November 2009
Caelum Gallery
New York, NY
In 1978 at Tsukuba University, I first saw the machine that was drawing pictures. It was a XY-plotter controlled by a computer. I was so impressed that machine drawing lines. A program was executed in computer and output some data to drawing machine, then a machine drew lines to make a picture. When we usually draw lines by our hands, some thoughts in our mind make our hands move. In a computer, “thought” is a “program” that was written in computer language. Programs were constructed with “algorithm”. The process of thinking in mind is to convert to algorithm.
In computer class, I learned “FORTRUN” and wrote some programs to draw lines by XY-plotter. It was the beginning. Since then, I was working with some computers, some XY plotters, and some computer languages.
I was exhibited some pictures drawn by XY-plotter, in 2006 and 2007 at Caelum Gallery. Machines that draw pictures fascinated me, but in those years, XY-plotter is almost extinct. It was switched to large-format inkjet printers. So I was changed the output device, XY-plotter to large-format inkjet printer. Changing a device is to changing expression. The delicate shades of overlapping lines made by the ink of XY-plotter were disappeared. But the high contrast optical effect of inkjet printer is added. This is the first show of my new works with new expressions.