STANDING PINE

STANDING PINE Tokyo is pleased to present intext’s solo exhibition ‘Voice Transaction’ from Saturday 18th, January.

As global communication through AI and automated translation expands, messages become detached from their original intent and start to take on different connotations, are misunderstood and become consumed. This exhibition explores the implications of this phenomenon.

The installation is based on Orson Welles' classic film ’Citizen Kane’ and focuses on a scene in which newspaper magnate Charles Foster Kane and his second wife, opera singer Susan Alexander, are conversing. In this scene, the two are inside a tent while traveling, expressing their emotions and arguing. However, in this installation, the film’s subtitles and stage props have been altered to feature the logotypes of NASDAQ-listed companies and stock market index information, while the video and audio undergo retranslation through generative AI.

The transformation of the film depicting a businessman at the mercy of capitalism—through images and technologies that symbolise modern global capitalism—disrupts its original narrative. At the same time, this alteration recontextualises the film in the present, allowing viewers to envision new interpretations.

By playfully shaking up our cognitive tendencies to derive meaning—even in conversations mediated by AI and machine translation—this exhibition invites viewers to reconsider the fundamental nature of language and speech that underpin human communication.

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Graphic designers Yusuke Mimasu, Hiroshi Toyama and programmer Takehisa Mashimo form intext, reconsidering the present state of text, image and sound media communications, instead giving rise to a universal message in relation to language and culture. Their usual day jobs concerning graphic design or programming requires the mediation of adequate information for humans and computers respectively, but their focal interests lie not in the contents of the mediated information, but rather in the message or experience contained within text, image and sound themselves that help transmit the information. Their works have been shown at a joint exhibition at The National Museum of Art (as phono/graph, a group of artists that intex belongs to), Osaka, Japan Media Arts Festival, Kyoto, and Art Basel Hong Kong (Hong Kong) and others. They joined a joint exhibition “Dicoding Wonders” curated by Kodama Kanazawa in Kyoto in 2024.

Date: Saturday 18th January – Saturday 8th February
Hours: 12:00 - 18:00 (From Tuesday to Saturday)
Closed on Sunday, Monday and National holidays
Opening reception: Saturday 18th January, 17:00 – 19:00

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