{"id":173599,"date":"2021-05-02T12:01:33","date_gmt":"2021-05-02T03:01:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.adfwebmagazine.jp\/?p=173599"},"modified":"2021-05-02T12:01:33","modified_gmt":"2021-05-04T12:42:56","slug":"rhizomatiks_multiplex-at-museum-of-contemporary-art-tokyo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.adfwebmagazine.jp\/en\/art\/rhizomatiks_multiplex-at-museum-of-contemporary-art-tokyo\/","title":{"rendered":"rhizomatiks_multiplex at Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo (MOT)"},"content":{"rendered":"

rhizomatiks_multiplex<\/span> at Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo (MOT)<\/h3>\r\n

I<\/span> have been following Rhizomatiks<\/a> since their starting, because I am interested in R&D and the most recent interactions between technology, art, and design. The company - born in 2006 as a collective of creative people - focuses on creating commercial and artistic projects using arts and technology. The name comes from the philosophical concept developed by\u00a0Gilles Deleuze<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0F\u00e9lix Guattari<\/a>, meaning the diversity and cross-disciplinarity that characterize the group\u2019s approach. The group includes experts of different fields such as architects, designers, visual and media artists, musicians, engineers, and programmers. They have collaborated in the years with <\/span>renowned artists such as Bj\u00f6rk, Squarepusher, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Mansai Nomura, and various others, receiving international acclaim due to their innovative approach and research.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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Daito Manabe + Yusuke Tomoto + 2bit, chains, 2016 Exhibition view: \"GLOBALE: New Sensorium - Exiting from Failures of Modernization\" Courtesy of ZKM | Karlsruhe Photo by Tobias Wootton and Jonas Zilius<\/p><\/div>

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Ryuichi Sakamoto + Daito Manabe, Sensing Streams - invisible, inaudible, 2014
\r\nInstallation view at Sapporo International Art Festival 2014
\r\nPhoto: Keizo Kioku
\r\nCourtesy of Sapporo International Art Festival Executive Committee<\/p><\/div>

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Mansai Nomura\u00d7Daito Manabe, FORM, 2-3 Jan. 2017
\r\nTokyo International Forum
\r\nPhoto by Hiroyuki Takahashi\/NEP<\/p><\/div>\r\n\r\n

The founder Daito Manabe<\/a> (1976), made himself noticed in 2008 with the performance called\u00a0Electric Stimulus To Face<\/em>,<\/a> featuring facial expressions generated by sound through myoelectric sensors. This hybridization of the human being with mechanics and technology became, from that moment, the signature of the company. Rhizomatiks website is a vast source of inspiration for the creativity of every field, filled with projects and researches offering a glimpse of what our future will look like. Sci-fi<\/a> enthusiasts will find many similarities with Black Mirror\u00a0<\/a>\u2013 the British dystopian science fiction that investigates the consequences of new technologies on our society.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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Daito Manabe + Motoi Ishibashi, particles, 2011
\r\nCourtesy of Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media [YCAM]\u3000
\r\nPhoto: Ryuichi Maruo (YCAM)<\/p><\/div>\r\n\r\n

Opened on March 20th, the new exhibition rhizomatiks_multiplex<\/span><\/a> is hosted at the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo (MOT) and celebrates the 15th anniversary of the group. I was lucky to visit it a few days before the temporary closure due by the third lockdown imposed by the Japanese government to control the spread of COVID-19. The exhibition, which is the Rhizomatiks\u2019 first large-scale solo exhibition at a museum, proves the openness of public museums in Japan to display and promote the works of young talents rather than only celebrating the most famous ones.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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Perfume, Reframe 2019, 2019
\r\nPhoto: Yosuke Kamiyama<\/p><\/div>\r\n\r\n

Besides, this project has been developed innovatively considering the recent pandemic, thus creating a refined digital version<\/a> of the exhibition that reproduces the venue with some of its contents. The title itself comes from this innovative approach, where a hybrid exhibition is combined with an online platform: thus, the name \u201cmultiplex.\u201d The digital display replicates the venue at the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo in a 3D model so that online viewers can walk through the actual museum and find additional information, helping to understand the contents more clearly. Furthermore, the position of the actual visitors inside the museum is traced and visualized online, thus creating a bridge between real and virtual. \u201cOur bodies oscillate between the virtual and the real, and what is now needed is a vital inquiry into the real points of contact that will permit us to access these troves of invisible big data. In response to these rapidly changing circumstances, Rhizomatiks attempt to update our bodily sensations, perceptual awareness, and critical-analytical abilities from various angles\u201d, states the exhibition\u2019s curator Yuko Hasegawa.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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Rhizomatiks Research\u00d7ELEVENPLAY\u00d7Kyle McDonald, discrete figures Special Edition, 6 Oct. 2019
\r\nSapporo Cultural Art Theater hitaru
\r\nproduced by Sapporo Cultural Art Theater hitaru,Rhizomatiks
\r\n\u00a9kenzo kosuge<\/p><\/div>\r\n\r\n

The exhibition route starts with a section dedicated to the history of Rhizomatiks over the past fifteen years and the concept of \u201cdata visualization.\u201d The latter includes an attractive area called \u201cNFTs and CryptoArt-Experiment,\u201d with the installation \u201cCryptoArt-Experiment,\u201d a marketplace to trade and collect unique digital artworks encrypted as NFT<\/a> (non-fungible token).<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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Rhizomatiks Research \u00d7 ELEVENPLAY, border, 2015
\r\nphoto by Muryo Homma<\/p><\/div>\r\n\r\n

\u201cPhysical performances, and the creation of a hitherto unknown body\u201d is the second section, where visitors become parts of a physical performance created in collaboration with ELEVENPLAY<\/a>\u00a0and Perfume. The installation<\/a> consists of the motion capture data of dancers, combined with video projections and moving robotic cubes. Like in a Black Mirror\u2019s episode, real and virtual realms blend to create a \u201chitherto unknown body\u201d and a poetic interaction between human and machine. This is a taste of a \u201cnew humanity\u201d waiting ahead. Our physical existence will generate data, and that information will be elaborated on by computers and translated into unimaginable outputs.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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\"Fencing Visualized Project\", 2013-
\r\nH.I.H. Prince Takamado Trophy JAL Presents Fencing World Cup 2019<\/p><\/div>

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Squarepusher, Terminal Slam, 2020<\/p><\/div>\r\n\r\n

After experiencing this exciting preview of the next future, I reluctantly left the room. I found the following sections dedicated to R&D and Behind the scenes, filled with several experiments realized by Rhizomatiks in their fifteen years of activity. Here emerged clearly the trial & error process behind each project, typical of the scientifically driven approach that characterizes the team and assimilates it more to an academic laboratory than a commercial company.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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Rhizomatiks \u201cStaying TOKYO\u201d, 2020
\r\nOnline event by Rhizomatiks<\/p><\/div>

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Daito Manabe + Kamitani Lab, dissonant imaginary, 2019
\r\nPerformance view at MUTEK.JP 2019<\/p><\/div>\r\n\r\n

The route ended with the most impressive work, an installation called \u201cParticles 2021<\/a>\u201d, which has won various awards in Japan and abroad. The hypnotic movement of balls with a built-in LED, sliding along an organic spiral structure, is paired with a laser that precisely tracks the balls\u2019 position. The action is emphasized through lights and sounds activated when the balls touch control points on the rail, creating an immersive show where the physical hardware and virtual layers coexist symbiotically. This project was proposed for the first time in 2011<\/a> and updated in line with this exhibition.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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Rhizomatiks, Oscillation, 2016
\r\nPhoto by Muryo Homma<\/p><\/div>

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Rhizomatiks \u201cLucid Motion by Daito Manabe \u00d7Rhizomatiks Research\u201d, 2019<\/p><\/div>\r\n\r\n

Concluding with the words of curator Hasegawa, \u201cAs COVID-19 forces the world to go online, thereby questioning the new possibilities that surround human communication, Rhizomatiks, who have put into practice many ongoing projects and technological proposals, will showcase the new role of artists in this changing world in the spring of 2021\u201d.<\/p>\r\n

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