Corpora in Si(gh)te means something like integral of view. This work is basically exhibited at Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media (YCAM), they placed 40 sensors in Chuou Park where is located next to the center. Each sensor senses information of environment around such as temperature, light, wind, sound, and moves of people. The program of Corpora which is processed on 3 dimensional world changes its shape and architectual structure depends on its complex rules. For example, it stretches up when it's dark, it makes void when people are around, it adjusts to those force and direction when it winds, etc.
The change of information of environment which the sensors sensed will be sent to Corpora, then it will produce a new node which constructs Corpora. This architecture is constructed of the change of node and its aggregate, not from outside. It might be easy to understand if you imagine ant's nests or corals. Points and lines which change every minutes depend on environment will be collected and they will create one virtual architecture. It is very digital indeed, but also an organic and plant-like architecture.
Souta Ichikawa , a leader who created this work 'doubleNegatives Architecture' says "People set up world with their own scale. That's the only way to do it." So he created a new way to express the space with angle of 360° as you are the center of a ball. This view is named as "super-eye", and a system like each node exists as an inside sensor, it became an important element to construct Corpora in Si(gh)te.
The view of super-eye and the self-growing program which adapts and adjusts to surrounding environment is the core of Corpora in Si(gh)te.
The idea and skill is consisted of aggregation of wide information and skills included media which has the origin of military development, but I thought it probably called an art when it turns to something which stimulates our sensibility.
New discover, new encounter, and new idea came to my brain after I experienced Corpora in Si(gh)te. When I left YCAM, I wonder if I saw an virtual architeture which changes by environment on the grass where nothing should be there.
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