October 1 /2011
Nuit Blanche New York / Bring to Light Art Festival 2011
Nuit Blanche New York / Bring to Light Art Festival 2011
Vip / Press opening at" The End"
Diaphaspectrum is an sculptural installation which explore optics, and
transparency of the physical property allowing light to pass through materials. Ray is
transmitted into multi layers of Fiberglass materials which is angled with complexity.
Perspective of reflections, feed backs, and directions of ray are diffused and abstracted
to all layers of the material surfaces generated by organic transforming video projection.
Viewer will experience synthesis of sonic texture with computer-generated multichannel
sound and generative video, immersing the audience in an electromagnetic
environment to walk through the installation.
January 19/ 2010
Invisible Dog Art Center Brooklyn New York
"Speed of Life"
Organic foam made by original foam machine. The soap foam, as an organic
compound, is sealed and grow inside transparent acrylic sheet. Artist's conceptual view, this wall symbolizes every human's daily activity. Humankind is constantly creating new inventions, objects, materials, softwares, systems, art and everything else . But when we see it in a historical point of view in the long term, human creations are just like these tiny bubble foams which will disappear just like life. Installation will increase volume of foams while exhibition, resembling the population of human kind. Artist found beauty in those little bubbles which pop up and doesn't remain the same shape even one second. This wall with tons of thousands of bubles are constantly recreated by new foams in different sizes, connected, reshaped and enlightened by the lights and projection. Artist's exploration is to capture the positive and negative elements of this emotions as installation art.
Installation was exhibited as sight specific installation at the INVISIBLE DOG ART CENTER, Brooklyn, New York.
1/19/2011 Installtion by Eiji Sumi / Curated by Helen Wu
Produced by Opalnest
October 2 / 2010
Nuit Blanche New York / Bring to Light Festival 2010
"Chimera of Meteoshower"
Lighting Art Installation made by bubble wrap and 2 projecters with Interactive motion graphics with Ipad controller to visualize illustional digital meteoshower translated by artists.
Chimera of Meteoshower is an evolving collaboration between Eiji Sumi and Justin Riley. In its current state, a maze of cubes is created out of bubble wrap, which is used as non- traditional projection surfaces. The maze aspect of piece allows audience members to experience full immersion in the installation to walk through. The I pad is used in this projected onto the grid of bubble wrap cubes. The Interactive video application was created in Max/ Msp / Jitter and provides motion graphics as video instrument using the tilt sensor and accelerometer to manipulate the video by physically moving the Ipad. The graphicsl interface allows for a tactile control of more detailed aspects of the video such as color, shape, and position.
Nuit Blanche / Bring to Light Festival New York was held in Greenpoint Brooklyn
Produced by Do Tank
June, 2010
Sight Specific Installation in Carrol Garden New York
"ZEN"
Artist's interpretation of the zen garden using non traditional materials, shaped this sight specific geometric piece. Using light and bubble wrap sheet Artist's intention to create Karesasui garden which is reflected on the floor as shadow. Original Karesansui garden such as Ryoanji allowing garden to work creatively to shape the sands. it was extention of Artist's view to work in modern approach.
The creation of the Karesansui its self is a deep effort at harmonizing the flow of energy or "Ki /Qi" Also Ying and Yang symbolizing activity and structure. There were a few rules when dealing with rock in original Karesansui garden. it was taboo to touch the rock and one should always place a rock how it originally lies. if done otherwise, the rock will be a "rock of vengeful spirits" and if by going against the original placement of the rock, it may allow evil to enter unless the rock is opposed by Buddhist triad rocks set to the southeast corner of the site, then no evil will enter. It was rational approach and inevitable approach to create spiritual zen garden for artist without rock where spirit is believed to reside. Artist's exploration to create harmony and spirit using light and projection and shadow without rock.
This sight specific installation was stayed whole summer in the Carrol Garden Studio Brooklyn Studio 2009.
MAY 9 - MAY 23 / 2009
Light it up / Salomon Arts Gallery Tribeca
"Multechnicolor shadow Lighting"
Stretch clothe was hang from the ceiling and glass objects such as bulb, vase, milk jar, wine glass, champaign glass, etc, was located in the hammock shape. Multi color lighting was shot from several angle including Blue, Red, Yellow, Green, and Orange. Each ray produces the shadow of the glass objects and diffused shape shadows in angle. Illusion of shadows make actual glass object unrecognizable which was blended in with multi shadows.
MAY 9 - MAY 23 / 2009
Light it up / Salomon Arts Gallery Tribeca
" Untitled"
Collaboration work with Fabrice Covelli and Tomohiro Kato
