Yuko Mohri: The Execution of Everything

Photo credit: eSeL

Photo credit: eSeL
Everyday machines, such as computer devices for instance, are specifically designed to work for a special purpose; on the other hand, these machines carry within the possibility to be treated as performative objects or transformative artifacts. In the performance, computers, data devices and artifacts used in an unconventional way, are subjected to unusual operations and becoming “embodied actors”, opening up unpredicted possibilities. The resulting images and interactions represent a record, which enables us to look at these media devices from another point of view. In the performance for Coded Cultures in Yokohama, a printer works like a musical machine connected to several DIY-devices transforming several inputs from the environment and the audience. The sensors on the modified printer are switches to operate everyday machines controlled by black and white colors on a roll paper. At the performance in Yokohama something unpredictable will happen using this system dynamically!
Yuko Mohri (Japan)
Yuko Mohri, an artist, was born in 1980. Her main works, shown in Japan and abroad, include “Magnetic Organ” (2003), a three-dimensional piece using powerful magnetism, “Vexations” (2005, joint work with Soichiro Mihara), a sound installation using compositions by Erik Satie, and “Bairdcast Media” (2008), a three-dimensional work in which she attached wheels to a printer and made it run.
Yuko Mohri, an artist, was born in 1980. Her main works, shown in Japan and abroad, include “Magnetic Organ” (2003), a three-dimensional piece using powerful magnetism, “Vexations” (2005, joint work with Soichiro Mihara), a sound installation using compositions by Erik Satie, and “Bairdcast Media” (2008), a three-dimensional work in which she attached wheels to a printer and made it run.
- mohrizm.net – Yuko Mohri’s Website
- Yuko Mohri on flickr






