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.
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/
※Moderator
Emiko Ogawa (Ars Electronica Prix Ars Electronica)
※The artists, plaplax, participating in Simplicity will also attend this event
※Moderator
Emiko Ogawa(Ars Electronica Prix Ars Electronica)
plaplax × Ars Electronica Simplicity Workshop
In the workshop participants will focus on everyday items around them and develop their story telling ability
※Please bring one stone pebble on the day.
※Please visit the exhibition on the 2nd floor of The Lab before participating in the workshop.
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.
○Exhibits（provisional）・・・The introduction of MIT SENSEable City Lab
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.
○Exhibits（provisional）・・・"Katsina of Pebbles","La Petra Parallela" etc
Artistic director of Ars Electronica.
He directs many creative projects internationally, as a core and representative person in Ars Electronica.
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.
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.
