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村山誠
Macoto Murayama

1984
Born in Kanagawa
2007
Miyagi University, Information Design Dept., Spatial Design course, B.A.
2009
Institute of Advanced Media Art and Sciences (IAMAS), Media Expression Dept., completed.
2009-
2010
Researcher at IAMAS

Awards

  • Asia Digital Art Award

Solo Exhibitions

2017
Solo Show, EMA London
2016
"Macoto Murayama: growth and form", D’Arcy Thompson Zoology Museum, Dundee
2015
"KOSMOS", Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Berlin
2014
"Botech Compositions", Metal Culture at Edge Hill Station, Liverpool
2011
"Inorganic flora", Frantic Gallery, Tokyo

Group Exhibition

2017
Calculated Imagination, La Foret Museum, Tokyo
2016
"Meristematic", The Royal Society, London
2016
"Eco-Expanded City" WRO Biennale, WRO Art Center, Wroclaw
2015
"From Heaven and Hell. From magic carpets to drones", Boghossian Foundation at Villa Empain, Brussels
2015
"modell SCHAU", Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Berlin
2015
"Picture Perfect", Viasaterna, Milan
2014
"CODE. Aichi Media Art Festival", Civil Centre, Aichi
2013
"Design ANY Tokyo", Aoyama CI Plaza, Tokyo
2013
Autodesk Gallery, San-Francisco
2013
"Flora Danica ZOOM", Natural History Museum, Copenhagen
2012
"OUT of FLAT!", Galerie Hengevoss Duerkop, Hamburg, Germany
2010
"2010 FRANTIC UNDERLINES", Frantic, Gallery, Tokyo
2009
"Exhibition of Objects Under Observation"(with Toshitaka Mochizuki), art project frantic, Tokyo
2009
"My Favorite Things, Unseal Contemporary and art project frantic Joint Exhibition", Tokyo
2009
"Art Award Tokyo Marunouchi 2009", Gyoko-dori Underground Gallery, Tokyo
2009
"PLAYING BACK SURFACE Ⅱ - digital images of contemporary art - ", Toyota Municipal Museum of Art Civic Gallery, Aichi, Japan
2009
"IAMAS 2009", Softopia Japan Center Builiding, Gifu, Japan
2008
"OGAKI BIENNALE 2008", Takaya-cho Underpass, Gifu, Japan
イントロダクション

村山誠は「無機植物相(Inorganic flora)」を「開墾」する。 ①彼が植物を探し、本物の花を見つける。たとえば、上品なLathyrus odoratus L.。②花弁や子房をメスで解剖し、ルーペで細部を分析する。 ③ 解剖・分析された花の断片・組織のスケッチを行い、写真をとる。④3ds Max (3次元コンピュータグラフィックスソフトウェア)を用いて、花の形態や構造をモデル化する。 ⑤ Adobe Photoshopを用いて、各断片を構成し、CG上で花を再構築する。 ⑥寸法、各組織の名称、縮尺、学名などを、細かく各部位に書きこむ。 ⑦Lathyrus odoratus L.を大判プリンターで出力し、額に入れる・・・ それは「科学の全体的な認識の花」の誕生。つまり、厳しく固定化され、完全に測定され、厳格に名を付けられ、はっきり示された花である。単なる植物のイメージではなく、知性の力の表現であり、自然を観察する精巧な眼差しの表象である。村山の作品の「透明性」とは、「透明な花の容姿」を意味するだけではなく、「透明な(つまり、全体的に見える、完全に把握された)対象として表された世界」という科学の野心的な夢も表す。一見矛盾しているように思われるが、「宇宙を測る」という科学的なチャレンジこそ、村山の作品の「虚構の力」と「ロマンティック香り」の起源になるのである。村山の「花」はBotech Art 、つまりBotanical Art (植物学芸術)とTechnology(テクノロジ)の共存によって生まれた「花」である。

カタログ
Botanical Diagram
Catalog of Works


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Botech Art
Catalog of Works


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Botech Compositions
Catalog of Works


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Inorganic Flora
Creation Process


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Serected Works

Moth Orchid

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Phal. Sogo Yukidian-i-b
2017
Media Art/CGA
archival paper / diasec framing
100x120
Phal. Sogo Yukidian-i-g
2017
Media Art/CGA
archival paper / diasec framing
100x120
Phal. Sogo Yukidian-i-r
2017
Media Art/CGA
archival paper / diasec framing
100x120
Phalaenopsis Sogo Yukidian - front view - b
2017
Media Art/CGA
archival paper / diasec framing
100x100
Phalaenopsis Sogo Yukidian - front view - ow
2017
Media Art/CGA
archival paper / diasec framing
100x100
Phalaenopsis Sogo Yukidian - multiple front view - b
2017
Media Art/CGA
archival paper / diasec framing
150x100
Phalaenopsis Sogo Yukidian - multiple front view - ow
2017
Media Art/CGA
archival paper / diasec framing
150x100

Botanical Diagrams

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Trifolium repens L.-front view-No.00
2016
Media Art/CGA
digital c-print / diasec framing
100x100
MM_1601
Trifolium repens L.-top view-No.10
2016
Media Art/CGA
digital c-print / diasec framing
100x100
MM_1602
Kosmos-matrix-i-ow
2015
Media Art/CGA
digital c-print / diasec framing
150x178
Kosmos-matrix-i-ow(detail)
2015
Media Art/CGA
digital c-print / diasec framing
150x178
Kosmos-matrix-i-ow(detail)
2015
Media Art/CGA
digital c-print / diasec framing
150x178
Kosmos-matrix-i-ow(detail)
2015
Media Art/CGA
digital c-print / diasec framing
150x178
Kosmos-matrix-i-b
2015
Media Art/CGA
digital c-print / diasec framing
150x178
Kosmos-matrix-i-b(detail)
2015
Media Art/CGA
digital c-print / diasec framing
150x178
Kosmos-matrix-i-b(detail)
2015
Media Art/CGA
digital c-print / diasec framing
150x178
Kosmos-matrix-i-b(detail)
2015
Media Art/CGA
digital c-print / diasec framing
150x178
Narcissus tazetta L. var. chinensis M.Roem - front view – b
2013
Media Art/CGA
digital c-print / diasec framing
150x100
Narcissus tazetta L. var. chinensis M.Roem - front view – ow
2013
Media Art/CGA
digital c-print / diasec framing
150x100
Narcissus tazetta L. var. chinensis M.Roem - left side view – b
2013
Media Art/CGA
digital c-print / diasec framing
150x100
Narcissus tazetta L. var. chinensis M.Roem - left side view – ow
2013
Media Art/CGA
digital c-print / diasec framing
150x100
Narcissus tazetta L. var. chinensis M.Roem - right side view – b
2013
Media Art/CGA
digital c-print / diasec framing
150x100
Narcissus tazetta L. var. chinensis M.Roem - right side view – ow
2013
Media Art/CGA
digital c-print / diasec framing
150x100
Lathyrus odoratus L - front view – b
2012
Media Art/CGA
digital c-print / diasec framing
100x100
Lathyrus odoratus L - front view - ow
2012
Media Art/CGA
digital c-print / diasec framing
100x100
Lathyrus odoratus L - side view - b
2012
Media Art/CGA
digital c-print / diasec framing
100x100
Lathyrus odoratus L - side view - ow
2012
Media Art/CGA
digital c-print / diasec framing
100x100
Lathyrus odoratus L - top view - b
2012
Media Art/CGA
digital c-print / diasec framing
100x100
Lathyrus odoratus L - top view - ow
2012
Media Art/CGA
digital c-print / diasec framing
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Lathyrus odoratus L - ecology view - b
2012
Media Art/CGA
digital c-print / diasec framing
100x100
Lathyrus odoratus L - ecology view - w
2012
Media Art/CGA
digital c-print / diasec framing
100x100

Botech Art

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MM_08001 Chrysanthemum-i-b
2008
Media Art/CGA
digital c-print
56x45.7
MM_08001
MM_08004 Chrysanthemum-ii-bc
2008
Media Art/CGA
digital c-print
56x45.7
MM_08004
MM_08007 Chrysanthemum-iii-w
2008
Media Art/CGA
digital c-print
56x45.7
MM_08007
MM_08009 Chrysanthemum-iv-w
2008
Media Art/CGA
digital c-print
56x45.7
MM_08009
MM_08010 Chrysanthemum-v-b
2008
Media Art/CGA
digital c-print
56x45.7
MM_08010
MM_08014 Japanese lily-i-b
2008
Media Art/CGA
digital c-print
56x45.7
MM_08014
MM_08017 Japanese lily-iv-bc
2008
Media Art/CGA
digital c-print
56x45.7
MM_08017
MM_07002 Japanese lily-v-w
2007
Media Art/CGA
digital c-print
56x45.7
MM_07002

Botech Compositions

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Botech Composition - 1 - b
2013
Media Art/CGA
digital c-print
150x100
MM_BC01
Botech Composition - 1 - bc
2013
Media Art/CGA
digital c-print
150x100
MM_BC02
Botech Composition - 1 - w
2013
Media Art/CGA
digital c-print
150x100
MM_BC03
Botech Composition - 1 - wc
2013
Media Art/CGA
digital c-print
150x100
MM_BC04
KOSMOS. Macoto Murayama Solo Show feat. audio-kosmos by Claudio PRC
Inorganic Flora for Corporate Video of Panasonic Hollywood Laboratory