Computer graphics, media art, tea culture, and Zen.
Computer Graphics, Media Art, Tea Culture, and Zen
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I took rough notes at the venue.
2021-12-20 Additions.
Table of Contents
Materializing computer nature
Computer Graphics and Media Art
Stationary nomads
Sustainability and Media Art
tea culture
Media Art Alternatives
the familiarity of a tea-ceremony scene
Apu and sora, once in a lifetime
Mingei and Symbiosis
To Life
Alternatives to Man and Nature
What is "materialization"?
Theory of the Chiralty
nishio.iconI was reading Heidegger's "What is technology?" recently, so I thought he was talking about the "materialization" of that one, maybe they have the same root, but I guess I should think of them as different things first. transformation of material things
media art
Technological developments in photography and imaging
→The Birth of Media Art
Conscious of the newly emerging medium
Gap between the material world and the image in the mind
Process of rendering into matter to image
dig out a stone
mural
animation
Aerial Display
Make the air glow
acoustic levitation
Creating a display that touches the air is halfway between a touchable substance and an untouchable image.
Can interact with animals and plants
Matter and Image
Material and Image, Changing Perceptions of the After Corona
Image as an extension of corporeality
The image is the second body
nishio.iconAvatar-like or videoconference camera footage
That would be presence.
Not content.
It's a different context than projection equipment or appreciation of a work of art.
"nomads in residence."
stationary nomad
Nam June Paik
There was an oil crisis and other times when people thought about the relationship with the environment.
Music and dance 500,000 years old, painting 20,000 years old.
They weren't settled until agriculture was born.
Music: Art that people can take with them
The Big Picture
Heavy and inconvenient to carry
To solve energy problems
Keep the body moving and the idea moving.
Stationary nomads
The body is fixed.
I'm sure you've all felt it keenly over the past two years.
But something unfulfilling, a problem of physicality.
More and more visual works are being created.
Until now, it has been mechanical.
Waterproof, LED, heightened resolution 4K, 6m, 1mm pitch, video outdoors
≪Brewing monoliths≫.
To make it work as an installation without having to physically construct it.
Post-Covid, Nam June Pike Thinking
Sustainability, the new everyday, physicality and video, NFT, changing media arts
Visual works are becoming more physical.
Draw a horizontal line to the horizon.
30 transmissive displays
To the extent that you feel physicality.
big
Images that blend in with the space.
Human move and maintenance, but difficult
Set up without going to the site
Things can be customs cleared, human mobility is difficult.
Sending works and things electronically
The rise of the NFT market
Moving non-physical art on electronic space
We are approaching a sedentary nomadic population.
Reasonable change from physical galleries and auctions to electronic ones
Media Art and Sustainability
two
1: Sustainability per se
Frequently broken
plow (esp. horse or ox-drawn)
Float it so that it reflects the surroundings.
Easily broken
3 exhibits, 10 spares, 8 broken.
Contrary to Sustainability.
How can it be unbroken?
→NFT and saved.
2: Environmental Impact
small is beautiful
Schumacher
human-centered economics
Buddhist economics
Stationary nomads
Settled in the vicinity
Maybe there is a clue in the tea culture.
bamboo tea spoon for making Japanese tea
bamboo duster (with the leaves still attached at one end)
It can be made by laying bamboo on a thatched roof for 100 years.
I can get it from an abandoned house.
Susudake is bamboo that has been collected from the attics and ceilings of old thatched-roof houses, and has been smoked over 100 to 200 years by the smoke from hearths, giving it a distinctive brownish-brown or candy-like color.
Seeing Tea Culture as an Alternative to Media Art
courteous
The gesture of serving itself is a performance
Chajin is a curator and performance artist
What to put in a tea room = curation
Create an experience to narrate something
Close to media art
Conscious art of what media to use.
Use of the classic medium of "message with assortment of videos"
Tea room made of gunpla runners
Rikyu's waiting-an vase
Natural products for local production for local consumption
the familiarity of a tea-ceremony scene
steadfastly sticking to one's principles
Same taste
This expression is used to mean that although the tea ceremony and Zen may seem to be different, the conditions sought are the same. Chanoyu is connected to Zen. Originally, the tea ceremony is a path that arose from Zen. (Practical Japanese Expression Dictionary) ninja working in the field of Zen Buddhism
tea used for tea ceremony
500 year old teacups
Highly sustainable
National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation
I didn't build a tearoom, but I represented a tearoom.
Make a bamboo grove with silver and place hanging scrolls and ikebana.
Nature in the computer,
Nature Outside
tea ceremony
Kegon (sect of Buddhism)
Computer Culture
I think they're close.
Ikebana is an installation
Ikebana and Robot Arm
teacup
I'll try to get the weight right and serve it in aluminum.
Putting the digitally made object face to face with the craftsman.
aesthetic sense in Japanese art emphasising quiet simplicity and subdued refinement
Can be explained without using Buddhist terminology.
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Wabi: Rough and random decadence
Sabi: forms appearing by time, things that come up with time
Beauty found in the process of harmony
Repeatedly approaching Nature
folk art movement
Beauty with Life
Look for art created by someone who is not a specific artist.
Mingei and Symbiosis
What's missing with Zoom
Conviviality, Festivity and Co-Exultation
If there is not enough, it will not be possible to efficiently satisfy the needs that are generated among the members of society.
Soetsu Yanagi
Traditional beauty in objects made by unknown artisans in their daily lives
Rediscovering Mingei through Technology
Lion puppet about the size of a pinky finger
When viewed with a zoom camera, there are DETAILS that are not captured by the human eye.
I want my digital data to last.
platinum print
Dedicated to Daigoji Temple
Year of foundation: 16th year of Sadakan (874)
last 1000 years
Cannot be printed commercially.
Printed by hand
The process of doing it is very convivial
Japanese paper
Long-lasting because it does not change pH
cellulose lump
I treat paper very well knowing that my grandmother took the time and effort to make it.
convivial
Make it together at the SIGGRAPH venue, or make it at home.
In addition to writing papers and making SOTA stuff.
How can we create something CONVIVIAL?
To Life
fashion show
patchwork
Long-lasting clothing culture
old rag from the Tohoku region
Clothes that have been handed down for 200 years
shame
In recent years, it has been re-attracted
Gathering sustainability stuff from all over the place
Daigoji Temple
Trees were broken by the typhoon.
Exhibit of digital objects growing from stumps
transmissive display
Collaboration with the voice of sutra reading
LEDs will be a natural material in the future.
Surprisingly, it fits in with tradition.
A culture of using and enjoying different mediums
I think it will survive like the tea culture.
Saint-Exupery
Machines are disappearing from human consciousness.
Every technology approaches nature.
Digital becomes natural too.
A non-human-centered landscape of life
Transcendence of value and worthlessness
Sustainability without subjectivity
Something that lasts even when people are gone.
world fair
We need to regularly make things that can only be made with computer science expertise.
folk art
Expo 1970
High economic growth, industrial products, uniformity
Review of the beauty of handwork that deviates from uniformity
At the next Expo.
They could all be wearing uniform goggles.
But I think something less uniform will be reviewed.
Kegon (sect of Buddhism)
symbiosis
folk craft
Buddhist philosophy
computational nature
It could be done without the religiosity.
nishio.iconYou mean to pull out the oriental thought that has its roots in Buddhism and replant it in "nature with computers" in the same way that Wabi-sabi is expressed in computerized form?
Yes, because there were no computers in Buddha's time.
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question
Feeling that something is unfulfilled
convivial
Yanagi looks to folk art as a method to regain
Not "what we believe" but "what people use."
beauty for your use
The Beauty of Use
I'm missing something in Zoom.
Must we revert to "stuff"?
mindfulness
Derived from Zen practice
Calm yourself down.
folk craft
It's not what I practice.
see through a tool
The unfulfilled is fulfilled.
self-serving
For example, do foodstuffs at home
There's a dish for that.
Something I like, something I think is beautiful, rather than something that is functional.
Hand craftsmanship, digital fabrication
Regress to things that have fulfilled conviviality?
I think so
Metaverse, a world devoid of corporeality, this is not coming?
No, convivial is a resolution issue.
The problem with the current Metaverse is largely a lack of resolution.
OK as long as the display progresses.
It's important to have a system that doesn't specialize only in things that we think about with our minds, like logic.
To what you feel in your body
Early Twitter "Now" = physicality
It is not the meaning that it flows in the timeline, but the body
nishio.iconMaybe it's because it's an action that I shared without thinking too much about what I felt.
If you come close to it, you will create a coexistent experience.
Approaching meaninglessness, non-logicality, and physicality
Ai zu ku, toast to bump it.
Direct, unequivocal action on an objective?
Indeed, it diminished.
For example, it doesn't produce added value for the purpose of moving conference rooms.
Q: Is it necessary to add more things that do not add value to the objective?
A: Value-added can have better space with added value.
No need to stick that in the meeting.
There is no need to include the "non-value-added conviviality" of "travel" in the meeting.
Or making tea at home.
A form of craft that is closely related to daily life
Digital or non-digital.
Discussion of physicality
What's the point of being mobile if you don't stay home and move?
Settled nomads place comfortable objects around them.
What I work for, what I live for, what I like (nishio.icon is this a quote?)
They've been saying that since Nam June Paik.
Marginal costs are lower, allowing for creations that are not for convenience purposes.
Q: I'm starting to understand a little better what you meant by Digital Nature. Why did you name your lab the way you did?
When 26-7
I was thinking of going with Computational Nature.
Too long.
I decided to go digital.
Original nature ←→ Nature without mass Simulated nature
by cutting out information on top of the digital signal.
Nature that is not in rocks but in living things.
Massless nature affects original nature.
Natural objects as a whole
meta-nature
Every single level of the metaverse has different laws(?).
Q: I don't understand how digital and nature get attached when you are older, do students understand this?
Philosophy influenced by object-oriented
In metaphysics, object-oriented ontology (OOO) is a 21st-century Heidegger-influenced school of thought that rejects the privileging of human existence over the existence of nonhuman objects.
Deconstruct nature and call New Nature digital nature. I understand students who are studying.
Philosophy or physical theory.
Students may need to study it to understand it.
nature
Not in relation to humans.
nishio.iconNot a "man v. s. nature" composition.
Nature as a system that includes humans
Then it's not surprising that digital is included there.
And the nature that contains the digital is a little different from the nature we've seen before.
When you reach the age of PhD or so, you reach a point where you can say "I'm not a PhD.
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nishio: I wonder if it means that the conflict structure of "art without mass (e.g. songs) v.s. art with mass (e.g. large paintings)" has reached the Aufheben of "digital data without mass" + "displays (= things with mass) large enough to feel physicality". I wonder if this means that we have reached the Aufheben of "displays (= things with mass)"... nishio: I'll have to go back and read the lecture video or slides a bit, my notes are not enough information. In particular, the keyword "hwagon" in "hwagon, symbiosis, and folk art" does not sit well. I think "physicality" is a stronger pipe connecting the first half and the second half. https://gyazo.com/23296422fb19d86f165fb99c9a8636eb
ochyai: I'm so sorry I skipped Kegon because I didn't have time. I'm sorry I skipped Kegon because of lack of time.... > Formation of Chinese Hua Yan through fusion of the Hua Yan Sutra and Zhuangzi
nishio: I think it is more important to know "which aspect of Miraikan's exhibition you feel the concept of Hua Yue" than "the concept of Hua Yue" itself. I think it is more important to know "which aspect of the Miraikan exhibition you feel the concept of Kegon". I started reading the Hua Yan material that Mr. Ochiai gave me.
nishio: we, when a thing "is", implicitly assume that it "will continue to be", but that is just a "mental model of how the world works" that we learned while growing up in the old physical nature. It is just a "mental model" learned while growing up in the old physical nature. The assumption that things "continue to be" does not hold true in a "state where all five senses are digitally covered", which is an extension of covering our vision with HMDs. nishio: The laws of the "old physical world" including "what is" is "always" need not be true in the "new digital world," and it is natural to assume that the worldview of people of the future living in that world will naturally differ from the worldview of people of today. It is natural to assume that the worldview of people of the future, who live in such a world, will naturally differ from the worldview of people of today. For example, objects do not have fixed entities, but only appear as needed. nishio: In modern terms, "3D models in VR space are downloaded and placed as needed from asset stores containing vast amounts of data. In the words of a futurist who was born and raised in a digital world, "an individual object is a manifestation of the Absolute, segmented in various ways, and has no fixed substance". nishio: This "worldview that is commonplace for people of the future" is actually, surprisingly, almost equal to the "vacuum view = all individuals have no fixed substance" and the "director-less view = the reason of eternal, infinite, and absolute existence becomes self-segmented and manifests itself in various individuals" in the Kegon sect. The "view of the vacuum" in Kegon Buddhism is actually almost the same as the "view of the infinite, eternal, and absolute truth that is self-segmented and manifests itself in a wide variety of individual objects. This is why the worldview of Hua Yan is the worldview of computer-based nature. nishio: and I was told this after thinking this far. The latter link, "山紫水明∽事事無碍∽計算機自然" in "山紫水明∽事事無碍∽計算機自然" is a concept that corresponds to the pervasive connotation view that comes after the sense of vacuum and the director-free view, so it looks like my thinking is going in the right direction >[ochyai https://twitter.com/ochyai/status/ 1472062123270635523] Summary.
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