Sci/Art: Sachiko Kodama

Category : Nano Bio Art

On March 12, 2010, Sachiko Kodama, a Japanese media artist and professor in electro-communications in Tokyo, presented her work, and what led to her most recent and on-going exploration of Ferrofluid, which she names Protrude Flow.

Kodama’s influences for her work include: Kinetic Art, which she learned while studying Physics at Hokaido University; the history of Japanese CraftArt and its modern technical developments; and the interactive work of Yoichiro Kawaguchi that uses colourdul computer graphics and 3D prototyping tools.

Protrude Flow (2000-present) is an interactive installation comprised of Ferrofluid matter –a spacesuit material developed by NASA in the 1960s–, a magnetic field, a dynamic sculpture, and a combination of sensors susceptible to sound, light, and finger motions, present in the environment. (see: http://www.kodama.hc.uec.ac.jp/index-e.html) Protrude Flow explores the dichotomy of the virtual/real in interactive art through dynamic textures, light, shapes, colours, space, and movement. She explores gravity, magnetism, and nature as the natural power to create dynamic and unusual realities. In this way, her work is a vision of a new kind of reality expressed in the dynamic properties of Ferrofluid.

Source: Kodama, Sachiko. Streaming Culture Lecture Series. Parsons, The New School for Design. Date: March 12, 2010.

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