先端芸術表現Inter-Media Art

コロナ禍の困難な状況の中で制作を続け、展示という一つの区切りを迎えることができました。
コロナ後に起こったさまざまな問題は、人間が社会的な生き物だということを改めて認識させます。群れで行動する節足動物が全体のための役割を判断して合理的に行動する様に。しかし、一方で人は個性を求め、如何に自分が他と異なるのか、自分自身とは何者なのかを問い続けます。
先端芸術表現科では、多様なメデイアのそれぞれの表現性を探求していくのはもちろん、それらを複合的に用いることで表れるものの意味を問い続ける。
メディア毎にそれ自体が欲する最終的な着地点があるが、ただそのゴールを目指すのではなく、そこから生まれる様々な問いを表していく。社会で共有される概念は別の視点によって異なる側面を露わにする。見えないものへの問いかけともいえる作業は、現在の社会の中で大きく重い意味を持つ。

In the Department of Intermedia Art, our students have relentlessly pursued their creative activities despite the severe trials the COVID-19 pandemic has posed. Their determination in coping with this crisis has brought them to a major milestone—this year’s graduation and completion works exhibitions.
The multitude of issues the COVID-19 outbreak has caused also renewed the recognition that human beings are social creatures. By definition, arthropods driven by the herd mentality behave in highly rational patterns, compelled by instinct to perform their proper tasks to ensure the existence of the group. In sharp contrast, human beings crave individuality. We tirelessly question how we differ from others, and who and what we are as separate entities.
Within the programs at our department, students naturally devote themselves to fostering articulate powers of expression in various media genres. Based on that stance, they continually ponder the gist of expressions formulated to harness these different media categories in composite and interlocking perspectives.
For each medium, there are so-called final landing points the medium demands. The key to success, however, is not simply reaching such landing points. The ultimate goal is to pose countless questions emerging from those points along the way.
It is vital to remember that even concepts society generally shares can take on a totally different aspect when viewed from another perspective.
It may also be described as the labor of vigorously directing questions toward dimensions invisible to the eye. Such are the efforts our students undertook as they assume increasingly critical significance within the scope of today’s world.