Rediscovery of anima / Akinori Goto (JP)
This project stems from Akinori Goto's “toki-” series, a series that uses 3D-printed surfaces to display moving images in real space.
In his research he learnt that there was a theory that cave paintings from around 30,000 years ago might have represented movement with frames, like in animation. Thus he decided to make a work using stone, tree branches, hemp, and sunlight, in a way that could have existed in ancient times. This method is constructed so that when an image is exposed to the sunlight streaming through the slit between the stones, it will appear as if the person is moving. Goto is trying to make it possible to recognize afresh the joy and admiration of the illusion of movement, and explore what kind of interaction they would have had in society if these anima were discovered from the earliest time possible.
Credit: Akinori Goto
Rediscovery of anima / Akinori Goto (JP)
This project stems from Akinori Goto's “toki-” series, a series that uses 3D-printed surfaces to display moving images in real space.
In his research he learnt that there was a theory that cave paintings from around 30,000 years ago might have represented movement with frames, like in animation. Thus he decided to make a work using stone, tree branches, hemp, and sunlight, in a way that could have existed in ancient times. This method is constructed so that when an image is exposed to the sunlight streaming through the slit between the stones, it will appear as if the person is moving. Goto is trying to make it possible to recognize afresh the joy and admiration of the illusion of movement, and explore what kind of interaction they would have had in society if these anima were discovered from the earliest time possible.
Credit: Akinori Goto