ZENetic Computer

Source: URL: http://www.digitalarti.com/blog/mcd/naoko_tosa_zenetic_computer_installation (14.08.2013).

Naoko Tosa

ZENetic Computer , 2003 – ongoing

Co-workers & Funding

With the financial assistance of The Daniel Langlois Foundation for Art, Science, and Technology, Montreal, Canada, the Centre Georges Pompidou, and the Office of Research, UC Santa Barbara. Seigo

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Last updated: 2009-09-29

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Description

ZENetic Computer is an interactive experience that evokes "self-awakening," a particular cognitive response to processing reality via subliminal consciousness. It uses stories portrayed in sumie (ink painting), haiku and kimono which display features of Eastern philosophy, and Zen in particular. Museum visitors create their own sumie and stories on large rice paper screen, while learning about Zen, Japanese art, and themselves. The artist guides visitors toward an altered mindstate. It is the collaborative work of Seigo Matsuoka, a director of Editorial Engineering Labs in Tokyo, and Naoko Tosa, a research fellow at the Center for Advanced Visual Studies at MIT. Music by Toshinori Kondo, an improvisational Jazz trumpeter.
(http://ic.media.mit.edu/courses/mas878/shows/zenetic.html)

Keywords

aesthetics
- interactive
genres
- net art
subjects
- Body and Psychology
  - self awareness
- Religion and Mythology
  - religions
    - Buddhism
- Society and Culture
  - civilization

Technology & Material

Exhibitions & Events

Siggraph 2004

2004

Thinkapalooza

2003

Bibliography

Tosa, Naoko. »Expression of Emotion, Unconsciousness with Art and Technology.« In Affective Minds, edited by Giyoo Hatano and Naoyuki Okada and Hiritaka Tanabe, 183-201. Philadelphia: Elsevier Science Health Science Division, 2000.

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