Excellence Prize
ISSEY MIYAKE
A-POC INSIDE.
Visual Image
Artist: MASAHIKO SATO + EUPHRATES
(Japan)
The promotion film of a new brand, A-POC INSIDE. by ISSEY MIYAKE. Employing the expertise of cognitive science, the group achieved the expression of animated movement of fashion models through a composition using only white points and letters on a black background.

Photo: Takuji Okada
MASAHIKO SATO
Professor, the Department of Film and New Media, Tokyo National University in Fine Arts & Music; a specially invited professor at the Faculty of Environment and Information Studies of Keio University.

EUPHRATES
a creative group of graduates of SATO Masahiko laboratory at Keio University. Started their activities in December 2005.
This image is created aiming at a universal expression based on the knowledge of cognitive science where any human being is able to see a certain thing regardless their ethnicity or age. On the screen, just dots and lines appear. However, we will see fashion models walking with mincing gait and the depth of the screen from just that much information. This is a new representation beyond the arbitrariness of the individual.
The movements of fashion models in a fashion show are represented using only white dots. The reason we can recognize that the movements are those of fashion models is that viewers have the memory of the distinctive movement of fashion models and this image proves that the memory can be recalled by seeing only white dots when viewers watch them. This piece of work employs a totally different technique from highly entertaining works which convey a visual presentation in a unilateral way. This work is created based on the presupposition of human capabilities and is an excellent production which proposes a shape based on real communication taking a stance from the audiences’ side. White dots form letters, dots are connected by lines, and the relation of connections is changing from time to time. This means that A-POC’s techniques of creating clothes go into the brand ISSEY MIYAKE, at the same time, it seems that it reveals the experimental trials in every relationship.
What has lead you to “create a work”?
ISSEY MIYAKE requested that we create a design which was to epitomize the new ISSEY MIYAKE. At that time, I did not have an idea to create a projected image, but I conceived of presenting it by animation using biological motions, and we made a proposal.
What tools do you use the most at present?
Adobe After Effects, Adobe Live Motion, Final Cut Pro (Apple), Xcode (Apple), and Autodesk Maya, among others.
What do you place greatest value on in your work?
To express “A-POC INSIDE,” a message which ISSEY MIYAKE wished to deliver, simply as well as strongly.
What personal concept do you keep throughout your creative activities?
To be a new and strong representation.
When you create a work, in what way do you think of a presentation using technologies or media as a means to communicate?
I believe that I must come up with the most suitable style of expression and media for the project. If there is no media which suits the project, I must create new media in the first place.
Could you name a person, a work, or an event that you have been influenced by the most?
It is difficult to choose just one person.
What kind of work would you like to create in the future?
That which makes you feel excited to watch.
What is the meaning or importance of “to create” for you?
A work to embody interesting things which occur in my brain.










