銀 生成式 · 2025
Life Forms of Colors 數碼藝術
by Yuko Suzuki
- A' Design Award 銀獎 2025 in 生成式
- CLIENT: Civic Creative Base Tokyo (CCBT)
- Estimated Number of Design Views: 174,000
- Verification code 8DD03B2A2F · Verify this award
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About Life Forms of Colors 數碼藝術
此作品為一動畫，視覺化地呈現像素被分解及重構的過程。創作意念源於藝術家本身為版畫家，當他想創作風景版畫時，思考能否透過編程達至分色效果。像素如細胞般移動，形成新的形狀及色彩，體現日本Kasane（層疊）與Zurashi（錯位）的概念。它們同時象徵人可經歷的各種轉化，於作品中表達多樣性與流動性，並反映傳統與科技的交融。
About the A' Design Award 銀獎
Life Forms of Colors 數碼藝術是 A' Design Award 銀獎得主，這是授予頂級、華美而令人印象深刻的設計的極為崇高的認可。銀獎得主是極其卓越、極具創造力的作品，展現出其設計師傑出的專業技能、才華與敏銳。預計Life Forms of Colors 數碼藝術將成為一件出色的典範之作，兼具非凡的專業性與深刻的創新性。這件贏得 A' Design Award 銀獎的設計是一項備受矚目、令人欽佩的發明，造福並拓展藝術、科學、設計和技術的界限。Life Forms of Colors 數碼藝術是一件令人羨慕的創作，它喚起渴望，帶來積極的情感，並激發驚嘆與讚嘆。
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].
