f( ) is an installation series which is built, installed and run like software programs but rather in real space. The inputs and outputs of these imaginary functions are actual space involving viewers and surroundings. How is it like to walk in gardens of physical computational fields?

f₂( )

sound & light installation
Ars Electronica Festival, Linz, Austria
8 – 12 SEP, 2016

space dimensions:
W5m x D60m x H7m [highest] ~ H3.5m [lowest]

module dimensions:
W20mm × D40mm × H6m, H5.5m, H5.0m, H4.5m, H4m each

5×	custom LED light tube LED strip, aluminum profile, acrylic, microphone, electronic circuit color temperature: 12K maximum brightness: 180000 lumens [3600 per meter]
2×	Nexo PS10 loudspeaker
2×	GW-GAG-810 audio signal generator

Audio reactive light tubes render a flow of invisible energy. You hear continuous sums of wave functions as air molecules collide. You see them converted into discrete binary light. This is an extremely reduced model of how we perceive the universe.

construction assistant: Yoshinaka Yanagizaki
with the support of: European Network for Contemporary Audiovisual Creation

links:
http://www.aec.at/radicalatoms/en/
http://www.tomonagatokuyama.com/#f2 [this page]

f₁( )

sound & light installation
DEMO 01, LABoral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial, Gijón, Spain
27 MAY – 16 OCT, 2016

space dimensions:
W18.5m × D9.5m x H9m [highest] ~ H4m [lowest]

module dimensions:
W20mm × D40mm × H7m, H6.5m, H5.75m each

3×	custom LED light tube LED strip, aluminum profile, acrylic, microphone, electronic circuit color temperature: 14K maximum brightness: 117900 lumens [3600 per meter]
2×	subwoofer
2×	audio player

construction assistant: Yoshinaka Yanagizaki
with the support of: Le Lieu Unique (France)

photo credit (above & middle):
Marcos Morilla, courtesy of LABoral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial

links:
http://www.laboralcentrodearte.org/en/exposiciones/demo
http://www.tomonagatokuyama.com/#f1 [this page]

Commissions from others, collaborations with others, and other careers.

video installation
commissioned by Shimizu Corporation (Japan)
2015

The presentation was made to introduce the major construction company's use of technology. The video was projected through mirror films to be dissolved in the space and to represent bodiless design approach towards physical architecture.

film credit (bottom): Kohei Matsumura

audio visualization:
- Ryoji Ikeda: supercodex [vimeo], test pattern [vimeo]
- cyclo. [book]

computer graphics & programming:
- Ryoji Ikead: the radar [vimeo], etc.
- Arata Isozaki: Venice exhibition (2012)

software design & programming:
- Eiji & Tom: iFontMaker [app]

CAD software development:
- Kengo Kuma: Tiffany Ginza façade (2007)
- Junya Ishigami: KAIT workshop (2006)

Bron in Tokyo. Was in Kyoto & Treviso. Lives in Paris.
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