These artists are the subject of my long-term artistic research, which I have explored in a specific context between Western and non-Western fine arts. They (including me) belong to the generation between 1945 and 1960. Most of them are postdoctoral, practice-oriented artists who are academics, but their artistic activities were outside the academic field and they established their artistic account from the post-war period to the present in the 21st century.
I summarize the shaps and roads of them. - their loads
The "load" referred to here is, simply put, the use of tools (including of divices). What humans learn from birth to adulthood is how to master the use of "tools." - e.g. how to eat, and its manner, formalism in each culture
Research target
Artist- Researcher
Life-subject: Civilization;
What is 'Civilization'?
Art and Art Philosophy, Art and Anthropology, Art and Science, Art and Culture
Posthumanism, Post-Feminist Theory, Postcolonialism
Erika Matsunami is an artist-reseacher (artistic researcher and early career researcher) in artifact, artefakte.
Practical exploration:
Erika Matsunami
Spatiality and Transversality
Something x - a performative body
- Erika Matsunami
Paper Something x - a performative body (Working title)
B.O.D.Y. - Between auditory fiction and body-reality (2025–)
On the topic of consciousness and bodily feeling
Transformative processes
Audiovisual Installation, Spatial Installtion
Metamorphosis - Ethics and Aesthetics are One - from a Neuroscientific Perspective II
Erika Matsunami
This research is an advanced research of Metamorphosis - Ethics and Aesthetics are One - from a Neuroscientific Perspective in 2024. I explore post-feminist theory from a new perspective in the 21st century. Thereby I deal with spatiality between virtual reality and physical space theoretically and practically.
Wittgenstein's "Ethics and Aesthetics are One" is the starting point of this research. "In the Notebooks, Wittgenstein states that 'the world and life are one', so perhaps the following can be said. Just as the aesthetic object is the single thing seen as if it were a whole world, so the ethical object, or life, is the multiplicity of the world seen as a single object". (Diané Collinson, The British Journal of Aesthetics, Volume 25, Issue 3, SUMMER 1985, pages 266-272)
Art transcends boundaries of race, nationality and gender. It is a creative act of unifying in the context of humanity, from the subject to the various topics, by asking questions. This point is the lack of "reality" (dealing with reality) from a sociological perspective. But it is impossible to define humanity and reality based on sociological statistics alone–is my perspective of Wittgenstein's "Ethics and Aesthetics are one". Thereby, I examine 'world and life' from the 21st century perspective.
Keywords: transversality; post feminist theory; spatiality; randomness; environment;
Sculputre/Installation, Time-Based Media
Subject: Performativity
Time, Space and Body
Keywords: Transversal aesthetics; Coexistence; Spatiality;
A World Without German Philosopher Martin Heidegger - Post-colonial
A great issue of Modernism is such as German Philosopher Martin Heidegger's ideology, which was one of the Western centured modernist-colonialist thesis - is based art as a 'high art'
An aim in this artistic research is to make postmodernism, which is said to be difficult to understand, knowledgeable from an anthropological perspective, and the knowledge as a tool for creativity. (Researching the taxonomy in Museum Studies, Teaching MA for PhD and providing Postmodernism in everyday life)
Introduction - On research foundation and aesthetic evaluation in the 21st century
seeing-in, be seen-in (as an act and event of (Ereignis) e.g. will have seen in)
hearing-in, be heard-into (as an act and event of (Ereignis) e.g. will have heard into)
Objectivity and Subjectivity
Content(s)
0. Introduction On 'R' (working title)
1. On "Immersion into Noise" (2011) by Joseph Nechvatal (working title)
2. Atmosphere in digital spatiality (working title)
3. Atmosphere between spatiality and transversality in a real space (working title)
4. On site-specific (working title)
Global South and Climate Change
- Postcolonial research in Posthumanism
Keywords: transversality; interface (interact); post-conceptual; assemblage; spatiality; randomness; environment; coexistence;
These three artists are dealing with the topic between Western and Eastern cultures, and they transformed their theme into a creation of something. - Between Modernity and Tradition, Nature and Artificial, Digital and Analogue, Materiality and Immateriality
At the knowledge level, there is no great difference between South and North today.
The Asia Pacific Artistic Research Network (APARN) is a new initiative from the Centre of Visual Art, University of Melbourne and the Indonesian Institute of the Arts Yogyakarta, MMU Cyberjaya, Malaysia)
- Between the articulation of Western Art and procedure of the Traditional Japanese Art in Materiality
- Ritual and Transcendence in the Art - Transcendece or Imagination?
- Coexistence with nature in the Art
From the aspect of the 21st century
Art and Music history is not linear, but rather anthropological, ethnological, geographical, biological, ecological and global (Regional and International)
There are always limitations to materials. Just as there were limits to the manufacturing and processing of petroleum and celluloid used in film in the analogue era, there are limits to the manufacturing of semiconductors in the digital system.
Semiconductors and Civilization in the 21st century:
A "semiconductor" is a material with properties intermediate between a "conductor" that conducts electricity well, like metals, and an "insulator" that barely conducts electricity.
Semiconductors are used to control electronic devices and supply power, making them indispensable for electric vehicles that are driven by electricity. In addition to the "batteries," "control devices," and "motors" that make up the drive system, they are also used in on-board cameras for driving assistance, various sensors, etc. The keys to semiconductor development are "heat dissipation" and "small size and light weight."
Integrated circuits
1958 Invention of semiconductor IC (Jack Kilby, TI, USA) https://www.shmj.or.jp/museum2010/exhibi716.htm
1959 Invention of planar IC (Robert Noyce, Fairchild, USA) https://www.shmj.or.jp/museum2010/exhibi716.htm
1959 Invention of planar IC (Robert Noyce, Fairchild, USA)https://www.shmj.or.jp/museum2010/exhibi717.htm
https://www.shmj.or.jp/integred-circuits/index.html
From celluloid in the 19th century to plastic in the 20th century:
The first artificially synthesized plastic material in history was celluloid, developed in 1856. Celluloid was the first artificial resin in history, and the first thermoplastic resin. Thermoplastic resins are plastic materials that soften when heated, are molded in a mold, and harden when cooled. At the time, ivory was used for billiard balls, but with the development of John Wesley Hyatt, full-scale production of celluloid billiard balls began in 1869. The use of celluloid for photographic film began in the late 1880s. After that, celluloid was used in various products as the world's first plastic material until the mid-20th century, but its high flammability became a problem and a movement to eliminate it spread worldwide. Furthermore, with the emergence of new plastic materials such as polyethylene, it gradually disappeared, and now it can only be seen in a few products such as ping-pong balls, guitar picks, and dolls. (The International Table Tennis Federation has decided not to use celluloid material in ping-pong balls since 2014.)
https://i-maker.jp/blog/celluloid-8946.html
This relates to the APARN symposiums in 2023 and 2024.
The theme of APARN Symposium 2023 was "The Matter of Art", Yogyakarta, Indonesia, and the APARN Symposium 2024 was "Art as Research: Synthetic Reasoning" MMU Cyberjaya, Malaysia
The Asia Pacific Artistic Research Network (APARN) is a new initiative from the Centre of Visual Art, University of Melbourne and the Indonesian Institute of the Arts Yogyakarta, MMU Cyberjaya, Malaysia)