AIUEONN - Six Features

AIUEONN - Six Features

Synopsis

"Combining the comical with the absurd, I created six funny faces, which were manipulated by System G (Real Time Three Dimensional Texture Mapping developed by Sony), to animate the images of Japanese vowels in Japanese and Roman alphabet. The concept is developed from Jacques Derrida's 'Differance' in which the difference of 'image', 'letter' and 'voice' works in space and movement. Thus six images of AIUEONN differ and delay with the letters and the voices, creating an example of multiculturalism." – Takahiko Iimura
 
"Iimura deconstructs our coherence as he shifts between the English Roman alphabet and Japanese characters, interjects spoken Japanese, and manipulates the computer images of his features. The images often take on geometrical shapes, others recall the classical images from Japanese woodcuts of Samurai warrior grimace." – Robert West

"A very simple but also striking statement about the arbitrariness of semiotic relations." – Fred Andersson, Leornado Digital Review, MIT Press