DESIGNEDGE & EXPO 2005

HAPPENINGText: Yoshihiro Kanematsu

In the following talk by Answer, U.N.K.L.E and Kostas Serementis, Ben Drury and Kostas Serementis appeared as U.N.K.L.E in place of James Lavelle, and spoke about their collaborations with THE RAMM:ELL:ZEE and Futura by only showing works that were already familiar to the audience.

On the other hand, in the next talk by D-Fuse and United Visual Artists, Ono from D-Fuse did a live DVDJing performance and UVA’s kaleidoscopic light installation drew the audience into their overwhelming visual space.

The conference finished without a question-and-answer session in the forenoon. From the afternoon, the pavilion exhibition took place at the Expo. The Expo site was organized into seven pavilions, including, Print, Art, Fashion, Music, Interactive, Korea, and Urban. And there were autograph signings and various live performances happening alongside exhibitions. The autograph signing of Devilrobots, who built a buzz around the phrase “Sexy Change” at last year’s conference, was crowded with people. And Faile was rolling out his silk screens to crowds instead of signing autographs. A lot of fans kept coming to ask autographs, presenters could not rest a moment and their fatigue became invisible from time to time. At this expo, they were all too big stars.

The most interesting pavilion was “Interactive” pavilion where people could experience design objects or artworks by moving their body. Feedtank has a shooting game approach to their productions with the idea that incorporates body as a device, so they needed to adjust game balance constantly and secretly for users behind the display. At Playmotion!, they utilized simple physical interactions such as “touch” and “hit”. However, when people see its great graphic technology and performance that reacts to their body so well, they must be amazed and feel comfort by the rich experience brought by Playmotion’s product.

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