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Student's Exhibition at Hosomi Museum [Kyoto]

noreply@blogger.com (Ichiroh Kanaya) — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 10:52:00 +0000

As an exhibition by students of Kyoto Saga University of Arts will be held from tomorrow at Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, Mr. Okumura, a student of Ichi Kanaya is going to demonstrate his art work at Hosomi Museum.

ResearchMap.jp

noreply@blogger.com (Ichiroh Kanaya) — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 21:00:00 +0000

Ichi Kanaya is moving his activity list to a new blog service ResearchMap.jp running by JST.

ResearchMap.jp is based on ReaD database, which is the biggest database for Japanese researchers. It can automatically import your activities from the original database, though you may need manual adjustment of them.

Similar web services worldwide include ResearchGate.

Lecture on Design and Science [17 Feb. 2012, Osaka]

noreply@blogger.com (Ichiroh Kanaya) — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 21:00:00 +0000

THIS LECTURE IS GIVEN IN JAPANESE.

Ichi Kanaya's lecture on Design and Science will be held at Mebic Ogimachi, Osaka, Japan on 17 February 2012.

Title: Lecture on Design and Science

Date: 18:00---20:00, 17 February 2012.

Place: Mebic Ogimachi, Osaka, Japan

Held by: Japan Design Producer's Union

Admission: 2,000JPY (students won't be charged)

金谷一朗「科学が切り開くデザインの感性」講義のお知らせ．

タイトル：科学が切り開くデザインの感性
日時：2012年2月17日 18:00-20:00
場所：メビック扇町
主催：Japan Design Producer's Union
参加費：2,000円（学生無料）

Link: Color changing OLED Chair art project

noreply@blogger.com (Ichiroh Kanaya) — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 11:05:00 +0000

Our article on Takahiro Matsuo's Color Changing Chair was referred by OLED-Inof.com as "Color changing OLED Chair art project" with a video of the project.

Artist Takahiro Matsuo designed a color changing "OLED Chair" art project which uses Verbatim's Velve color-tunable OLED panels.

Video: Air Lights (Takahiro Matsuo)

noreply@blogger.com (Ichiroh Kanaya) — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 02:35:00 +0000

A video of art work named Air Lights created by Takahiro Matsuo, Monoscape is out. This work was supported by Goshiro Yamamoto and Ichi Kanaya, PineappleDesign.org.

CoreVideo.net

noreply@blogger.com (Ichiroh Kanaya) — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 00:00:00 +0000

I and Goshiro Yamamoto just began a new blog named CoreVideo.net. We occasionally post short sample codes for real-time video processing on Mac OS X with Core Video and Core Image technology. The code will appear at SourceForge.jp. All explanations and discussions will be done in Japanese.

Video: Polyphonic Jump! [Kobe]

noreply@blogger.com (Ichiroh Kanaya) — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 15:00:00 +0000

Polyphonic Jump is an apparatus for human beings to be immersed in a fantasy world where many creatures chorus in polyphony. Audiences stand in front of a huge canvas on which picture of forest is painted with oil, and jump for interacting with oil-painted animals on the canvas as if the audiences were also on the canvas. The audiences will feel they are actually in a picture book.

For seamless integration of physical painting which gives true reality and computer-generated animation which moves dynamically and interacts with audiences, the authors put real-time 3D modeling and projection technology in this artwork.

This art work won the prize of Kobe Biennale 2011.

Video: Color Chair (Takahiro Matsuo)

noreply@blogger.com (Ichiroh Kanaya) — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 01:54:00 +0000

A movie of OLED Color Chair, a part of Snowdome exhibited at IMS Star Xmas is out. This work was done by Takahiro Matsuo (Monocsape) with the support of PineppleDesign.org.

Dear Mr. Roger Enrico

noreply@blogger.com (Ichiroh Kanaya) — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 13:56:00 +0000

Dear Mr. Roger A. Enrico, Chairman of the Board, Dreamworks Animation SGK, Inc.,

Hello, today was my 39th birthday, and a postwoman delivered a small parcel to me. The parcel was from California, USA.

The story goes back to my high school days, over 20 years ago. I was looking for John Scully's Odyssey in a book store and happened to find Japanese translation of your book: The Other Guy Blinked.

Since then, you have been my personal hero. And after I learned enough language skill to read books in English, I had been seeking the original copy of your book because unfortunately your book was out of print then.

In the last year I finally found a second-hand copy of the book on the internet. This is the reason why the postwoman brought me a small and dirty (it travelled over sea) parcel today.

Roger, let me say thank you from the bottom of my heart for writing this book. You have always been brilliant.

Ichi
Osaka, Japan

PS. You wrote, A few months after I took over at Pepsi --- on November 11, 1983, my thirty-ninth birthday --- I signed the most expensive celebrity advertising contract in history: $5 million for the privilege of making two commercials and sponsoring a tour featuring a talented but shy young man who sang in a high-pitched voice and danced backwards. As today was my 39th birthday, I was so encouraged when I read your story and this part again.

Happy New Year

noreply@blogger.com (Ichiroh Kanaya) — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 15:00:00 +0000

If you wanna make the world a better place
Take a look at yourself, and then make a change

Michael Jackson

Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it.
Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.

Goethe

Stay hungry, stay foolish.

Steve Jobs

Annual Report for 2011

noreply@blogger.com (Ichiroh Kanaya) — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 01:38:00 +0000

The one duty we owe to history is to rewrite it.
Oscar Wilde

Year 2011 will have been remembered for another millennium. One of my homeland, Egypt, and other Arabic countries experienced revolution starting from Tunisia, and Japan experienced Higashinihon (East Japan) great earthquake and tsunami which pulled nuclear disaster.

By such reasons, Ichi Kanaya and archaeological team to which he joins had to cancel travel to Egypt this year, however, they strongly hope to come back to Egypt as soon as possible especially when they heard several indispensable artefacts were damaged in this year. Though they couldn't have been in Egypt in this year, they had many progresses of data processing and will show what they achieved soon.

Ichi Kanaya and his team also sincerely hope quick recovery from the aftermath of Higashinihon great earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear disaster of East Japan. As Japan/America Frontier of Engineer (JAFOE) symposium was scheduled at Tsukuba (East Japan) in June, they had to move the conference venue to Osaka (West Japan).

Mayuko Kanazawa and Masataka Imura continued collaboration with Ichi Kanaya and have been doing amazing works in 2011 too. The new interactive art work named Polyphonic Jump! was prized by Kobe Biennale 2011. The Mirror of Transfiguration (2009) and the Sweet Home (2010) were both first demonstrated oversea in this year.

Ichi Kanaya published a unique book titled Function + Action = Program. The book is totally dedicated to functional programming, and supports more than 20 languages.

The full story can be downloaded from here.

Polyphonic Jump coming back [Kobe]

noreply@blogger.com (Ichiroh Kanaya) — Mon, 26 Dec 2011 07:40:00 +0000

The interactive media art Polyphonic Jump! is coming back to Kobe! From 1st to 3rd January, 2012, the Polyphonic Jump will be exhibited at Hotel Okura Kobe. (Admission: 200 JPY.)

Polyphonic Jump is an apparatus for human beings to be immersed in a fantasy world where many creatures chorus in polyphony. Audiences stand in front of a huge canvas on which picture of forest is painted with oil, and jump for interacting with oil-painted animals on the canvas as if the audiences were also on the canvas. The audiences will feel they are actually in a picture book.

For seamless integration of physical painting which gives true reality and computer-generated animation which moves dynamically and interacts with audiences, the authors put real-time 3D modeling and projection technology in this artwork.

*Official Wiki Page

+Japanese/日本語

Video: Sweet Home [Hong Kong]

noreply@blogger.com (Ichiroh Kanaya) — Sat, 24 Dec 2011 15:36:00 +0000

The media art SWEET HOME created by Mayuko Kanazawa, Masataka Imura, and Ichi Kanaya was exhibited at Siggraph Asia 2011 in Hong Kong. This was the first world-debut of SWEET HOME, followed by the exhibition of the Mirror of Transfiguration in Lisbon.

This movie was created by Mayuko Kanazawa.

+Japanese/日本語

Sweet Home [Hong Kong]

noreply@blogger.com (Ichiroh Kanaya) — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 01:03:00 +0000

The Sweet Home is back. We are proud to announce that this beautiful art work will be exhibited at Siggraph Asia 2011.

Art is not what you see, but is what you interact with. Good paintings make their viewers imaginative. As every artist has been expressing love in many ways, the authors introduce a novel way to express the shape of love in an interactive way using state-of-the-art computing technology. The viewers of the art will not see the picture, but will interact with the picture literally. The concept of the interactive art that the authors propose in this paper is that the viewer of the art feel as if he/she is inside the painting. You first find yourself moving in the acrylic painting as if it reflects you like a mirror. In the picture you interact with a family of Alpaca, who will present you with a gift. If you stare at yourself in the picture carefully you will see your face is slightly morphed to that of your child age. You are to bring a candle with you to lighten the picture. As you move the candle, the lighting in the picture changes. You can even blow out the candle, and every animated character disappear from the picture, though the gift from Alpaca family remains inside you."

You can watch the demonstration video at Vimeo.

*Official Wiki Page

+Japanese/日本語

IMS Star Xmas (Takahiro Matsuo) [Fukuoka]

noreply@blogger.com (Ichiroh Kanaya) — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 13:18:00 +0000

PineappleDesign.org is supporting Takahiro Matsuo's media art project at Tenjin IMS, Hakata, Japan. Those installations are available until 25 December 2011.

This art work is based on a novel material developed by Mitsubishi Kagaku Media Corp, which is widely known as Verbatim brand in recording media industry. This material, named VELVE (TM), is a fully-programmable color-varying electroluminescence (EL) sheet. It also has advantage in power consumption to conventional ELs; the VELVE won't generate much heat so that you can sit on top of it.

The Mirror of Transfiguration [Lisbon]

noreply@blogger.com (Ichiroh Kanaya) — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 12:37:00 +0000

Mayuko Kanazawa, Masataka Imura, and Ichiroh Kanaya presented The Mirror of Transfiguration at ACM ACE conference in Lisbon.

The Mirror of Transfiguration is an interactive media-art for showing native Canadians’ spiritual image to children. It immerses its viewers into pictures of Canadian nature, and the viewers will transform into ones of the spiritual animals of Canadian tradition. Various image processing and mixed reality technologies are used to set up this installation, including posture recognition, synthesis of hand-drawn animation and real images, and natural image morphing.

You can watch the demonstration movie at Vimeo.

*Official Wiki Page

Kohrin (Takahiro Matsuo) [Kyoto]

noreply@blogger.com (Ichiroh Kanaya) — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 09:33:00 +0000

PineappleDesign.org is supporting Takahiro Matsuo's art project Kohrin, which had been demonstrated at Nijo Castle, Kyoto, Japan.

Other media arts produced by PineappleDesign.org are listed at web.PineappleDesign.org/art.

Tips of the week: On physical computing

noreply@blogger.com (Ichiroh Kanaya) — Sun, 23 Oct 2011 10:10:00 +0000

If you are interested in physical computing like Arduino, XBee, etc, the following site will help you (in Japanese).

Arduino for Aged

もしフィジカルコンピューティングに興味がおありなら，次のページが役に立つかも知れません．

ジジイのためのArduino入門

Art Exhibitions

noreply@blogger.com (Ichiroh Kanaya) — Sun, 16 Oct 2011 13:08:00 +0000

Here are the exhibitions we are (were) demonstrating.

Upcoming events include:

Please visit and enjoy our works!

Steve Jobs, 1955-2011

noreply@blogger.com (Ichiroh Kanaya) — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 14:08:00 +0000

Polyphonic Jump [Kobe]

noreply@blogger.com (Ichiroh Kanaya) — Sat, 01 Oct 2011 00:00:00 +0000

The Polyphonic Jump, our latest installation of media art, is now at Kobe Biennale.

Polyphonic Jump is an apparatus for human beings to be immersed in a fantasy world where many creatures chorus in polyphony. Audiences stand in front of a huge canvas on which picture of forest is painted with oil, and jump for interacting with oil-painted animals on the canvas as if the audiences were also on the canvas. The audiences will feel they are actually in a picture book.

For seamless integration of physical painting which gives true reality and computer-generated animation which moves dynamically and interacts with audiences, the authors put real-time 3D modeling and projection technology in this artwork.

*Official Wiki Page.

神戸ビエンナーレにて新作「Polyphonic Jump!」を公開しています．

Technology x Art x Design [Kyoto]

noreply@blogger.com (Ichiroh Kanaya) — Sat, 17 Sep 2011 16:01:00 +0000

An open conference named Technology x Art x Design was held in Kyoto, Japan by gathering world-class scientists, engineers, fine artists, designers, musicians, novelists, performing artists. Visit the Facebook page for more detail.

「テクノロジー x アート x デザイン」というイベントを京都で開催しました．詳しくはFacebookページから御覧ください．

Three essential pages

noreply@blogger.com (Ichiroh Kanaya) — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 08:59:00 +0000

Welcome to PineappleDesign.org. Here are the three essential pages of this site. Enjoy!

web.PineappleDesign.org --- introduces Art, Design, and Egyptology.
quaternion.PineappleDesign.org --- Japanese / 【日本語】数学とコンピュータの解説
blog.PineappleDesign.org --- blog / ブログ

Tips of the week: Facebook

noreply@blogger.com (Ichiroh Kanaya) — Sun, 04 Sep 2011 14:20:00 +0000

There are two entry points at Facebook for accessing our activities. The Facebook Page PineappleDesign is a public space to have discussion, question, comment about PineappleDesign.org. The personal page is for personal communication with Ichi Kanaya.

Facebookページではどなたでもご質疑，ご討論いただけます．金谷一朗の個人ページは個人的な通信にお使いください．

Tips of the week: 2 ways to follow the blog

noreply@blogger.com (Ichiroh Kanaya) — Sun, 28 Aug 2011 13:02:00 +0000

To follow my blog, here are two options: (1) use RSS feed provided at here, or (2) follow the blog on Tumblr after creating your account of Tumblr.

金谷一朗のブログはRSSまたはTumblrからフォローできます．よろしければどうぞ．