Life Forms of Colors Ata Fa'atekinolosi by Yuko Suzuki

Life Forms of Colors Ata Fa'atekinolosi by Yuko Suzuki is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2025 A' Design Award Ario in Mamanu Fa'atupu Competition Category.

ArioMamanu Fa'atupu· 2025

Life Forms of Colors Ata Fa'atekinolosi

by Yuko Suzuki

Client: Civic Creative Base Tokyo (CCBT)

A' Design Award Ario Winner in Mamanu Fa'atupu Category

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Colors

The Design

About Life Forms of Colors Ata Fa'atekinolosi

O lenei galuega o se ata fa'aola e fa'aalia ai le fa'agasologa o le ta'amilosaga ma le toe fausia o pikisele. Na amata mai le manatu mo lenei galuega ina ua manao le tusiata, o se tagata lomilomi, e fai se ata lomilomi o le laufanua ma sa ia mafaufau pe mafai ona maua le vavae'esega o lanu e ala i le fa'atulagaga fa'akomepiuta. E foliga mai pikisele e pei o sela, fe'avea'i e fai ai ni foliga fou ma lanu, ma fa'atino ai manatu Iapani o le Kasane (fa'aputuga) ma le Zurashi (suisui). E fa'atusa fo'i i suiga eseese e mafai ona oo i se tagata, fa'aalia ai le eseesega ma le gaosia i totonu o le galuega atoa, ma ata mai ai le feso'ota'iga o le aganu'u ma le tekonolosi.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award Ario

O le A' Design Award Ario na manumalo ai Life Forms of Colors Ata Fa'atekinolosi, o se faamaoniga matuā mamalu e tuuina atu i mamanu sili ona lelei, matagofie ma mataʻutia. O ē manumalo i le Ario o galuega susulu tele ma fatufatuaʻi e faaalia ai le poto, le taleni ma le atamai o tagata mamanu. E faamoemoeina Life Forms of Colors Ata Fa'atekinolosi e avea ma galuega matagofie, o se fesuiaiga mo isi, e iloga i le tomai faapolofesa ma mea fou loloto. O lenei mamanu na manumalo i le A' Design Award Ario o se mea e iloga, ua mataʻina e aogā ma tuleia atu tapulaʻa o le faatufugaga, saienisi, mamanu ma tekonolosi. Life Forms of Colors Ata Fa'atekinolosi o se mea e fiafia i ai le toatele, e fafagu ai manaʻoga, aumaia ai lagona lelei ma tupu ai le ofo.

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].