{"id":328,"date":"2026-06-07T14:22:40","date_gmt":"2026-06-07T14:22:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eni-gma.com\/?post_type=work&#038;p=328"},"modified":"2026-06-07T14:22:40","modified_gmt":"2026-06-07T14:22:40","slug":"work_detail_13","status":"publish","type":"work","link":"https:\/\/eni-gma.com\/en\/work\/work_detail_13\/","title":{"rendered":"AKASAKA Motion Heritage"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>AKASAKA Motion Heritage is an attempt to visualize the &#8220;universal beauty of Akasaka culture&#8221; that emerges beyond individual physicality, by intentionally removing realistic bodily information from archive data and focusing on the movements themselves.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"AKASAKA Motion Heritage\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VX0zgR-bwcU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/eni-gma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/photo13_02-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-286\" srcset=\"https:\/\/eni-gma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/photo13_02-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/eni-gma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/photo13_02-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/eni-gma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/photo13_02-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/eni-gma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/photo13_02-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/eni-gma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/photo13_02.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ikuko Akasaka has long embodied the rich history and social culture of Akasaka. Her movements, honed to the pinnacle of her craft as a renowned geisha, are the very essence of Akasaka\u2019s heritage. In this work, the shosa (traditional gestures) that Ms. Akasaka has refined over 60 years were recorded and digitally archived using volumetric capture, a cutting-edge 3D measurement technology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Based on the captured data, Ms. Akasaka\u2019s motions are decomposed into parameters such as speed, direction, and the shifting center of gravity, then reconstructed as graphics within a 3D space. These extracted movements are visualized through techniques such as connecting points, tracing trajectories, and accumulating layers. This transforms the experience from merely &#8220;viewing&#8221; a movement into &#8220;sensing&#8221; its underlying structure and rhythm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Furthermore, the work captures real-time motion data from people walking through the passage from Akasaka Station, integrating them into the artistic space. The steps of modern passersby overlap on screen, echoing Ms. Akasaka\u2019s shosa and forming new layers of movement guided by the rhythms of tradition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At the intersection of these symbolic traditional gestures and the bodies of people in their daily lives, it becomes clear that Akasaka\u2019s history and its present are not fragmented, but a seamless continuum of time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Starting from the shosa of Ikuko Akasaka, this work connects history with the present, passing the town&#8217;s culture on to the future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group keypoint is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"keypoint_title font_en wp-block-paragraph\">Key Points<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"keypoint_subtitle wp-block-paragraph\"><span class=\"font_en\">Pre-processing Data<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Our goal for the visual expression of this work was to create an intersection between the reconstruction of archived shosa and the real-time tracking of passersby within a digital space.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The archived 3D data initially consists of a sequence of meshes where the topology changes frame by frame. To transform this into a continuous trajectory of movement, we applied a specialized pre-processing stage. Using&nbsp;<strong>Houdini<\/strong>, we conformed the original motions into a consistent mesh structure, reconstructing the data to maintain temporal consistency. This process enabled us to extract continuous motion parameters\u2014such as the velocity and direction of individual body parts\u2014that would be nearly impossible to obtain from raw, unoptimized data.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For the management and rendering of these vast archives, we utilized&nbsp;<strong>POPs (Point Operators)<\/strong>&nbsp;within&nbsp;<strong>TouchDesigner.<\/strong>&nbsp;By leveraging this feature to efficiently process massive point clouds on the GPU, we achieved a streamlined implementation that maintains high performance while faithfully capturing and expressing the subtle, nuanced behaviors of the extracted shosa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/eni-gma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/photo13_03.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-287\" srcset=\"https:\/\/eni-gma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/photo13_03.jpg 1600w, https:\/\/eni-gma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/photo13_03-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/eni-gma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/photo13_03-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/eni-gma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/photo13_03-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/eni-gma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/photo13_03-1536x864.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"384\" src=\"https:\/\/eni-gma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/photo13_04-1024x384.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-289\" srcset=\"https:\/\/eni-gma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/photo13_04-1024x384.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/eni-gma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/photo13_04-300x113.jpg 300w, https:\/\/eni-gma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/photo13_04-768x288.jpg 768w, https:\/\/eni-gma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/photo13_04-1536x576.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/eni-gma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/photo13_04.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"keypoint_subtitle wp-block-paragraph\"><span class=\"font_en\">Interactive camera movement<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"work_detail_text_ss wp-block-paragraph\">We constructed a system in which the movements of people passing in front of the signage are streamed from smartphone cameras via&nbsp;<strong>NDI<\/strong>&nbsp;and converted into abstract motion data through real-time Body Tracking. By dynamically transforming this real-time movement based on parameters generated from the archived data, we aimed to create a visual shift that feels as though the viewer\u2019s own motions are being drawn into the fluid rhythm of Ms. Akasaka\u2019s shosa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"work_detail_text_ss wp-block-paragraph\">This dynamic process\u2014where the trajectories extracted from passersby are rewritten in sync with the rhythm of the archives\u2014is implemented as a sophisticated real-time simulation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/eni-gma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/photo13_04_02-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-290\" srcset=\"https:\/\/eni-gma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/photo13_04_02-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/eni-gma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/photo13_04_02-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/eni-gma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/photo13_04_02-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/eni-gma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/photo13_04_02-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/eni-gma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/photo13_04_02.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/eni-gma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/photo13_05-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-291\" srcset=\"https:\/\/eni-gma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/photo13_05-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/eni-gma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/photo13_05-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/eni-gma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/photo13_05-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/eni-gma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/photo13_05-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/eni-gma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/photo13_05.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Given its location in a passage connecting to Akasaka Station, the space experiences recurring cycles of high and low pedestrian traffic. We designed the system to zoom out when the crowd density is high, capturing the visual intersection where the real-time movements of passersby meet the archived shosa of Ikuko Akasaka. Conversely, when there are fewer passersby, the camera zooms in on Ms. Akasaka\u2019s motion data, focusing the viewer\u2019s attention on the purity and refinement of the shosa itself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By dynamically adjusting the camera work in response to these fluctuations in pedestrian flow, we sought to incorporate the natural rhythm of Akasaka into the rhythm of the artwork, allowing the pulse of the city to define the visual experience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"566\" src=\"https:\/\/eni-gma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/photo13_06-1024x566.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-292\" srcset=\"https:\/\/eni-gma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/photo13_06-1024x566.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/eni-gma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/photo13_06-300x166.jpg 300w, https:\/\/eni-gma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/photo13_06-768x424.jpg 768w, https:\/\/eni-gma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/photo13_06-1536x849.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/eni-gma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/photo13_06.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"630\" src=\"https:\/\/eni-gma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/photo13_07-1024x630.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-293\" srcset=\"https:\/\/eni-gma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/photo13_07-1024x630.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/eni-gma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/photo13_07-300x185.jpg 300w, https:\/\/eni-gma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/photo13_07-768x472.jpg 768w, https:\/\/eni-gma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/photo13_07-1536x945.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/eni-gma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/photo13_07.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AKASAKA Motion Heritage is an attempt to visualize the &#8220;universal beauty of Akasaka culture&#8221; that emerges beyond individual physicality, by intentionally removing realistic bodily information from archive data and focusing on the movements themselves. 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