Fàdákà Ìpilẹ̀ṣẹ̀ · 2025
Life Forms of Colors Iṣẹ́-ọnà Digita
by Yuko Suzuki
- Àmì-ẹ̀yẹ Fàdákà A' Design Award 2025 in Ìpilẹ̀ṣẹ̀
- CLIENT: Civic Creative Base Tokyo (CCBT)
- Estimated Number of Design Views: 174,000
- Verification code 8DD03B2A2F · Verify this award
Colors
About Life Forms of Colors Iṣẹ́-ọnà Digita
Iṣẹ́ yìí jẹ́ ìṣeré àwòrán ọ̀nà tí ó ń ṣàfihàn lọ́nà ojú ìlànà bí àwọn píkísì ṣe ń túká tí wọ́n sì tún ń kọ́ padà. Ẹ̀rò fún iṣẹ́ náà bẹ̀rẹ̀ nígbà tí òǹṣọ̀nà náà, tí í ṣe oníṣẹ́-ọnà títẹ̀ẹ́, fẹ́ ṣẹ̀dá ìtẹ̀ẹ́ ojú-ilẹ̀ kan, ó sì ń ṣe ìrònú bóyá òun lè ṣe ìyàsọ́tọ̀ àwọ̀ nípasẹ̀ kóòdù. Àwọn píkísì náà dà bíi àwọn sẹ́ẹ̀lì, wọ́n ń gbéra láti dá àwọn àpẹẹrẹ tuntun àti àwọn àwọ̀, tí ó ń ṣàfihàn àwọn ẹ̀rò Jàpáànù ti Kasane (ìgbékọ́) àti Zurashi (ìyípadà). Wọ́n tún jẹ́ àmì àwọn oríṣiríṣi àyípadà tí ènìyàn lè kọjá, tí ó ń ṣàlàyé oríṣiríṣi àti ìwọ̀nsí jákèjádò iṣẹ́ náà, tí ó sì ń ṣàfihàn ibi tí àṣà àti ìmọ̀-ẹ̀rọ pàdé.
About the Àmì-ẹ̀yẹ Fàdákà A' Design Award
Life Forms of Colors Iṣẹ́-ọnà Digita jẹ́ olùborí Àmì-ẹ̀yẹ Fàdákà A' Design Award, ìdánimọ̀ onípọ̀nlé lọ́nà àrà ọ̀tọ̀ tí a fún àwọn àwòṣe ìpele gíga jùlọ tó dára tó sì ń kan ọkàn. Àwọn olùborí Fàdákà jẹ́ àwọn iṣẹ́ tó ń tàn yòò gidigidi tó sì ní ìṣẹ̀dá púpọ̀ tí wọ́n ń ṣàfihàn ìmọ̀ ìjìnlẹ̀, ẹ̀bùn àti ìmọ̀ràn àwọn olùṣàwòṣe wọn. A retí pé Life Forms of Colors Iṣẹ́-ọnà Digita yóò jẹ́ iṣẹ́ àgbàyanu, àpẹẹrẹ rere, ti ọ̀jáfáfá lọ́nà tó ṣe pàtàkì tó sì ní ìmúṣẹ̀dá tuntun jinlẹ̀. Àwòṣe tó borí Àmì-ẹ̀yẹ Fàdákà A' Design Award yìí jẹ́ ohun ìmúṣẹ̀dá tó hàn gbangba gidigidi tí a mọrírì tó ń ṣe anfàní tó sì ń tì ààlà iṣẹ́ ọnà, sáyẹ́ǹsì, àwòṣe àti ìmọ̀-ẹ̀rọ síwájú. Life Forms of Colors Iṣẹ́-ọnà Digita jẹ́ ẹ̀dá tí ọ̀pọ̀lọpọ̀ ń ṣe ìlara, tó ń jí ìfẹ́ inú, tó ń mú ìmọ̀lára rere wá tó sì ń jí ìyàlẹ́nu àti ìyanu.
Press Kit
- 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].
