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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

Better Together, Robert Putnam and Lewis Friedstein, 2003

Better Together, Robert Putnam and Lewis Friedstein, 2003

 

Definition of ‘Social Capital’ in INTRODUCTION

“As used by social scientisits, social capital refers to social networks, norms of reciprocity, mutual assistance, and trustworthiness. The central insight of this approach is that social networks have real value both for the people in those networks-hence, as a career strategy, for bystanders. Criminologists, for instance, have shown that the crime rate in a neighbor hood is lowered when neighbors know one another well, benefiting even residents who are not themselves involved in neighborhood activities.

Just like physicalcapital (tools) and human capital (education), social capita; comes in many different forms -a coffee klatcg, acivic organization, a  bowling league, a labor union, the Ku Klux Klan. As that last example illustrates, social capita; can be put to morally repugnant purposes as well as admirable ones, just as biochemical training can be used to concoct a bioterror weapon or life-saving drug. Social capital is a powerful tool, as our stories will illustrate, but whether it is put to good use or ill is a different issue.”

Definition of Social Capital

Definition of Social Capital

As used by social scientists, social capital refers to social networks, norms of reciprocity, mutual assistance, and trustworthiness. The central insight of this approach is that social networks have real value both for the people in those networks –hence, networking as a career strategy, for example- as well as for bystanders.

–(‘Better Together’ , introduction, Robert Putnam)

社会資本の定義
社会学者によれば、社会資本とは社会的ネットワーク、互恵的規範、助け合い、そして信頼性を表している。この手法の中心となる思考は、社会ネットワークは、その中にいる人々、たまたまそこに居合わせた人々の両方に対して本当の価値をもつということだ。たとえば、キャリア戦略としてのネットワーク作りがそうだ。