Wednesday 13 May 2009

1945 - 1998 by Isao Hashimoto



"1945-1998" by Isao Hashimoto
Multimedia artwork

"2053" - This is the number of nuclear explosions conducted in various parts of the globe.*
Profile of the artist: Isao HASHIMOTO

Born in Kumamoto prefecture, Japan in 1959.

Worked for 17 years in financial industry as a foreign exchange dealer. Studied at Department of Arts, Policy and Management of Musashino Art University, Tokyo.

Currently working for Lalique Museum, Hakone, Japan as a curator.

"This piece of work is a bird's eye view of the history by scaling down a month length of time into one second. No letter is used for equal messaging to all viewers without language barrier. The blinking light, sound and the numbers on the world map show when, where and how many experiments each country have conducted. I created this work for the means of an interface to the people who are yet to know of the extremely grave, but present problem of the world."

2 comments:

  1. Amazing work mona, thanks for putting it up on ya blog. I must say the thought
    "what a bunch of assholes"
    kept going through my mind

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  2. It was actually one of my kids who turned me onto this...sorry I haven't been in touch/ things are just weiurd at the mo!
    Regards/

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