flat elephant

In this installation, we wished to make an elephant walk around the Space R. It is a surface representation of our city. Its elusive, and expansive body is described by different kinds of technologies. Communication gadgets deliberately left incomplete are combined with float glass, timber beams, pebbles and steel angles that give the elephant its weight. Computers, microcontrollers, industrial motors, speakers and sensors reconstitute its nervous system creating a new set of relationships in the name of City elephant.

slow box after image

The project was created for the first Tsumari International Art Triennial in 2000 intended to make linkage between 7 towns of Tsumari District. It required the construction of an over-sized camera vehicle (Slow Box) and an archive space…

suitcase camera slow box #2