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Excellence Prize
ACIDMAN short film
SAI (Part 1) / Revolving...to the core
Short Film
Artist : NISHIGORI Isao
(Japan)
NISHIGORI Isao
Born in 1975. While a student of Bunka Gakuin High School Fine Arts Division, started as VJ (visual jockey) by using CG. After graduating from high-school, worked for a CG production company. Awarded '95 MTV Station ID Contest Grand Prix, which led him to join MTV Japan. Winner of a number of awards including SIGGRAPH and Promax & BDA and invited to present work at 2004 Edinburgh International Film Festival, onedotzoero, the world-largest digital film festival, and Resfest. As a visual artist of MV and CM, NISHIGORI is currently affiliated with P.I.C.S., the creative production organization.
This is a collaborative work sensuously perceiving the musical qualities and world view of ACDMAN . My intention was to express the charms of CG animation in my own way by showing swinging images in the first half that develop to react to sound in the second half. Thank you, ACDMAN ! And I am sincerely grateful to Mr. YONEZAWA, Ms. ITO and other staff for understanding my code-like explanation.
The visual images typified by music videos are created to accompany and therefore also dependent on music. As a result, they tend only to try to fit the rhythm and beat of the music, which makes the images seem as though they are "graded based on a model answer". However, this particular work manages to perfectly unite music and image; it seems nonsensical to argue about the visual image's subordinacy here; it is in fact a musical image. The emotions evoked by these pictures have a powerful rhythm, which can even make us feel as though the music was composed for the image. CG is necessary for this visual expression, but it is not all that is needed to create it. Although the approach used in this piece is not entirely new, the arrangement and setup have acquired a high degree of perfection, being a result of the long honed sense of the creator for what is suitable. Honestly, I was moved in my heart by this expression, which conveys to us the feeling of flesh and blood, and even its temperature.
What kind of medium did you choose for your work when the first time you were aware of your "creation"?
A pencil to draw pictures, then, paints to color them, and finally, a PC to animate them.
And, how old were you and what did you make?
I was about eight years old. I wanted to be a manga artist, but kept drawing front covers only.
Do you have any consistent subject matter or theme through your works?
Collaborative works between music and visual images. My attempt is to create a chemical reaction by mixing music and visual images and express ?something to feel? rather than words.
When do you feel the connection with the technology in your creative activity?
What is the difference of the sense of Media Art from the one of traditional fine art?
I recognize technology just by powering up the computer, holding the mouse, and seeing the computer screen. Although technologies of both computer software and hardware never stop evolving, they are merely electronic devices for me to create my work. "Media art", since it is categorized as "art", is no different from other forms of conventional arts. No matter what is created or where the work is presented, I think that the importance should be placed on the relationship and shared feelings between the artist and audience.
How does your choice of medium affect on your works?
In another words, what kind of expression does your choice of medium allow you to make?
It has enabled me to convey feelings with colors and movement only.
Do you feel that your theme of your works and the digital art will change along with the shift of the society?
My motifs and methods may change as the time changes, but the fundamental theme will be the same. I am conscious of the sensory aspect that is a universal theme as long as I am a human being.
What kind of field you are best at in your works?
And how do your works fit within and affect on this society?
Colors, because I like colors. To my surprise, I cannot find any colors I dislike. I don't know whether my work has an influence on society, but there is one thing I keep in my mind when creating my work, that is, I do my best not to waste the audience's time. Since they give me an important portion of their lifetime to see my work, I would like to fill it with happiness and excitement.
What is your motto?
"What is important is invisible to the eye."
What kind of situation in every day life do you get inspired most?
When I am listening to music, especially, while walking.
When I have music that perfectly fits my mood, I tend to walk faster and sometimes get overheated, making a hissing sound all over the town.
What kind of vision do you have in your future development as the creator?
I want to be with music. I don't specify a genre of music, but I want to be with all kinds of music.
Please name of the people or phenomena that you have got most influenced by as the creator.
Kawaguchi Yoichiro
Having seen his work was the reason I started creating CG seriously. When I saw the movements of the creatures and colors that I had never seen before, I immediately decided, "I will create the unseen world just like him". He gave me the sudden impulse..
Nick Philip
I think that he was the one who could import music into his brain and export it in a form of graphics as he feels. Many of his works were produced as T-shirts and posters, and it still seems to me that those depicted images could move and play music as if they had a will of their own..
VJ
There was no such term as "VJ", when I worked as a VJ, but I was able to experience many things. At the moment when DJ's music and my visual images corresponded to each other, I witnessed the audience?s reaction in their excitement. I learned that music and visual images have something indescribable and I believe that this experience is still useful for my creative works..
ACIDMAN
If there was not their music, I could not have produced the work.
Having seen his work was the reason I started creating CG seriously. When I saw the movements of the creatures and colors that I had never seen before, I immediately decided, "I will create the unseen world just like him". He gave me the sudden impulse..
Nick Philip
I think that he was the one who could import music into his brain and export it in a form of graphics as he feels. Many of his works were produced as T-shirts and posters, and it still seems to me that those depicted images could move and play music as if they had a will of their own..
VJ
There was no such term as "VJ", when I worked as a VJ, but I was able to experience many things. At the moment when DJ's music and my visual images corresponded to each other, I witnessed the audience?s reaction in their excitement. I learned that music and visual images have something indescribable and I believe that this experience is still useful for my creative works..
ACIDMAN
If there was not their music, I could not have produced the work.
