TAKAFUMI IDE , Instructor, MFA, Stony Brook University
takafumi.ide@gmail.com
             

“My conceptual and aesthetic concerns are inspired by specific sites. By spending time in the allotted location, I envision activating the space. I transform my visualization from the space into my installation. The materials often dictate my idea. I incorporate small fragile objects such as branches, gold leaf, hand made paper, lights, tiny shards of metal, and electronic circuitry. The harmony that exists between the small objects offers a sense of solemnity. All of my recent work has been suspended from the ceiling. The hanging structures give a sense of instability, which rightly describes my anxiety of the future. At the same time, the combination of fragility and floating objects is as fleeting as a web between branches, inferring ephemeral life like that of a mayfly. I want my audience to experience the work with such feelings. Sound is essential to my work; I construct spaces with a combination of voice and created auditory effects. A blinking light, synchronized electrically with the harmonized sound, communicates with the viewer while casting a shadow of the structure. Composite modules of repeated sound, small objects, and shadow propagate my message. The viewer is stimulated by the psychological and physiological effect of my work on the senses.“
-- Takafumi Ide

Takafumi Ide is an interdisciplinary media artist specializing in installation with sound and light. He received his B.A. in graphic design from Tama Art University in Tokyo in 1989.  He has worked for more than ten years as a graphic designer and an illustrator in Japan. He received his M.F.A. in studio art from Stony Brook University where he was awarded a Maurice M. Goldberger & Mariam H. Goldberger Fine Arts Scholarship for his final year in 2007. He has exhibited at “Project’07” at the Carriage House in the Islip Art Museum in East Islip, NY, ISE Cultural Foundation Gallery and other in New York City as well as Japan. Recently he was Artist in Residence at Sculpture Space, Utica, NY. He is currently teaching Theory and Practice of Electronic Media: Print at Stony Brook.