Premiere of Audiovisual work "Penrose Stairs" for Laser, Video and Music composed by Suguru Goto
Date and Time: May 24, 2024, 19:00
Location: Goethe-Institut Tokyo
7-5-56, Akasaka, Minato, Tokyo, 〒107-0052
Contact: Goethe-Institut Tokyo
Phone Number: 03-3584-3201
Mail: info-tokyo@goethe.de
Ticket: https://tutschku-goto.peatix.com
Web: https://www.goethe.de/ins/jp/ja/ver.cfm?event_id=25598904
Overview of Suguru Goto's works
Penrose Stairs（ペンローズの階段）
Penrose Stairs is an audio-visual piece that utilizes multiple lasers, images, and music to create a unique experience. Lasers are strategically positioned at the front, back, left, and right of the venue, forming a spatial sculpture and architecture. The interplay between lasers, images, and music results in dynamic interactions and reactions. Intangible objects emerge in the space, evolving over time in tandem with the music. The spatial environment transforms in sync with the musical composition.
This artwork represents a novel form of media art and serves as a pioneering medium of expression. Audiences are invited to immerse themselves in an unprecedented sensory experience, encountering new perceptions and sensations. By standing within the laser-created spatial expressions, viewers are enveloped by ethereal objects that elude physical touch. The soundscapes produced within this environment evoke a sensation akin to painting space with sound.
Caution: Penrose Stairs involves intense visual and auditory stimulation. Individuals with heart conditions or hypersensitivity are advised to refrain from participating.
Suguru Goto: Concept, direction, music
Daichi Akiyama: Laser
Toru Yokoyama: Video
Can Li: Assistant
Liu Chenhan: Assistant
Profile
Suguru Goto
“A journey to the boundaries of sound with human sensitivity. This is the near future, between science fiction and reality, towards which Suguru Goto, a leading exponent of the new generation of Japanese experimental artist that has made an important contribution to the world.”
From the catalog of Venice Biennale 2009
“The speed of the technological evolution is another challenge. When the artist will have explored an interactive phenomenon, developed an idea of performance, and surmounted all technological obstacles, the invention may already be superseded by a new process. It is surprising to see Japanese Suguro Goto offer a room with this direct link.”
From the magazine « Dancer » (2009.9) in France
Suguru Goto is a media artist, an inventor and a performer and he is considered one of the most innovative and the mouthpiece of a new generation of Japanese artists. He is highly connected to technical experimentation in the artistic field and to the extension of the existing potentialities in the relation man-machine. In his works the new technologies mix up in interactive installations and experimental performances; he is the one who invented the so called virtual music instruments, able to create an interface for the communication between human movements and the computer, where sound and video image are controlled by virtual music instruments in real-time through computers.
He has been internationally active and has received numerous prizes and fellowships, such as Koussevitzky Prize, BSO fellowships, the first prize at the Marzena, Berliner Kompositionaufträge, a prize by the IMC International Rostrum of Composers in UNESCO, Paris, DIRECAM, French Cultural Minister, Music Theater Award 2008 in Berlin, “OFQJ-dance and new technology prize” at Bains Numérique #4, International Festival of digital art of Enghein-Les-Bains, in France, in 2009, Electronic Sonority Honor Award Prize, FILE PRIX LUX, in Brazil, in 2010, the winner of the Action Sharing 2, in Italy, in 2011, the 2nd prize in the 2013 KAO International Kinetic Art Competition, Prix Ars Electronica 2013 Digital Musics & Sound Art | Honorary Mention and so on. His works have been performed in major festivals, such as Resonaces/IRCAM, Sonar, ICC, Haus der Kultures der Welt, ISEA, NIME, AV Festival, STRP Festival 2009, Venice Biennale, etc.
In 2016, his book “Emprise” is published from StyleNote publishing, in Tokyo. At the same year, his CD “CsO” is published from Athor Harmonics, in Tokyo.
Daichi Akiyama
Born in Nagano Prefecture. While working as an engineer on technical work related to sound and video and developing software for a video equipment manufacturer, he also works on electronics and live video production at the electronica unit macaroom. He also actively performs using computers and modular synthesizers. Part-time lecturer, Department of Music and Environment Creation, Faculty of Music, Tokyo University of the Arts
Toru Yokoyama
Born in 1983. He graduated from Nihon University College of Art, Department of Photography, and the Institute of Advanced Media Arts and Sciences (IAMAS).
He is researching new ways of photographic expression that are possible only with digital technology, while referring to the flow of photographic history since the silver halide era.
He also creates installations based on multimedia expressions and real-time 3D expressions that utilize programming.
He has also been a member of the design group v0id since 2018.
Recent exhibitions he has participated in include “RGB the newly / Mister Hollywood OSAKA,” “Media Ambition Tokyo,” “William Klein’s Heart and Eye,” and “Jerusalem Design Week.”
He has won advertising awards such as Tokyo TDC, NYC Festivals, and Spikes Asia.
Can Li
Born in China, doctoral student in the Suguru Goto Laboratory, Department of Music and Sound Creation, Tokyo University of the Arts. He is active in a wide range of activities and is interested in collaborations between music and various media such as IOT, XR, and equipment.