Mid Tide #3 is a video installation created by digitally manipulating video data of the actual view. The conditions of space-time within the image are unknowingly rewritten like changing tides. To achieve this, Furusawa developed software that creates a 3D-object from the video data, using time as the depth dimension, and allows arbitrary planar slicing within that object. Conventional video playback involves moving a cross-section of this 3D-object from front to back.
This work deviates from such a linear trajectory by freely swiveling the cross-section, thereby breaking the simultaneity within the frame and displaying different times. It represents an update from the original purpose of moving images, which is to imitate human perception.
Mid Tide #3, photo: Ryu Furusawa
Mid Tide #3, photo: Ryu Furusawa
The immersive experience of being pulled into the waves of this work is created by carefully exploring the interplay between the movement in the original video footage and the shifting condition of space-time in the manipulated image and also becomes a mirror of the viewer’s perception.
Bio
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Photo: Shun FurusawaRyu Furusawa
JP
Ryu Furusawa, who lives and works in Tokyo, is an artist and a surfer. He employs digital manipulation and physical intervention in the imaging process to reconstruct time and space, altering viewers’ standards of perception. The resulting ephemeral landscapes erode the viewer’s physical senses, heightening awareness of the physical sensations inherent in our perception of reality. Since 2015, he has also been active as part of the artist collective “YOF.”
Credits
With support from: Project to Support Emerging Media Arts Creators, Agency for Cultural Affairs, Government of Japan, 2023; Tokyo University of the Arts Graduate School of Film and New Media