Kanazawa Marathon Online GPS Art Contest
The GPS Art Contest will be held at the Kanazawa Marathon Online event. Yassan will participate as a member of the jury.
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EXHIBITION: Independent Tokyo 2022
若手アーティストの登竜門として機能する現代アートの展覧会、Independent TokyoにGPSアート新シリーズを出品します．
EXHIBITION: RANPO WANTED
A new series of Yassan’s GPS Art will be exhibited in the exhibition “RANPO WANTED – Mystery hidden in a masterpiece -” in the Ikebukuro Art Galleries (Ikebukuro Montparnasse Circulation Museum), an art exhibition held in the public space around Ikebukuro Station. The theme of the event is “Edogawa Rampo,” and it is an interactive event that combines art appreciation and exploration. Artists will present works that pay homage to famous paintings from around the world. Visitors can enjoy a guessing game while appreciating the art, as they search for artworks scattered around the West Exit (Tokyo Metropolitan Art Space) and East Exit (WACCA Ikebukuro) of Ikebukuro. Yassan has created a new series of GPS art, “Toshuesai Sharaku Run”, for this exhibition. With the cooperation of 15 citizen runners, drew a large portrait of 174.933 km of lines, 10 km east to west and 13 km north to south, on the former Edo (old...
EVENT: #CircleWalkDay
Fan-participatory GPS art event “Circle Walk Day” will be held on 3.14! March 14th is Pi Day, the name given to pi.All you have to do is post your GPS art “Circle Walk” on this day with the hashtag #CircleWalk or #CircleWalk.If you are more fervent, you can post it at 1:59:26 or 15:09:26!An internet meme has emerged among citizen runners to post GPS art for anniversaries and seasonal events. I’d like to start a new event for this meme and hold it every year. Long distance, many turns, and the result is just a circle.It’s too much of difficulties and the demand for participants is a mystery, but if you are a passionate fan of ……, please try it! We and Yassan will continue to present the Circle Walk series to the world through various platforms, including the recently announced Future Artists Tokyo. Let’s create the culture of GPS art together! OUTLINE Date:...
EXHIBITION: Future Artists Tokyo 2022 Moscow
Yassan’s works were selected for exhibition at Cube.Moscow, an art space in Moscow. Only works selected from the FAT Collection will be exhibited. The venue, Cube.Moscow, is located in the basement of the Ritz-Carlton Hotel near the Kremlin’s Red Square, where is a center of culture and the arts, so it seems to attract many highly sensitive and affluent people.As a representative of Japan, I hope to spread GPS art as fine art in Moscow. Starting with this exhibition, Yassan’s GPS art will be exhibited in art markets around the world.The distribution of artworks has been difficult due to the restrictions on movement caused by the Corona disaster. Even so, I realize the importance of digital artworks and NFTs, which are easy to transport. GPS art has been attracting attention mainly from citizen runners, but now it’s time to enter the global art market. Thank you for your support! Future Artists Tokyo 2022 Moscow...
ANNOUNCEMENT: Sakura Run 2022
Started to release the 2022 version of the Sakura Run courses on GPSART.info, the route sharing site of GPS Art. It is a course where you can draw GPS art of cherry blossoms at Hanami spots all over Japan. Citizen runners have been running these courses as a way to avoid crowds and enjoy the cherry blossoms.I have already released 99 courses in 47 prefectures, starting in the spring of 2020. Planning to release more courses in all prefectures this spring. Thank you for your continued support! LINK GPSART.info: Sakura Courses https://gpsart.info/en/theme/cherryblossom-2/ BACKGROUND The “GPS run” was born in the 2010s as a fusion of GPS drawing and running culture. As a non-competitive sport, the number of enthusiasts is increasing, especially among citizen runners.The 2020 Corona disaster was a turning point, and it has spread as a new motivation to run instead of competing in marathons. It has been adopted as “GPS run”, “GPS marathon”...
EXHIBITION: Future Artists Tokyo
Will be exhibited in “Future Artists Tokyo,” a special exhibition at Art Fair Tokyo (AFT), the largest contemporary art market in Japan. Before the exhibition, the online gallery “Future Art Tokyo Collection (FAT Collection)” has been opened to the public. You can also see some of Yassan’s artworks here. Yassan will produce original videos of my GPS art Circle Walk series for this exhibition and sell NFT in Japanese Yen. This is probably the first time in the world that GPS art will be exhibited at an international art fair, and NFTs can be purchased in real currency, not cryptocurrency.This is a rare opportunity to see art from young artists to masters in one place. We hope you will come and enjoy the exhibition. When I started GPS Art in 2008, there was no system to sell GPS tracks on the art market. At that time, it was difficult to develop the field, but...
HP RENEWAL!
Have recently renewed my website. With the paradigm shift caused by the global corona disaster since the beginning of 2020, the environment surrounding GPS art has changed in the past two years.First of all, the number of GPS art enthusiasts has increased, especially among citizen runners.I myself was mainly creating large scale works, but due to behavioral restrictions, I have been creating more small and medium scale works. Also, the culture of sharing course plans has taken root. As this culture has taken root, I have been supervising and writing more about related events.On the other hand, information technology has also evolved due to behavioral restrictions. Digital art, which had been difficult to value, is rapidly penetrating the art industry, where exhibitions of physical art have become difficult. The main purpose of my activities has changed drastically, and I have encountered some problems that cannot be communicated on the conventional website. I would like...