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Drawing Conclusions exhibition

My favorite drawing in the Drawing Conclusions exhibition in the SCI-Arc Gallery deals with gray scale colors and series of resembling figures which are collaged on a thinner white paper.  When I first encountered this drawing from the mezzanine catwalk walking towards the class room, the contrast of the use of colors between the left and the right left me a strong impression, where the left part is expressed with various light gray colors which appears to be sensitive.  On the other hand

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Junsuke Sato
Less Automation / More Equality

Machinery haven’t just arrived at our workplace yet.  It is at the moment expanding its skills, showing great productivity and retention rates, and increasingly pushing aside its human counterparts.  Amazon can deliver you a jacket you purchased from Rick Owen website within a few hours and will soon replace an entire USP crew.  Self-driven cars will drive you to the office while you are reading top stories from BBC on its front glass and they will replace all the Uber and Lyft drivers.  While technology, our mental creations, have been evolving at a much faster rate than our physical body, less automation / more equality world will only remind us of being human.  200,000 years of foraging compared with the 10,000 years of agriculture compared with the 100 years of industrialized living compared with the last 15 years of widespread personal computers and cell phones.  My scenario of the future takes place in the world where a balance between the pursuit of knowledge and physical activity is believed to be crucial for maintaining sanity in this life.

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Junsuke Sato