Sayuri Michima
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Sayuri Michima is a Japanese visual artist who in the beginning of the millennium was associated with the Superflat
movement.
Influenced by the aesthetics of the internet, Sayuri Michima now works in "the extended field of photography and painting" and her art often depicts swarms of colored fields with structures and color schemes taken from mainstream websites such as Facebook
. Known for her vector graphics
drawings, Michima prints large scale images onto photographic paper with heavy-duty printers and mounts them behind plexiglass, but she has also printed directly on materials such as plexiglass and glass. She also works with the same visual patterns in sculpture, installation and net art. 2010 she got attention in the mainstream with her two digital "Facebook Installations". The first one featuring her "trademark", the colored fields, and the second one being a conceptual text based work with Facebook groups and Facebook events as the medium, featuring artist Terence Koh
.
Superflat
Superflat is a postmodern art movement, founded by the artist Takashi Murakami, which is influenced by manga and anime. It is also the name of a 2001 art exhibition, curated by Murakami, that toured West Hollywood, Minneapolis and Seattle....
movement.
Influenced by the aesthetics of the internet, Sayuri Michima now works in "the extended field of photography and painting" and her art often depicts swarms of colored fields with structures and color schemes taken from mainstream websites such as Facebook
Facebook
Facebook is a social networking service and website launched in February 2004, operated and privately owned by Facebook, Inc. , Facebook has more than 800 million active users. Users must register before using the site, after which they may create a personal profile, add other users as...
. Known for her vector graphics
Vector graphics
Vector graphics is the use of geometrical primitives such as points, lines, curves, and shapes or polygon, which are all based on mathematical expressions, to represent images in computer graphics...
drawings, Michima prints large scale images onto photographic paper with heavy-duty printers and mounts them behind plexiglass, but she has also printed directly on materials such as plexiglass and glass. She also works with the same visual patterns in sculpture, installation and net art. 2010 she got attention in the mainstream with her two digital "Facebook Installations". The first one featuring her "trademark", the colored fields, and the second one being a conceptual text based work with Facebook groups and Facebook events as the medium, featuring artist Terence Koh
Terence Koh
Terence Koh is a Canadian artist. Koh creates handmade books and zines, prints, photographs, sculptures, performances, and installations. Much of his diverse work involves queer, punk, and pornographic sensibilities. Koh has also worked under the alias "asianpunkboy", though it appears that name...
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