NORIYUKI KIMURA

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• Noriyuki Kimura is an artist and video producer. His selected group shows are “21st DOMANI” (2019, the National Art Center, Tokyo), The 18th Japan Media Arts Festival (2015, the National Art Center, Tokyo), The 60th International Oberhausen Short Film Festival (Second Prize, MuVi Award, 2013, Germany), Film by Music (2013, Yamaguchi Center for Art and Media). He was selected for grant by Japan Agency for Cultural Affairs to become a guest student of Kunsthochschule für Medien Köln (KHM, 2016-2017, Germany) .

      

  木村 悟之。情報科学芸術大学院大学（IAMAS）修了。主な展覧会・発表に、2019年「21st DOMANI・明日展」（国立新美術館）、2015年、第18回文化庁メディア芸術祭受賞作品展（国立新美術館、審査員推薦作品）、2014年、第60回オーバーハウゼン国際短編映画祭（Second Prize, MuVi Award, ドイツ）、2013年、Film by Music（山口情報芸術センター、YCAM）。2006年、DVD『軌跡映画 1』をSOL CHORDより出版。2016-2017年、文化庁新進芸術家海外研修員、ドイツ（ケルンメディア大学（KHM）およびデュッセルドルフ）滞在。現在、石川県を拠点に活動。

      

  Exhibition view, 21st Domani at The National Art Center Tokyo, 2019

      

      

      

  Works

  2017

  POLINKI

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  HD | Color | Stereo | 8 min 19 sec | 2017

  The film „POLINKI“ shows a dream story of a man who woke up in the dark room. He met a mother holding a baby in his dream, and was navigated to see the four lighting points. The baby called a triangular pyramid connecting those four lighting points „POLINKI“. It is a constellation of the starlights those will be observed in the extraordinary long timeline for 433 years 11 days 8 minutes and 19 seconds.

  映画『ポリンキー』は、暗闇の中で目覚めたある男の夢物語である。夢の中で男は母子に出会い、彼女らの言葉に導かれて４つの光点を見る。赤ん坊はそれら４つの光点を結んだ三角すいを、ポリンキーと呼んだ。ポリンキーとは、４３３年と１１日、８分１９秒という非常に長い時間をかけて観測される図形である。

  Still image from POLINKI, a view in the room size camera obscura, カメラオブスクラ化した部屋の光景

  
  

  Still Image from POLINKI, a pinhole image on a sheet of paper, 紙に映るピンホール像

  
  

  Still Image from POLINKI , an incident light in Camera obscura, カメラオブスクラへの入射光

  
  

  
  

  I got interested in the "light-year" which is a unit of "length" used to express astronomical distances. I found some feeling as if I'm passing between "Time" and "Distance" while reading texts about the unit. I produced this short film relying on such a feeling. In order to formulate the idea, I made up my flat into a camera obscura, stayed locked up there, and then started to analyze the Sun's movement by measuring the trajectory lines of an incident light in a Camera obscura. The film shows a process to construct an imaginary figure with various lines including trajectory lines in my Camera obscura, the sun's rays, the timeline and the line of sight etc..

  「光年」という、天文学で用いる距離の単位に関心を持ちました。説明を読むと「時間」と「距離」を行き来するような感覚を覚えます。そこでの感覚をたよりに『ポリンキー』の制作を進めました。作品の構想にあたって太陽光の動きを分析すべく自宅をカメラオブスクラ化して中にこもり、部屋へ入射する太陽光の軌跡をトレースして計測を始めました。この映画では、そうして描かれたトレース線をはじめとして、太陽光線、時間のタイムライン、視線等、様々な線を用いて架空の図形を描く過程が示されています。

  Still Image from POLINKI, The Sun's image projected on the kitchen's tiled wall, 台所のタイル壁に映る太陽像

  
  

  Diagrams of POLINKI , ポリンキー のダイヤグラム

  
  

  
  

  Screen captured image of a simulation program for the line's manipulations, 線の操作をシミュレーションするプログラムのキャプチャ画像

  Screen captured image of a simulation program which calculates the sunlight's movement in a camera obscura, カメラオブスクラ内における太陽光のふるまいを計算するシミュレーションプログラムのキャプチャ画像

  
  

  8 minutes and 19 seconds is a duration in which the sunlight arrives on the Earth from the Sun, 433 years is a duration in which the light of Polaris arrives on the Earth.

  作品のナレーションで語られる８分１９秒という時間は太陽光が地球に到達するまでの間隔を、４３３年という時間は北極星ポラリスの光が地球に達するまでの間隔を示しています。

  Observation Point on the map, 観測地点地図

  Show on Google Maps, グーグルマップで表示

  
  

  The words of narration
  Trace the light from A to B for 8 minutes and 19 seconds. Draw a circle at around B with a radius of the line AB. C is at the point where the light intersects with the circumference of the circle. Fold the image 90˚ along the line connecting B and the midpoint of CA. Put two pin holes at A and C. Look into hole C from hole A. You are now seeing the light of Polaris, the current North Star, which comes from 433 years ago. Follow the light for 433 years. Light D is there, point D is there. I call the triangular pyramid connecting those points A, B, C, D as a Polinki.

  ナレーションの言葉
  AからBへ、8分19秒の間、その光をなぞりなさい。Bを中心として、線分ABを半径とする円を描きなさい。Cは、その円と光との交点にある。線分ACの中点とBを結ぶ線に沿って、その面を90度折り曲げなさい。AとCにそれぞれ小さな穴を二つ開け、穴Aから穴Cを覗き込みなさい。いま、おまえはポラリスを見ている。現在の北極星、433年前からの光である。その光を433年間追いつづけなさい、Dはそこにある。光点ABCDを結んだ三角錐をポリンキーと呼ぶ。

  Still image from POLINKI, I call it a POLINKI, 私はそれをポリンキーと呼ぶ

      

      

  
  
  

  LONGYEAR'S OBSERVATORY

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  HD video | color | stereo | 8 min | 2017
  The short film portrays a fictional story about „LONGYEAR'S OBSERVATORY“. The observatory is a pair of structures consists of MOUND and STONE. Sunlight bounces off the mirror surface on MOUND, and pass through the apex of STONE.on the summer solstice at Longyearbyen, Svalbard, Norway, at 78˚10‘ 22.8“ N, 15˚28‘32.0“ E. MOUND and STONE were discovered in 1871 by John Manro Longyear, an American businessman who died in 1922. He left notebooks which contained a huge amount of materials about MOUND and STONE and those surrounding enviroment. The film is composed of the description in his notebooks and the video & sound sequences those the artist recorded at the venue in 2015.

  STONE (in front) and MOUND (far behind, right side of the stone) of LONGYEAR'S OBSERVATORY

  Computer-simulation for LONGYEAR'S OBSERVATORY

  Simulated MOUND of LONGYEAR'S OBSERVATORY

  MOUND of LONGYEAR'S OBSERVATORY

  
  
  

      

  2016

      

  A SYNOPSIS FOR A DOCUMENTARY, 10.11.2016

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  Series | HD video | Text on Paper | 2016
  Video documentations of reading performance of a written synopsis for an imaginary documentary film.

  A sheet of papers for A SYNOPSIS FOR A DOCUMENTARY

      

      

  
  
  

  TRACE

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  Installation | 2016
  The positions of the sunlight on a given day is computer-simulated and are printed on a tracing paper as circles with time stamps beforehand. The sunlight traces them on time as simulated at the venue of the exhibition.

  Computer-Simulated sunlight's position with time stamps for TRACE

  TRACE AT THE NIIGATA SAITOU VILLA, DOZO, Installation View at Japan Media Art Festival in Niigata

  
  
  

      

  NIJI

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  Performance | Video Documentation (6 min) | 2016
  A performer operates 2 triangular glass prisms's movement in accordance with predetermined orbits. Prisms reflect the sunlight and project various colors on walls in a camera obscura. The video documentation of the performance are used in the music video "NIJI" BY SECAI featuring PASTACAS.

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           simulation

  Still Image from Music Video, SECAI "NIJI" featuring PASTACAS

  
  
  

      

  IRIDIUM DIAGRAM

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  Live-Physics-Simulation | 2016
  A computer-simulation program of an imaginary operation for the Iridium Satelites those are 66 satellites surrounding Earth

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           video sequence of screen capture

  
  
  

      

  A MALLET AND BALLS

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  Live-Physics-Simulation | color | silent | 2016
  The video is screen-captured images of Live-Physics-Simulation by Blender Game Engine, Blender 3D. In the simulation program, a mallet and balls those have individual values of Gravity. A mallet is G=1. Bright Balls is changing values from G=0 to G=100 in a minute, then G=100 to G=1 in a minute, repeat. Dark Balls is changing values from G=100 to G=0 in a minute, then G=0 to G=100 in a minute, repeat.

  Screen Captured Image of Computer-simulation for "A MALLET AND BALLS"

  Screen Captured Image from "A MALLET AND BALLS"

  Screen Captured Image from "A MALLET AND BALLS"

  Screen Captured Image from "A MALLET AND BALLS"

  
  
  

      

  2015

  ANNUAL REFLEX

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  Performance | Video Documentation (8 min) | 2015
  A mirror on top of the mound reflects sunlight to the other top of the stone on the Summer Solstice.
  They are the monument for signals.

           video documentation

           simulation

  Still image from Annual Reflex

  
  

  The map of Annual Reflex at 78˚10'22.8"N, 15˚28'32.0"E, Longyearbyen, Svalbard

  
  
  

      

  CINEMA

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  Performance | Video Documentation (5 min) | 2015
  A performer in a camera obscura reflects the incident light with mirrors to write letters on a room's wall. He moves mirrors to the defined positions and angles every ten minutes. The performance takes totally 3 hours to finish. "CINEMA" is the video documentation of the performance on 21st April 2015 at Filmwerkstatt Düsseldorf. The concept of the idea is based on the artist’s experience in the blackout room after the accident of Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant in 2011 in Japan. He shut all the windows, doors, and thick curtains of his house in Tokyo in fear of the radiation contamination. In addition, the electric power supply was limited. The regular cyclic movement of crack of sunlight had been strongly perceived in the dark room. He kept observing to follow an arcuate line traced on the floor at daily intervals. Then he started to reflect a part of the arcuate line with mirrors to the wall, and gradually got to know how to control the sunlight’s movement projected on the wall. He thought that was like a film editing in which the editor cut and pasted, organized fragments of original events in a timeline. The sunlight’s movement is analyzed and calculated precisely. Then all the process of performance were computer-simulated beforehand. In the video documentation, the performer just followed simulated values of mirrors’ positions and angles at Filmwerkstatt Düsseldorf.
  

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           simulation

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  CINEMA, Computer-simulation for the performance

  
  

  CINEMA, The score for the performance on the floor

  
  

  CINEMA , Photo Documentation of the performance

  
  
  

      

  2013

  UNSER HAUS FOR THE NEW ERA

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  Music Video | 5 min | 2013
  UNSER HAUS FOR THE NEW ERA is the music video. "The New Era" is the music that was automatically-generated through the algorithmic composition by Japanese composer Masahiro Miwa. The video "UNSERHAUS" is the documentation of incident lights in a camera obscura.

  Still image from UNSERHAUS FOR THE NEW ERA

  
  
  

      

  2011

  PER 1˚

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  Performance | Video Documentation (3 min) | 2011
  The dark room was exposured by the sunlight once for a second per 1˚ of Earth's rotation.

  Still Image from PER 1˚

  
  
  

      

  ROAD CUT THROUGH A HILL

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  HD video | 5 min | 2011
  The allegorical story which was motivated by the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear disaster in 2011. It was told as a mysterious relationship between a man and his surroundings and those containers.

  Still Image from ROAD CUT THROUGH A HILL

  
  
  

      

  TRACKING FILM SERIES

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  DV | Color | Stereo | Series | 12 min each | 2004 - 2011

  DVD "TRACKING FILM 1 (軌跡映画１)" published by SOL CHORD
  

  
  Rules of "Tracking film"
  ● Shooting is done for 24 hours from 0:00 to 24:00.
  ● Shooting is done in the direction of movement at the points where the circumference with the radius of 3 kilometers is divided equally into 36.
  ● A cameraman shoots 36 cuts for 20 seconds each, every 40 minutes.(The reel of DV tape never be edited afterwards.)
  ● A cameraman should drive a screw on the wall or ground at the point of 90 degrees each where the circle is described.
  ● A cameraman must not see a map before shooting, but only time, azimuth, coordinate value.

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        TRACKING FILM #1.1

        TRACKING FILM #1.2

        TRACKING FILM #1.3

        TRACKING FILM #1.4

        TRACKING FILM #2.1

        TRACKING FILM #2.2

        TRACKING FILM #2.4

        TRACKING FILM #2.5

        TRACKING FILM #2.6

        TRACKING FILM #3.1

        TRACKING FILM #3.2

        TRACKING FILM #3.3

        TRACKING FILM #3.4

        TRACKING FILM #4

        TRACKING FILM #5

  
  
  

  Still Image from TRACKING FILM SERIES, A cameraman drive a screw
  
  Still Image from TRACKING FILM SERIES, Program
  
  Still Image from TRACKING FILM SERIES, the Numerical value
  
  Still Image from TRACKING FILM SERIES, the Numerical value
  
  Still Image from TRACKING FILM SERIES, Programmed circle
  
  Still Image from TRACKING FILM SERIES, the Numerical value of Tracking Film 3.1, DNF
  
  Still Image from TRACKING FILM SERIES, the Numerical value of Tracking Film 3.1, DNF
  
  Still Image from TRACKING FILM SERIES, Map of Tracking Film 3.1, DNF
  
  Still Image from TRACKING FILM SERIES, Mapping Data of Tracking Film series