COSMOWORLDS
Welcome Hidenori, where did the inspiration come from to start with
the RhythmEngine project?
Hidenori
First, we started from research of the correlation nature of sound
and colors. However, it is a very much difficult theme, and we could
not but give up. Next, we paid our attention to BBS used for the
system of a session. An interesting phenomenon comes to occur only
by raising one dimension of the system of ordinary BBS. Now, "Search
action for a partner" is in not player's mind, but in real operating
the character on a screen! And in order for us to tell the feelings
to a player, not text but the information on visual and sound was
required.
COSMOWORLDS
How long have you been working on this project?
Hidenori
Planning...Sep.2001 - Mar.2002 Computer Work...Nov.2001 - Mar.2002
You may think that this is short.:) However, we were able to finish
it at early speed by accumulation of an old experience etc.
COSMOWORLDS
The RhythmEngine site has been selected for the Ars Electronica
2002 contest in Austria later this year. That is very good news.
How are your chances to win? Have you already seen the work of other
contributors?
Hidenori
Ah, I am sorry, we may have given you misapprehension. I wanted
to tell in a sentence that we are sending. We were selected by examination
of jury of WEB GRAPHICS category of SIGGRAPH, and it determined
to perform presentation in July, just yesterday. We're very happy
now. But The examination result of PRIX ARS ELECTRONICA has not
come out yet.
COSMOWORLDS
I have been reading you are a lecturer at the Kyoto Univ.of Art
and Design and the Asagaya college of Art and Design. About what
kind of subjects are you lecturing here?
Hidenori
In Kyoto Univ.of Art and Design, I'm lecturing "Digital Design of
Architecture" by tool of Internet and CAD. In Asagaya Collage of
Art and Design, I'm lecturing "Media theory" and "Digital Media
Design -- CommunicationEntertainment". I am having a class by the
theme of thinking about [sharing of consciousness] from both the
real-body and cyber-body in the network.
COSMOWORLDS
We are looking with big eyes at the i-Mode developments in Japan.
Spring 2002 KPN Mobile is introducing the i-Mode in Europe in cooperation
with NTT Docomo from Japan. What do you think about all these technological
developments?
Hidenori
I think that a "mobile-phone with location determination system"
bears the core of such a movement. I have heard that the online
network game which harnessed the performance of a GPS cellular phone
is actually prosperous in Europe. I consider that human is the living
thing which holds concern strong against the geographical feature
in consciousness rather than actual geographical feature. A cellular
phone should become a tool for actualizing such "geographical feature
in consciousness."
COSMOWORLDS
What do you think about our future?
Hidenori
Human beings will think [the space in consciousness(augumented by
the network tool)] as important as [the material space], and will
consider "the past space-time" and "the future space-time" equivalent,
and melt boundary line of others' consciousness and self consciousness.
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