Kageo
Masa Inakage (Japanese, born 1960),
Yu Uchida (Japanese, born 1984),
Mami Naito (Japanese, born 1986),
Shiho Hirayama (Japanese, born 1986),
and Atsushi Nishio (Japanese, born 1987)
Graduate School of Media Design
(est. 2008)
Keio University (Japan, est. 1858)
2007
Installation with projector, camera, PC,
acrylic board, wooden table, spotlight,
and Director MX and TTC-Pro Xtra
software
71" x 6' 7" x 67" (180 x 200
x 170 cm)
Kageo (Japanese for “little shadow”)
populates the shadows of everyday
objects—a coffee mug on a table, a pencil
holder on a desk—with mysterious and
delightful animated creatures. A webcam
recognizes darker areas, and a hidden
projector animates the creatures. The
creatures fight, chat, and bounce around,
all the while responding to a shifting
environment: if the coffee mug is moved
to the table’s opposite corner, they will
eventually appear there; try to touch
them and they’ll run away but tentatively
peek out seconds later. Kageo conjures
a mischievous presence, a kind of invisible
friend, in the most unlikely places.
Category: Worlds
Tags: Liminal Spaces / Mutants and Fairy Tales / Pets / Interactions
