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KEIGO YAMAMOTO
Lives and works in Fukui city, Japan
 www.k-bit.net
artist contact
 keigo@nn.iij4u.or.jp
FFrOM serIes “sIgnIFIer OF dOIng” pHotograpHy 24x34 in. / 62x87 cm. (eacH)

P“Ki” (Spirit expressed) by analog /digital devices : At the site of ball appears as an image possessing “nodes.” This also corresponds to
“Photography in Contemporary Art”. I received from many visitors a “node(interval)” should be said to be a digital time-space. This digital time-
question representing “Is this a photograph video work? when they space is a connecting point between the analog actions A and B and is
watched my work. Indeed, It was very much like a still photograph of a produced by these two actions. Moreover, a previous digital time-space is
work produced by using video tapes, and I felt rather delightful that the established while it supports a subsequent digital time-space. This digital
visitors had taken it for a photograph made from a video. This means time-space is indeed a “Ku(space)”. I feel that this “Ku(space)” contains
that they certified that there are many points common to my works of in itself extremely large number of circuits and energy of spirit just as a
photographs and video rather than these works belong to different worlds, digital instrument is composed of a large number of circuit elements.I
event if the media are different. think that, in order to represent the internal spirit to be produced when
While the camera catches the external world through the one eye in the cutting a paper with a knife, both analog and digital aspects must be
general terms, photogram which are produced in a dark room without combined in such a manner as to make full use of their features and
using a camera have no eyes to catch the external world. Therefore, the the producer’s thought and that the programming must be devised to
photogram are completely free from perspective representation and are produce something that suppasses the result of such a combination.
characteristic of power to proceed into human body. This is the point in Video products utilize the “BREATH” in the conversation as a core of
which I am very interested. their series. The outline of the human body is produced by using analog
The photogram is produced by placing an object on a Photographic methods while discontinuous “nodes of Ki(spirit)” like electric which
paper in a dark room instead of using a film and by shedding light on to many exist between dialoging two persons through the “nodes of Ki(spirit)
the object, there by fixing the silhouette on the photographic paper. In which may resemble the Ko’space). The cause which let me feel various
the care of my work concerned, I intend to grasp the “movement” of a types of subjects concerning the relationship between these analog and
person such as cutting a photographic paper with a knife, writing a shape digital aspects was found in the process of producing video works. Such
by using a hair pencil, or turning over the leaves of a book instead of a feeling has been introduced into the field of photographs without my
using such an object. There are many types of photogram which catch noticing, and it has been developed in this manner, I intend to further
movements. Images of smooth movement, for example, those which are seek the spirit of art through utilizing this thought.
taken when a ball is rolling over a photographic paper, are often seen (Contemporary View no.349/ The News of the National museum of
in physical aspects. On the other hand, the human movement to roll a modern Art, Kyoto). TRENDS