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Reiko Kubota 'Saccade Image 2' 2010.jpg

"Intangible Spaces" [無形空間]
Reiko Kubota - Nathan Cohen

24 Aug - 11 Sep, 2010
opening party 27 Aug, 2010 6-8pm

Reiko Kubota and Nathan Cohen create artworks that challenge our notions of space, time and form, incorporating new technologies and processes in the realization of their work.
Reiko Kubota’s recent work includes developing art forms with saccade based displays (developed by Dr. Junji Watanabe, NTT Laboratories) resulting in still and moving images that capture the experience of momentary perception. These artworks articulate form and space and extend the instant into a play with light, depth and movement. Reiko has developed a unique visual lexicon of forms that can be read in the fraction of a second that a saccade image is transmitted into the eye, which have been recorded onto saccade based displays. By inventing a process that combines long digital camera exposures of the displayed images with movement she then discovered that it is possible not only to capture the original saccade image, but also combine several images that would not otherwise be visible, and through this process create new art forms which are presented in this exhibition as video sequences and multi-layered images.
Nathan Cohen creates installations that explore how art forms exist and interact with the real world space of the viewer. Recently, Nathan has explored technologies developed by Professor Susumu Tachi and his team at Tachi Lab in the creation of his artwork, including retro-reflective projection (RPT) and Multi-channel Real Time Video composition (MRTV), and has incorporated these processes in the development of new art forms that encourage an interactive response from the viewer. In other installations the architectural space of a building’s interior is transformed with interventions of forms painted directly onto the walls and surfaces that alter interpretation of the space and places the viewer directly within the artwork’s construction.
Both artists will be presenting new work and exploring creative possibilities offered by exhibiting in the distinctive Aisho Miura Gallery space.

レイコ・クボタとネイサン・コーエンは、通常の感覚で捉えられる空間・時間・フォルムを問い直し、作品を体現するための新しいテクノロジーとプロセスの創造を目指している。両者ともに最新作はサイエンス分野の研究者とのコラボレーションから生み出されたものである。

レイコ・クボタの作品は、Saccade Based Display（SBD）の開発者、渡邉淳司博士との共同研究の成果である。SBDによる視覚的イメージは瞬間的にしか得ることができない。それを恒久的なビジョンに転換するプロセスとして、数秒間という遅いシャッタースピードを用い、眼球運動をなぞるようにカメラを動かしてみた。そうして画面に定着した身体の軌跡を幾重にも重ね、静止画の連続によって動きを表現する。
Saccade Based Display

ネイサン・コーエンの最新作は、慶應大学大学院メディアデザイン研究科の舘研究室とのコラボレーションにより、光学迷彩（RPT）とマルチチャンネル・リアルタイム・ビデオ（MRTV）を駆使して創り出されるものである。そのなかでも鑑賞者と作品とのインタラクティブな視覚体験を促すような作品づくりを追及する。

Nathan Cohen
b.1962　London, GB

Professional (selected 2000-2010)

2009
Curator, Identity
Aisho Miura ARTS, Tokyo, Japan
2009-
MRTV research in collaboration with Tachi Lab, Keio University, Japan
2006-
Retro-reflective Projection Technology Research in collaboration with Tachi Lab, University of Tokyo; and Saccade Projection in collaboration with Dr. Junji Watanabe, NTT Laboratories, Japan
2003
Keynote speaker: ‘The Neurology of Harmony: Art, Architecture, Music’
2nd International Conference on Neuroesthetics
University of Berkeley, California
2001
Collaboration with Prof.Semir Zeki (Professor of Neurobiology, UCL)
Form & Vision, Annely Juda Fine Art, London
2000
Curator, Mondriaanhuis/Archive 90 International Reference Collection and exhibition, Mondriaanhuis, Amersfoort, NL

One Person Exhibitions (2000-2010)

2010
Intangible Spaces (with Reiko Kubota) Aisho Miura Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2008
Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria
(In collaboration with Tachi Lab, University of Tokyo)
2007
Nathan Cohen – Form & Vision: Bildobjekte Galerie Klaus Braun, Stuttgart, D
2004
Nathan Cohen – Retrospective Museum Mondriaanhuis, Amersfoort, NL
Galerie Konstruktiv Tendens
Stockholm, SWE
2001
Nathan Cohen – Form & Vision
Annely Juda Fine Art, London, GB

Selected Group Exhibitions (2000-2009)

2009
Identity Aisho Miura Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2008
Natilla, Installation
Galeria Cascarilla, Havana, Cuba

2007
Annely Juda – A Celebration
Annely Juda Fine Art, London, GB
2006
Art & Architecture
Concourse Gallery, London, GB
2005
Geometrisk Abstraktion XXIV
Galerie Konstruktiv Tendens, Stockholm, SWE
2003
De Bomen van Pythagoras. Geconstrueerde Groei
Mondriaanhuis, Amersfoort. NL
Konstruktive Kunst aus England
Stadtbücherie Niebüll, D
2002
Kompakt, Konkret, Konstruktiv
Galerie Sztuki Wspolczesnej MNS
Museum Narodowego, Szczecin, PL
Voyage
Flowers East Gallery, London, GB

2001
Geometrisk Abstraktion XX
Galerie Konstruktiv Tendens, Stockholm, SWE
2000
Mondiale Echo’s
Mondriaanhuis, Amersfoort, NL

Nathan Cohen’s work is widely represented in museums, public and private collections in Europe, Scandinavia, Japan, South America and the USA.

Nathan Cohen website

Nathan Cohen RPT Wall Installation detail Ars Electronica Linz 2008.jpg

REIKO KUBOTA

b.1962 Tokyo, Japan
Currently lives and works in London

2010
Intangible Spaces
Aisho Mirura Arts, Tokyo, Japan
2009
Presented ‘Polyluminous Imaging’ at the 28th Japanese Psychonomic Society Conference
Japan Women’s University, Tokyo, Japan
"Identity"
Aisho Miura Arts, Tokyo, Japan
2007
Saccade project, with Dr.Junji Watanabe
NTT Laboratory, Kanagawa, Japan
2006
One Person Show
Gallerie Emilia Sucui,
Ettlingen, Germany
2004
Princes Drawing School Gallery
Shoreditch, London, GB
2003
War and Peace
Flowers Central Gallery, London, GB
2002
Voyage
Flowers East Gallery, London, GB
Kompakt, Konkret, Konstruktiv
Galerie Sztuki Wspolczenej MUS
Museum Narodowego, Szczecin, Poland
2001
Small is Beautiful
Flowers East Gallery, London, GB
2000
Coloured Thoughts (One Person Show)
Slade Gallery, UCL, London, GB
Mondiale Echos
Mondriaanhuis Musuem, Amersfoort, NL
Kompakt, Konkret, Konstruktiv
Dringenberg, Germany

SELECTED COLLECTIONS
Museum Ritter, Germany/
All Nippon Airways, London
Reiko Kubota’s work is represented in public and private collections
in Europe and Japan

Reiko Kubota website