KNOWLEDGE CAPITAL OFFICIAL SITE

SIMPLICITY the art of complexity

2015.5.21(thu)~2015.7.26(sun) The Lab. (2F), Knowledge Capital, Grand Front Osaka North Building
Simplicity the art of complexity Simplicity is the art of sophisticated reduction for creating narratives about unseen entities.

Urban population growth has become a global issue. A similar trend has been brought about by the Digital Revolution, which processes and captures human activities in vast amounts of Big Data. In the cities, people are constantly producing data via tweets, web search engines and ATM transactions. When we talk about the narrative of a city with voluminous amounts of complex and entangled data, the creation of a narrative tale requires the skillful art of reduction.

Currently, we live amongst massive matter. Why do we feel empathy towards a specific object out of the huge amount of objects around us? When expressing a narrative of this feeling, we engage in a subtle process to find a simple order that resolves the complexity and the imagination in order to create a new world with Mitate the Japanese technique of poetic interpretation that creates new meaning.

The exhibition will show work by Carlo Ratti, director of the research group MIT SENSEable City Lab that explores ways to visualize new narratives of SENSEable cities and plaplax, an artist collective known for poetic and intuitive interactive art between human and nature.
This event, which includes an exhibition, talk sessions and workshops, will discuss Simplicity in an age of complexity.

ARS ELECTRONICA

photo: Nicolas Ferrando,Lois Lammerhuber

photo: Nicolas Ferrando,Lois Lammerhuber

Ars Electronica is a cultural institute for media arts, located in Linz, Austria.The Ars Electronica is consisted of 4 departments of “Ars Electronica Festival” for art, technology and society held in every September,“Ars Electronica Center” as museum of the future, “Prix Ars Electronica” international completion for media arts and “Ars Electronica Futurelab” as R&D function. Also many Japanese creators participates in their activities.

Ars Electronica : http://www.aec.at/

Special ProgramA chance to interact and talk with global artists—a special 3-day program hosted by Knowledge Capital

5.21(thu)
Session I Opening special event
Time
open/ 14:30~ start/ 15:00~ end/ 17:00
Venue
KNOWLEDGE SALON Presentation Lounge (7F)
Maximum participants
50 (Scheduled)
Keynote talk
Carlo Ratti
 (An architect and engineer by training, Carlo Ratti practices in Italy)
Round talk
Carlo Ratti
Gerfried Stocker
 (Artistic director of Ars Electronica)
Takuya Nomura
 (General Producer of KNOWLEDGE CAPITAL)

※Moderator
 Emiko Ogawa(Ars Electronica Prix Ars Electronica)

Session II Party & Exhibition Lecture
Time
open/ 17:00~ start/ 17:30~ end/ 20:00
Venue
ACTIVE Studio on 2F The Lab.
Entrance Fee
¥1,000(Includes refreshments)
Maximum participants
50 (Scheduled)

※The artists, plaplax, participating in Simplicity will also attend this event

5.22(fri)
Talk session Art × Simplicity
Time
open/ 17:30~ start/ 18:00~ end/ 20:00~
Venue
KNOWLEDGE SALON Presentation Lounge (7F)
Maximum participants
50 (Scheduled)
Presenters
Gerfried Stocker
 (Ars Electronica Artistic Director)
plaplax Motoshi Chikamori / Kyoko Kuno
Hideaki Ogawa(Ars Electronica Futurelab)
Round talk
All guests will participate

※Moderator
Emiko Ogawa(Ars Electronica Prix Ars Electronica)

5.23(sat)
Workshop plaplax × Ars Electronica Simplicity Workshop

plaplax × Ars Electronica Simplicity Workshop
In the workshop participants will focus on everyday items around them and develop their story telling ability

Time
start/ 14:00 end/ 17:00
Venue
KNOWLEDGE SALON Presentation Lounge (7F)
Maximum participants
20 (Scheduled)

※Please bring one stone pebble on the day.
※Please visit the exhibition on the 2nd floor of The Lab before participating in the workshop.

Guests
plaplax Motoshi Chikamori / Kyoko Kuno / Ai Ohara
Emiko Ogawa(Ars Electronica Prix Ars Electronica)
Hideaki Ogawa(Ars Electronica Futurelab)
Special Program has concluded. Thank you to all who participated!
  • ○Note: When the available participant spots in the programs are filled, no more applications will be accepted.
  • ○Important: Please note that participants in the programs held at Knowledge Salon must be at least 18 years of age.
  • ○For more information:info@kc-i.jp(Knowledge Capital Association)

Participating Artists

Carlo Ratti
 
Carlo Ratti(IT/US)
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An architect and engineer by training, Carlo Ratti practices in Italy and teaches at the MIT, where he directs the SENSEable City Lab. Ratti has co-authored over 250 publications and holds several patents. His work has been exhibited in several venues worldwide, including the Venice Biennale, MoMA in New York City and MAXXI in Rome. At the 2008 World Expo, his “Digital Water Pavilion” was hailed by Time Magazine as one of the “Best Inventions of the Year”. He has been included in Blueprint Magazine’s “25 People who will Change the World of Design” and in Wired Magazine’s “Smart List 2012: 50 People who will change the world”. He is curator for the “Future Food District” at Expo Milano 2015.

http://www.carloratti.com/http://senseable.mit.edu/

 

○Exhibits(provisional)・・・The introduction of MIT SENSEable City Lab

plaplax(JP)
 
plaplax(JP)
Katsina of Pebbles
 

plaplax is an artist collective by Motoshi Chikamori, Kyoko Kuno,Yasuaki Kakehi and Ai Ohara. They are engaged in a wide variety of activities such as space design, exhibition design and research & development with industries and universities. Recently, they've focused on a series named Imaginature as this exhibition shows. Their poetic works were shown in international art exhibitions such as Ars Electronica Linz Austria, Pompidou center Paris France and Japan Media Art Festival.

http://www.plaplax.com/

 

○Exhibits(provisional)・・・"Katsina of Pebbles","La Petra Parallela" etc

Special Program Guests Ars Electronica
 
Gerfried Stocker
 
Gerfried Stocker
 

Artistic director of Ars Electronica.
He directs many creative projects internationally, as a core and representative person in Ars Electronica.

 
Emiko Ogawa
 
Emiko Ogawa
 

Is a head of Prix Ars Electronica which is an international media art competition.
She also works on curation and planning of Ars Electronica Festival.

 
 
○Ars Electronica Exhibition (Scheduled)

focus

In “focus” you will use a smartphone to photograph your focus (point to pay attention). Let’s take a picture and share the simplicity you have found.

A workshop to make a metal badge with your focus photograph will be held on Saturdays, Sundays, and national holidays.

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