【Ended】Lighting production developed in the workshop
October 24, 2025 – December 25, 2025
This exhibition is a spatial art installation incorporating citizen-participatory workshops. Participants created artworks using a technique called “scratch drawing,” based on the theme “A town I’d like to live in.” In addition to 80 pieces produced during the scratch workshop held at the Nishi Ward Art Festival (Kurosaki Civic Center) in 2024, the exhibition features works from the “Uchino Art Project” held in Uchino Town, Nishi Ward, Niigata City in 2025. These pieces have been reconfigured into collective light objects and pendant lighting installations.
For this exhibition, we have adopted light control technology previously used in our May exhibition, “Material “Light” — Works from the Hashimoto Laboratory”, to enable the artworks to be illuminated sequentially. This setup enables viewers to enjoy dynamic interactions between light and artwork, which reveal how the artworks transform over time. As part of our ongoing exploration of the fusion between engineering and artistic expression, we have pursued the potential of time-based visual transformations using light. Together with seminar students, we have designed and developed interactive systems that consider the relationship between the viewer and the artwork. These technologies and ideas also contribute to enriching and enlivening urban spaces.
This exhibition presents a restructured selection of these efforts. During the exhibition period, we will also introduce workshop practices alongside gallery talks.
HASHIMOTO Manabu
Professor, Niigata University, Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences. Affiliated with the faculty of Engineering and the faculty of Education.
Research focuses on the integration of functionality and aesthetics, art and design engineering, and commercial design.
Engaged in community-based art projects, including creative workshops for local children and spatial artworks using engineering technologies that change over time. Major exhibitions include Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennale, Water and Land Niigata Art Festival, Kitakata Yume Art Project, and Art Crossing Niigata. Design work includes school emblems, corporate logos, and sake packaging. These design concepts are actively incorporated into both classroom and extracurricular activities.
Overview
Period
October 24, 2025 – December 25, 2025
Venue
Niigata University Asahimachi Museum
(2-746 Asahimachi-dori, Chuou-ku, Niigata 951-8122)
Opening Hours
10:00 am – 12:00 pm, 1:00 – 4:30 pm
* Closed at 12:00 – 1:00 pm
Closed
Sundays and Mondays
Credit
Organized by : Niigata University Asahimachi Museum
Related Events
Gallery talk by the artists
The artists of the exhibited works will give commentary on their works.
Date and Time
October 25, November 8, November 22, December 6, and December 20, 2025, each day 1:30 – 2:30 pm
Venue
Niigata University Asahimachi Museum
(2-746 Asahimachi-dori, Chuo-ku, Niigata 951-8122)
Speakers
HASHIMOTO Manabu (Professor, Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences, Niigata University) and others
How to Participate
No registration required. Please come directly to the venue.
Participation Fee
Free