Digital Art – Sending a message of peace
Digital art creates new worlds right before our eyes with a blend of reality and imagination. MURAMATSU Ryotaro, a digital artist and projection-mapping pioneer, created his Dandelion Project to connect people worldwide in a prayer for peace. This project sends virtual flowers, a symbol of peace, to locations in various countries by transmitting digital fluff. We see visitors in Kyoto experiencing this project and exchanging fluffs from their smartphones with people around the world in real time, the replies generating beautiful blossoms in Kyoto temples.
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Digital art creates new worlds right before our eyes with a blend of reality and imagination. MURAMATSU Ryotaro, a digital artist and projection-mapping pioneer, created his Dandelion Project to connect people worldwide in a prayer for peace. This project sends virtual flowers, a symbol of peace, to locations in various countries by transmitting digital fluff. We see visitors in Kyoto experiencing this project and exchanging fluffs from their smartphones with people around the world in real time, the replies generating beautiful blossoms in Kyoto temples.
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00:00 [Music]
00:06 As technology advances, it continually expands the possibilities for digital art.
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00:15 Art to stimulate the imagination, bringing new worlds into our reality.
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00:23 Works not just for looking at, but that you actually become a part of.
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00:43 Japan has a vibrant digital art scene.
00:46 Works like this produced in collaboration with traditional arts
00:50 result in unique events that can only be experienced at specific sites.
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01:06 Digital artist Muramatsu Ryotaro pioneered the use of projection mapping.
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01:14 Muramatsu's work is internationally known, but this ongoing project is his first attempt
01:19 to connect people around the world on an emotional level.
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01:26 He calls it the Dandelion Project.
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01:31 Dandelions propagate by releasing seed in small balls of fluff to be carried on the wind.
01:36 Muramatsu placed dandelion objects around the world that transmit digital fluff to each other,
01:42 blossoming into virtual flowers on arrival.
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01:48 Muramatsu hopes that these exchanges of digital flowers
01:51 will connect people everywhere in their desire for peace.
01:55 We live in an era of increasing social fragmentation.
02:00 People are divided by their words, each insisting that only they are right.
02:04 But words can have many interpretations, and this leads to conflict.
02:08 My project relies on actions, not words,
02:11 connecting people with digital seeds that blossom into flowers, symbol of peace.
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02:19 This event was held in Kyoto.
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02:27 Dandelion Project events are always popular, attracting many participants.
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02:37 From their smartphones, they sent digital fluff bearing a prayer for peace,
02:42 signed with their names.
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02:46 When the fluff from Kyoto reached its destinations overseas,
02:50 it blossomed into digital flowers.
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02:56 The people at sites around the world who receive the flowers
02:59 send fluff back to Kyoto in return, joining in the prayer for peace.
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03:07 Their digital dandelions blossomed in the grounds of Kyoto's beautiful temples.
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03:17 Muramatsu had long been developing this idea,
03:20 but it only became possible thanks to advances in digital technology.
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03:28 His team conducted numerous trials to perfect the experience,
03:32 to give the sensation of the fluff flying across the world in real time.
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03:43 How to get this feeling that something digital is actually flying across continents?
03:48 We designed the whole experience focused on that,
03:50 to give people that immediate sensation of reality.
03:54 It's an artwork that's only completed by the actions of everyone who participates.
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04:06 Muramatsu wanted to realize this project so people could feel their connection with others,
04:11 precisely because it's something so difficult for most of us these days.
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04:19 Sending these digital flowers to each other is joining together in a prayer for peace
04:24 over a network that intimately connects us all.
04:27 This act of connection is what makes the art of value to us in the present age.
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04:33 Each fresh advance in technology brings new and exciting ways for digital artists
04:38 and their audiences to express their innermost feelings.
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