U + Earth What do we eat? What is our world? THINK about them. # with fun, of course! U+EARTH is an installation to create a opportunity to think about what we eat and our world. Inside a shipping container, 15-20 Mobile Gardens are hung. Environmental music composed according to their states are played. Mobile Garden is a gardening object which designed to represent our world, the earth. It provides an opportunity to think about what we eat and the environment in our daily life. Japanese gardening technique from several hundreds years ago and modern technology are used to reduce the stress of managing it such as watering it or exposing it to the sun. The harmony of natural objects and modern technology create a new type of beauty. Akiko Takahashi * Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto Univers * Kunstuniversität Linz
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U + Earth
What do we eat?
What is our world?
THINK about them.
# with fun, of course!
U+EARTH is an installation to create a opportunity to think about what we eat and our world. Inside a shipping container, 15-20 Mobile Gardens are hung. Environmental music composed according to their states are played.
Mobile Garden is a gardening object which designed to represent our world, the earth. It provides an opportunity to think about what we eat and the environment in our daily life. Japanese gardening technique from several hundreds years ago and modern technology are used to reduce the stress of managing it such as watering it or exposing it to the sun.
The harmony of natural objects and modern technology create a new type of beauty.
Akiko Takahashi* Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University* Kunstuniversität Linz
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15-20gardening objects
chair
Layout & Display
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environmental music about the project
Previous Work“Mobile Garden” Akiko TakahashiOne of the winners of Konica Minolta Eco & Art Award
※The difference between the previous work: The exhibition style is different. The basis of a gardening object is completely replaced with natural materials. At the same time, to reduce the stress to manage it, some electronic systems are combined. The installation not just utilizes the modern technologies but also pursues beauty comes from the harmony of natural object and technology.
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About the Artist Akiko Takahashi proceeds her research in the field of Personal Knowledge Management at Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University. At the same time, she is interested in creating art works with personal fragments of information/knowledge. She is now staying at Kunstuniversität Linz (Austria) for her 1 year oversea research supported by Funai Foundation of Information Technology. She energetically joins international exhibitions and competitions. These days she tries to broaden her field using more complicated objects such as plants. Mobile Garden and U+Earth are her first work in this field.
For more information: http://akinote.com/projects, http://facebook.com/akipponn, http://twitter.com/akipponn
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