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DUB-Russell × Akihiko Taniguchi
By Ken Jenie, February 9, 2012 · 545 views

A thoroughly disorienting experience, computer animator Akihiko Taniguchi and musician Dub-Russel recently displayed their collaborative work, 3D, Home at Superdeluxe. A 3 screen/panel show combined with music, the visuals revolve around boxes of household items floating around in the center of a very cluttered room (presumably an apartment) before they turn into pigeons. Using Processing, the items fly in and out of the screen, spinning in the room as if there is a tornado and sometimes leaving digital trails, while the camera weaves through it. Coupled with the electronic cacophony provided by Dub-Russel, the whole show feels claustrophobic. Not only because with all the things going on on the screen it feels as if there is little room to breathe, but also the objects chosen. Everything that appear on the screen are commercial objects (aside from the pigeon, though we can make an argument about it), they are for the most part the packaging, the logos and colors of the objects bright and in your face. They are elements of our modern urban lives, and this video overloads our sight and hearing with them.