Thesis statement, May 5th, 2011

Thesis Statement Draft, as of April 9th, 2011

The urban media lighting is a medium consists of physical devices such as LED light, mobile phone and networked sensors combined with mobilephone network to connect users. This combination of hardware, software and service should be a part of public service. (What)

It supports social stability/sustainability to resolve a weakness of urban spaces built based on modern urban planning theory which lacks attention to keep, maintain and forge social ties of its users.  (Why)

We can find different types of urban space where social ties between its inhabitants are in danger. Among places, we focus upon the places where different type of people come across in daily basis such as Station, Shopping mall, Park, etc in emerging city areas such as suburban new-town or boundary where new city is about to concur old city. (Where)

The users of those places are not likely aware of existence of each other since they just moved in or in a situation like groups of people with different demographics are juxtaposed without given proper contact points and occasions. Or improper urban planning even weaken existing ties and make familiar people unfamiliar.They might feel anxiety ’cause they see xxxxx and at least urban design could not help them effectively so far.(Who)

The urban media lighting system provides shared experiences between them with a combination of physical device -user may see modified street lights- and network service -for users it is  just a mobile phone- situated on site. It gives interaction between members of user in two ways. First the system opens its access to the lighting to users of the site to invite them for participation. As wants and desires of the users from different group of users cross and conflicts on the lighting, the system embraces the conflict, and give the users chances to overcome it.  (How)

When needs of different user conflicts, interaction (needs more detail. What circumstances and /or situation->what) happens.When social ties are weaken, the (When)

  • Why: Social Capital is a buzz word
  • Where: You’ll need at least 3 examples and (an) elaboration
  • Who:　誰？姿が見えない。記述が浅いから
  • Why:　どのような問題が起こっているのか
  • How:　どのように救われるのか
  • How:　どんなインタラクションが起こるのか？
  • 言い換えが浅い

Post industrial city, where major economic change threaten existing community and needs of rebuilding of community arise.

 

•Where strangers are come and go becomes place to get to know and share time in lives.
•Hence make social capital of the area up.
• It will support formation of Social Capital, which normally handled by non-artifact ways. On crossing points, those who are living different area come across. Media….will make negative mood of such a place to positive..
•Hence the system will increase
•Urban media lighting should be a part of public service which government should provide (add to ‘what’)
•プロポーザルでは結論がでそうなフレームが示せればよい。Thesisが価値を示せること。
•1)crossing points where these users periodically come across.

Artangel,London

[from their website]

An urban fox let loose inside a gallery and observed by grainy CCTV; a pale, life-sized concrete cast of a terraced house and the impassioned, national debate it inflames; a bright blue crystalline grotto, hidden behind the doors of a council flat; the re-enactment of a riot; a requiem for an abandoned village…

Based in London but working across Britain and beyond, Artangel commissions and produces exceptional projects by outstanding contemporary artists. Over the past two decades, the projects have materialised in a range of different sites and situations and in countless forms of media.

Each new project evolves from a singular commissioning process, born from an open-ended conversation with an artist offered the opportunity to imagine something extraordinary. Artangel’s work is powered by the belief that artists are capable of creating visionary works which impact upon the way we view our world, our times and ourselves in unusual and enduring ways.

Many Artangel projects are given shape by a particular place and time. They can involve journeys to unfamiliar locations, from underground hangars to abandoned libraries. Or sometimes they can offer unfamiliar experiences in more familiar environments – a terraced house, a department store or daytime television.

This open-ended approach to the artistic process has seen Artangel generate some of the most talked-about, contentious and acclaimed art of recent times, including work by Francis Alÿs, Matthew Barney, Jeremy Deller, Douglas Gordon, Roni Horn, Steve McQueen, Michael Landy, Brian Eno, Gregor Schneider, Robert Wilson and Rachel Whiteread.

Please click here to explore some of the work we have produced in the last twenty years.

Inakage PhD MTG, Apr 26th, 2011

KMD_PhD_Fujimura_Apr26th_2011 PPT

Urban Media Lighting/Open Light

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[Street Light(Wikipedia)][ガス灯][Gas Lighting(Wikipedia)]

•The urban media lighting is a medium consists of physical devices such as LED light, mobile phone and networked sensors combined with mobilephone network to connect users. This combination of hardware, software and service should be a part of public service.

 

•It supports social stability to resolve a weakness of urban spaces built based on modern urban planning theory: lack of attention to keep, maintain and forge social ties of its users. We can find different types of urban space where social ties between its inhabitants are in danger.

 


1)In Situ
2)You’ll turn the light
The world has changed to be safer after we get street lights.
Change urban space, again.
This is a photo of old street light. When street lights came to urban space, it ad changed word became a bit safer, After 100 years, with network and sofisticated lighting components, what if we can turn on.off the lights by ourselves? This is my starting point. If we design relation between us and street lights once again, we may change the urban night scape, once again.

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[Familiar Stranger(Wikipedia)] [Familiar Stranger Project, Eric Paulos]

•This is for the place where different type of people come across in daily basis such as Station, Shopping mall, Park, etc in emerging city areas such as suburban new-town or boundary where new city is about to concur old city.

 

•The users of those places are not aware of each other’s existence because they just moved in or in a situation like groups of people with different demographics are juxtaposed without proper contact points and occasions.

 

•Or improper urban planning even weaken existing ties and make familiar people unfamiliar.

 

SO how it can be useful beyond temporary use of public equipment? People in modern urban space have a number of different issues these days. Considering the situation of where and how streetlight are located/stationed, As arc light hits climinals, This open light can tacke into one of these issues.

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http://www.flickr.com/photos/ruiguerra/4400508887#/
Access_Sester_2002
http://www.flickr.com/photos/dorena-wm/4839911214/
Ars_Center_Renate_Dodell
•The urban media lighting system provides shared experiences between them with a combination of physical device and network service situated on site. It gives interaction between members of user in two ways. When wants and desires of them cross and conflicts at the site, the system embraces the conflict, and give the users chances to overcome it.
•How an interactive lighting system solve such problems? This is the challenge of this research.

Here I show 2 modern examples of evolution of urban light scape.
1)2)
New technologies are coming up. My role is combine those components to be a system to affect our life in urban space.
The challenge is….

Inakage PhD MTG, April 26th,2011 -2

Inakage PhD MTG April 26th 2011

Inakage———-

2  big projects and 1 small
1:SOcial Entertainment project
Navinko-2, LinkU(Peter), Loop(with Mixi), Social Things(with Kayac?, KAGEO, Furisrazumi, etc),
2:Everybody’s art
What is museum in creative society? Recreation of concept of museum
3:Future Cinema
->Social Cinema
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Jess
jessmantel com
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kamimura takeo
上村武男
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Johnthon
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ジャン　ジーヨン
event producing
————
大野さん
アートマネージメント
築地市場のリノベーション？
ケータリングもやっている。
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1)Through PhD Seminar
5/10 Jess, Fujimura@Soul, Ohno
5/24 *canceled
6/7 Johnson, Jiyong, Kamimura

6/28 Jess, Fujimura, Ohno
7/12 Johnson, Jiyong, Kamimura
7/26 *canceled

2)ThroughProjects
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web repository of presentation data
Nomikai
Gasshuku

Pulse Room, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, 2006

Pulse Room in Aarhus, Denmark,2009

Pulse Room 2006

About 100 (analog/classic) light bulbs are hung from ceiling of the installation site.

The bulbs plays a sequence of blinking. Every singe bulb represents and actually repeats heartbeat of past participants as 1 by 1 correspondence.

Sequence of how new participant joins is as following.

One of audience grabs a handle which heartbeat sensor is embedded.

It takes a short while until the sensor stabilize its readout. When it is done, whole order of pulses of bulbs shifts 1 (the oldest is now gone). And the new beat joins.

(Aug 2011)

Tatsuo Miyajima

[from Lisson Gallery website]

Time and our perception of time as expressed through an ongoing succession of numbers lie at the heart of Tatsuo Miyajima’s practice. His sculptural work consists of networks of colored digital LED devices and integrated circuits. Miyajima calls the digital counters, the smallest units that make up the work, “gadgets”. The LEDs, placed on walls and floors, either at random or as part of structured networks, glow in the dark and convey a very specific atmosphere of silence and reflection. The numbers on the LEDs constantly change from 1 through 99 or from 1 through 9 in no specific sequential order. The endless counting of the numbers is just as important as the pauses between one flashing number and the next. Both convey a sense of temporal continuum marked by repetition and difference. Miyajima’s works can be considered the product of contemporary Japanese technology, but they also evoke a more profound philosophical proposition. According to Miyajima, the installation represents the universal concepts of “keep changing”, “connect with everything”, and “continue forever.” (Junichi Shioda, “Whither the Arts?” in Tatsuo Miyajima, MACRO, 2004, p. 135)

Tatsuo Miyajima lives and works in Ibaraki, Japan

www.tatsuomiyajima.com

Tatsuo Miyajima “Kadoya” at “house projects” at Naoshima 1998-1999

Colors&Clouds,Living World,Yokohama,2004

http://www.livingworld.net/works/colors-clouds/

COLORS & CLOUDS

Minatomirai Station, Yokohama (2004)

To coincide with the opening of the Minatomirai subway line, NTT developed a media system called the Mirai Tube. Camera sensors pick up the positions of people as they move about the station concourse, and those positions are in turn expressed as visual feedback. The system was planned as a new advertising medium.
NTT commissioned four groups of artists/designers to create works using the system to be shown in the exhibition in the tube at the Minatomirai station concourse in Yokohama. Living World was one of the groups, and created two works: COLORS and CLOUDS.