LOOP – Kinetic Light Sculpture – COMING SOON: DESIGNTIDE TOKYO 2025
11.12.25
Experiment / Projects / Studio Originals
Role
All Production
LOOP is a Kinetic Light Sculpture which entices you into conversation with faraway space. This artwork invoked by inspiration from the mystic energy of mystery circles and the symbolic power of an endless circle is featured in the luminous disks which have precise vertical movement. They connect, reiterate, and represent continuance, which gave birth to LOOP.
At first glance, these units look like lighting fixtures. But when switched on, they slowly begin to move up and down as if breathing, and emit light. With several units synchronized together, the movement, light, and sound begin to harmonize, and they embrace the whole space to sublimate.
LOOP is a module kinetic lighting system and easily installed, and controllable by wireless control. It is an art piece with art and a product merged together without any handling complication, when fragility and difficulty in handling are often seen in kinetic art.
DEVELOPMENT NOTICE
LOOP is currently in advanced development stage.
A special preview featuring 10 fully operational units will be exhibited at DESIGNTIDE TOKYO 2025.This kinetic light sculpture represents ongoing research in synchronized movement and light choreography.
Patent Application in Progress © 2024-2025 FLIGHTGRAF Co., Ltd.
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開発状況のお知らせ
LOOPは現在開発最終段階にあります。DESIGNTIDE TOKYO 2025にて実働する10台を特別展示予定です。
特許出願中 © 2024-2025 FLIGHTGRAF Co., Ltd.
Credits
Concept and art direction – FLIGHTGRAF
Concept & Creative Direction – Kento Tomiyoshi
Light & Movement Choreography – Kento Tomiyoshi
Product & Mechanical Design – Kento Tomiyoshi
Sound Artist – Makoto Shozu
Software Engineering & Circuit Design – UNO
Mechanical Engineering Support – Susumu Ishi
Production & Assembly – Daiki Negishi
3D Visualization & Rendering – Nanami Tsuzuki
Special Thanks – Toshiki Yoshiike (MPLUSPLUS)
Particles and Line – 109 Cinemas Premium Shinjuku
18.09.23
Client / Experiment / Installation art / Projects / Studio Originals
Role
Direction,Animation,Texturing,Modeling,Lighting,Compositing,Rendering
We took charge of creating an artwork for Vision in the main lounge of “the 109 Cinemas Premium Shinjuku”.
This artwork came into being as the self-inspired one out of the artwork presented at Genius Loci in 2021. The work, “Rhythm And Line,” in 2021 was the one projection-mapped to Franz Liszt’s residence out of respect for this great Magician of Piano. Just as Liszt fanned a fresh breeze into the then world of music, our work this time is the updated “Rhythm and Line” dedicated to Sakamoto Ryuichi, who was also the musician that stirred up a fresh wind in the modern music world.
In 109 Cinemas Premium Shinjuku, there is provided a lounge special use for viewers an hour before the movie begins. Its design theme is TIMELESS MODERN to let you enjoy that “moment” and that “sound.” In the comfortably subdued atmosphere, the 9th and 10th floors will provide you with spacious room studded with intriguing items and impressive artworks invoking the hue of the town of Kabuki-cho in Shinjuku.
The picture content of the Vision in the center of the main lounge will immerse you in the felicity to let you flow in the unhurried time and a fondness for sound, and it was selected as well as to harmonize with the music in the main lounge, “109 Shinjuku-Lounge,” which was composed by Sakamoto Ryuichi ( with the co-composer, Marcus Fisher ).
「１０９シネマズプレミアム新宿」メインラウンジ内・ビジョンのアート作品を制作しました。
この作品は、2021年にワイマールで行われたイベントGenuis Lociで発表した作品に自らインスパイアされたものです。
2021年に発表した”Rhythm And Line”は「ピアノの魔術師」といわれ、当時の音楽界に新風を吹き込んだ フランツ・リストに敬意を表し、ランダムな表現を取り入れたプロジェクションマッピング作品です。
今回は現代音楽に新風を吹き込んだ音楽家として活躍された、坂本龍一氏のためにアップデートしたものになっています。
１０９シネマズプレミアム新宿には、映画上映前に利用できる鑑賞者専用ラウンジがあります。
“TIMELESS MODERN”をテーマに、落ち着いたトーンの中に新宿・歌舞伎町の街の色を感じさせるような 印象的なアイテムやアート作品がちりばめられた空間です。
そんな穏やかな時間が流れるラウンジの中心にあるビジョンの映像コンテンツとして、また坂本龍一氏が手掛けたラウンジのための楽曲（「109 Shinjuku – Lounge」 *マーカス・フィッシャー氏との共作）とも調和するものとして、制作した作品となっています。
Credits
Visual Artist – Kento Tomiyoshi (FLIGHTGRAF)
Overall Production – Michiyuki Ishita (COLORs CREATION)
Creative Agency – COLORs CREATION Co.Ltd.
PAUSE – Noor Riyadh Festival 2022
04.11.22
Experiment / Projection Mapping / Projects / Studio Originals
Role
All Production
Our artwork this time focuses on “Pause.” Aren’t we passing up many substantial ideas and beautiful things in our busy daily life in too swiftly sweeping societies?
We need to pause to take a good look at ourselves, and then to observe our object face to face, slowly, giving it sufficient time.
Maybe we will notice what we have passed by and a noticeable experience we have passed over inadvertently. If you can pause and find this kind of slowly flowing time, it will nurture your inner vision to generate a new idea and to have enough courage to delve into a new experience. This is what we believe.
The theme of this artwork is the question addressed to all of us, “Can you now PAUSE?”
今回の作品は「止まる」ということに焦点を当てている。
私達は日々忙しい中で、間違いなく、本当に存在する新しいアイデアや、美しいものをこの早すぎる現代社会において多く見逃しているのではないだろうか？
私達は一度立ち止まり、自分を見つめなおし、そして、ゆっくり時間をかけて対象物と向き合う必要がある。
もしかしたら今まで見過ごしていた事や物、体験に気付くかもしれない。
その時間を作ればきっとあなたにもいい結果となるはずだ。
私たちはそう信じている。 この作品のテーマは明瞭で『あなたは今、立ち止まれているだろうか？』と問いかける作品である。
Credits
Visual Artists / Videographers – Kento Tomiyoshi (FLIGHTGRAF), Nanami Tsuzuki (FLIGHTGRAF)
Sound Artist – Makoto Shozu (FLIGHTGRAF)
Event Organizer – Signal Festival 2023 Team
Venue – Church of St. Cyril and St. Methodius, Czech Republic
