WORKS / Collectives - ADOKA NIITSU

Collectives

Member:
Mach Girls Leader: Rin IWAYA
Mach Girls No.1: Adoka NIITSU
Mach Girls No.2: Satomi AIEDA
Mach Girls No.3: Natsumi KURAMOTO
Mach Girls (1995-1998)
Founded in 1995 on the occasion of a charity auction held on the Internet, Mach Girls was a collective of four students from Joshibi University of Art and Design. The four members worked together online, sharing a single server.

Selected Artworks:

Mach β (1996)

There is a girl who loves mirror. And she lives in the mirror now! The mirror is called "the web". User can click on the image of girl and each time, the girl will multiplied with new frames, endlessly.

This work received the Bronze Award at Art on the Net '96, organized by the Machida City Museum of Graphic Arts and the Yokohama Museum of Art, Japan. The jury members included Shu Lea CHEANG, Hank BULL, and Tetsuo KOGAWA.

Hotel New Grand Junction (1996)

In the Hotel New Grand Junction, the basic operation method is to check into a hotel on the Internet, to click on and encounter various events and links which one finds inside. We have produced this based on an inspiration received from the fact that the Internet is a convergence point where the sources merge into and affect each other like capillary vessels. Also, the information on the Internet is a material for consumption like the air, and is also a trap in which we are most apt to become caught. That is why being manipulated by it is the most uninteresting and detestable thing for us today. With the above thought in mind, (we offer this) wishing well for the journey, the arrival of many customers, and the "hermitage".

Mach is a net personality that only exists in the computer. We thank our computer which has been faithfully serving our inspirations, and the existing home pages.

This work received the Achievement Award at DNP AWARD '96, organized by Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd. in Tokyo. The jury members included Fumio NANJO, Thierry RASPAIL, Dana FRIIS-HANSEN, Janine CIRINCIONE, Sun Jung KIM, John THACKARA, and Judith S. DONATH.

in*tension (2005-2007)

in*tension is the name of the group consisting of four current (*in 2007) research associates and one alumina of the Department of Inter Media Art, Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, as well as of the project itself.

In this project, through mutual assistance between the five members, we have created four solo exhibitions and this documentary book.

The exhibitions' titles were chosen after interviewing each of the artists. Simple words that represent not only their new works but also their longtime themes, which they have borne and will continue to reflect on, were chosen as follows: "Interspatial Distance", "Delusive Imagination", "Invisible", and "Flux". These four comprise a series with one common term: perspective to others.

"Interspatial Distance": When one encounters another, or when one somehow becomes conscious of the other's presence, a new relationship thus instantly arises. It is a moment when the two interact with each other to generate their own "interspatial distance". Mitsuhashi is interested in moments when people make contacts and their relationships start changing. No one knows whether the newly born relationship will be a happy one or a tragic one. In any event, giving total attention to the situation in which something is about to happen between you and me is akin to celebrating the moment of a new birth.

"Delusive Imagination": Relationships between self and others are invisible and intangible. One may pronounce, "they do not exist". However, by using the device called delusive imagination, one can say, "They exist, at least in my mind". "I do not want to meet you until the day I die I only need the media", Niitsu sings. This is kind of a pronouncement that represents her strong will -"By my own devices, the delusive imagination, I will definitely seize the relationship with you". By using delusive imagination as a medium, she pries open a channel for communication in the midst of discommunication.

"Invisible": One sometimes gets seriously concerned about the identities of oneself and this world, such as "perhaps this world, or even myself, may not exist in reality". The relationship between reality and virtual reality is completely different from that between truth and lies. As our technology has improved, our communication tools have become trickier, and the certainty of the here-and-now existence of both oneself and the surrounding world has also become more complex and vague. Ishikawa tries to reveal this ballooning vagueness from a perspective of natural science.

"Flux": Regulated by conditions that normal people cannot follow, Suzuki's journey looks to us like an adventure. However, he steps out as if he was just going out for a stroll. We then wonder how Suzuki, who is not a smooth talking charmer, can survive in such a region with a complex political situation and relentless natural conditions. But is an ingenious communication technique necessary to realize his will, "I want to meet people" or "I want to feel the air and mother earth", which bears intimacy as if home coming? Only the primal communicative acts such as eating, drinking, and laughing together, and thanking each other, are the necessities of a journey.

WORKS /

Collectives

Mach Girls (1995-1998)

electropti (1999-2001)

in*tension (2005-2007)