Syndicate: ARTLAB8 "SoundCreatures"

[yshikata@crpg.canon.co.jp (Yukiko Shikata)]

ARTLAB8 "SoundCreatures"(artist: Kouichirou Eto)

October 17 - November 1, 1998
-connecting Internet into Installation site-...please access!!


-Installation: Oct.17-Nov.1, 11am-8pm(japan time), at Hillside Plaza, Tokyo
-Internet: http://www.canon.co.jp/cast/
       *the project is active when  the installation opens
       *the project starts at 11am japan time of Oct.17.


"SoundCreatures" is a new work by Koichirou Eto co-produced with ARTLAB.
Eto is one of expecting Japanese media artists who is known by fully using
 the digital networking technologies.

This work aims to explore a new form of art, by organizing communications
via sound. Sound data are exchanged through a networked-sound installation,
 which is influenced by the accesses from the Internet.

The composition of the work is based on the sound communication conducted
between the Internet and the exhibition site linked realtime. A participant
can access the work from the Internet, and input visual patterns on web
pages which will be transformed to multiple sound patterns. The sound
patterns are networked to register on sound robots at the exhibition site.

At the site, the sound robots (loaded with speakers) move around in the
space and exchange the registered sound data as if they were living
creatures, while the entire sound environment slowly changes. One can
simulate realtime on web pages the robots' movements and changes in sound
occurring at the site as well as add new sound patterns from web pages.


<Profile of  Kouichirou Eto>
Born in 1971, graduated from Keio University graduate school
of Media and Governance(researcher at Masaki Fujihata Lab). Presently
a researcher of the International Media Research Foundation, Tokyo.
In 1993, Eto created "JoyMechFight" for Nintendo.
His selected works include "RealPanopticon"(1995) at ICC'95 "On
the Web "(ICC, Tokyo), "WebHopper"(1996) for "sensorium" Internet
project("sensorium" was awarded the Golden Nica Net. of the 1997 Prix
Ars Electronica),  "WebHopper@AEC" at Ars Electronica Center(1997),
 "RemotePiano"(for the concert "MPI x IPM" by Ryuichi Sakamoto and
 Toshio Iwai (1996-97) which was performed in Art Tower Mito(Mito,
Japan), Ars Electronica(Linz), and Ebis Garden Hall(Tokyo),  "Remote
Piano installation" with Ryuichi Sakamoto and Toshio Iwai at ICC.
His other works include "PeepHole"(1993) and "DotPaint"(1995).

<ARTLAB8"Sound Creatures" by Kouichirou Eto>
Organized by: Canon ARTLAB, Tokyo
Production Collaborator /
    -Sound Composition: Suguru Yamaguchi
    -Visual Direction: Ichirou Higashiizumi

curators: Kaz Abe, Yukiko Shikata

*For further information,  please contact; artlab@cast.canon.co.jp



Yukiko Shikata, Canon ARTLAB
DK Bldg.5F, 7-18-23, Roppongi, Minato-ku, Tokyo 106-0032 Japan
Tel:+81-3-5410-3611 Fax:3615 http://www.canon.co.jp/cast/
*ARTLAB8 "SoundCreatures"(artist: Kouichirou Eto) Oct.17-Nov.1*