RECOMBINANT 2020: Ryoichi Kurokawa / 404.zero
Ryoichi Kurokawa is a true signature poet of the transformative cinema, lyrically transfiguring the analogic representations of the forces of nature and architecture into digital streams of synesthetic imagery & emotion. For those familiar with Recombinant Media Lab’s past presentations of Herman Kolgen, Ryoji Ikeda, and CineChamber artists Biosphere won’t want to miss this American premiere of Kurokawa’s newest most powerful subassemblies of surround sound and massive screen overload. World-renowned Japanese new media artist Ryoichi Kurokawa is bringing his newest audio-visual performance subassemblies to San Francisco. This is his first time performing this work for U.S. audiences after its world premiere at MUTEK Montreal. In subassemblies, Ryoichi Kurokawa uses his work to pursue the relationship between nature and man through architecture. The main sources of this piece are 3D data captured by laser scanning, thermal images and filmed footages at man-made ruins which are distorted and reconstructed into different modules to create a new timeline with layers of order and disorder while exposing the forces of both nature and art. 404.zero will perform Jet Lag, mesmerizing mind- melting generative AV (Russia).