Ph.D media artist
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Work has been showed in YCC Yokohama(JP), 3331 Chiyoda Art Centre(JP), Honggah Museum(Taiwan), Time Museum (Chengdu), Power Station of Art (Shanghai), and other galleries and institutions;
photo credit by DAC
exhibition history:
‘Runoff:Art and Education Arena’ Yuan Museum, Chongqing ,2023;
‘Artificial Reality- The Real Deals of Lies’,WATOWA GALLERY/THE BOX TOKYO,Tokyo,Japan ,2023;
‘A-Real Engine’-18th Digital Art Festival Taipei, Digital Art Centre, Taiwan,2023;
‘Atami Art Grant’- Voyage Atami, Article Atelier & Gallery, Atami-shi, Japan ,2023;
screening history:
ARTS COUNCIL KOREA -DAFTxARKO screening project,2023
Shanghai Film Art Center -FLARE2023
Face to Face-Controlnet (2023)
exhibition history:
‘rising field karuizawa’ Epochs-music&art collective, karuizawa,2023
‘Face toface.controlnet’,Llab,lNlanli, xiamen,china,2023
Convert Operation (2022.2023)
For the dataset used for AI training, I collected a large number of photos of eyes from the Internet (same technique as in the previous work). These close-up images of the eyes used for commercial purposes are all extremely similar. The final generated eyes contain four layers of sight: the first, the sight of the model her/him self when the model is photographed; the second, the sight made up with the product/text when the photo is used in advertising or news; the third, the sight between the screen and me when I use the internet to search for these images; and the fourth, the AI generated infinite sight, which is generated by the machine and looks out into the universe, and never blink.
The text of the video is based on openai/GTP-2 technology. Except for the opening line "I saw a man", the rest of the line is all generated by AI. The contents are illogical but extremely poetic, and most interestingly, The are mostly related to a crime scene. The author has not changed anything of the generated text (except for obvious grammatical mistakes), but only re-orgonized the sequence to create a story- a man who was born at the end of the world, a man who was lost in the murder of others and in his own death, a man who was a man. And all these scenes are watched and spoke out by constantly distorted eyes., which makes it not only a story of a man, but also a story of an eye —— and all the storie are just a meaningless and time-killing play.
exhibition history:
‘EXPERIMENTAL FILM AND VIDEO 2023’CICA MUSEUM,Korea,2023
‘Face toface.controlnet’,Llab,lNlanli, xiamen,china,2023
Soft Revolution(2019/2024)
exhibition history:
‘Safety Training’ ,Blockhouse, Tokyo.2019
‘TERRITORY’, Online Exhibition by SlimeEngine, Shanghai,2020
‘INDEFINITE’, Kiyoshi Art Space, Tokyo,2021
Forms and Models of Training (2020-2021)
The generated fictional medalists maintain a similar screen composition, posture and facial expression to the original images, and can be said to be models that embody the intangible concept of "victory.
This process of repeating the same thing in an unhurried manner can be called "training" for machine learning, just as athletes repeat their daily practice to win medals.
Compared to the cost of producing a real medalist, a medalist generated by AI technology could be more efficient, more reliable, and more useful. Isn't this the kind of rule that should be paramount in today's production activities?
exhibition history:
‘Triangular Relationships’ 3331 Art Chiyoda, Tokyo,2020
‘PANACEA’, Calm&Punk Gallery, Tokyo,2021
‘Guerrillas in Flatland―Emerging Curator Project’ Shanghai Modern Art Museum, Shangai,2021
‘Man-made Landscape ― Hotel Asia Project ’Chengdu Time Art Museum, Chengdu,2022
The Burrow(2019)
In the artwork, the author uses an AI face-swapping app to replace faces of female models in commercial videos with their own. These models, embodying idealized roles, blur individual differences. The protagonist hides behind these artificial doppelgängers, where identity becomes ambiguous. The doppelgängers perfectly respond to the external gaze, yet the only escape from this gaze is to become it.
exhibition history:
“Alternative Kyoto―Imagination as a Form of ‘Capital’”, Art Festival in Kyoto,2022
IMAGINARY LINE” Shibuya CONTACT, Tokyo,2023
‘Face toface.controlnet’,Llab,lNlanli, xiamen,china,2023
Past Projects(2017-2019)
Review: Metamorphosis Divide
Related Solo Exhibition: Metamorphosis Divede(2018)
- Asagaya-Gunkanjima Transport Project(2017,2018)
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Only Black Sees Me(2018)
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World-Wide Shrine(2018)
- Masashiro Yamamoto(2018)
This exhibition features four work completed during 2017-2019: "World-wide Shrine," "Asagaya - Gunkanjima Tranport Project," and "Mashiro YAMASHITA," as well as the ongoing project "Only Black Sees Me ." The content of these works addresses themes such as artificially created and commodified history, consumer landscapes, portions of reality uploaded and preserved on the internet as "layers," and traces of existence suspended between systems and version discrepancies. In these video works, such content is reduced to more entertaining, single-layered images, with the volume of reality/actuality extracted and separated from its context, history, and intent. This results in a flattened reality suspended above the real.
The so-called "post-human era" precisely hinges on a shift where reality as a form of existence and human agency yield to a different paradigm. In other words, it is now possible to imagine a presence based on the abandonment of inherent presence. Meanwhile, if we attribute the ambiguous and distorted visual language to "loss of detail," entering this world implies the necessity to abandon detail, or the reality of detail itself. This creates a more efficient worldview—where the loss of detail signifies lightness, and lightness requires much less memory space than "reality," potentially serving as a survival strategy in the future. As for 3D models, the loss of detail is simply due to insufficient scanning, reflecting the contemporary way people view the world: rapidly, indifferently, in bulk, and with low focus. The result of mass production is a functional suspension, and the consequence of this suspension is replacement by spectacle—the content of some of these works subtly mirrors this mechanism.
In summary: “This society will eventually be erased from computer memory.” This quote from Guy Debord's 1992 French edition preface to "The Society of the Spectacle" encapsulates the overt worldview that runs through these scattered works.
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Related Work
Asagaya-Gunkanjima Delivery Project (2017,2018)
On Google Earth, this commercialized history becomes an even more enter- taining image. In this artwork, the artist transformed the real streets he walks on into a model with 3D scanning software, so as to realize a massive transfer and elimination of real life on the computer. As a realistic prophecy of fast produc- tion leading to fast die-out, Gunkanjima becomes the end point of daily life in this work. Meanwhile, if we attribute the ambiguous, distorted visual language of Google Earth to “the loss of detail”, to enter this world means to discard details (i.e. the reality as detail) and thus shape a more effective world view. The loss of detail means lightweight, and lightweight means it needs a smaller storage space compared to “the reality”, which will no doubt be seen as a survival strategy in the future world. The lightweight for reality is a attened cube in the end, a sus- pension after an object loses functional volume. The oating streets and the com- mercialized Gunkanjima in this work are the vivid re ection of such mechanism.
Only Black Sees Me(2018)
World-wide Shrine(2018)
Step1 : search ‘ buddha manufacture’ in search engine
Step2 : find a reachable buddha statues factory and go there to 3D-scan the Buddha statues;
Step3 : put the 3D data on the surface of its original picture and let it float above its image, and thus we can see the inside of a ‘buddha statue’ —— it’s just as empty as it should to be.
Masashiro Yamamoto(2018)
In the folded panoramic photo, two bulging spots appear in the middle of the sky and the ground, marking where Masahiro Yamamoto was standing. His shadow is sometimes folded into the photo's seams. Upon visiting his personal website, the artist discovered that Masahiro Yamamoto loves touring Japanese temples and actively uploads photos. His real name and identity remain unknown, but the fact that he uploaded those photos to the Street View cloud server is certain.
DEAR(2019)
Next life Centre(2019)
Visitors can explore this architecture through the website, watch performances, and even chat with the AI staff.