Collaboration with Manami Sakamoto
Developed at SAT(Society for Arts and Technology)’s research-creation residencies​

Metaract is an exploration of the duality between analog and digital. The artists’ quest for meaning is revealed through the use of natural environments, employed as textures, colors and sounds in their creation, juxtaposed with digital elements.

The film features superimpositions of artificial sounds and fragments created using 3DCG (three-dimensional imaging) technology, intensifying the narrative composition. This artistic elaboration could not be achieved through the use of machines alone, but requires the combination of real and virtual world phenomena.

With Metaract, Manami and Yuri hope to stimulate the public’s imagination and raise awareness of the joys of living in this “coexisting world”.

Screen History :
– Patchlab Digital Art Festival at Chromosphere Fulldome /Kraków, PL,2024
– Melbourne International Film Festival at Melbourne planetarium / Melbourne, AU,2024
– MUTEK.AE – Dome Screening2 at Hemi Sohere141 / Dubai, AE,2024
– Iwakura + Metaract at SAT Montreál / Montreál , QC ,2024
-Iwakura + Metaract at Vorspiel Berlin / Berlin , DE,2024
– MUTEK x SAT Montreál – SATOSPHERE (World Premire ) / Montreál , QC,2023
→ Future Schedule

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Immersive exhibition from artists collaboration at Daigoji buddhist temple, Kyoto, 2023

Collaboration between :
Nina Fradet (Fr) – Woven wood sculptures and scenography
Xavier Prevot (Fr) – Digital art, video projection and scenography
Keiji Okushima (Jp) – Glass sculptures
In partnership with PIVOTO – cabinet making workshop in Kyoto, part of the GENETO Tokyo-Kyoto architecture firm.
Support by Franco-Japanese Sasakawa Foundation, Daigo-ji Buddhist Temple, Japan Legacy and the Office of Design, Fashion and Crafts in Paris.

Matter’s whisper is an immersive exhibition project forming a dialogue between Japanese and French cultures through the valorization of ancestral know-how by the use of digital arts. How could matter express itself? How to perceive the sensitive character of an inert subject? It is by naming this paradox that the project begins, in the way of an enigma to guide the visitor towards an encounter with the matter.

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Project by Record Label of Factory / INDUSTRIAL JP

A project designed to turn small factories into a record label. Images and sounds are taken from the high tech factories that support technology in Japan, and are transformed by talented artists into music videos. We want viewers to experience the sensation of the beautiful precision movements of the manufacturing process combined with music. (Read full story)

The filter material moves silently along until the weaving process begins. This process is not entirely uniform. Almost as if it were alive, the machine produces an intricate and fundamentally irregular rhythm. Producer Yuri Urano deftly uses this unique groove to infuse her hard industrial track with a certain floating quality. A version of the track including vocals was also released.
(download ID-11 ROKI FILTER)