Summary
Yoichi Ochiai explores the local culture and design structure by creating a digital archive of buildings in the TOBITA SHINCHI area and sublimates it into work through co-creation with the local community. Ochiai’s interests in the Art Triennial, which was titled “Study,” included questions about what changes with time, what does not change, what disappears without being noticed, fluctuations in legal boundaries, and how national events such as Expo affect cities, buildings, and interiors, as well as visualizing the “imprints” left by these changes. For example, it is still fresh in our minds that the city’s sexual culture has undergone major changes in recent years, starting with the crackdown by authorities during the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, which exposed many strip theaters and sex shops. While Ochiai understands the authorities’ decision as an act of maintaining public safety in the city, he is concerned about the disappearance of what he describes as part of the city’s “popular culture”. As people and the environment change, the accumulated traces of humanity will disappear. There should be a lot of discussion about social conventions, right and wrong, ethics, legal interpretations, and so on, but if the mass of buildings and interiors are lost, there will be no room for discussion. Through activities to digitally archive the three-dimensional space of To TOBITA SHINCHI, a town without people, we would like to understand the local culture and create digital works based on this la
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