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2012
Perfume “Spring of Life” MV
A control for the LED outfit. There are three versions so far, each one getting smaller.
10. LED Baton
2015
Rhizomatiks Research + MIKIKO - “segments”
A batton for the performance with built-in LED that can be controlled wirelessly.
11. Coded Field Balloon Device
2019
Tokyo Tokyo FESTIVAL Special 13 Light and Sound Installation "Coded Field"
Balloon-shaped device with built-in LED for the audience to hold during the experience.
12. Ball Dropping Device
2013
Timo Maas – “Tantra” MV
A device to drop plastic balls at arbitrary intervals.
13. SOUND COLLECTING DEVICE
2018
Pokémon GO AR Garden
A case made for "Pokémon GO AR Garden." Because it is used in an augmented reality experience with sound, it is shaped like a sensor so that the phone naturally faces in the direction of the sound.
14. Gimbal Camera
2015
"Cold stares ft. Chance The Rapper + The O’My’s" de Nosaj Thing
Medium-sized swarm drones that can be equipped with a spotlight and camera gimbal developed by us. For the "Cold Stares feat. Chance The Rapper" music video by producer Nosaj Thing, two dancers performed in an empty studio with six drones and the filming was done only with cameras on drones, without any camera operated by people.
15. Spotlight Drone
2015
ELEVENPLAY × Rhizomatiks Research - "shadow"
Medium-sized swarm drones that can be equipped with a spotlight and camera gimbal developed by us. For the "shadow" performance, where the lighting was done only by drones, we developed a small and light spotlight to be fitted on the drones.
16. Sensor Shoes
2010
NIKE MUSIC SHOE
A tennis shoe used for the shooting. It has a flex sensor inside and a push switch on the sole.
17. echo band
2017
"echo project"
Device for the "echo project," which allows us to measure the distance with the external side by extending the hand. The participant puts on a mask to cover his or her eyes and wears a suit equipped with devices that vibrate. By extending the bandaged hand, the person can feel the distance to the outside by means of the intensity of the vibration.
18. Printed Circuit Board - Prototype -Jigs
Printed circuit boards produced in the past and jigs for prototyping and production. In order to produce our equipment, we developed and produced the printed circuit from scratch.
19. Pyramid Drone
2014
ELEVENPLAY × Rhizomatiks Research - "fly"
A drone used for our very first attempt at drone performance. We used a drone from German Ascending Technologies. The cone installed on the equipment decreased its stability, but we made these unstable movements create a performative effect.
2. Costume Controller
2013
Perfume Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity.
A control for the outfit that transforms at the beggining of the performance.
20. echo ware
2017
echo project
A vibrator controlled with a control on the back through wires struck into the cloth.
Wardrobe design: Anrealage
3. LED bracelet
2018
Docomo x Perfume new collaboration project "FUTURE-EXPERIMENT VOL.04 Share that moment".
A bracelet device developed to control the lighting by moving the arms.
4. Light Saber
2014
Perfume WORLD TOUR 3rd “GAME”
A lightsaber used for the performance of "GAME," by Perfume.
5. LED Device
2014
"rate"
A LED device installed inside a balloon.
6. Laser Projector
2013
ELEVENPLAY × Rhizomatiks - “ray”
A small and lightweight laser projector to be equipped at the edge of a robotic arm. The equipment allows us to create performances by freely projecting of lines on air.
7. Omni Wheel Track
2015
ELEVENPLAY × Rhizomatiks Research - “border”
Omni-wheel car installed inside a cube-shaped object. This device was part of the dance performance "border" set-up, in which the audience wears virtual reality glasses and moves in the same space as the dancers. To enable a freer performance, we used these platforms with four omni-wheels, which move in a straight line and in circles.
8. LED Device
2010
Perfume 10th Anniversary and Major Debut 5th Anniversary! Perfume LIVE @ Tokyo Dome ""1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11"" Lighting Balloon System
LED light fixture in 16-feet diameter built into a balloon.
9. Swarm Drone
2015
ELEVENPLAY × Rhizomatiks Research - “24 drones”
A low-cost drone developed to fly in a flock.
Daito Manabe
“Gold Rush” – Visualization + Sonification of OpenSea activity
2021
Video
Concept, sound design, and technical direction: Daito Manabe
Visual design and programming: Futa Kera
System programming and server-side design: 2bit
Server-side programming: Kosaku Namikawa
Special thanks to Mai Fujimoto (KIZUNA) and Yu Ayato (KIZUNA)
On March 11th, 2021, the art market registered a new record: the sale of a fully digital work with NFT (an acronym for non-fungible token) and guarantee of authenticity for U$69,346,250.00, which was also paid for largely in cryptocurrency.
The commercialization of EVERYDAYS: THE FIRST 5000 DAYS, by American artist Beeple, although recent, was characterized as a landmark event not only for the arts. For this reason, Daito Manabe conducted an analysis of image data traded on OpenSea—in a simplified way, a trading platform for NFTs—during the day on which this work was auctioned, recording the large flow of transactions.
For this, he used deep learning techniques* and Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs)** to extract aspects and characteristics of the cryptoart sold in that same period. Daito Manabe’s analysis followed some patterns: chronology, type, hits per minute, and colors present in the images that were being sold.
The video shown here is a record of the organization and grouping of the analyzed works under certain criteria, arranging them on a two-dimensional plane and then rearranging them in three-dimensional form. This work not only draws attention to a subject as current as NFTs, cryptocurrencies, and blockchains, but gives visibility to the dynamism of virtual relations and their many possibilities.
* Deep learning is one of the foundations of Artificial Intelligence (AI). It brings together applications that allow devices to recognize speech, detect images and objects, describe content, etc. These technologies are like those used in autonomous driving, surveillance cameras, online shopping product search tools, among others that require high recognition accuracy.
** Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) are deep learning algorithms used mainly for image recognition and video processing.
Rhizomatiks
Rhizomatiks Archive & Behind the scenes
[Arquivo Rhizomatiks & Bastidores]
Seleção de vídeos e hardwares
Desde o início de sua produção, o Rhizomatiks preocupa-se em registrar seus trabalhos, processos de criação e o desenvolvimento de suas pesquisas. Após mais de 15 anos de atividade, o grupo fez uma seleção de itens utilizados em diferentes tipos de projetos, como hardwares e dispositivos elaborados por seus membros.
O conjunto apresentado engloba tecnologias que exerceram papel fundamental na concepção de algum trabalho. Os objetos relacionam-se com os conteúdos dos televisores, que exibem diversas colaborações, obras comissionadas, registros de processos de pesquisas e seu desenvolvimento, cenas de bastidores, documentações, testes e sequências de tentativas e erros por meio de linguagens diversas que são exploradas pelo grupo no Japão e internacionalmente.
Rhizomatiks
Rhizomatiks Archive & Behind the scenes
Selection of videos and hardwares
Since the beginning of its production, Rhizomatiks has been concerned with recording its work, creation processes, and the development of its research. After more than 15 years of activity, the group has made a selection of items used in different types of projects, such as hardware and devices developed by its members.
The set presented includes technologies that played a fundamental role in the conception of a work. Each object relates to the content of the televisions, which show various collaborations, commissioned works, records of research processes and their development, behind-the-scenes images, documentations, tests, and trial and error sequences through various languages that are explored by the group in Japan and internationally.
O conjunto apresentado engloba tecnologias que exerceram papel fundamental na concepção de algum trabalho. Os objetos relacionam-se com os conteúdos dos televisores, que exibem diversas colaborações, obras comissionadas, registros de processos de pesquisas e seu desenvolvimento, cenas de bastidores, documentações, testes e sequências de tentativas e erros por meio de linguagens diversas que são exploradas pelo grupo no Japão e internacionalmente.
Ryuichi Sakamoto and Daito Manabe
Sensing Streams 2022 – invisible, inaudible
2022
Installation
Design: Ryuichi Sakamoto and Daito Manabe
Visual programming: Daito Manabe (Rhizomatiks)
Software development: Yuta Asai (Rhizomatiks)
Hardware development: Katsuhiko Harada (Rhizomatiks)
Sound programming: Satoshi Hama
Technical configuration: Shintaro Kamijo (Rhizomatiks)
Project management: Naoki Ishizuka (Rhizomatiks)
Production: Takao Inoue (Rhizomatiks)
The title of this work, Sensing Streams, already suggests what this is about and how it works. It is an installation in which electromagnetic waves are detected and captured, making visible and audible this great flow that surrounds us, but that is imperceptible to human eyes and ears.
An antenna is installed and starts to detect and collect electromagnetic waves that are all the time being emitted by cell phones, radios, and Bluetooth devices, among many others. These waves, responsible for carrying various types of data, are captured, and their frequency is transformed into sound and image by a software developed by the Rhizomatiks team. On a large LED screen and from speakers, the public can see and hear this flow in high definition. However, each person is also able to change the frequency and length of the wave by moving the control on the totem, which automatically changes the image on the screen and the sound emitted. Thus, one realizes the variety and multiplicity of waves in real time.
First developed in 2014 and being updated since then, this work is a collaboration between Rhizomatiks founder Daito Manabe—who among many fronts is dedicated to experimenting with data technologies and visualizing this information—and musician Ryuichi Sakamoto, who conducts research on hearing and transforming data into sound. Understanding that nowadays electromagnetic waves have become an essential part of everyday infrastructure, the artists take this work as an opportunity to make the public aware of a phenomenon that usually goes unnoticed, although we are active agents of this process, with our smartphones and other devices.
Ryuichi Sakamoto and Daito Manabe
Sensing Streams 2022 – invisible, inaudible
2022
Installation
Design: Ryuichi Sakamoto and Daito Manabe
Visual programming: Daito Manabe (Rhizomatiks)
Software development: Yuta Asai (Rhizomatiks)
Hardware development: Katsuhiko Harada (Rhizomatiks)
Sound programming: Satoshi Hama
Technical configuration: Shintaro Kamijo (Rhizomatiks)
Project management: Naoki Ishizuka (Rhizomatiks)
Production: Takao Inoue (Rhizomatiks)
The title of this work, Sensing Streams, already suggests what this is about and how it works. It is an installation in which electromagnetic waves are detected and captured, making visible and audible this great flow that surrounds us, but that is imperceptible to human eyes and ears.
An antenna is installed and starts to detect and collect electromagnetic waves that are all the time being emitted by cell phones, radios, and Bluetooth devices, among many others. These waves, responsible for carrying various types of data, are captured, and their frequency is transformed into sound and image by a software developed by the Rhizomatiks team. On a large LED screen and from speakers, the public can see and hear this flow in high definition. However, each person is also able to change the frequency and length of the wave by moving the control on the totem, which automatically changes the image on the screen and the sound emitted. Thus, one realizes the variety and multiplicity of waves in real time.
First developed in 2014 and being updated since then, this work is a collaboration between Rhizomatiks founder Daito Manabe—who among many fronts is dedicated to experimenting with data technologies and visualizing this information—and musician Ryuichi Sakamoto, who conducts research on hearing and transforming data into sound. Understanding that nowadays electromagnetic waves have become an essential part of everyday infrastructure, the artists take this work as an opportunity to make the public aware of a phenomenon that usually goes unnoticed, although we are active agents of this process, with our smartphones and other devices.
Yoichi Sakamoto
optical walls
2022
Installation
Technical cooperation: Mitsui Chemicals Inc.
The dark room welcomes those who enter it with a new architectural proposal: walls made of light that remain in movement, crossing each other, sometimes joining, and sometimes moving away. These rectangles are in constant displacement and allow the audience to be transported to a new place, enveloped by an ethereal structure.
This immersive experience is made possible by a complex interaction between multiple lighting units. The installation presents a set of three lenses developed especially for this work, whose diffusion coefficient—the amount of oxygen that passes through the area of the lens—is extremely low, allowing light to concentrate in parallel beams. Its shape, a toric ring form, was also designed so that the incidence of light would generate linear bands. The smoke that hangs permanently in space is responsible for giving volume to these beams, revealing large geometric shapes made essentially of light and resembling walls. As the LED lights that make up the space rotate on two different axes, we see countless luminous transformations take place.
In optical walls, Yoichi Sakamoto, a member of Rhizomatiks and creator of this work, wishes to bring to light discussions about principles such as the natural phenomena that surround us—the seasons, for example, which exist because of the Earth’s inclination towards the sun—which, being essential to the maintenance of life or because we are used to them, seem easy to understand, even though they are very complex.
Essentially, the installation consists of only a handful of rotating light sources that explore the role of diffusion on flat surfaces. However, using industrially manufactured materials and resources, the installation creates a new ambiance, demonstrating everything from phenomenological theories to dazzling kaleidoscopic effects.
Rhizomatiks
Created in 2006, Rhizomatiks is a creative collective that explores possibilities in art, media, and technology with an interest in furthering research and relationships between the human being and technologies. Based in Tokyo, the group was founded by Daito Manabe—artist, programmer, and DJ—and relies on a team composed of artists and programmers, but also engineers, designers, and architects, among others.
The versatility of the professionals who work at Rhizomatiks is reflected in its productions, experimental projects that relate visual arts, design, and architecture with elements from data science, advertising, and entertainment.
Moving between the real and online worlds through so many fields of knowledge, the members of the collective are involved in almost all stages of a project, from planning and creative conception to software and hardware development and operations, which allows for a more complete integration, clearly perceived in the final result.
With over 15 years in the business, Rhizomatiks had its first solo exhibition and retrospective in 2021, rhizomatiks_multiplex, which took place at the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo (MOT), in Japan. Among their creations are participation in the closing ceremony of the Rio 2016 Olympic Games, collaborations with Japanese music groups ELEVENPLAY and Perfume, and the development of a series of devices for various technological solutions.
Rhizomatiks
Created in 2006, Rhizomatiks is a creative collective that explores possibilities in art, media, and technology with an interest in furthering research and relationships between the human being and technologies. Based in Tokyo, the group was founded by Daito Manabe—artist, programmer, and DJ—and relies on a team composed of artists and programmers, but also engineers, designers, and architects, among others.
The versatility of the professionals who work at Rhizomatiks is reflected in its productions, experimental projects that relate visual arts, design, and architecture with elements from data science, advertising, and entertainment.
Moving between the real and online worlds through so many fields of knowledge, the members of the collective are involved in almost all stages of a project, from planning and creative conception to software and hardware development and operations, which allows for a more complete integration, clearly perceived in the final result.
With over 15 years in the business, Rhizomatiks had its first solo exhibition and retrospective in 2021, rhizomatiks_multiplex, which took place at the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo (MOT), in Japan. Among their creations are participation in the closing ceremony of the Rio 2016 Olympic Games, collaborations with Japanese music groups ELEVENPLAY and Perfume, and the development of a series of devices for various technological solutions.
What cannot be seen
In a very brief way, Deleuze’s (France, 1925-1995) and Guattari’s (France, 1930-1992) concept of “rhizome” uses botany as a source of inspiration to indicate relationships, research, and thinking from a multiple perspective, which evolves without a definite beginning or end, but as a series of unfoldings to many sides that extend into many others in a comprehensive and infinite network, like a rhizome. From this philosophical concept comes the name of the Japanese group created in 2006 by multimedia artist Daito Manabe, Rhizomatiks.
Blurring boundaries between distinct fields, the group works very freely. It is not hostage to labels or pre-established categories. Its creations value the collaborative process.
Rhizomatiks transforms, subverts, challenges, and exposes aspects of our daily lives in experimental projects, approaching a series of phenomena that surround us and creating new forms of expression.
According to Manabe, their works aren’t after the “wow effect,” but an intellectual and emotional engagement by the public.
The group works across several disciplines such as visual arts, dance, music, and theater, in collaboration with a wide range of partners, and associates technological tools on these fronts. They often make use of already existing technologies while proposing something new.
Although the group is well known in Japan and on the international scene for its diverse performances, the exhibition What cannot be seen is the first in Latin America dedicated to showing a set of its works. But Rhizomatiks is already known to the Brazilian public for having created the closing performance of the Rio Olympics in 2016.
The four works selected and presented here address invisible elements in one way or another, working with electromagnetic waves, creating optical barriers to replace physical ones, showing the universe of NFTs (non-fungible tokens) and the backstage of the group’s activities in these years developing apparatuses and works of all kinds.
Sensing streams, cryptography, sound, electric currents, data, walls that by definition are physical limits, but here suggest a subversion of space as they are built by lights… The boundaries between art, technology and human being converge.
Throughout the exhibition development process, we realized once again the importance of personal relationships and physical presence. The challenges of assembling without the presence of its creators are countless. Technology is certainly not self-sufficient.
Despite constantly working in this duality of the real world and the technological world, the most important factor behind it all, the source and the final destination of the creations, the human being, stands out.
Natasha Barzaghi Geenen
Cultural Director of Japan House São Paulo and curator of the exhibition
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(Don’t forget to check the app we created with more details about the Rhizomatiks universe through the QR Codes displayed throughout the exhibition.)