Takafumi Ide Reverberate, 2008 Custom electronics, metal, plexi, water, 3-channel interval sound, 12V halogen light, subwoofer speakers, wire

My work is based on one of the values in Japanese aesthetics: impermanence. The fragile and transitory qualities of life are of exceptional beauty. Reverberate is based on notions of how someone’s voice leaves ripples across the lives of others. Recently I got an email from Japan, saying my grand mother passed away. Since then her voice has repeated in my head.  She was here for 98 years. I can still hear her voice. Her voice touches my heart.

Created during a residency at Sculpture Space and funded in part by the Pollock-Krasner Foundation.

BIO

Takafumi Ide is an interdisciplinary media artist specializing in installation with sound and light. He received his B.A. in graphic design from Tama Art University in Tokyo in 1989. He has worked for more than ten years as a graphic designer and an illustrator in Japan. He received his M.F.A. in studio art from Stony Brook University where he was awarded a Maurice M. Goldberger & Mariam H. Goldberger Fine Arts Scholarship for his final year in 2007. He has exhibited at Project'07 at the Carriage House in the Islip Art Museum in East Islip, NY, ISE Cultural Foundation Gallery and other in New York City as well as Japan. "threshold", which he created at Sculpture Space in 2007, will be on loan from April 2008 to May 2010 in the Arts Across Campus program in Onondaga Community College, Syracuse, NY. He is currently teaching at Stony Brook University, NY as a lecturer for Spring 2008.