Created using one year of Tokyo data on electricity usage, temperature, wind speed, precipitation, and humidity.

This work was created for the exhibition “Patterns of Flow.” --- “Patterns of Flow” is an exhibition celebrating a new generation of Japanese artists who create work using code. Following in the footsteps of computer art pioneer Hiroshi Kawano’s experimental aesthetics and continuing the international dialogue initiated by Jasia Reichardt, this exhibition explores the power of generative systems to capture a world in flux. Led by Shunsuke Takao, who inspires the Japanese Processing community through his daily coding practice, Patterns of Flow is a collaboration between Right Click Save and MASSAGE MAGAZINE, and is presented at Feral File and NEORT++ in Tokyo’s downtown district. Patterns of Flow @NEORT++ 2024/9/25 - 2024/10/6 https://two.neort.io/ja/exhibitions/patterns_of_flow --- description: mole^3 speculates that, in postwar Japan, Hiroshi Kawano may have sought, through the art of Piet Mondrian, to sublimate the negative emotions brought about by war through the pursuit of beauty. Her work “Changes, Cycles, and Shapes in Between” analyzes the process by which Mondrian arrived at his final forms through an approach in which shapes and colors evolved organically. In painting, “form” has axes of and , while “color” also has an axis of . Referring to the “Diagram of Composition in Painting,” mole^3 developed a method of simultaneously circulating multiple visual idioms and expressed that cycle within the work itself. In this way, “Changes, Cycles, and Shapes in Between” evokes the shifting state of digital material oscillating between figuration and abstraction—literally, “patterns of flow.” Furthermore, by incorporating textures printed with a baren, she encoded her identity as a printmaker in a native digital form. Feral File: https://feralfile.com/explore/series/bian-hua-xun-huan-sonojian-noxing-changes-cycles-and-shapes-in-between-dal?viewMode=Grid ---

This work uses photographs that capture Yamaguchi Prefecture’s natural environment and local character to express the changing seasons and the cycle of nature. Through programming, the pixels that make up the photographs are repeatedly broken apart and set in motion, layering and shifting to generate new forms and rich colors. We hope these transformations convey the growth of plants and the energy of nature, and deliver a powerful message of beginnings and renewal in life. With the cooperation of Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media [YCAM], this production uses 20 photographs taken by photographer Yasuhiro Tani, as well as Ayu Sakaguchi, Makoto Harada, Natsumi Yamamoto, and Yuhino Yoshikawa of the Yamaguchi University Photography Club. ---------------------------------------------- re-pixcells Digital Art / 24 min. 40 sec. / 2024 Project Owner: Yamaguchi University Hospital, National University Corporation Location: 1-1-1 Minami-Kogushi, Ube City, Yamaguchi Prefecture Cooperation: Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media [YCAM], Yamaguchi University Photography Club Photography: Yasuhiro Tani Art Direction: ArtPlace Inc. ---------------------------------------------- Project Page / ArtPlace Inc.: https://www.artplace.co.jp/project/yamaguchiuniv_hospital_bc_buildings/ Work Description: https://printwithcode.org/re-pixcells/

“Curiosity Blocks” is an animated work that uses the technique of anamorphosis, in which a distorted image is drawn in advance so that it appears correctly when reflected in a cylindrical mirror. The artist envisioned curiosity connecting and overlapping, generating new knowledge and discoveries, and used a method of combining multiple animation elements. The artist, who is also a printmaker, superimposed the relationship between plate and print onto the relationship between the image on the display and the image in the mirror, and incorporated into the animation the layered structure of multi-color prints, in which each color has its own distinct layer and overlaps to form a layered composition. The title “Blocks” carries meanings such as “a mass,” “divisions separated by a grid,” “a series of instructions in a program,” and “a woodblock printing plate.”

This work emerged from an experiment in using programming languages to decompose and reconstruct the pixels of an image. While exploring the possibilities of new forms by incorporating a variety of perspectives and the ideas of overlaying and shifting, I also discovered colors that had been there but unseen, and shapes in the process of transformation. This series of animations also carries the message that people can be reborn again and again. * Produced for the satellite exhibition of the Yebisu International Festival for Art & Alternative Visions (the photographs are from the Yebisu area in January 2024). * Four photographic animations are connected using the same algorithm. CCBT × Yebisu International Festival for Art & Alternative Visions 2024 “Poems in Code: The Present of Generative Art / Moving Images Generated by Programming” Planning: Civic Creative Base Tokyo [CCBT] Program Direction: Theo Hyojeong, Takao Shunsuke - Original project: “Playing with Pixels” https://printwithcode.org/playing-with-pixels/

01/ The main visual for this edition was born from the idea of “interaction between scientists and artists,” my own concept of points in two forms connecting to create surfaces, and dialogue with Sakurai, who has handled the main visuals up to now, designer Maki, and Tsuboi of the Fundamentals Program. The organic forms built from layered lines symbolize the “artist,” while the geometric three-dimensional forms enclosed by planes symbolize the “scientist.” Using a program, I created an animation in which the points of each form connect at random, continually generating new surfaces. The movement of each individual form represents the act of thinking, while the surfaces that are randomly generated and disappear express phenomena that arise incidentally from the dialogue between the two. In addition, by carrying over the circular geometric forms used in previous visuals, this work also suggests a connection to the visuals so far. 02/ At the Fundamentals Fest, the final presentation venue, we used the main visual created for the first time and, by employing printmaking and a plotter, attempted two new experiments: “expanding expression” and “generating in the real world and returning it again.”

"Datascape" is an attempt to use data as a tool to express the waves and fluctuations hidden within data as paintings. #01 plots the coordinates and elevation of 27 train lines running through Tokyo. https://printwithcode.org/datascape/