Artist Statement

Mediaselect programme

1973, 3′, colour

Mona Lisa is a video art work produced on the basis of the painting masterpiece with the same title, using SCANIMATE for the first time in Japan. At the time of production I was interested in using a simple, still object out of which to spin a rich moving image.
This work, produced by complex image synthesis on a frame basis for the visual representation of a surrealistic psychedelic world, was presented at the world’s first international video art symposium “Open Circuit” (1974) held in New York Museum of Modern Art, where it enjoyed a sensational reception.

• Toshio Matsumoto [1932 – 2017] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toshio_Matsumoto