3 months since Japan Earthquake

Posted on June 11, 2011 by admin

It has been three months since Japan Earthquake. Every “11th” day of month, many people in Japan pray for the victims. For three months, I have looked at many different sources to find out what is rumor and what is fact. Unfortunately, the rumors turned out the real things, and the fact became the lies. Only good thing is that the disaster prove the fact that supplying electricity through nuclear power plant is dangerous to all over the world.

What artist can do, which has been my question since 911 in 2001.
I found one of good examples in this earthquake is Naoto Nakagawa, who helped to depict portraits of victims in tsunami disaster in Iwate Prefecture. The most victims lost their photo albums and their memory in the town…

New York painter draws portraits of evacuees -
AJW by The Asahi Shimbun http://ow.ly/5fo6u

I am thinking of depicting future event.
I am thinking about children.
We have to save their life.

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Heart breaking news

Posted on April 29, 2011 by admin

I have been looking for something that I can do for the victims of Japan Earthquake.
Frustrated because I felt do nothing. Felt useless, and I still don’t have a clear answer.
Have been thinking, and still need to think. There may be no answer of what I am looking for.

Positive thing is that I have been imaginary composing several songs to response the incidents recently. I hope I can take some notes of music that I am listening in my mind.

Now more people, at least 300 people, were killed by tornadoes and violent storms in a wide area of southern parts of the United States.

I need time. More time.

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Prep for OCC exhibition

Posted on February 28, 2011 by admin

In the Twitter and facebook, I said, “think about #egypt, obviously, can’t ignore. (Feb. 3)” And later, “editing sound for a drawing installation. (Feb. 17)”

I wanted to create something that I can support the people who are fighting for their rights. For this project, I recorded some sound/noise of the events from AlJazeera, BBC, CNN, YouTube in order to create one sound file, which represents the timeline of Egyptian Revolution with my wish for peaceful ending in their future.

I collected the materials and edited them in one file. I edited the sound not only for hearing of noise and chant of crowd, but also seeing of sound, which I wanted to prepare for next step: drawing. The sound waves are placed in chronological order. In the middle of this sound file, I kept “quiet moment” that is my hope for a peaceful moment. Meanwhile, it divides the timeline between the instant before and after the leader stepped down. I used the sound from the cheerful chant in the last part.

In the above snap shot, the yellow sound wave is the one that I traced for a drawing.
The photograph below shows how I set up the overhead projector and the transparent film paper for tracing.

The total length of sound file is 34 seconds. The total length of drawing is 270 inches, which are divided in nine 30×22″ papers.

These pencil drawings will be hang in the main gallery space in The Gallery at the Ann Felton Multicultural Center at Onondaga Community College from today until April 5th, 2011.

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The “unique” Gallery

Posted on February 21, 2011 by admin

Next exhibition will be a drawing installation. The Gallery at the Ann Felton Multicultural Center at Onondaga Community College has a unique floor plan, which has “T” shape. The entrance area, I call Main gallery, is about three 17 feet long walls, and one of the wings, called “Alcove gallery,” has two 16 feet long walls and one 8 feet wall. I am going to install 32 documentation photographs of the making of “threshold” in the two Alcove galleries, and a new drawing installation will be installed in the Main gallery.

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Solo Exhibition at Onondaga Community College

Posted on February 12, 2011 by admin

TAKAFUMI IDE solo exhibition in The Gallery at OCC

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Main Gallery:
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Drawing installation, pencil on paper

Gallery alcoves:
A Documentation of The Making of threshold, 2007-2008

  • Date:
    Monday, February 28th – Tuesday April 5th, 2011
  • Hours:
    Monday – Friday: 9am – 4pm, or by appointment
  • Opening reception:
    Monday, February 28th, 11am – 12pm
  • Place:
    The Gallery at the Ann Felton Multicultural Center
    Onondaga Community College
    4585 West Seneca Turnpike, Syracuse, NY 13215-4585
    Phone: 315.498.2622

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This project is supported with funds from An Arts Across Campus at Onondaga Community College.

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20110202 memo

Posted on February 3, 2011 by admin

I supposed to update how I deinstalled my work at AC Institute. I was so exhausted not only by the deinstalling, but also the tremendous amount of snow and the shoveling… I hate snow shoveling.

This week is the first week of both Stony Brook University and Suffolk County Community College. Yes, I am teaching. Also, I am working as a digital assistant for the art department at SBU. So, no time to sit down to write my “favorite” things in this blog this week.

If you do twitter, please follow me @takafumiide. I will twitter more often than this web. Especially Japanese readers, you will find more comments in Japanese in my twitter.

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Closing AC Institute exhibition

Posted on January 23, 2011 by admin

Thank you for coming to my solo exhibition, “Takafumi Ide / Life is fleeting; therefore, life is beautiful,” at AC Institute.　

I was able to meet a lot of people who are not only art professionals, but also general audiences during the exhibition. As an emerging artist, it is important for me to talk to these visitors right now. Even only one comment on my work helps my next steps. Sometimes I get puzzled by a criticism, but still I think it helps my process to make art.

generate, reverberate, escalate
image by iPhone with Instagram

Once an exhibition is closed, the art works need to be deinstalled.
I will update the process of deinstalling this exhibition next.

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last day at AC Institute

Posted on January 22, 2011 by admin

I am going to be in the gallery, AC Institute, today Saturday January 22nd between 4ish pm and 6pm or until close.  YES, it is the last day of the exhibition.

Hope to see you there!

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