Spiritual Computing (Series)

This series of works aims to reveal the mystique that lies within standard interfaces, devices, and the internet.

Avatar:
A keyboard and mouse that controls an avatar in the metaverse are displayed in an acrylic case so that they cannot be manipulated. An existence that no one can touch is displayed as a sculptural work in a virtual space.

Uncertainty:
The text of the Wikipedia entry for God is continuously converted as the space key on a keyboard is continuously pressed. Using the Google Japanese input system, which incorporates collective places on the internet into the conversion results, words from the internet are displayed as candidates.

Replay:
A mirror ball is hung in front of the video projection of comments on NicoNico Douga's ""Tomb Sweeping,"" a culture where people leave comments on deleted videos, spreading the comments into the space and giving them a new life.

Rumors:
The word "ゴッド - goddo" which means "God" in Japanese, and the word "ゴット - gotto," which differs in only one part yet does not make sense, were replaced in the Twitter search results to represent the world in which "ゴット - gotto" exists.

gotexists.com:
It replaces the word "神 (Kami - also meaning god)" or "ゴッド" with "ゴット" in the text of various websites and continues to display them cyclically.

Pray:
A sculpture consisting of two optical mice overlapping and connected to a computer. exonemo discovered that the lights emitted by mice interfere with each other, causing the cursor to move by itself on the desktop, and created a piece in which visitors can imagine that a miracle has occurred due to the "prayer" associated with the overlapping shape of the mice. Although ready-made mice and computers are used as materials for the sculpture, the essence lies in imagining the flow of data inexplicably exchanged within them and associating them with spiritual activities.

Video courtesy: NTT InterCommunication Center [ICC]

Audio Commentary (Japanese)