INTRO
RADIX at MeCA in Tokyo, 2017. Radix is a wooden root sculpture augmented by projection and sound; the XENORAMA work received the New Face Award of the Japan Media Arts Festival in 2017.
We were honoured to present RADIX at the Goethe-Institut Tokyo as part of the Japan MeCA Festival, in a program curated around experimental media practices from Germany and Japan.
RADIX is a wooden root sculpture augmented by projection and sound, a XENORAMA work exploring the ties between nature and technology. Positioned in the architectural clarity of the exhibition space, its organic surface geometry became a canvas for generative light, in constant negotiation with the room's physical boundaries; many visitors moved around the object itself, watching how light transformed it from different angles.
The Work
The sculpture's spatial shape was captured through 3D scanning and extended with 3D-printed polygon elements, so the projected imagery is built directly onto the object's own form. In an ongoing play of light and sound, the piece undergoes a metamorphosis from its natural, organic shape toward a technical one, as the two aspects contend for dominance.
Context
The same year, RADIX received the New Face Award at the Japan Media Arts Festival in Tokyo. The setting at the Goethe-Institut also opened dialogue with Japanese artists, curators and researchers working at the intersection of media, architecture and embodied experience.
