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APPLYING
TO POSTGRADUATE STUDIES
My name is César Minoru HARADA, 23, French-Japanese mix based in
Paris.
I’m studying in master II « new medias in contemporary
art » at Paris 8, and I’m also teaching graphic design
at the ENSAV (National Superior School of Architecture of Versailles).
I studied arts applied at the École Boulle (Best arts and crafts
school in France), industrial design at the ENSCI (National Superior School
of Industrial Creation), graphic design in Central Saint Martins (London)
and animation film at the ENSAD (National Superior School of Decorative
Arts).
I studied music, glass-blowing and martial arts. I have a lot of experience
in monumental sculpture and construction as my my family is involved in
this area.
RESEARCH
My research focuses on trying to make art intensely physical using audio-visuals,
objects, installations, performance, including the sensitive body
of the audience/user in the process. I want to continue my studies
to learn and experiment with technologies, to explore human sensations
in interactive installations. I’m very interested in force-feedback
systems, immersive and responsive environments, augmented-reality,
locative medias, enthusiastic with electronics and programming.
I would see my research involved in the art world (installation, performance),
the industry (video game, new forms of entertainments), scientific research
(experiment, publication, teaching).
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COLLABORATIVE
INSTALLATION
I built a wooden and paper translucid structure to host a collaborative
exhibition « human experience ». The public
was hearing the hypnotic music from the outside, entered inside by
little groups, i was there to touch them, make them dance, prepare
them physically to draw sketches with ink on the walls their very
personal physical adventures in space, sensations, dreams. |
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BOAT,
FILM, ACADEMIC ESSAY
I built a small sailing and rowing boat to travel on the roads and
the rivers. I filmed the nature and the city, composed image and sound
to make an intensely thrilling film « available »
using slow-transparent / high-speed-stroboscopic editing. I extended
this film experiment with an academic essay « troubles
in space perception » which explores and analyses the numerous
situations and actions that destabilize our usual perception of space. |
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INTERACTION
DESIGN
I initiated and organized an international interaction design workshop
« beyond the screen » taught by Elise Co,
ex-student of John Maeda and researcher at the MIT (Massachusetts
Institute of Technology). We explored what new relationships can
be created between the human body and the computer program or electronic
device.
During
this workshop I developed an electronic costume for a performance
called « two blind puppets » : on the
stage two dancers are wearing blinding helmets that I designed which
emit / sense light and sound. The dancers can only locate each other
with sound and touch. In the darkness the audience creates the lighting
and the music of the performance with switches manipulating, quite
erotically sometimes, the two blind dancing puppets. My idea is
to modify the relations between the stage and the audience, enable
the public to direct the show and introducing more confusion in
the making of a collaborative narrative.
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GOAL
I believe that designers can radically change everyday life, working
on the relationships that people have with each other and the world.
Technology and history, our culture, are making a world in which polarities
are being compounded, and where nature, life, human values or common-sense
are being distorted and devalued. We are observing the results of
the application of our arrogant and exclusive intellectual models.
Our instincts, desires and dreams are affecting human needs that the
market can not satisfy and does not value. I think technology is deeply
human, but instead of seeing ourselves used by technology, we may
blend with it and get satisfied. I do not want to be in opposition
to the development of History but I would like to see playful, humorous
and constructive critical paths, sometimes provocative, yet usually
humble alternatives. Inclusive philosophies, "operational optimism"
in action, entrepreneurs and "antipreneurs" are ideas that
I feel related to.
I am pleased that the Design Interaction academics have chosen to
rename "Futures" "Alternative Nows" because I
believe designers are able to create for the present moment as well
as the future and that incorporating new technology is a key part
of the process. It is my ambition to apply this philosophy in my own
work.
Above all, I see that Design Interaction is the discipline where I'll
be able to learn, experiment and thrive to share with others. |
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