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Jul 20, 2022

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2021 — “I don’t want to be a product of my environment. I want my environment to be a product of me.” (Frank Costello, Scorsese, M. (Director). (2006). The Departed [Motion picture]. United States: Warner Bros. Pictures.)​ This installation was designed as a board game for the age of social media-induced societal division. Different squares representing different ideas were placed in the visitor’s path, and the dice on the board showed how limited the choices of actions are on social media. Our ideas are determined by the affordances and algorithms of social media, and they circulate at a consumption rate similar to fashion brands. At the exhibition, there was also a performance of a “domino effect” where visitors started by opening a door and proceeded to move along the board towards a pitfall.

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Untitled
Untitled

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Jul 20, 2022

Ultra Tower

2021 — During the prolonged state of emergency due to COVID-19, many online exhibitions were held. However, Matsuda planned an offline exhibition that anyone could participate in remotely. This was inspired by a game played by an Instagram user living abroad, which involved creating and admiring their own “Ultra Tower” from home…

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#ultratower

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Jul 20, 2022

#newmoon

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#newmoon
#newmoon

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Jul 20, 2022

#portrait

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#portrait
#portrait

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Jul 20, 2022

White Magazine

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White Magazine (2019)
White Magazine (2019)

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Mar 23, 2022

Prism Program

2017 — “Prism Program” is an art project that corresponds to the NSA file leaked by whistleblower Edward Snowden, which was announced as a mixed media and book at “SIGNALS” (Berlin, Germany) in 2017.

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Prism Program
Prism Program

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Mar 23, 2022

Black Box

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Black Box
Black Box

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Mar 21, 2022

The World is You

2016–19 — Masahide Matsuda’s activity philosophy “The World is You”, a lecture performance series by anonymous performers or audiences on the theme of “Anonism”, has been held since 2016 at City University of Hong Kong (Hong Kong), Volksbühne (Berlin, Germany), Presented at OÖ Kulturquartier (Linz, Austria), Kunstuniversität (Linz, Austria) and Studio Hrdinů (Prague, Czech Republic).

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The World is You
The World is You

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Mar 21, 2022

Genius

2014–15 — Prior to Johannes Gutenberg’s invention of typography technology, “Genius” was anonymized in Genius (Latin for “personified spirit”). After that, the dwelling of talent in an individual came to be called “Genius”, and the individual whose real name was the author of the work was evaluated. “Genius”, which has been held for about half a year since 2014, is an attempt to return it to anonymous Genius again. Based on an anonymous online community, the 400 members will shift from participants to organizers, from passive to active, from selfishness to altruism, and from attachment to liberation through rallies and street guerrilla performances. Eventually, the one person who initially managed the community disappeared and became a myriad of anonymous groups.

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Genius
Genius

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Mar 21, 2022

A Fake Shows the Reality

2014 —

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A Fake Shows the Reality
A Fake Shows the Reality

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