Living Data

Science Art & Talks

The experiential process of observation and reflection is key to art and science
and is an essential component in understanding interdependence
of all species and ecosystems, terrestrial and aquatic.
Paul Fletcher Animator

Science Art & Talks
Living Data Program for the 2013 Ultimo Science Festival, Sydney, September 12-21.

Time Sense    Animation (projection) by Takuya Suzuki
Change and transformation are experienced and measured.
Animation is made to reflect an individual's identity as part of a globally-sensing entity.

Takuya Suzuki. Time Sense animation, 2012

Takuya Suzuki. Flower Sense animation, 2012

I came to Australia to further my interest in using animation to express human connection to the natural world. My field research and reading led me to understand photosynthesis as the process that sustains all life. The animation 'Time Sense' evolved from my readings and observations in Australia and Japan. It gives voice to a personal change and transformation. It embodies an evolving understanding of myself as a globally-sensing entity, finely attuned to the natural world that we are part of.

I am a Japanese animator/video artist who has completed a PhD (Film and Television) at the University of Melbourne, Victorian College of the Arts (VCA). From 2004 to 2008 I have contributed design and animations for the Japanese company Stargate Systems Co. located in Osaka. Since 2009 I have been working in the field of promotional music videos as a post-production artist and editor. Some of this work includes the music video Final Stride (2013) from the Melbourne Rock band Shadows of Hyenas, Phoenix (2010) and Castle in the Sky (2010) from Japanese Rock band OROCHI. I have also collaborated with artists at VCA to create some experimental animations and some of these works have been shown at MIAF, ACMI, NGV, Federation Square, Victoria State Library and Tokyo University of Fine Arts.

Takuya Suzuki 2013

Notes for exhibition designers:

This animation may be screened simultaneously in The Muse and the Data Atrium (level 3, Building 4, UTS) as part of this series:

Algae Data, by Paul Fletcher with Jennifer Clark; Time Sense, by Takuya Suzuki; Forests of the Sea by Malou Zuiedema.