Life Forms of Colors Digitala Arto by Yuko Suzuki

Life Forms of Colors Digitala Arto by Yuko Suzuki is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2025 Arĝenta A' Design Award in Genera, Algoritma, Parametra kaj AI-Helpata Dezajno Competition Category.

ArĝentoGenera· 2025

Life Forms of Colors Digitala Arto

by Yuko Suzuki

Client: Civic Creative Base Tokyo (CCBT)

Arĝenta A' Design Award Winner in Genera Category

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The Design

About Life Forms of Colors Digitala Arto

Ĉi tiu verko estas animacio kiu vizuale bildigas la procezon de disigo kaj rekonstruo de pikseloj. La ideo por la verko ekis kiam la artisto, presverkisto, volis krei pejzaĝan presaĵon kaj sin demandis ĉu li povus atingi kolorseparon per kodumado. La pikseloj aspektas kiel ĉeloj, moviĝante por formi novajn formojn kaj kolorojn, enkorpigante la japanajn konceptojn de Kasane (tavolado) kaj Zurashi (ŝoviĝo). Ili ankaŭ simbolas la diversajn transformojn kiujn persono povas trairi, esprimante diversecon kaj fluidecon tra la tuta verko, kaj reflektante la intersekciĝon de tradicio kaj teknologio.

The Recognition

About the Arĝenta A' Design Award

Life Forms of Colors Digitala Arto estas gajninto de la Arĝenta A' Design Award, grandege prestiĝa rekono donata al plejklasaj, belegaj kaj impresaj dezajnoj. La Arĝentaj gajnintoj estas treege brilaj kaj treege kreemaj verkoj, kiuj ilustras la elstaran sperton, talenton kaj sagacon de siaj dezajnistoj. Oni atendas, ke Life Forms of Colors Digitala Arto estu mirinda, montrinda verko, kiu estas rimarkinde profesia kaj profunde nova. Ĉi tiu dezajno gajninta la Arĝentan A' Design Award estas tre rimarkinda, admirata inventaĵo, kiu profitigas kaj antaŭenigas la limojn de arto, scienco, dezajno kaj teknologio. Life Forms of Colors Digitala Arto estas vaste enviata kreaĵo, kiu vekas dezirojn, alportas pozitivajn sentojn kaj ekbrilas miron kaj mirigon.

Behind the Design

Press Kit

Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.

Unique Properties: This animation breaks down an image into pixels, reconstructing and transforming them repeatedly. The pixels emerge like cells, moving and forming new shapes and colors, embodying the Japanese concepts of "Kasane (layering)" and "Zurashi (shifting)." This reflects how living beings shape the world, either by choice or by following the flow. The ever-changing forms symbolize human transformation and the cycle of life and death.
Dimensions & Packaging: LED screen 4m × 4m, 10 minutes 30 seconds
Tags: Generative Art, Coding
Production Technology: This work was created entirely in a programming language called Processing.
It is made up of multiple animations that change from one shape to the next, linked together.
Design Challenge: The most difficult and exciting part was figuring out how to connect all of the different shapes through coding.
It was impossible to create all of the animations in one document, so I divided the whole thing into four scenes, created the animation, and connected them using video editing software.
Research: This design research explores an animation technique that uses coding to break down and reconstruct pixels.
Through this process, the artist began to feel as if the pixels symbolized the workings of humans and the world. The pixels are like cells, but at the same time, they also seem like the individual people that make up the world. This created a sense of moving between the micro and macro worlds.
Through the use of digital technology, this research offers new methods of visual expression in art, business and society, and suggests the possibility of redefining cultural value.
Inspiration: The impetus for creating this work began when the artist, a printmaker, wanted to create a landscape print, and wondered whether it would be possible to achieve color separation through coding. This was the beginning of an attempt to incorporate the physical acts of producing a multi-color woodblock print - "color separation of the print," "overprinting, " and "rolling the paper" - into code, and it developed into the more abstract idea of "creating a three-dimensional print."
Project Duration: This work was exhibited as part of the CCBT x Yebisu International Festival for Art and Alternative Visions 2024 "Poems in Code: Generative Art Today and Programming Generated Moving Image" project held in Tokyo in February 2024.
Operation Flow: This work is an animation that depicts the process of pixels being broken down and reconstructed. As you watch, the pixels move and transform, creating new shapes. The changes in the pixels symbolize the potential for people to transform in various ways, and this diversity and fluidity is expressed throughout the work.
Image Credits: Image #1: Photographer Ryuichi Maruo, Life-forms of colors, 2024, Photo courtesy Civic Creative Base Tokyo [CCBT].
Image #2: Photographer Ryuichi Maruo, Life-forms of colors, 2024, Photo courtesy Civic Creative Base Tokyo [CCBT].
Video Credits: Photographer Ryuichi Maruo, Life-forms of colors, 2024, Video courtesy Civic Creative Base Tokyo [CCBT].