■Period: December 5th (Sat)-13th(Sun) ,2009 11:00–20:00 ■Location: 7F Parks Hall (admission free)
■In cooperation with: Kansai Telecasting Corporation
“Takahiro Matsuo's The Xmas Playing Lights”was held for the second time in 2009. Exhibition works called media art are combined with lights and movies and sounds in interactive creations as an infinitely evolving hands-on works influenced by visitor's physical movement.The concept of the exhibition is that visitors by themselves have an extraordinary experience with the lights.There were three works of art at the exhibition.“Fairy Christmas”is an exhibit where visitors stand on white mats that invoke a snow scene and they appear with a fairy on the screen.“Prince and Migrant Birds”is inspired by the French fairy tale“Le Petit Prince”．Visitors can experience the scene where the prince leaves his planet and travels the universe with migratory birds.“Noctiluca”is an illuminated installation where you reach for ceiling and see a river of shimmering lights, where the blue sky is like the sea.
Takahiro Matsuo
Interactive Artist / Monoscape
Born in 1979, Fukuoka Prefecture
http://www.monoscape.jp/
Takahiro Matsuo was born in Japan in 1979 and graduated from The Art and Information Design Department of Kyushu Institute of Design. He has created many installations for exhibitions and stage performances. Combining the physical movements of spectators with computer graphics, sound and light in interactive creations, the work of Matsuo is a fantastic experience that reminds viewers of their imaginations and memories and the light installations produced between reality and unreality, arousing in them a sense of humanity that transcends nationality and age. In recent years, Matsuo has received many awards from domestic and abroad, and displayed his work at various exhibitions across the world, including global art and design festivals such as Ars Electronica (Austria), Siggraph (USA). In 2009, Matsuo was selected as an artist at Canon art exhibition “NEOREAL” in Milano Salone (Italy).
After this exhibition I received a lot of positive feedback from visitors who interacted with the works, and they said they were honestly moved by them. Some of them remarked that they never had an experience such as this before. There are various values and perspectives in art, but the characteristic of media art is something special when you touch the works, the works intuitively appeal to power within your body and mind. Media as an art form is based on new technology, which is different from other forms of arts, but the intrinsic attraction of media art is not the new technology. I believe that it enriches people's lives and sensibilities making an expressive environment of art, design, and entertainment, including in every field of commerce, regardless of race, age, or gender. In the coming years, the media art scene will grow rapidly around Osaka Station North District. I think among them I would like to make activities for many people to enjoy media art attractions.
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