STAGE 01: This is an individual project. Students are required to conduct research about digital multimedia artist.
Based on research and findings, student need to select TWO media artist that inspired them.
Write a summary for each artist which conclude artist’s philosophy towards his/her style of work,
including their digital artwork concepts, expression and emotions.
Artists info :
Ryoji ikeda
artworks:
His artwork all are about combination of all sort of tones,noise and frequencies together to make artwork.Mostly the sound are electronic sounds,matrix sound or non-living thing sound.The music artwork simply can grip the mind of audience with the combination of simple video screening with combination of different kind of sounds.The emotion ranging from calm, mysterious,scary,mad and more: his artworks are imaginative.The sounds from his artwork are express by computer data,matrix,lines and shapes.Mostly all his artwork is in monochrome or florence color and with some beats with patterns to show the inside digital world of computers system,TV screen or futuristic world.All is artwork is present by screening in a room or on some objects.He slowly changing his style of artwork which evolving soundscapes, with little or no sense of pulse.He says "a high frequency sound is used that the listener becomes aware of only upon its disappearance"-(from the CD booklet).
-Reference : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryoji_Ikeda
Tsutomu Kouno
artworks:
Little known to him but he is a game designer for the locoroco game for psp/phone and graduated from College of Engineering of Nihon University. The locoroco video game is his famous works that others know.His style of creating game is simplify character that is mostly round shape with the combination of nature.To play this game, u need to tilt your phone/psp to make the character to move forward to other place.It contains of levels which you need to gather your own kind to reach to the final destination -their home.The color of this game is pastel,colorful and childlike simple design.He create his own language for the whole soundtrack of this game to prevent alienating foreign players.it is created by compiling a list of interesting words in katakana ( japanese language), then altering the words slightly to make them sound cool in Japanese as to mask their origins.
