At the recent ACM SIGGRAPH 2010 in Los Angeles, Yoichiro Kawaguchi won the Distinguished Artist Award for Lifetime Achievement in Digital Art for his work with computer technology, biological forms, and contemporary artistic practices.
“In my view, high definition computer graphics is especially suited to representing a viscous sphere of density or a “metaball”. With high definition technology, it will be possible to see images which could not be done with standard technology such as the appearance and growth of the increasingly dense space of a curved surface. With high definition imaging it will be possible to pursue interesting ideas in either moving or still images. The ease of moving with unrestricted freedom back and forth between still images and moving images, will allow one’s personal inspiration to be constantly renewed. One will be free to choose to express a feeling of substance by paying attention to the minute details of form and color in a still image or to express variation and change by focusing on the rhythm of movement on the axis of time in moving images.
You can view his website for some amazing imagery, and read the full announcement of his award here.
