This Planet is Our Home.
Kenji Kojima
Project Description
The video walks through a forest somewhere on Earth, far from civilization and geography. It declares in 24 languages, "This Planet is Our home," while looking up at the sky. Modern civilization has pursued material wealth for a better life. However, it is now widely recognized that the production of materials beyond what is necessary for human subsistence threatens the survival of living things. Excessive material consumption is a serious threat to the survival of living things. It is imperative to prioritize the survival of living beings over the pursuit of material wealth. To address this issue, we must reexamine the diversity of values and lifestyles around the world and redefine the concept of wealth. What the above points have in common is that acquiring more things does not necessarily lead to future happiness or fulfillment. We must live together on this planet. This is the highest priority. Failure to do so will lead to the extinction of all living things, not just humans. We don't have enough time to live comfortably on another planet. The video can be freely distributed. A large part of the Anthropocene is the accumulation of limitless material desire in a monetary economy. We artists are also faced with the need to reconstruct our way of life. The greatest feature of digital art is that real art can be copied infinitely. It destroys the greedy material possessions of money worship, restores art's extraordinary financial commodity value, and revives its connection to the individual viewer.
Artist Bio
Kenji Kojima was born in Japan and moved to New York City in 1980. He spent his first 10 years in New York City painting in egg tempera. Citibank, Hess Oil and others collected his paintings. The personal computer improved rapidly in the 1980s. He felt more comfortable doing computer art than painting. He converted his artwork to digital in the early 1990s. His early digital works were archived at the New Museum - Rhizome, New York. In 2007, he developed the computer software "RGB MusicLab" and created an interdisciplinary work exploring the relationship between images and music. In 2014 he programmed the software "Luce" for the project "Techno Synesthesia". His digital art series has been exhibited in New York, at media art festivals around the world, including Europe, Brazil, and Asia, and in the online exhibitions of ACM SIGGRAPH, FILE, and ALL STREET, New York.