Life Forms of Colors Art Numérique by Yuko Suzuki

Life Forms of Colors Art Numérique by Yuko Suzuki is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2025 A' Design Award d'Argent in Génératif Competition Category.

ArgentGénératif· 2025

Life Forms of Colors Art Numérique

by Yuko Suzuki

Client: Civic Creative Base Tokyo (CCBT)

A' Design Award d'Argent Winner in Génératif Category

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The Design

About Life Forms of Colors Art Numérique

Cette œuvre est une animation qui dépeint visuellement le processus de décomposition et de reconstruction des pixels. L'idée de l'œuvre est née lorsque l'artiste, un graveur, souhaitant créer une estampe de paysage, s'est demandé s'il pouvait réaliser une séparation des couleurs par le codage. Les pixels apparaissent comme des cellules, se déplaçant pour former de nouvelles formes et couleurs, incarnant les concepts japonais de Kasane (superposition) et Zurashi (décalage). Ils symbolisent également les diverses transformations qu'une personne peut subir, exprimant la diversité et la fluidité tout au long de l'œuvre, et reflétant l'intersection de la tradition et de la technologie.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award d'Argent

Life Forms of Colors Art Numérique est lauréat de l'A' Design Award d'Argent, une reconnaissance énormément prestigieuse décernée à des designs haut de gamme, superbes et impressionnants. Les lauréats Argent sont des œuvres tout à fait brillantes et extrêmement créatives qui illustrent l'expertise, le talent et la perspicacité remarquables de leurs concepteurs. Life Forms of Colors Art Numérique est censé être une œuvre merveilleuse, une vitrine de savoir-faire, remarquablement professionnelle et profondément innovante. Ce design lauréat de l'A' Design Award d'Argent est une invention très notable et admirée, qui sert l'art, la science, le design et la technologie et en repousse les limites. Life Forms of Colors Art Numérique est une création très enviée qui éveille les désirs, apporte des sentiments positifs et suscite émerveillement et étonnement.

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].