How do you integrate the post human idea into your work?

I made a lightbox assembledge which is going to be the beginning of a new series of works based on these concepts. Life sized assmbledges of processed body imagery that is inspired by the feeling of Post Humnaism the first one “ontological vertigo” addresses terror we will feel as the transition comes.
There’s a quote at the top of the piece which reads: “(Man) that figure drawn in sand at the ocean’s edge, soon to be erased by the incoming tide” (Foucault 1966: 387).
Other compositions into shcematic diagrams of Man machine interface, implants, prosthetics.

How was workshops which you’ve also done for this exhibition?

That was good. I basically sat down and gone through my work and explained all the concept and everything all together. It was interesting going through and see the threads…

Last weekend I did lecture with slide, showed the work, talked about the ideas behind it and what was going on at the time I made the work. This weekend (on Saturday) we had djs come…friends of mine, Japanese djs kind of played. And yesterday Jeff did lecture about Photoshop and how we made some of the images …more like technical stuff.

Have you done this kind of show before?

Not really. I’ve talked in some of panels before. This thing is called Res Film Festival. And they had panel about film making. And Segraph, big show of computer graphics…they have local chapters of that. They have a meeting every month and people show their works and I showed my works like Radical Beauty about 6 month ago.
So I’ve done few, but this was the biggest thing I’ve done so far.

I met a lots of cool people like video artists, musicians..I really enjoyed it.
It’s interesting it’s like the vive here in japan seems really positive. I think a lot more positive actually than in San Francisco. I mean people are all positive in San Francisco, but it seems like people are into darker side of technology and music and stuff like that. But in here a lot more everyone seems positive. It’s interesting because my earlier work is really positive and more recently I try to mediate my positivity with real..sort of reflection of what’s going on. It’s important to be positive, but you don’t want to be so positive that you are an escapist. so in the early 90’s I was really positive.
May be it was too much. So I kind of got more grounded recently.

Technology is just like anything else. There’s good or bad that they can bring. I focused little bit on that in some of my works. “Nowhere.com” piece is like that. It just makes tangible how much there is in the internet and how much they are just useless. Some of the stuff in Radical Beauty as well. Graphics are little bit darker and edgey …So it’s interesting it’s almost like coming here and hanging around with ambient people and it seemed like they really love my old works. And new stuff…. they liked it but you can sort of tell it’s little bit difficult for them to deal with. May be a lot of people knew my ambient work like ‘it’s so spiritual and positive…’ and I was always gonna doing that.

It’s almost like coming here going San Francisco 3-4 years ago in a way. I just felt that kind of positivity. I think San Francisco is because of a lot of culture, a lot of optimism and hype about internet… and now it’s like 5-6 years after that. It really is mainly the financial engine.

I think people in San Francisco look it like it’s not outside world. So it’s little bit different. It seems Japanese people in general are all positive which I think is great.

A lot of media like magazines recognize you as a big one in the rave scene.
What do you think about your influence to the rave movement?

Rave culture, new age, technology culture. It’s massive. Thousands of people involve that movement and I’m just one guy. I think I had an opportunity in my work to be able to be involved in the culture and to look at the culture, trying in like sameway to represent visually and conceptually. So I had the opportunity to do that in different mediums.

I’ve always made it, tried very hard to trying stay true to what I thought ideas of the time and what was important. So I think that’s probably why I’ve been noticed. I’ve always tried to being on my content and the content is always being focused on the ideas of whatever I thought was most cutting edge and interesting at that time which one time is rave culture.