LOOP
Breathing, moving and joining Kinetic Light Sculpture
LOOP is a Kinetic Light Sculpture which entices you into conversation with faraway space. This artwork invoked by inspiration from the mystic energy of mystery circles and the symbolic power of an endless circle is featured in the luminous disks which have precise vertical movement. They connect, reiterate, and represent continuance, which gave birth to LOOP.
At first glance, these units look like lighting fixtures. But when switched on, they slowly begin to move up and down as if breathing, and emit light. With several units synchronized together, the movement, light, and sound begin to harmonize, and they embrace the whole space to sublimate.
LOOP is a module kinetic lighting system and easily installed, and controllable by wireless control. It is an art piece with art and a product merged together without any handling complication, when fragility and difficulty in handling are often seen in kinetic art.
FLIGHTGRAF
FLIGHTGRAF is an art collective, specialized in audiovisual expression, which produces an immersive experience of art textured with light, sound, and space. We are essaying to tap into the boundary between art and technology and integrate them as the possibility of new art expressions.
While it is generally quite common in an audiovisual art world that the visual and the sound are made separately, we think of the sound as an incorporated part of our artwork itself so that we synchronize the both in the same timing and ambience to create one united artwork.
By making full use of the technology of lighting, projection mapping and multi-sound system and thinking of space itself as a natural canvas, we can retain a deep sense of unity in the artwork, leaving unforgettable impressions on the audience. While integrating all the process of the work from planning, designing, devicing and showing by ourselves, we have been making various projects possible by collaborating with notable artists and educational and research centers in and out of the country.
Through fusing art and technology, we have been seeking for the expressive possibilities that can prime the space with new pregnant value.
Kento Tomiyoshi / CEO, Visual Research
Makoto Shozu / COO, Sound Research
- 2023 Jury’s Special Award, Video Mapping Festival / “Rhythm And Line” (Lille, France)
- 2022 Grand Prize, Genius Loci Weimar / “Rhythm And Line” (Weimar, Germany)
- 2017 Grand Prize, Genius Loci Weimar / “MIRROR” (Weimar, Germany)
- 2016 3rd Place, Circle of Light “Art Vision Modern” / “TONE” (Moscow, Russia)
- 2015 2nd Place, Circle of Light “Art Vision Modern” / “SHIKISOKUZEKU” (Moscow, Russia)
- 2013 Grand Prize, 1minute Projection Mapping / “Midnight Museum” (Zushi, Japan)