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 Takuya Kitamura 20*22 HOUSE Kyoto Institute of Technology Japan 2000, 3’46” I feel architecture has become too lofty. This is going to divide it into various classes. Because of this, I try to approach it in a different way. I wish architecture to be a more interesting branch of learning. My idea was to enhance the atmosphere of a place by creating the video tape played in this place. I chose the architecture design for a café. Together with my teammates (our teamname is 14SD), we created a video movie that shows various pictures to round up the atmosphere in this café. This work was exhibited for PROJECTed Realities, an exhibition by architect Waro Kishi which is currently taking place in Tokyo. He had created a concept for a building that couldn’t be realised. So I took the basic idea and plans and completed his work in a different way. In my work “20*22 HOUSE”, I emphasised a splash, and focused on Waro Kishi’s plan, that couldn’t be realised. Takuya Kitamura was born in Osaka, Japan, in 1978. He studied architecture at the Kyoto Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture and Design, Yamaguchi Lab. He started to create visual art in 1998. His first work was White Rabbit in INAB, which is included in Video Dictionary (a monthly video issue in Japan). This is a new media allowing freelance visual artists to represent their own artworks of video. Because of high estimation of the work, he had opportunities to make CM for Video Dictionary. Since 1999, he was in charge of stage effects that used his artworks of video in some events such as FUSE at Tokyo, Japan in May 2000, in Hong Kong in September 2000, etc. He also created videos that were played in cafes, clubs and bars to enhance the atmosphere of the places. “Videolica” is one of his recent works, conceived for an Asian style cafe. He is also founder of the 14SD (http://www.14sd.com), a group of designers that produces interior design, web design, flyer design and video art for various shops. They are currently working on the whole design of a bar, Prestoopnik (open from December 2000). Through all his works, Takuya Kitamura has tried to connect video art and architecture: “20*22 HOUSE”, a work conceived for the exhibition of Waro Kishi, a professor at his University, is an example of this effort. |
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