaning. If art had meaning even after its monetary value disappeared, it would revive the connection with the viewer. This video is freely available under a CC license and can be displayed without permission.
Kenji Kojima was born in Japan. He moved to New York in 1980 and began his artistic career. For the first 10 years in New York City, he painted contemporary egg tempera paintings using medieval art materials and techniques. He was strongly attracted to contemporary art but felt stuck in the future of modern civilization and art with material value. He tried to experience the history of the creation of the European concept of art through actual materials and techniques, that is, the history of art that is not written in literature. He was particularly interested in the basic materials of painting, such as ground, pigment, and medium, rather than the visual theme. He noticed that as society developed, people's minds expanded, materials and tools advanced, and the visual arts changed. Citibank, Hess Oil, and others have collected his egg tempera paintings.
The personal computer improved rapidly during the 1980s. He felt more comfortable with computer art than paintings. Ecologically, he had felt guilty about wasting materials in the name of art. Working on the computer was clean, did not waste material, and made him feel lighter. In the early 1990s, he moved his artwork into the digital arts. He was particularly interested in developing interactive artworks. His early digital works were archived at the New Museum - Rhizome, New York. He studied computer programming himself. In 2007, he developed the computer software "RGB MusicLab" and created an interdisciplinary artwork that explores the relationship between images and music. He developed interactive software for his art but soon ran into a big problem. the software would not run on the new operating systems. He shot the artwork to video while the software ran on the operating system. He started making videos, not only about programming art but also about ecological issues in art by shooting videos. His digital art series has been shown at media art festivals worldwide, including Europe, South America, the Middle East, Asia, and the USA.
After COVID-19, he could not go out to shoot a video, but he found numerous archival artworks online. He launched a new series titled "The Musical Interpretation of Paintings" which transforms classical image data such as paintings, photographs, and films into music. Artist Kojima believes that the sensory organs construct the world by extracting only certain components from the chaos, such as visual and auditory information, like a filter. So we create our world with the "key" of the sensory organs as if we were deciphering a code. In 2023, "Bitwise Splitting and Merging of Pixels" began with the self-question, "With the development of generative AI, can we create visual art that is not an assemblage of past visual data? Currently, all media is recorded in binary form. This fact leads to the manipulation of color pixels using bitwise operations. He created encryption-decryption projects like "The Da Vinci Code" and others. In 2024 he started an Anthropocene and ecological participatory video art project called "This Planet is Our Home".