“MONA LISA” by Toshio Matsumoto

Title:

MONA LISA

Artist(s) and People Involved:

Filmmaker, Video Artist, or Animator(s):



• Toshio Matsumoto

Symposium:

• ISEA2002: 11th International Symposium on Electronic Art
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Venue(s):

• Assembly Hall, Nagoya Port Building , Nagoya , Japan

Creation Year:

1973

Duration:

3min. color

Artist Statement:

Mona Lisa is a video art work produced on the basis of the painting masterpiece with the same title, using SCANIMATE for the first time in Japan. At the time of production I was interested in using a simple, still object out of which to spin a rich moving image.

This work, produced by complex image synthesis on a frame basis for the visual representation of a surrealistic psychedelic world, was presented at the world’s first international video art symposium “Open Circuit” (1974) held in New York Museum of Modern Art, where it enjoyed a sensational reception.

Toshio MATSUMOTO from “EXPANSION & TRANSFORMATION” (Fukui International Video Biennale Executive Committee / 1989)

Category:

• Screening
• Video Art