Marcin Wichrowski
Maki Nagumo
May
10–14
Year
2021
Working time: 5 days, 6 hours a day
20 participants
Japanese Cut-out Shadow Play and AR Animation
About the workshop
During the workshop, participants will prepare kirigami cut-outs and use them to stage short shadow plays. Kirigami are traditional Japanese paper cut-outs, usually designed to decorate houses and apartments during the Ōshgatsu - New Year's Day celebration. These paper compositions are traditionally dedicated to various kami deities. Still, many contemporary artists produce kirigami regardless of religion and use them in multiple media, including animation. During the workshop, kirigami cut-outs will be used as characters and backgrounds for staging short silhouette shadow plays and, if possible, cut-out animation shorts.
Goal
Producing short silhouette shadow plays and, if possible, cut-out animation shorts using the kirigami paper objects.
Workshop description
Tools & materials
Cutter knife ・ Cutter mat ・ Black paper ・ Thick paper ・ Color cellophane (if any) ・ Light (smartphone, etc.)
Maki Nagumo
Born in Niigata Prefecture, graduated from the Department of Art Education, Art and Culture of the Tokyo University of Artistic Education (Tokyo Gakugei University), worked as an art lecturer and independent artist in Tokyo. Since 2016 worked as an assistant professor at the Faculty of Humanities of Kanazawa Gakuin University (Kanazawa), since 2021 works as an Associate professor at the Faculty of Humanities of Rikkyo University (Tokyo) where she is involved in the study of artistic education systems in the intercultural perspective. Her paintings were exhibited, among others, at the Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, the National Art Center, and the Ishikawa Prefectural Museum of Art. Maki Nagumo has won several artistic awards and is currently a member of the Japanese Association of Women Artists.
Marcin Wichrowski
Lecturer at the Chair of Multimedia, Polish--Japanese Academy of Information Technology in Warsaw, graduate of the Faculty of Information Technology at the same university. Specializes in Human-Computer Interaction, Mixed Reality and Interactive Digital Storytelling. Author of scientific articles on the use of multimedia for education, arts, medicine and people with disabilities. He co-creates artistic projects/installations in cooperation with artists using modern multimedia technologies. Adobe Certified Expert (ACE).