Shu Isaka（日本｜JP）

藝術家簡介｜CV of the Artist：

Shu Isaka是完成了東京美術音樂大學中級藝術系博士學位。他在研究在自然環境中的不可察覺現象和人類活動的同時，創作了跨越科學知識和敘事聯想的作品。他利用實地考察鏡頭、3DCG和VR等媒介以及自制的觀察設備，探索了一種融合紀錄片和小說語言獨特的講述風格。

近年來，他前往各國的火山地區製作視頻作品，探索火山活動與周圍地區居民生活，火山與人類之間的獨特交互現象。這不是關於超自然現象，而是關於風險交流，例如如何積極感知和計算與自然現象相關的不確定風險。然而，在他的視頻製作中，他並沒有將其簡化為防災工程或社會學領域探究，而是旨在通過小說這種跳躍性的表達方式來延展它，例如Shu Isaka的作品「Sprout」, 「Sprites」。

Completed the doctoral program of Tokyo University of Fine Arts and Music, Department of Intermedia Art. While researching imperceptible phenomena in the natural environment and human activities in response to them, he creates works in the realm that crosses scientific knowledge and narrative imagination. Using fieldwork footage, visual media such as 3DCG and VR, and self-made observation devices, he explores a unique storytelling style that mixes documentary and fiction techniques.

In recent years, he has traveled to volcanic regions in various countries to make video works that explore the special communication between volcanoes and humans that occurs in volcanic activities and in the lives of people living in the surrounding areas. This is not about supernatural phenomena, but rather about risk communication, such as how to positively perceive and calculate risks associated with natural phenomena that behave in an uncertain manner. However, in his filmmaking, he does not reduce it to the realm of disaster prevention engineering or sociology, but aims to expand it with a leap forward in fiction. [Reference work: “Sprout”, “Sprites”]

關於本次駐留｜About Residency：

宇宙的交匯
Intersection Of Universes

在十方藝術中心駐留期間，藝術家Benjamin Efrati和Shu Isaka將作為二人組，探索多重媒介實踐（動畫和靜態圖像、裝置、VR、表演）並將於6月29日至7月5日期間舉辦面向觀眾的新媒體藝術展。

During their Artist in Residency at Dimensions Art Center, Benjamin Efrati and Shu Isaka will work as a duo. Exploring multiple practices (animated and still images, installation, VR, performance), they will produce a media art exhibition from June 29th to July 5th.

此次展覽內容將圍繞二人組在重慶駐地進行的一系列行動事件，如表演和音樂會，與當地藝術評論家、大學研究人員、藝術收藏家的會談，以及電影放映，最大限度地通過駐留與當地不同人群交互，交流主題圍繞科學、精神和技術等領域交匯處，形成一個交流研究社群。

This exhibition will be augmented by a series of events around the duo’s artistic practices, such as performances and concerts, talks with local art critics, university researchers, and art collectors, as well as film screenings, maximizing the residency’s potential to create a research group around the affordances of the intersection of science, spirituality, and technology.

該項目主要目的是在21世紀技術持續不斷更替語境下，創造一種基於重慶在地、重慶城市環境、中國武術和其哲學含義表達的虛擬現實體驗。在連接久遠的歷史經驗領域和知識領域的同時，「宇宙的交匯」提出了一種新的敘述性冥想，重點關注在技術與精神、地質學與哲學、物理學與人類學的交匯處。這個敘述框架也涉及對實體考察所用到的技術媒介（攝影測量建模、音景、360°視頻）的重新思考。VR體驗目的是為觀眾提供科學的知識、新穎的思辨以及虛構的想象。

The project’s main goal is to create a VR experience based on Chongqing, its urban environment, ancient Chinese body practices and philosophy, in the light of the relentless technological evolution which characterizes the 21st Century. Connecting distant areas of experience and fields of knowledge, Intersection of Universes proposes a narration-based meditation focusing on the intersection of technology and spirituality, geology and philosophy, particle physics and anthropology. This narrative framework involves rethinking the documentation tools used in scientific field research (photogrammetric modeling, soundscapes, 360° videos). The VR experience is intended to provide the audience scientifically accurate knowledge as well as novel speculative and fictional ideas.

藝術家簡介｜CV of the Artist：

關於本次駐留｜About Residency：

駐留成果｜Acheivements：

國際駐留藝術家Benjamin Efrati（法國）和Shu Isaka（日本）中期駐留計劃分享會

十方活動 | 藝術音樂之夜Cheikh Efrita/Shu Isaka Night

活動現場 | 藝術音樂之夜Cheikh Efrita/Shu Isaka Night