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Moonlight Balloon
ECO Art Balloon Project
25 October - 28, 2007
ThinkPark (Osaki, Tokyo, Japan)
Artist: Motoshi Chikamori ++ Kyoko Kunoh
Art director: Toshio Shimizu
Organized by: TOSHIO SHIMIZU ART OFFICE
We had an interactive balloon art event to celebrate the opening of ThinkPark, which is a new building opened on 25 October, 2007 in front of the Osaki station, Tokyo, Japan.
In this art event, two artworks, Moonlight Balloon and Life Tree created by Motoshi Chikamori ++ Kyoko Kunoh were exhibited outside of the building.
Moonlight Balloon, which is an art balloon 5 meter in diameter and is based on the concept of “an egg of life" floated into the sky and varied different colors. On the ground, three Life Tree were exhibited, showing a movie on its surface. When people come close to Life Tree, animals in a forest start to move.
1. Moonlight Balloon -A forest of a house lizard-
Moonlight Balloon is an art balloon 5 meter in diameter and is based on the concept of “an egg of life". A big house lizard is painted in a surface of Moonlight Balloon. Since early times, a house lizard is thought as a god to protect a house. There are many legends about a house lizard not only in Japan, but also in the world. Moonlight Balloon is floated as a god to protect a newborn forest of ThinkPark.
2. Life Tree –An interactive art balloon -
Life Tree is an interactive tree-shaped balloon which length is about 2 meter. An animation of the animals start moving when people come close to Life Tree.
Motoshi Chikamori ++ Kyoko Kunoh
Shince its launch in 2000, Motoshi Chikamori ++ Kyoko Kunoh has created and presented collaborative works. Their interactive artworks fascinate many people and they work not only in Japan, but also in the world. Selected exhibitions : Ars Electronica (Austria), SIGGRAPH(USA),Centre Pompidou(France), The Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography(Japan).
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Motoshi CHIKAMORI
1971 Born in Tokyo, JAPAN
Kyoko KUNOH
1972 Born in Tokyo, JAPAN |
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