Even though we all live in the same solar system, we are affected differently depending on where we are.

By putting your finger on the sun on the screen, you can be the sun shining on the world. By putting your finger on the white dots on the screen, you can be illuminated by the sun.

As the sun, you can control time, but as the white dots, the sun is in total control of time. By feeling both sides, you can think about the different “systems.”

This work expresses the shape of time and the trajectory of each lifetime.

By tapping on the screen for what you feel is one second, a waveform corresponding to that second is drawn on the screen.

Another point I wanted to express was the intersection of the different lines as different people touch the screen, thus creating waveforms. As the lines connect and overlap, it shows how people can share or experience the same moments in time.

The second you think of is always a little different from the second the world thinks of.

The themes were ‘clocks’ and ‘systems.’

First, we thought about time and how it might have two meanings. One is the time we feel in ourselves as we spend our days. For example, it passes quickly when we are having fun, and when we are bored, it feels very slow. The other is the “universal time” that functions as a system.

Especially with regard to the second, it is designed to keep the economy and society relevant. But I feel that this has led people to live their lives being bound by time. Therefore, through artwork that allows the visitor to feel each time alternately, I would like to present this work as a chance to think about time and systems.

The first one is “The Rule of the World.” In the exhibition space, the clock ticked away as a symbolic presence. And sometimes it affected the world by ringing a bell.

The theme of this artwork is “Rhythm”.

There are seven boards in this installation. Each board is implemented with the sound of a different instrument. When a visitor gets on the board, the board plays sound and emits lighting and the rhythm changes with the visitor’s movements.

At first, the sound is in sync with the visitor’s movements, but after the visitor gets on the board, the visitor may move to the rhythm of the sound. This expresses the relationship between technology and humans.

Through this installation, I hope that the visitor thinks about the rhythm of oneself and feels the rhythms of life.

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Concept, Design, Programming: Yuki Anai
Sound Design: Yuichi Nakamura
Special Thanks: Mahoshi Naito, Yuki Sasaguri

We add our own “colors” to everything around us, pick them out, and define them. We may not perceive things (“colors” and shapes) in the same way as others do.

Sometimes images are astonishingly beautiful, sometimes horrifyingly distorted, and sometimes bewilderingly uneven, but we all see the same things.

If you have the imagination to peel away the thick outer filter and see things from different angles, you will realize that there is a variety of truth in everything and discover a new world

Exhibition
Title: 18th Athens Digital Arts Festival
Date: 2022.05.25 – 05.29
Place: Kotzia square, Building complex of former notoshome, Athens, Greece
Detail: https://2022.adaf.gr/

Title: The Creators 2021
Date: 2021.10.23 – 10.24
Place: Fukuoka Science Museum, Fukuoka, Japan
Detail: https://the-creator.jp/