D|MA 170_Architecture + Design _W2005Week 01_Research_Phase 1Immersive Events : HistoricalThis historical Japanese event is called “daimonjiyaki” which is pro-nounced die-mon-gee-yah-key (The proper nomination of this event, how-ever, is “goyama-okuribi “ which nobody knows except for the local people living in the area). This image is taken in Kyoto, where the old Japanese capitol used to be. The orgin of this event is not quite clear, however it is said to date for more than 300 years. To explain a little what is done, many torches are placed on a mountain, and they are all lit together. The torch on the very little is called “Oya-bi” (meaning “master-fi re”) and is larger than the rest of the torches. All of these torches consist a chinese character, “dai” and meaning is “big”.This event does not take place often, and visitors are only able to see this during August. Moreover, these torches last approximately for 30 minitues. The character’s size is approximately 30m x 30m. There are many opinions of what the event is suppose to mean, but one of them is that this event is done for a spiritual and religious reasons.D|MA 170_Architecture + Design _W2005Week 01_Research_Phase 1Immersive Events : HistoricalThe Nazca lines are geoglyphs and geometric line clearings in the Peruvian desert. They were made by the Nazca people, who fl ourished between 200 BCE and 600 CE along rivers and streams that fl ow from the Andes. The desert itself runs for over 1,400 miles along the Pacifi c Ocean. The area of the Nazca art is called the Pampa Colorada (Red Plain). It is 15 miles wide and runs some 37 miles parallel to the Andes and the sea. Dark red surface stones and soil have been cleared away, exposing the lighter-colored subsoil, creating the “lines”. There is no sand in this desert. From the air, the “lines” include not only lines and geo-metric shapes, but also depictions of animals and plants in stylized forms. Some of the forms, including images of humans, grace the steep hillsides at the edge of the desert.D|MA 170_Architecture + Design _W2005Week 01_Research_Phase 1Immersive Events : HistoricalAlthough an equator is invisible, it is defi nitely a huge imaginative line “drawn” around the earth since human beings have conceived that concept of equator. In that context, I believe this could also be considered as an example of (historical) supergraph-ics.The word equator comes from the word, æquator diei et noctis “equalizer of day and night” (when the sun is on the celestial equator, twice annually, day and night are of equal length)D|MA 170_Architecture + Design _W2005Week 01_Research_Phase 1Immersive Events : Media Art“Light Attack” is a meedia art project done by Daniel Sauter. A projec-tor is attached to the car and an image of a person walking is projected towards the wall while driving. Sauter explored three places ‘to go’ and three places ‘not to go’, according to the popular Lonely Planet travel guide. While driving, Sauter took video footages and also took a seemless photo-graph. The installation of the whole project was exhibited at the New Wight Gallery together with the video footage and the negative of the seemless photograph.The following is an excerpt from Sauter’s website:“Light Attack elaborates the concept of the ‘moving moving’ image in the stereotyped neighborhoods of Hollywood, Beverly Hills, Santa Monica, Downtown, Watts, and Compton. The virtual character, projected from a moving vehicle onto the city facades, reacts to the architectural context, and interacts with passers-by while ‘walking’ through the city.”D|MA 170_Architecture + Design _W2005Week 01_Research_Phase 1Immersive Events : Media ArtThe image above is from an installation project, “Displaced Em-perors Relational Architecture 2” done by Rafael Lozano-Hemmer in 1997.This installation used an “architact” interface to transform the Habsburg Castle in Linz, Austria. Wireless 3D sensors calculated where participants pointed to on the facade and a large animated projection of a hand was shown at that location. As people on the street “caressed” the building, they could re-veal the interiors, which corresponded to Chapultepec Castle, the Habsburg residence in Mexico City. In addition, for ten schillings, people could press the “Moctezuma button” and trigger a temporary post-colonial override consisting of a huge image of the Aztec head-dress that is kept at the ethno-logical museum in Vienna.D|MA 170_Architecture + Design _W2005Week 01_Research_Phase 1Immersive Events : Media ArtThis piece is a LED installation, “Matrix II” by Erwin Redl. At times, the lights have been programmed to change color slowly creating characteristic visual effect. His Matrix series seems to translate virtual space into a physcial one: vitual space would not be visible and accessible without the screen’s grid light, which is an essential element of this space’s construction.Matrix transposes the grids and planes of virtual space into physical environments allowing users a direct visceral experience of an essentially immaterial space.D|MA 170_Architecture + Design _W2005Week 01_Research_Phase 1Immersive Events : ArtThe image above is an photograph taken while Michael Heizer was working on his land art project, “Double Negative”. “Double Negative” consists of two trenches cut into the east-ern edge of the Mormon Mesa, northwest of Overton, Nevada in 1969-70.The trenches line up across a large gap formed by the natural shape of the mesa edge. Including this open area across the gap, the trenches together measure 1,500 feet long, 50 feet deep, and 30 feet wide (457 meters long, 15.2 meters deep, 9.1 meters wide). 240,000 tons of rock (rhyolite and sandstone) was dis-placed in the construction of the trenches.D|MA 170_Architecture + Design _W2005Week 01_Research_Phase 1Immersive Events : ArtThis earthwork, “Spiral Jetty” is done by Robert Smithson in 1970. Smithson sim-ply made a spiral on a edge of Great Salt Lake, Utah by using mud, precipitated salt crystals and rocks.The coil is coil 1500’ long and 15’ wide.According to his initial sketches, the middle of the spiral is suppose to represent sun.Land art or earthwork is a form of art which came to prominence in the late 1960s and 1970s primarily concerned with the natural environment. Materials such as rocks, sticks, soil and so on are often used, and the