This work explores unsolved images, that is, anythingthat is ambiguous, bistable, multistable, illusory ormisleading in any way, and examines how, by linkingthese images to certain kinds of interactions thecognitive process of interpreting an image can affectthe way you see it.
Enter, act, interact, let your body see.

Recording technology in the digital age allows events to stop disappearing and being forgotten, images and sounds can still be alive and vivid. But the memories and feelings of that time are fading incessantly. This work explores a new perspective on capturing a live event.49 audience's real-time physiological data is recorded in the live concert, through the lamps that flicker with the heartbeat, forest-like projection mapping generates from body signals, and the abstract feelings are interpreted this way to reproduced in the gallery.
The projection mapping motif is inspired by the space and how we interpret ambiance. Karuizawa Ohga Hall is constructed from local trees and in an environment that is surrounded by nature. The hall has an acoustic effect that is changing with the wood over the years quietly but steadily. So the mapping also grows slowly and quietly with the surroundings. The ambiance is discharged is the emotion and feeling that was discharged in a certain space, at a certain time, with certain beings. So the mapping is generated from certain data recorded lively from the audiences on that day.
The 49 light bulbs aim to create the presence of the audience in an absent way. The lamps blink subtly as the heartbeat rhythm and give off a little bit of warmth. The luminance and warmth are close, intimate, and fleeting at the same time. The lamp stands are designed near the height of the heart when people seat down. The chair is an antique chair that was used in a theater. So exhibition visitors have the tendency to seat and realize the lamps are flickering near their hearts.

Pulse Dance is an interoceptive play installation that confronts two players with their own heartbeats. Every person's heart beats to their own rhythm. This rhythm is an integral part of our existence, yet a convoluted reflection of our conscious mind. While it can feel strangely alien to us, our heartbeat is intrinsically linked to our being. How do we relate to our own rhythm? To what extent is our heartbeat ourself, and to what extent is it alien?

Innermost Echoes is a mixed-media installation work which explores novel physiologically-driven performance practices. Prior recorded physiological data from a performer (Danny Hynds) will loop and manipulate two unattended musical instruments (robotic koto and Eurorack synthesizer), thereby affording a sense of freedom and autonomy to the objects themselves. In a sense, the prior presence of the performer will act as a vessel or avatar to guide the instruments.
Innermost Echoes: Live is an improvisational performance series which utilizes physiological sensing in a variety of musical and performative settings. A live koto performer, Aoi Uyama, will improvise alongside a robotic koto and a Eurorack synthesizer setup, performed by Danny Hynds. Many gestures and responses from the koto will rely on the live real-time physiological data from both performers, thereby integrating the presence of the performers in this robotic instrument. Through several different configurations, the concept of performance and liveness will be explored.

Ephemeral Counterpoint is a mixed-media installation which utilizes obsolete technologies as a vehicle for exploring the fragile and evolving relationship between recorded media and memory. Several discreetly placed webcams will broadcast the work to an interactive website which will allow for the convergence of the digital and the analog.