Sachiko Kodama

As you all know, Sachiko Kodama is the woman behind this ferro fluid moving sculture : Morpho tower - The Two Standing Spirals, together with Yasushi Miyajima.
So, here's her background and the projects she did.
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She is a Japanese artist, born in 1970, a physics graduate in the Faculty of Science at Hokkaido University in 1993 and matriculated in the Fine Arts Department at the University of Tsukuba in Plastic art and Mixed Media. She then completed her Master's and Doctoral Program in Art and Design in also the University of Tsubaka. While in her doctoral research, she studied Computer and Hologaphy Art.

In the year 2000, her interactive art project named “Protrude, Flow” is created by using ferrofluid. This is was due to her project’s aim which is to produce a natural shape-changing art forms and figures whose 3-dimensional form, exterior structure, and colour change dynamically and energetically  as if to reflect echoes of environmental melody, light, and human communication.

The idea for her artwork comes from life and environment. The natural forms and the geometry and symmetry observed in floras and faunas are the main inspirational issue when considering kinetic or shape-changing and potentially interactive art forms. The way of movement of animals and other natural materials is also important. Rhythms of breathing in living things are brilliant simile for a surface that dynamically varies according to time. One of her ultimate goals is to relate these elements in computer display design as well.

The continuously changing climate conditions of the world are also the main motifs. The motifs for the work “Morpho Towers: Two standing spirals,” which she created in association with Yasushi Miyajima (Sony CSL), were sea, tornadoes, and lightning . Here, a black tornado gracefully dances in sync with music. In Japan, they have the idea of comparison. Mimicking natural phenomena (“mitate” in Japanese) is a technique that works well when trying to be familiar with how natural shapes occur. It permits the comparison of ferrofluid forms to creatures such as sea urchins and jelly fishes or to a “tornado”. Thus, it creates high-tech versions of the Japanese “Hakoniwa,” boxes with small models of things and landscapes taken from actual life settings.

So yeah! :) That's about it.

CY