Saeko Ehara & Shuta Yasukochi^JP

Saeko Ehara is a Kirakira (sparkling) artist and VJ based in Tokyo. Her works mainly represent Kirakira. In her latest works, she explores combining AI and Generative Art. She keeps learning and exploring the expressions of Kirakira with multiple ways.Her inspiration comes from memories and joys of her childhood.

She was into drawing, collecting Kirakira cards of her favorite Anime, stickers, toys, acrylic jewels, small glassworks and reading illustrated books of flowers. She was so enthusiastic that she always forgot the time passed when she did her favorite things.Through her works, she would love to make the world full of Kirakira.

Shuta Yasukochi is a sound artist based in Tokyo. He primarily creates ambient music by combining processed guitar, modular synthesizers, cassette recorders, music boxes, glockenspiel, contact microphones, and field recordings.

He has released original albums through ARCHIVES (Spain), Rohs! Records (Italy), Vaagner (Germany), and PURRE GOOHN (Japan). Additionally, he has contributed to numerous collaborations, remixes, and compilation albums with artists from around the world. He has also worked on music production for exhibition pieces such as “+A+ 2022” (Japan), “Noor Riyadh 2022” (Saudi Arabia), “Taif Rose Festival 2023” (Saudi Arabia), “Immersive Museum Tokyo 2023” (Japan) and “Vivid Sydney 2024” (Australia).

Saeko Ehara & Shuta Yasukochi - Daily Scape

Daily Scape is a work born from the combination of the series Daily Narratives and Collectible Scape. While Daily Narratives focuses on the theme of “observations and conversations in daily life,” Collectible Scape explores the “documentation and preservation of vanishing landscapes.” By intersecting these two perspectives, the work attempts to visualize the flow of time hidden in everyday life, layers of memory, and the cycle of creation and disappearance.

In Daily Narratives, fragments of daily life are captured on a smartphone, then re-generated using ComfyUI (an AI tool for node-based manipulation of Stable Diffusion), and further transformed into generative animations through TouchDesigner (a node-based visual coding software). The landscapes reshaped by AI are both reflections of my own life and forms that merge into someone else’s memories. This work, which emerged through dialogue with ChatGPT, presents a new kind of conversation between humans and AI, between the individual and others.

Meanwhile, Collectible Scape is a series that digitally reconstructs everyday landscapes and artifacts that are disappearing. Playgrounds, wells, public telephones, incinerators, and roadside flowers—objects often overlooked—are preserved as data and given new life through TouchDesigner. Inspired by the Zen concept of hika-rakuyo (falling petals and leaves), the series depicts how both living and inanimate things inevitably undergo change and disappearance.

Daily Scape is an exploration of “another landscape” that emerges between observation, documentation, and regeneration in a constantly changing everyday life. It embodies the potential of art as a digital recording device that re-generates memory, connecting past, present, and future.