Florin Nica - Research Presentation
- 1. Organism MMU SpecialCollections
- 2. Title Organism #134 Artist Junko Mori Object Number MANMU : 2006.3 Brief Description Steel sculpture. Many pulled rods welded together to form a spiked ball shape, with aperture for dried flowers (red) Size Height 16cm (6 1/4") Diameter 16cm (6 1/4") Production Place AMP Studio, Salford, England Materials mild steel, beeswax
- 3. Why I chosethis object • It has a very organic shape • It has a somewhat alien feel • It looks very dangerous but beautiful
- 4. Junko Mori Japanese-bornMetalwork Artist
- 5. • Born inYokohama, Japan in 1974. • Graduated in from Musashino Art University in Tokyo in 1997 with her first BA in three-dimensional design (Industrial, Interior and Crafts Design and Metalwork). • She worked as a welder in a factory for one year. • From 1998 to 2000, she studied silversmithing and metalwork at Camberwell College of Arts in London. • Spent two years as artist-in-residence at Liverpool Hope University.
- 6. Inspiration • Inspiredby “the vital power of how things grow”. • Big fan of biology class in primary school. • Cell division - “both a spooky and a beautiful experience”.
- 7. Work Process •The pieces are not planned or designed. • It’s the process that dictates the shape of the finished piece. • The piece grows by building up the individual components. • Not using a “shape” to build on top of. • Each piece is welded off the previous one.
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- 15. What is AugmentedReality • A technology that superimposes a computer-generated image on a user's view of the real world, thus providing a composite view.
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- 18. What is ProjectionMapping • Also known as video mapping and spatial augmented reality, is a projection technology used to turn objects, often irregularly shaped, into a display surface for video projection. • These objects may be complex industrial landscapes, such as buildings.
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Editor's Notes
- #6 Even though her BA was in Industrial, Interior and Crafts Design and Metalwork, she specialized in metalwork because she found it to be very challenging. Plastic, ceramics, wood and metal - and found metal to be the most difficult to work with. In Japan she learned a lot on making skill, but the conceptual development was the main focus in London.
- #7 When she was little, she was shown cells dividing under a microscope. That experience is something that had a big influence on her work.
- #10 So innocent, so harmless, so pure.
- #11 Dark, dangerous, alien, and a bit evil.
- #13 Doodled in a cafe in Tokyo after failing her MA sculpture entrance exam in 1997. Soon after this, she popped in the British Council in search of her next step and saw CRAFTS magazine, which made her visit the UK first time.