Kayoko Nakamura
Kayoko Nakamura is a multimedia artist who works in film, sound and composition. She holds an MA in music (piano and music composition) and MFA in Integrated Media Arts from Hunter College of the City University of New York. As a filmmaker, her films were awarded the Cine Golden Eagle Award and the Telly Award, and screened at numerous film festivals such as the Queens World film Festival, GI Film Festival, the Asian American Film Festival and the Americas of Film Festival in New York. Other films featuring her work as cinematographer have screened at Black Maria Film Festival, Mosaic Film Experience Film Festival and Underexposed Film Festival. She worked on a Virtual Reality film supported by Google VR Jump Start Program. Her VR work won the Rita K. Hillman award for Excellence 2018 at the International Center of Photography.
Social Distancing (Video, 4:59)
Social Distancing
"Social Distancing," is a video of visualization of data from the COVID 19. Music was also composed, converting the same data numbers into sounds. The data in "Social Distancing: Parks Crowds Data" provided by NY Open Data is described as follows: "During the Covid-19 response, staff from NYC Parks Maintenance and Operations (M&O) division educated patrons on social distancing in addition to their regularly assigned tasks... " The staff patrolled the park's basketball field, baseball field, and soccer field, encouraging people to engage in social distancing. I believe that by expressing numerical data in a different way, the information and meaning of the data can be perceived in a different way. Data tells a story. Data tells us information and knowledge both numerically and quantitatively, but if we change our perspective, the data takes on a different look. At the intersection of vision, perception, hearing, and cognition, data will continue to tell us stories we have not yet seen.