Seiko Mikami, Eye-Tracking Informatics

Dates｜　Seiko Mikami’s work is on display during the following days.

1. May 23 (Tue) to 31 (Wed), 2023
2. June 13 (Tue) to 30 (Fri), 2023
3. July 1 (Sat) to 15 (Sat), 25 (Tue) to 29 (Sat), 2023
4. August 1 (Tue) to 26 (Sat), 2023

＊ Closed on Sundays & Mondays

 

Times｜       2 pm to 6:30 pm (Last entry at 6 pm)
Venue｜      √K Contemporary 3F
Admission｜800 yen *Reservations required・cash only (Same-day admission is possible depending on availability)
Organizer｜√K Contemporary
Co-Operators｜Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media [YCAM], Norimichi Hirakawa, Keisuke Tanaka (STUDIO OLGA)

 

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Viewing Times｜Every 30 minutes from 14:00, last entry at 18:00 (Approx. 20 min per session)

 

Image: Seiko Mikami, Eye-Tracking Informatics (2011)
Photography by Kazuomi Furuya, Courtesy of Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media [YCAM]

Japanese media artist, Seiko Mikami’s Eye-Tracking Informatics is on special display on the 3rd floor of the gallery. Mikami, who sadly passed away in 2015 at the age of 53, created and exhibited this work at the Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media [YCAM] in 2011. This special display will be the first presentation of Mikami’s Eye-Tracking Informatics since NTT InterCommunication Center [ICC]’s 2019 exhibition. Based on the notion of “observing the act of observation”, Mikami’s installation visualizes the viewer’s gaze in a three-dimensional virtual space.

ARTISTS

Seiko Mikami (1961 - 2015)

Former artist & professor at Tama Art University’s Media Art Laboratory. Since the 1980s, Mikami has presented large-scale installations themed on information society and the human body. In the 1990s, most of her works were interactive media art installations that incorporated human perception; from her eye-tracking project “Molecular Informatics,” to her work regarding acoustic sense and the living body sound “World, Membrane and the Dismembered Body,” her work “gravicells – gravity and resistance” centered on the theme of the gravity called the 6th consciousness and “Desire of Codes”, which focused on the coded individual in an information society.

Mikami has exhibited with Fundacio Joan Miro, Le Musée des Beaux-arts de Nantes (Nantes), Künstlerhaus Vienna (Vienna), Kulturhuset Stockholm (Stockholm), and Canon ARTLAB (Tokyo). Mikami has also presented her works at a number of international media art festivals such as transmediale (Berlin), DEAF (Rotterdam), SHARE (Turin), Ars Electronica (Linz), MoiMulti (Quebec), TESLA (Berlin), VEROCITY Festival of Digital Culture (UK), TRUST (Dortmund), ISEA and more. Mikami held her solo exhibition “Desire of Codes” at Yamaguchi Center for Art and Media [YCAM] and NTT InterCommunication Center [ICC] and from 2012, went on to travel around the world. She passed away in 2015 at the age of 53.

Sourced and edited from the NTT InterCommunication Center [ICC] Website（https://www.ntticc.or.jp/en/archive/participants/mikami-seiko/）

Seiko Mikami (1961 - 2015)

Former artist & professor at Tama Art University’s Media Art Laboratory. Since the 1980s, Mikami has presented large-scale installations themed on information society and the human body. In the 1990s, most of her works were interactive media art installations that incorporated human perception; from her eye-tracking project “Molecular Informatics,” to her work regarding acoustic sense and the living body sound “World, Membrane and the Dismembered Body,” her work “gravicells – gravity and resistance” centered on the theme of the gravity called the 6th consciousness and “Desire of Codes”, which focused on the coded individual in an information society.

Mikami has exhibited with Fundacio Joan Miro, Le Musée des Beaux-arts de Nantes (Nantes), Künstlerhaus Vienna (Vienna), Kulturhuset Stockholm (Stockholm), and Canon ARTLAB (Tokyo). Mikami has also presented her works at a number of international media art festivals such as transmediale (Berlin), DEAF (Rotterdam), SHARE (Turin), Ars Electronica (Linz), MoiMulti (Quebec), TESLA (Berlin), VEROCITY Festival of Digital Culture (UK), TRUST (Dortmund), ISEA and more. Mikami held her solo exhibition “Desire of Codes” at Yamaguchi Center for Art and Media [YCAM] and NTT InterCommunication Center [ICC] and from 2012, went on to travel around the world. She passed away in 2015 at the age of 53.

Sourced and edited from the NTT InterCommunication Center [ICC] Website（https://www.ntticc.or.jp/en/archive/participants/mikami-seiko/）

UPCOMINGEXHIBITIONS

Seiko Mikami (1961 - 2015)

Former artist & professor at Tama Art University’s Media Art Laboratory. Since the 1980s, Mikami has presented large-scale installations themed on information society and the human body. In the 1990s, most of her works were interactive media art installations that incorporated human perception; from her eye-tracking project “Molecular Informatics,” to her work regarding acoustic sense and the living body sound “World, Membrane and the Dismembered Body,” her work “gravicells – gravity and resistance” centered on the theme of the gravity called the 6th consciousness and “Desire of Codes”, which focused on the coded individual in an information society.

Mikami has exhibited with Fundacio Joan Miro, Le Musée des Beaux-arts de Nantes (Nantes), Künstlerhaus Vienna (Vienna), Kulturhuset Stockholm (Stockholm), and Canon ARTLAB (Tokyo). Mikami has also presented her works at a number of international media art festivals such as transmediale (Berlin), DEAF (Rotterdam), SHARE (Turin), Ars Electronica (Linz), MoiMulti (Quebec), TESLA (Berlin), VEROCITY Festival of Digital Culture (UK), TRUST (Dortmund), ISEA and more. Mikami held her solo exhibition “Desire of Codes” at Yamaguchi Center for Art and Media [YCAM] and NTT InterCommunication Center [ICC] and from 2012, went on to travel around the world. She passed away in 2015 at the age of 53.

Sourced and edited from the NTT InterCommunication Center [ICC] Website（https://www.ntticc.or.jp/en/archive/participants/mikami-seiko/）

Seiko Mikami (1961 - 2015)

Former artist & professor at Tama Art University’s Media Art Laboratory. Since the 1980s, Mikami has presented large-scale installations themed on information society and the human body. In the 1990s, most of her works were interactive media art installations that incorporated human perception; from her eye-tracking project “Molecular Informatics,” to her work regarding acoustic sense and the living body sound “World, Membrane and the Dismembered Body,” her work “gravicells – gravity and resistance” centered on the theme of the gravity called the 6th consciousness and “Desire of Codes”, which focused on the coded individual in an information society.

Mikami has exhibited with Fundacio Joan Miro, Le Musée des Beaux-arts de Nantes (Nantes), Künstlerhaus Vienna (Vienna), Kulturhuset Stockholm (Stockholm), and Canon ARTLAB (Tokyo). Mikami has also presented her works at a number of international media art festivals such as transmediale (Berlin), DEAF (Rotterdam), SHARE (Turin), Ars Electronica (Linz), MoiMulti (Quebec), TESLA (Berlin), VEROCITY Festival of Digital Culture (UK), TRUST (Dortmund), ISEA and more. Mikami held her solo exhibition “Desire of Codes” at Yamaguchi Center for Art and Media [YCAM] and NTT InterCommunication Center [ICC] and from 2012, went on to travel around the world. She passed away in 2015 at the age of 53.

Sourced and edited from the NTT InterCommunication Center [ICC] Website（https://www.ntticc.or.jp/en/archive/participants/mikami-seiko/）