"Toposcan" by Shiro Takatani Original

Featured artworks: Toposcan/Morocco (2014) + Toposcan/Ireland (2013) Eight 16:9 monitors are lined up and connected horizontally, creating a panoramic audiovisual landscape. The work combines three different visual formats - colored horizontal lines that ultimately form landscape pictures; traveling footage of landscapes; and still images that appear as a result of the footage's locomotion - to present a visual experience different from the methods of spatial recognition of the human sense of vision, and of the camera as an optical device for grasping space based on it. When trying to grasp a space by the methods of scanners or copy machines that translate two-dimensional objects into lines, for example, the result is an image without depth and vanishing point, quite different from a pictorial view based on linear perspective. This is at once a capture of the world by means other than the human eye. © Shiro Takatani, 2013-2014