EVE

2021.11.16TUE

18:00-21:00

ONLINE

FORUM8 Design Festival EVE

EVE -Follow the Path to the Future "A New Road"-

18:00-21:00

FORUM8 Design Festival 2021 EVE is held completely online under the theme "A New Road".

Dance by Kanta Nakamori, a Noh player, and cutting-edge images and sounds express the unique breadth and beauty of the world of Noh in a new way. Tachibana Midori's Pelvis Workshop provides a novel experience of body making in collaboration with sound shower (solfage frequency) and images proved by Kaoru Sakatani, a brain scientist. In addition, a variety of artists show live performance to ONI's sound art.
You can enjoy a showcase by a tap artist Lily, a stage by talented diva yully, and a collaboration of media art and juggling performed by Luki and ONI.

During the eve event, visitors can enjoy the live performances as well as FORUM8 solutions such as driving simulators at the virtual online showroom using F8VPS (FORUM8 Virtual Platform System).

▲EVE -Follow the Path to the Future "A New Road"- Time lapse

REPORT

New Future Was Visualized in the Full Online EVE Festival

FORUM8 Design Festival 2021 EVE was held completely online under the theme '-Follow the Path to the Future "A New Road"-', which was evolved from the last year's theme "New Normal". An artist ONI designed the sound and produced the whole eve event, integrating cutting-edge CG image expression sound and stereo sound. Focusing on the Japanese traditional culture such as the Kado (floral design) and Noh, a variety of showcases such as stage live performances, tap dance, pelvis work, media art + juggling were performed in combination with the state-of-the-art technologies as media art with a new world view.

After MC AYUMI and ONI came up to the stage, finally the event started with the gorgeous and powerful Kado (floral design) performance expressing the universe by Ms. Koen Yokoi, a Sogetsu-ryu performer.

Next showcase by a programmer Luki and ONI artistically visualized the movement of juggling by collaborating with media art. In addition to it, singing by yully, a talented diva, and "Light from Collapse" show by ANNA SATO, a ballerina, and ONI showed possibilities of expression technologies.

As a new trial, we held a pelvis workshop by Ms. Midori Tachibana (body analyst) collaborated with sound shower (solfege frequency) and images supervised by Prof. Kaoru Sakatani (brain scientist) and Ms. Ronko Itamura (doctor / medical expert), aiming at healing and releasing the audience's body and mental by making them be immersed into images that were connected to sound, in the current corona disaster where the society and persons are stuck in the middle.

In the performance of Mr. Kanta Nakamori, Shite-kata of Kanze-ryu style Noh performer, we could see a collaboration of "Hagoromo" dance of Noh and audiovisual. The space produced by the stage and the Noh performer was decorated with the most advanced expression technologies, expressing the unique world of Noh and its beauty in a way that had never been seen before.

Lily&Yuki (Freiheit) drew an action painting by tap dance on the stage where paints were dripped. In addition, the "Tap Talk" system was also exhibited to project interactive contents on the floor by using AI technology.