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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.”

Description: An installation-style music video work using 20 displays of various ages, both old and new. All of the displays are synchronized, and the objects appearing in the video move back and forth across the screens as the piece unfolds. When an object crosses the boundary between old and new screens, it transforms into graphics suited to the visual language of the era in which that display was used, and the imagery transitions accordingly. After filming these monitors again, inserts were added to reinforce the unfolding narrative, and the work was packaged as a single “music video.” In response to recently emerging forms of expanded-reality visual expression such as VR and AR, as well as highly detailed, realistic CG that is nearly indistinguishable from reality, the artist focused on graphics, the social background of each era, and changes in trends to depict “video” as a medium that has been evolving into a higher-dimensional existence in just 20 years since the artist was born. This was expressed as a video work that takes on different forms as it unfolds across a variety of old and new displays.