MA Fine Art
Shinji Toya is a multi-media artist who was born in the city of Yokohama, Japan. Toyaâs work has recently been explored predominantly through digital media, and within this development he has produced a number of videos, which explore the subject of landscape in the format of digital moving-image. His artworks often have a conceptual focus on the threshold of recognisability of objects and images, and are often expressed in digital fragmentation or transformation of forms, so that the objects and images become unreadable, or lose the stableness of their form of reality. These expressions are processed in the manipulation of images, which associate with the malleability of the digital image. Also, it suggests instability of form of the digital images, in reflection to immateriality of virtual space. These pieces of work therefore, reflect how our sense of perception is changing currently, in relation to the arrival and commodification of the new technology in our life. [Artwork Featured in the Future Map 2012] Title : Birds and Territoriality No.3, Version 4.5 Format : Digital Video on LCD Monitor. Duration â 1.35 minutes (Loop). URL to view the video : http://vimeo.com/25477377  Birds and Territoriality No. 3, Version 4.5 was produced for illustrating the overwhelming nature in perception of swarming bird's movement. The film digitally extracts the movement of bird flight and trajectories, for the result of both conceptual and perceptive focuses on movement. The swarming state of the bird's networking group suggests the concept of complexity, because of the individual's arbitrary and unique positioning and flight-pattern in an accumulation, and the countless appearance of the individual birds within the swarm. Subsequently, this complexity of movements provides a contemplative view of nature through the digital lens, as the imageâs formality and subject of landscape appears and disappears continuously, in association with the birdsâ temporal appearances on the screen. This view is narrated poetically with the rhythm of the digitally layered birdsongs. For viewing more artwork of Shinji Toya, please visit : http://cargocollective.com/stoya