Island of Senses - Island of Dark Art (感覚の島- 暗闇の美術島) is open. Visitors can come explore the uninhabited island of Sarushima (猿島, "Monkey Island") at night to experience a range of new media art installations that will stimulate your senses and imagination.
今週末から横須賀の無人島・猿島で「Sense Island -感覚の島- 暗闇の美術島」が始まります。
Exhibition runs for 22 days (Sat. 22 Jan - Sun. 6 Mar, 2022). Tickets are available online:
https://senseisland.com
I’m excited to announce that this year "Soundform No. 2" is being featured at Sense Island!
In 2019 we debuted "Soundform No.1" at Ars Electronica, an investigation into the use of heat-actuated air columns made of glass, utilized as an alternate form of generative media and creative sound synthesis. In 2020 the work was featured at the Tokyo-based Miraikan Museum for Emerging Science and Innovation, winning the Japan Media Art Festival’s excellence award.
Continuing our exploration, we adapted the artwork for the outdoors, and installed it on the island of Sarushima, Tokyo-bay’s only uninhabited island. Its durability quickly tested as it became temporarily submerged by a tsunami, caused by an underwater volcanic eruption near the island of Tonga!
This artwork is a collaboration between Mikhail Mansion, Yasuaki Kakehi and Kuan Ju Wu—collectively Natura Machina.
Natura Machina is an experimental artist collective that theorizes and explores a new aesthetic convergence between nature and machine through the advent of new media art.
Drawing on nature for inspiration, input and source, Natura Machina seeks to uncover new modalities of experience, communication and creative expression. Through research, design and fabrication of new media arts installations, the group explores forces, ephemera, patterns, perception, interactions, sensation, motions, spaces, sounds and numerical relationships between natural environments and artificial systems and machines.
