A Time-Lapse Map of Every Nuclear Explosion Since 1945 - by Isao Hashimoto
Ανέβηκε στις 24 Οκτ 2010
Japanese
artist Isao Hashimoto has created a beautiful, undeniably scary
time-lapse map of the 2053 nuclear explosions which have taken place
between 1945 and 1998, beginning with the Manhattan Project's "Trinity"
test near Los Alamos and concluding with Pakistan's nuclear tests in May
of 1998. This leaves out North Korea's two alleged nuclear tests in
this past decade (the legitimacy of both of which is not 100% clear).
Each
nation gets a blip and a flashing dot on the map whenever they detonate
a nuclear weapon, with a running tally kept on the top and bottom bars
of the screen. Hashimoto, who began the project in 2003, says that he
created it with the goal of showing"the fear and folly of nuclear
weapons." It starts really slow — if you want to see real action, skip
ahead to 1962 or so — but the buildup becomes overwhelming.
http://www.ctbto.org/specials/1945-19...
Multimedia artwork
"2053" - This is the number of nuclear explosions conducted in various parts of the globe.*
Profile of the artist: Isao HASHIMOTO
Born in Kumamoto prefecture, Japan in 1959.
Worked
for 17 years in financial industry as a foreign exchange dealer.
Studied at Department of Arts, Policy and Management of Musashino Art
University, Tokyo.
Currently working for Lalique Museum, Hakone, Japan as a curator.
Created artwork series expressing, in the artist's view, "the fear and the folly of nuclear weapons":
"1945-1998" © 2003
"Overkilled"
"The Names of Experiments"
About "1945-1998" ©2003
"This
piece of work is a bird's eye view of the history by scaling down a
month length of time into one second. No letter is used for equal
messaging to all viewers without language barrier. The blinking light,
sound and the numbers on the world map show when, where and how many
experiments each country have conducted. I created this work for the
means of an interface to the people who are yet to know of the extremely
grave, but present problem of the world."
Contact the artist:
Should you have any query regarding this artwork, please contact e-mail address below:
hashi123@amy.hi-ho.ne.jp
* The number excludes both tests by North Korea (October 2006 and May 2009).
artist Isao Hashimoto has created a beautiful, undeniably scary
time-lapse map of the 2053 nuclear explosions which have taken place
between 1945 and 1998, beginning with the Manhattan Project's "Trinity"
test near Los Alamos and concluding with Pakistan's nuclear tests in May
of 1998. This leaves out North Korea's two alleged nuclear tests in
this past decade (the legitimacy of both of which is not 100% clear).
Each
nation gets a blip and a flashing dot on the map whenever they detonate
a nuclear weapon, with a running tally kept on the top and bottom bars
of the screen. Hashimoto, who began the project in 2003, says that he
created it with the goal of showing"the fear and folly of nuclear
weapons." It starts really slow — if you want to see real action, skip
ahead to 1962 or so — but the buildup becomes overwhelming.
http://www.ctbto.org/specials/1945-19...
Multimedia artwork
"2053" - This is the number of nuclear explosions conducted in various parts of the globe.*
Profile of the artist: Isao HASHIMOTO
Born in Kumamoto prefecture, Japan in 1959.
Worked
for 17 years in financial industry as a foreign exchange dealer.
Studied at Department of Arts, Policy and Management of Musashino Art
University, Tokyo.
Currently working for Lalique Museum, Hakone, Japan as a curator.
Created artwork series expressing, in the artist's view, "the fear and the folly of nuclear weapons":
"1945-1998" © 2003
"Overkilled"
"The Names of Experiments"
About "1945-1998" ©2003
"This
piece of work is a bird's eye view of the history by scaling down a
month length of time into one second. No letter is used for equal
messaging to all viewers without language barrier. The blinking light,
sound and the numbers on the world map show when, where and how many
experiments each country have conducted. I created this work for the
means of an interface to the people who are yet to know of the extremely
grave, but present problem of the world."
Contact the artist:
Should you have any query regarding this artwork, please contact e-mail address below:
hashi123@amy.hi-ho.ne.jp
* The number excludes both tests by North Korea (October 2006 and May 2009).
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