By Yvonne Spielmann
This booklet grew out of Yvonne Spielmann's 2005--2006 and 2009 visits to Japan, the place she explored the technological and aesthetic origins of eastern new-media art--which used to be recognized for pioneering interactive and digital media purposes within the Nineties. Spielmann stumbled on an important hybridity in Japan's media tradition: an inner hybridity, a mix of digital-analog connections including a non-Western improvement of modernity become independent from yet no longer proof against Western media aesthetics; and exterior hybridity, produced through the foreign, transcultural shuttle of aesthetic thoughts. Spielmann describes the leading edge know-how context in Japan, within which builders, engineers, and artists collaborate, and strains the japanese fondness for precision and performance to the poetics of unobtrusiveness and element. She examines paintings through artists together with Masaki Fujihata, whose paintings is either officially and thematically hybrid; Seiko Mikami and Sota Ichikawa, who construct targeted units for a brand new experience of human-machine interplay; Toshio Iwai, who connects conventional media varieties with computing; and Tatsuo Miyajima, who anchors his LED art in Buddhist philosophy. Spielmann perspectives hybridity as a favorable aesthetic value--perhaps the defining aesthetic of a world tradition. Hybridity deals a conceptual procedure for contemplating the ambivalent linkages of contradictory components; its dynamic and fluid features are neither conclusive nor express yet are supposed to stimulate fusions.
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Seiko Mikami and Sota Ichikawa paintings with a structurally related inspiration of interactivity prone to adventure of their install Gravicells (Japan, 2004, figs. 62–63), which audience can stroll into. the following, the possibility of gravity, which isn't obvious, is translated right into a visible notion of deformed area.