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From perceiving cells to the coded individual.

We are pleased to announce the opening of the "Desire of Codes" exhibition introducing a brand new installation piece by Seiko Mikami at YCAM. Mikami chose "information society and the human body" as the central theme of her artistic endeavors since the 1980s, and stepped into the spotlight of the international art scene after introducing computing technologies to her critical and provocative examinations of technology and art in the '90s.
Next to the presentation of a new co-production by Seiko Mikami and YCAM that forms the centerpiece of this exhibition, the "surveillance society and human desires" themed event encompasses also a display of Takashi Ikegami's new installation incorporating aspects of brain science and complex system, as well as a revised version of "gravicells--gravity and resistance", a work on which Mikami collaborated with Sota Ichikawa.

Exhibition website: http://doc.ycam.jp/

- Exhibited work
Seiko Mikami "Desire of Codes" (new work / commissioned by YCAM)
- Related works
Takashi Ikegami "MTM [Mind Time Machine] " (new work / commissioned by YCAM)
Seiko Mikami + Sota Ichikawa "gravicells - gravity and resistance"(revised version / commissioned by YCAM)


In this event YCAM challenges a new exhibition format that includes an additional display of a new installation realized with complex systems scientist Takashi Ikegami as a supplementary work based on the same "human body in surveillance society" theme. Ikegami has designed this interactive installation in reference to the dynamics of mind time, inspired by the idea of self-organizing, subjective timeline in brain science.

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Takashi Ikegami "MTM [Mind Time Machine] " (new work / commissioned by YCAM)



For the new challenge of this exhibition, by way of extending the theme "Desire of Code" of Seiko MIkami, we at the same time present a new art installation "MTM [Mind Time Machine]" directed by a complex systems scientist, Takashi Ikegami. Ikegami is producing an interactive work of mind time processes from the viewpoint of a self-organizing, subjective timeline.
The concept of this work is based on the American brain physiologist Benjamin Libet's studies. Ikegami will reconstruct the subjective momentary "Now" by producing an optical landscape of human cognition that emulates the network of conscious, unconsciousness, and memory processes.
In this installation, MTM [Mind Time Machine], 15 cameras of 4 different types will shoot the actual movements of the audience as they enter the venue. Those images will be processed and evolved in real time by the programs that originally developed from the ideas of complex systems. The final output of the images will be projected onto the three big screens, which correspond to consciousness/unconsciousness/memory, and the corresponding sound images will be produced with the 3.2 channels.

detail of the work: http://doc.ycam.jp/relatedworks/index_en.html/


Production support: Motoi Ishibashi, evala, Yuta Ogai, Keiichiro Shibuya, Kenshu Shintsubo

Organized by Yamaguchi City Foundation for Cultural Promotion
In association with Yamaguchi City, Yamaguchi City Board of Education
Grants from THE ASAHI SHIMBUN FOUNDATION
Corporate sponsors: AD Science Co., Microvision, Inc.
Cooperation: Tama Art University Media Art Lab.; The University of Tokyo, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Department of General Systems Studies Ikegami lab; ATAK; DGN co., ltd.; Perfektron LLC.
Co-developed with YCAM InterLab
Produced by Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media [YCAM]
Design: METAPHOR
Curator: Kazunao Abe (YCAM)