Norimichi Hirakawa
平川 紀道

Born in 1982. The practice is grounded in “calculation,” understood as both a universal language of the natural sciences and a primitive foundation of technology. Working with images, video, and sound, it applies its own mathematical transformations to data collected in the field as well as to public-domain scientific data, exploring the limits of human perception and the conditions under which meaning emerges in the world.

At the same time, it develops works employing algorithms that engage with temporal and spatial scales beyond human perception—such as vast spans of time and higher-dimensional spaces that cannot be accessed through the body.

The practice maintains close connections with the natural sciences, including residencies at The Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (Kavli IPMU) in 2015 and at the ALMA Observatory in the Atacama Desert in 2017. It has also contributed to the realization of works by artists including Seiko Mikami and Ryoji Ikeda, and has participated in ARTSAT: Art and Satellite Project. After relocating to Sapporo in 2019, it has been involved in the R&D activities of SIAF LAB. In recent years, the work has expanded toward an interest in non-quantifiable and non-computable phenomena that lie beyond the scope of current science, mathematics, and computation.