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Katsuki Nogami

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Katsuki Nogami
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https://katsukinogami.co/
My Identity is made between online and offline.I was so different there.I was trolling my friend\\\'s blog,and pretending female in chat rooms.I had been struggling with that double myself,coulde be called double life. So I\\\'m researching that conversion internet scape into offline.Those society is regarded as separate,so thier behavior is different.But both are real.That shows contemporary society.

Last update : 13 Jan. 2024

Works

This item features UV prints of my own faces from several years on a stone like a tombstone, and left for the future.
I\\\'ve been collecting my daily skins with a 2d scanner for several years.You can easily remove detail on your face with a filter like Instagram even cameras have high resolution.It is a conflict between ideal and technology.However, I miss my ugly pores because it\\\'s also my identity at the same time.I can\\\'t find my identity online.

A VR work that reproduces the memory of the body.

Concept
The role of the body in today's society has been reduced to the fingertips handling a smartphone. Therefore, I will record my personal daily body through 3D scanning and its movements through motion capture to explore the importance of the body as not just an interface for manipulation, but as something that shapes personal history and identity. And, as memories are important in subjectively defining who we are, we will have an avatar of our past self's body tell the story by playing back the text of the diary with a synthetic voice. Inspired by the discovery in a documentary that people whose memories disappear after a short period of time remember with their bodies, and by Maurice Merleau-Ponty's idea that "the body is the general medium for experiencing the world," we thought that memory was important when we thought about what is most important in our existence and where our soul resides. I thought that memory was the most important thing in my existence and where my soul resides.
Inspired by the experience of the discomfort of disembodiment when returning to one's own body after VR, this work paradoxically presents the existence of attachment to and identity with the body.

Performance with physical and virtual body on the stage. It explores body ownership after VR and the meaning of the body after AI and Deep fake.

Concept
In an increasingly digital world, my artistic research explores the impact of technology on identity. I delve into virtual reality, social death, body ownership, and the limitations of the physical body, revealing the evolving nature of identity in a virtual society. Inspired by Maurice Merleau-Ponty's questioning of the necessity of the physical body, I investigate the idea of thriving with minimal physical presence. Social death, revived actors through AI, and virtual identities blur the line between the living and the dead, contributing to my experience of social death. I examine the loss of social identity in dying patients and retired individuals, highlighting the importance of social networks. In virtual reality, body ownership is explored, bringing forth profound transformations and effects. The disparities between the virtual and real realms are emphasized, and personal identity is captured through scanning the body in VR. My artistic exploration questions the necessity of the physical body, delves into social death and virtual transformations, and prompts contemplation about the impact of technology on identity in the digital era.

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