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This interactive artwork. originally produced and unveiled at YCAM, returns to Yamaguchi from a journey around the world
Seiko Mikami continues to produce works of art that challenge her contemporaries, while critically observing technologies and the ideas behind them with a focus on "information society and the human body" since the 1980s. In connection with the large-scale solo exhibition that opens in March 2010. Also Seiko Mikami and Sota Ichikawa's "gravicells - gravity and resistance" will be shown once again in a revised version.
This work was produced and subsequently unveiled at YCAM in May 2004, from where it embarked on a journey around the world. Celebrated exhibitions at twelve different locations in eight countries, including Tokyo, Berlin and Torino, solidified the piece's reputation as one representative work of media art. This work provides a space with hypothetical dynamics having the opposing forces of gravity and resistance, through special devices and sensors.
Walking freely in the site, audiences are able to feel gravity that they are seldom aware of, resistance to it, and the effects caused by other participants. All movements and changes made by participating audiences are transformed into the movements of sound and geometrical images through special sensors,.whole space develops or changes in this interactive installation.
YCAM organizes original art works on the theme of "art & science" that incorporate information technology. Works are realized and exhibited with the YCAM InterLab production team's technical support.
Aiming to explore the creative potential of media technology, the numerous works of art that were previously created here highlight at once aspects of the human body and media that we are usually not aware of.
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One of these achievements, "gravicells" is certainly an epoch-making interactive work that enables the participating audiences to sense the presence of gravity and its effect on the human body. This artwork that anyone can enjoy without background knowledge in media art and computer, it has been set up in twelve cities in eight countries so far, and continues to fascinate people around the world.
