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Lived Montage / Le montage vécu   (series)

Lived Montage is a series that reconstructs cinematic montage as a form of perception. Participants wear goggle-type devices with cameras and displays. The display of every participant is connected to the camera of every participant. The displays show cinematic images edited by an “algorithm” based on information about the participants and their environment, from the camera images of multiple participants, including themselves, through which the participants observe and act in the space. Most exhibited version employs an algorithm “when the object of awareness/seeing is shared, the vision is shared (the sharing of the view is done by temporal switching based on the timing of the participants' heartbeats).” This new form of perception re-established by this mode forms dynamic collective bodies and abstract spatial recognition, and compulsively critiques what (can) see what.

Lived Montageは、知覚の形態としての映画的モンタージュを再構築するシリーズである。参加者はカメラとディスプレイを備えたゴーグル型の装置を装着する。すべての参加者のディスプレイは、すべての参加者のカメラに接続されている。ディスプレイには、自分を含む複数の参加者のカメラ映像から、参加者とその環境に関する情報をもとに「アルゴリズム」によって編集された映画的映像が映し出され、参加者はそれを通して空間を観察し、行動する。最も多く展示されたバージョンは、「意識する/見る対象が共有されると、視界も共有される(視界の共有は、参加者の心拍に基づく時間的な切り替えによって行われる)」というアルゴリズムを採用している。このモードによって再確立された新しい知覚の形は、動的に変容する集合的な身体と固有の空間認識を形成し、「何が何を見ている/うるのか」という問題を批判する。

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APPARATUS

The media apparatus for "Lived Montage" consists of multiple interconnected goggles. Each set of goggles has a camera and display attached to a wearable wooden box from which a stethoscope extends that is placed on the participant’s chest. The participants’ camera images would be transmitted to a computer (via Wi-Fi/wires), which would group participants according to “what they are watching” known by sensors, and shuffles the images within this group according to the timing of each participant’s heartbeat. Then, these montaged images are sent back to the goggles. In this way, a fictional mode of perception is realized in which “when the object of our consciousness is shared, the vision is shared(as a montaged cinematic view where their perspective switched with the timing of individual heartbeats).”

EXHIBITION RECORD

2024 "Experiment #4 for Lived Montage", Kitaya-Park, Tokyo

Support: Kitaya Park, Takuto Arizumi, Minori Manabe, Kai Fukubayashi

2023 ICC Kifs Program "Nice to meet me!", NTT InterCommunication Center [ICC], Tokyo

Support: ICC, TOKYO STUDIO, Takuto Arizumi, Minori Manabe, Yuri Yasui

2023 Demonstration, at Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology

Support: Wang Hanlin, Haruko Negami

2023 Solo Exhibition "le montage vécu", 3331 Arts Chiyoda, Tokyo

Support: TASKO, Inami Lab, Morikawa -Narusue Lab, CG ARTs, ​Agency for Cultural Affairs of Japan​

2023 "ENCOUNTERS", Special Exhibition “A Quarter-Century of Japan Media Arts Festival” Tokyo

Support: Inami Lab, Morikawa -Narusue Lab, CG ARTs, ​Agency for Cultural Affairs of Japan​

2022 Demonstration, Komaba-sho-kukan, Tokyo, Japan

Support: Theater Company Shintaigengorou, Inami Lab, Morikawa -Narusue Lab

2020 Prototype Demonstration, warehouse TERRADA, Tokyo, Japan

Support: SONY, Inami Lab

Documents

Credit

Le montage vecú / Lived Montage (series)

Goki Muramoto | 村本剛毅

Cinematographer: Kai Fukubayashi

Engineer: Goki Muramoto, Takeru Kobayashi, Takuto Arizumi, Minori Manabe


Support: 

INAMI MONNAI LAB, RESEARCH CENTER FOR ADVANCED SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (RCAST),  THE UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO

THE PROJECT TO SUPPORT EMERGING MEDIA ARTS CREATORS

CG Arts

MORIKAWA NARUSUE LABORATORY, THE UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO

JST Moonshot R&D Program Grant Number JPMJMS2292

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