1989-nintendo-made hand-held gaming devices were exploited to poetic ends: each of these Gameboys were programmed to display an animation of a single Chinese character. When strung together, these Gameboys will read as a Haiku poem that comments on certain aspect of Sino-Japanese relationship to-date.
In the work, I used a special edition of the console that was only released in Japan, which features a back-lit screen that glows in the dark. 16 of these special edition Gameboys were lined up to display a collage of Chinese characters that fades in and out of sight, eventually reading:
"the schrizophenia that is typified by using Japanese products to criticize Japan."
Full Description
1989-nintendo-made hand-held gaming devices were exploited to poetic ends: each of these Gameboys were programmed to display an animation of a single Chinese character. When strung together, these Gameboys will read as a Haiku poem that comments on certain aspect of Sino-Japanese relationship to-date.
In the work, I used a special edition of the console that was only released in Japan, which features a back-lit screen that glows in the dark. 16 of these special edition Gameboys were lined up to display a collage of Chinese characters that fades in and out of sight, eventually reading:
"the schrizophenia that is typified by using Japanese products to criticize Japan."
Work metadata
- Year Created: 2009
- Submitted to ArtBase: Thursday Oct 15th, 2009
- Original Url: http://www.samsonyoung.com/tangible.htm
- Permalink: http://www.samsonyoung.com/tangible.htm
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Work Credits:
- Kar Fai Young, creator
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