This work visualizes the presence of visitors through shifts in light and color, creating an interactive experience that is both visually striking and emotionally resonant. Luminous poles react to rhythms, voices, and movements nearby, making each visitor’s presence a vivid element within the space. Human actions are translated into a visual language of light, blurring the boundary between the observer and the artwork.

A sudden step might trigger a sharp burst of color, while a whisper could evoke a gentle, fading glow. These immediate responses imprint human presence into the space, with light becoming an active participant. The installation remains in constant flux, reshaped by each act of presence and interaction.

By making the subtle impact of everyday actions visible, the installation invites reflection on presence, connection, and the shared moment. Through the medium of light, it redefines the relationship between people and space, encouraging visitors not only to observe but to actively shape the artwork as part of an evolving, collective experience.

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.

This work is simple yet unique, linking light and human physicality.

To play music using one’s own movement as energy, rather than playing a musical instrument and making sound, We believe that this is the way it should be, which has been linked to our lives since ancient times. Not only by playing alone but also by creating sessions among visitors who are strangers to each other, new social relationships are built. And this interactive work does not depend on language, This is an ambitious work that allows anyone in the world to communicate with each other using their bodies.

We hope that through this creative work of art, people who experience it will become more creative in their daily lives.

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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/

This sound and light installation were set up at Kuni Shrine in Kyoto Prefecture, using the sandou or the holy path from the Torii gate to the main shrine.

In the Shinto religion, there are many gods and it is believed that the gods use this special path to go between our world and theirs. As we walk this path, there are things that exist which are visible or invisible to us. With this installation, I wanted to express the existence and the afterglow that have been created by people, animals, and gods who have walked this same path in years gone by. When visitors walked on the sandou, the stone lanterns on each side of the path would light up and fade out as they passed by.

The kehai or presence of the visitor was expressed by the brightness and the yoin or afterglow was expressed by the dimming.

Exhibition
Title: Solo Exhibition
Date: 2019.07.23 – 09.16
Location: Art Plaza, Oita, Japan

Title: 木津川アート 2018
Date: 2018.11.03 – 11.18
Location: 京都府木津川市 恭仁神社
Detail: http://www.kizugawa-art.com/