Exhibition 〉 Artist l Sea Art Festival 2023

Sea Art Fastival 2023 Artist

J.R. Carpenter

UK/Canada

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J. R. Carpenter is an artist, writer, and researcher, who is best known for her projects exploring place, displacement, migration, and climate. Working across performance, print, and digital media, Carpenter’s digital poem “The Gathering Cloud” won the New Media Writing Prize 2016. Her hybrid print-digital project This is a Picture of Wind was listed in The Guardian’s best poetry books of 2020 and was featured in the Digital Storytelling exhibition at the British Library in 2023. Carpenter is a Research Fellow working on original research that addresses cultural histories and data cultures of wind, Wind as Model, Media and Experience, at Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton.

Instagram: @jrcarpenter
Facebook: @jrcarpen
Twitter: @jr_carpenter
Homepage: https://luckysoap.com

Tomo Kihara

Japan

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Japan/Netherlands

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Tomo Kihara is an artist that creates toys for thought—experimental games and interventions that draw out unexplored questions from people through play. He has collaborated with organizations like Waag Futurelab and the Mozilla Foundation on various projects. Kihara’s recent projects were nominated for a S+T+ARTS Prize in 2021 and exhibited at the Victoria & Albert Museum in 2022.

Instagram: @tomo_kihara
Twitter: @tomokihara

ARTWORK

<THIS IS NOT A GOOD SIGN>

2023, Aluminium, reflective sheets, Up to 350×180cm. Physical signs commissioned by Sea Art Festival 2023. 2021-2023, Web based augmented reality application.

Climate change can sometimes feel far away and distant in both space and time, but what does it take to pay attention? THIS IS NOT A GOOD SIGN is an augmented reality (AR) poetry project and site-specific installation by J. R. Carpenter & Tomo Kihara. The web-based augmented reality component of the project uses AR to overlay the user’s surroundings with 3D-modeled signage posing questions about past and present climatic conditions. ‘Why is the sky so blue?’, ‘Has it always rained?’ These signs call attention to the small changes in the climate already occurring all around us, inviting playful responses. THIS IS NOT A GOOD SIGN was originally commissioned by Now Play This, a festival of experimental play design, in 2021. New signs have since been created responding to the specific themes of exhibitions at the Digital Design Weekend at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London, and the Everything Will be Fine exhibition in Berlin. ‘Time rivers under us.’, ‘It’s fine.’ For the Sea Art Festival, Carpenter & Kihara have created five new physical signs, with texts in Korean and English, which respond directly to the environmental conditions of Ilgwang Beach. Together, these signs form a poem: sea rises early. air falls heavily. here wind lives. swift ground shifts. salt seeps into our dreams. Experience these signs in person on Ilgwang Beach, or through the web-based AR app (https://not-a-good-sign.com/) anywhere in the world.

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Sea Art Fastival 2023 Artist

J.R. Carpenter

Tomo Kihara

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