Ito Yuichi
Program
Ito Yuichi Recollecting Shortages, 2021
EXHIBITION [Nayabashi Bridge Area]
Recollecting Shortages
- Venue:
- Tennozaki Bridge
- Year:
- 2021
- Material / Technique:
- Glitches
Ito is a media artist who intentionally repurposes video and audio digital media in his works, focusing on the use of noises and “glitches” that indicate data errors. Taking the digital media that everyone around us was using and intentionally expressing it in a different form, he presented a different world that could exist.
Artist Statement
Recollecting Shortages
I remember that just around this time last year, there were no masks for sale anywhere. I think we experienced a rare situation with shortages not only in Japan, but all over the world as well. Now that I mention it, there was also a shortage of toilet paper. When I think about it, we ourselves lack many things. But we forget about such things when we have enough. I wonder if the Horikawa River, the venue for this event, has come to see the Nagoya cityscape and how the residents live.
There are ways to increase the number of frames per second in a video to improve the image quality. For example, if we compare a frame rate of 30 frames per second to 60 frames per second, we see that the video with the greater number of frames looks better. With modern video processing technology, we can mechanically increase the rate from 30 frames to 60 frames per second. A technique called frame interpolation is often used with older videos. Going the other way, reducing the number of frames per second gives the video a nostalgic look. However, using this technique to increase the rate from one to 30 frames per second unsurprisingly creates some unnatural-looking video. What’s more, we can create video content that is different from the originally recorded video. Where is this world that has been created? It feels like trying to follow a history without enough records.
This work uses a form of video expression created through the misuse of information media (handling digital media in different ways than originally intended). I added noise expression to video made by misusing frame interpolation, and then projected this onto the pier of Tennozaki Bridge. The video cannot be seen as a flat image. I also included sounds based on the theme of Tennozaki Bridge and the Horikawa River. When you listen for sounds you don’t usually hear, you can hear them coming from under the bridge. By combining these elements, people can detect the changes in the flow of the Horikawa and the bridge, and they’ll pause a bit. I want to provide a space and time to think about the past and future.
Artist
Ito Yuichi
Media Art + Performance
Born in Toyota City, Aichi Prefecture. After completing the doctoral program (Doctoral degree in Media Arts and Sciences) in 2014 at the Department of Media Science at Chukyo University’s Graduate School of Information Science, Ito worked as a research assistant and assistant professor at the Department of Media Engineering in Chukyo University’s School of Engineering. Since 2019, he has been a lecturer in the Department of Information Media at Kanagawa Institute of Technology’s Faculty of Information Technology. Awards he has won include the Prix Ars Electronica 07, Interactive Art category, and the MEC Award 2015.
He is currently creating works with a focus on media expression, using techniques to express data errors called noise and glitches through the intentional misuse of video, sound, and other digital media (handling digital media in different ways than originally intended).
Relation Program
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PERFORMANCE [Nayabashi Bridge Area]
Ito Yuichi Performance
A one-night live performance at the exhibition hall featuring video projected on a pier of the Tennozaki Bridge together with sound sampled underneath the bridge.
- Date/Time:
- Saturday, March 27th 18:30-
- Venue:
- Tennozaki Bridge
