Goro Murayama / Goro Murayama

Venue: Kyu Itoya

《Robustness of informational textiles》 Goro Murayama　Photo：Syuhei Yoshida

About Works: Title :《Robustness of informational textiles》
This work began when 2021 Fuji Textile Week exhibiting artist Aiko TEZUKA saw Goro MURAYAMA's hand-drawn sketch, swiched sync cellular automaton[hand drawing] #2. Inspired by the concept, she suggested that the drawing be made into reality, and thanks to the cooperation of a weaver in Fujiyoshida, Murayama was able to do just that.
A cellular automaton is a mathematical model in which a spatial grid of cells is viewed over time, generating various patterns by assigning rules to each cell of the grid. As this model also manifests in the creation and growth of living organisms, Murayama developed his mathematical model by reading into various issues, such as creation and death, as well as the creative process of humans and machines.The work exhibited here uses Murayama's mathematical model program to analyze the characteristics of the patterns that arise and then compares attributes of regularity and randomness. He also says that he is able to measure the “robustness” of the information, which has been systematically discussed in the fields of bioethics and information engineering. From this, he finds the exquisite balance between life and its environment, that is, the inevitability of a lifespan. At the same time, the “robustness” of textiles is superimposed on the physical storage medium of digital data, much like how the primitive mechanisms of a computer work in a Jacquard loom to create something physical, which Murayama considers to be extremely meaningful.
Programming：Tatsuki Tomoyama | Cooperation：Makita Shoten, Textile Fuji, Hikari Orimono

1983年東京生まれ。アーティスト。博士(美術)。自己組織的なプロセスやパターンを、絵画やドローイングをとおして表現している。2010年、shiseido art egg賞を受賞。2015年、東京芸術大学美術研究科博士後期課程美術専攻油画(壁画)研究領域修了。2015-17年、文化庁新進芸術家海外研修員としてウィーンにて滞在制作（ウィーン大学間文化哲学研究室客員研究員）。近年の展覧会に、2022年「瀬戸内国際芸術祭」男木島 / 香川（’19）、「Drawings – Plurality 複数性へと向かうドローイング〈記号、有機体、機械〉」PARCO Museum TOKYO / 東京、2020年個展「Painting Folding」 Takuro Someya Contemporary Art / 東京、2019年「あいちトリエンナーレ2019 情の時代」愛知県美術館、「L’homme qui marche　Verkörperung des Sperrigen」クンストハレビーレフェルト、「The Extended Mind」 Talbot Rice Gallery、スコットランドなど。現在、NTTインターコミュニケーションセンター（ICC）にて新作「Painting folding 2.0」を発表、手製の織物絵画から「Alpha fold」の予測計算を介して現実に存在しうるタンパク質構造をデザインする試みを展開している。

photo: Yoi KawakuboBorn in Tokyo, 1983. Artist. PhD. (Fine Arts). Murayama expresses self-organized processes and patterns through paintings and drawings. 2010 shiseido art egg prize winner. 2015 Completed the doctoral program in oil painting (mural painting) at Tokyo University of the Arts. 2015-17: Artist-in-residence in Vienna as a Japanese Agency for Cultural Affairs overseas training program for emerging artists (visiting researcher at the Intercultural Philosophy Laboratory, University of Vienna). Recent exhibitions, 2022 “Setouchi Triennale”, Ogijima Island / Kagawa （’19）, 2022 “Drawings – Plurality” / PARCO Museum TOKYO / Tokyo, 2020 “Painting Folding” / Takuro Someya Contemporary Art / Tokyo, 2019 “Aichi Triennale 2019” Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art / Aichi, ”L’homme qui marche　Verkörperung des Sperrigen” / Kunsthalle Bielefeld / Germany, “The Extended Mind”, Talbot Rice Gallery at University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh / Scotland, and many others. Currently, he is presenting his new work "Painting folding 2.0" at NTT InterCommunication Center (ICC), in which he is developing an attempt to design protein structures that could exist in reality through the predictive calculation of "Alpha fold" from handmade textile paintings.
photo: Yoi Kawakubo

Artist Profile: Goro Murayama / Goro Murayama
Born in Tokyo, 1983. Artist. PhD. (Fine Arts). Murayama expresses self-organized processes and patterns through paintings and drawings. 2010 shiseido art egg prize winner. 2015 Completed the doctoral program in oil painting (mural painting) at Tokyo University of the Arts. 2015-17: Artist-in-residence in Vienna as a Japanese Agency for Cultural Affairs overseas training program for emerging artists (visiting researcher at the Intercultural Philosophy Laboratory, University of Vienna). Recent exhibitions, 2022 “Setouchi Triennale”, Ogijima Island / Kagawa （’19）, 2022 “Drawings – Plurality” / PARCO Museum TOKYO / Tokyo, 2020 “Painting Folding” / Takuro Someya Contemporary Art / Tokyo, 2019 “Aichi Triennale 2019” Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art / Aichi, ”L’homme qui marche　Verkörperung des Sperrigen” / Kunsthalle Bielefeld / Germany, “The Extended Mind”, Talbot Rice Gallery at University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh / Scotland, and many others. Currently, he is presenting his new work "Painting folding 2.0" at NTT InterCommunication Center (ICC), in which he is developing an attempt to design protein structures that could exist in reality through the predictive calculation of "Alpha fold" from handmade textile paintings.
photo: Yoi Kawakubo