The work is based on Takayuki’s interest in interactive technologies, particularly computer vision—where computers process external images and information—and computer graphics, where data in a computer is made visible to the human eye. Data from 3D models created by scanning collections found in Cyprus are transformed into wireframe models within the computer. This process attempts to reconstruct a surface-based world in three-dimensional space, focusing on the brain’s tendency to emphasize boundaries in the information available from vision and translate the scene in front of us into two dimensions using the most basic surface element, the triangle. These models are then rematerialized into real space through 3D printing.
When Takayuki saw the 3D model data obtained from a scan of a cat object found in Cyprus on his PC, it appeared both realistic yet somehow lacking in reality. This duality symbolized his experience in Cyprus, where he encountered a culture and society vastly different from that of Japan. By transforming these scans into tangible works through digital technology, Takayuki seeks to capture the essence of his time in Cyprus and the people he met, while also exploring perceptions of reality and how we interpret the world around us.
The project was developed as part of the Artist-in-Residence Program at Thinker Maker Space of CYENS.
Takayuki Mori is an interactive light and multimedia visual artist from Japan. He has created unique artworks combining lighting and sculptural forms and has gotten attention from art professionals in Japan and abroad for his creativity and advanced techniques. After graduating, from Kyoto University of Arts and Design, he started his career as an artist, and has won various awards and exhibited his works at art festivals, exhibitions at prominent museums, public space and light art events, such as Museum Murten (Murten, Switzerland), Wayne State University (Detroit, USA), TARO OKAMOTO MUSEUM OF ART (Kanagawa, Japan), and Roppongi Art Night (Tenso Shrine, Japan).
Based on his interest in the relationship between visual information and the brain that processes it, he has used light and permeable materials in his work in order to eliminate materiality from work as much as possible and explore the relationship between digital and analogue, two-dimensional and three-dimensional, virtual space and real space. When considering the scene we see before us (light and shadow), a system of mathematical dimensions is involved, and their traversal helps us to understand the world more deeply.
The physical sculptures and installations created by moving back and forth between digital and analogue express visual distortion and transformation and encourage the viewer to reflect on the relationship with the physical world and its impact on the experience.
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The work is based on Takayuki’s interest in interactive technologies, particularly computer vision—where computers process external images and information—and computer graphics, where data in a computer is made visible to the human eye. Data from 3D models created by scanning collections found in Cyprus are transformed into wireframe models within the computer. This process attempts to reconstruct a surface-based world in three-dimensional space, focusing on the brain’s tendency to emphasize boundaries in the information available from vision and translate the scene in front of us into two dimensions using the most basic surface element, the triangle. These models are then rematerialized into real space through 3D printing.
When Takayuki saw the 3D model data obtained from a scan of a cat object found in Cyprus on his PC, it appeared both realistic yet somehow lacking in reality. This duality symbolized his experience in Cyprus, where he encountered a culture and society vastly different from that of Japan. By transforming these scans into tangible works through digital technology, Takayuki seeks to capture the essence of his time in Cyprus and the people he met, while also exploring perceptions of reality and how we interpret the world around us.
The project was developed as part of the Artist-in-Residence Program at Thinker Maker Space of CYENS.
Takayuki Mori is an interactive light and multimedia visual artist from Japan. He has created unique artworks combining lighting and sculptural forms and has gotten attention from art professionals in Japan and abroad for his creativity and advanced techniques. After graduating, from Kyoto University of Arts and Design, he started his career as an artist, and has won various awards and exhibited his works at art festivals, exhibitions at prominent museums, public space and light art events, such as Museum Murten (Murten, Switzerland), Wayne State University (Detroit, USA), TARO OKAMOTO MUSEUM OF ART (Kanagawa, Japan), and Roppongi Art Night (Tenso Shrine, Japan).
Based on his interest in the relationship between visual information and the brain that processes it, he has used light and permeable materials in his work in order to eliminate materiality from work as much as possible and explore the relationship between digital and analogue, two-dimensional and three-dimensional, virtual space and real space. When considering the scene we see before us (light and shadow), a system of mathematical dimensions is involved, and their traversal helps us to understand the world more deeply.
The physical sculptures and installations created by moving back and forth between digital and analogue express visual distortion and transformation and encourage the viewer to reflect on the relationship with the physical world and its impact on the experience.
