L’artiste japonais Isao Hashimoto a créé une carte time-lapse des 2053 explosions nucléaires qui ont eu lieu entre 1945 et 1998. La vidéo commence avec le test du Projet Manhattan « Trinity » près de Los Alamos et se termine avec les essais nucléaires du Pakistan en mai 1998. A voir absolument !
La carte omet deux essais nucléaires présumés en Corée du Nord (non confirmés à 100%).
Un bip et un point clignotant sur la carte pour chaque explosion.
Un rythme pesant et oppressant pour un décompte « Folamourien ».
Voir la publication de Mr Mondialisation
Isao Hashimoto: « This piece of work is a bird’s eye view of the history by scaling down a month length of time into one second. No letter is used for equal messaging to all viewers without language barrier. The blinking light, sound and the numbers on the world map show when, where and how many experiments each country have conducted. I created this work for the means of an interface to the people who are yet to know of the extremely grave, but present problem of the world. »
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Profile of the artist: Isao HASHIMOTO
Born in Kumamoto prefecture, Japan in 1959.
Worked for 17 years in financial industry as a foreign exchange dealer. Studied at Department of Arts, Policy and Management of Musashino Art University, Tokyo.
Currently working for Lalique Museum, Hakone, Japan as a curator.
Created artwork series expressing, in the artist’s view, « the fear and the folly of nuclear weapons »:« 1945-1998 » © 2003
« Overkilled »
« The Names of Experiments »
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Contact the artist:
Should you have any query regarding this artwork, please contact e-mail address below:
hashi123@amy.hi-ho.ne.jp
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* The number excludes the announced nuclear tests by North Korea.
