GEOMETRIC MEDITATION
→ in progress

GO
→ GO04
→ GO03
→ GO02
→ GO01

SEI
→ SEI06
→ SEI05
→ SEI03
→ SEI02

EN
→ EN04
→ EN03
→ EN02

SHIKAKU
→ SHIKAKU08
→ SHIKAKU07
→ SHIKAKU05
→ SHIKAKU04

MI
→ MI02
→ MI01

GALLAXY
→ GALAXY03
→ GALAXY02
→ GALAXY01

EDUCATION
→ TEACHING
→ MAPPATHON™

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SHIKAKU07

INTERACTIVE PROJECTION MAPPING, LIGHT & SOUND INSTALLATION

CREDIT

MATEIRAL

SIZE

Concept & Design: CHIKA
Original Sound & Sensor Programming: Phan V
Technical Advice: Boris Edelstein, GarageCube

LED bars, DMX control, custom software, computer, Kinect sensor, sound system

15 x 15 x 20 ft

CONCEPT

SHIKAKU (pronounced "shee-kah-koo") takes its name from a Japanese sound shared by words meaning square (四角), vision (視覚), angle of view (視角), and blind spot (死角).

SHIKAKU07 is a minimalist digital Zen garden. Geometric shapes of LED light represent its rocks and a bamboo forest. As visitors walk through the garden, a Kinect sensor follows their movement and activates patterns of light and original sound by Phan V. Visitors see the light shift without knowing they are the ones moving it; their own role stays in their blind spot. The space is seen only by being entered.

SHIKAKU07 was created during CHIKA's 2013 residency at Eyebeam and is the starting point for her current work, Geometric Meditation.

EXHIBITION

2014
2013

Industry City, Brooklyn, NY, USA
Eyebeam, New York, NY, USA

RESIDENCY

2013

Eyebeam, New York, NY, USA

Grant

2013

Emergency Grant, Foundation for Contemporary Arts

Press

2013

VICE, The Creators Project, "Step Inside a Digital Zen Garden," by Katie Sherman, November 4
Adafruit, "Eyebeam Resident CHiKA's SHIKAKU Exhibit," November 7