Peace Can Be Realized Even Without Order 02 (beta ver.)

■Peace Can Be Realized Even Without Order This Interactive Digital Installation consists of a seemingly endless number of holograms. The figures depicted in the holograms exist independently from one another, they play instruments and dance, and each individual is influenced by the sounds from the figures close to them. There is no lead figure that oversees or can influence all the other dancers, and there is also no center or order enforced on the crowd. External events can cause disorder, but then in time gradually peace will be restored. When a person enters the installation and a figure senses the viewer, the figure responds to that person and stops playing music. The figure passes on this information to other figures close by. After a short period of time the figure will start playing music and dance again, but this disturbance will have disrupted the harmony. If, however, the viewer stays still or leaves, the dancers will begin to form back into one harmonious group and the feeling of peace will return. In Japan there is a primitive dance festival called the Awa Dance Festival that dates back so far that its origins are unknown. Groups of individual dancers play music and proceed around the town arbitrarily. Groups play their own music as they like and dance as they like. Interestingly for some reason the music forms into a peaceful order across the whole town. Dancers that randomly meet other groups of dancers gradually and unconsciously match the tempo of their music with the other group. This is not due to any set of rules; it just feels right and happens unconsciously. It seems that people are set free from their inhibitions, and an extraordinary peaceful feeling prevails despite the lack of any order to the dances. Perhaps this is how people of ancient times maintained a feeling of peacefulness. Today, in the Internet age, the speed at which people can connect with other people has accelerated. As a result people throughout the world have become increasingly connected, and the influence of connections to other people has become more important. What we experience in this new age can be considered similar to the experience of the dance festival, and perhaps in these unordered connections there is a way to find peace. ■秩序がなくともピースは成り立つ