'Music and the visual arts have shared a close relationship with each other over the course of their evolution. At the beginning of the twentieth century Wassily Kandinsky strove to create a form of comprehensive art that would arouse a variety of sensations, while Paul Klee attempted to create images through the accurate depiction of musical notation. Later, during the 1960s, John Cage and others produced experimental works that explored the rich sensual domain and widened the range of expression made possible through the crossover of the audio and the visual.

'Today, the development of digital technology has made it possible to break an image down into pixels that can be processed as symbols or numerical values; sound can also be composed visually on a PC display, so it can be said that in their creative processes, art and music have drawn closer to each other. Artists today are able to manipulate video, images and sound equally on a single computer, they possess a closely-knit, composite sense that can be described as a 'new synesthesia,' allowing them to create diverse expressions.

'We have invited composer, Ryuichi Sakamoto, in the role of general advisor for this exhibition, in which we will introduce various works deriving from the intersection and coordination of these two forms of expression, while questioning the fundamental meaning of the acts of 'looking' and 'listening' in 'our times'.' (from website of Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo)



音楽とヴィジュアルアートは互いに密接な関係をもちながら進化してきました。20世紀の初め、作品がさまざまな感覚を呼び起こすような総合芸術をめざしたカンディンスキーや、音楽を記号的な正確さでイメージ化しようとしたクレーがその例です。聴覚と視覚を横断することで可能となる、豊かな感性の領域と表現の広がりは60年代のジョン・ケージらによってより実験的な形で検証されました。

そして今、デジタル技術の発達によりイメージはピクセルに分解されて記号や数値として処理され、音もPCのディスプレイ上で視覚的に作曲されるなど、アートと音楽はその創作の過程においても近似しています。一つのコンピュータで映像、画像、音を同等に扱う世代のクリエイターたちは、より密接な「新たな共感覚」というべき総合感覚をもって、多様な表現を試みています。

本展は総合アドバイザーに音楽家の坂本龍一を迎え、この二つの表現が交差、連動することで生まれてくる多様な作品の紹介を通して、「私たちの時代」における見ること、聴くことの本質的な意味を問いかけます。

Alternative title

東京アートミーテイング(第三回), 

Tokyo Art Meeting (III)

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Onsite

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EX.JAP.AMU
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English, 

Japanese

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2012

No of pages

208

ISBN / ISSN

9784845912070

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1

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catalogue

Tokyo Art Meeting (III): Art & Music—Search for New Synesthesia
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Art & Music—Search for New Synesthesia, アートと音楽—新たな共感覚をもとめて