An artificial star where machines create nature. Many card-shaped robots are working. The professor is the only human being. The monitor screen is swallowed by another monitor on the screen, and as they stack up, the chain of images balloons. This is an ambitious work that presses on environmental issues and the human mind.

OKAMOTO Noriaki
Born in 1983, Osaka. While studying at the Department of Graphic Design, Tama Art University, he worked mainly in the audio and visual fields. After graduating from the university, he got a position at a CM production company. Freelance audio & visual creator from January 2009.
I am honored to receive such a prestigious award. With this work, I was able to give form to something nebulous inside my head. I would like to carry on doing the same thing.
The extremely shallow depth of focus, and the déjà vu of looking at a discolored ancient record of a distant foreign country, make us almost forget that this is a digitally created work of the present day. The story of a world that is simple and without futility is both tranquil and sad. Apart from the time factor, there are now hardly any technical impediments to image creation; the quality of a work depends more on the ideas and vision of the artist. With regard to that, this artist has an aesthetic that deepens his composition by focusing on a sense of texture rather than a sense of volume; I am looking forward to his future work.
What makes you create a work?
I can’t remember clearly but it might the praise I got when I drew pictures as a child.
What tools do you use the most at present?
Notebooks and pens. And a PC.
What do you place greatest value on in your work?
To have a theme. To convey something. A feeling of distance from the audience. The position (genre) of a work I’m going to create. And other things too.
What personal concept runs through your creative activities?
I don’t know. It always changes a lot.
When you create a work, in what way do you think of a presentation using technologies or media as a means to communicate?
I don’t think about it deeply, but I would like to know a lot of new things and old things and choose among them.
Could you name a person, a work, or an event that you have been most influenced by?
I don’t know about people and works as there are so many. To talk about an event, when I was an elementary school kid, it was something one of my friends said: “If you want to be better than that other person, you have to work twice as hard.” It still bites into me with the same effect.
What kind of work would you like to create in the future?
I feel various things every day. At any rate, I would like to give form to my feelings.
What is the meaning or importance of creating for you?
It’s a release. I would die from frustration if I didn’t do it.
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