How do we confront a work of art before it is reduced to existing language or narratives? In this talk, we welcome interface researcher Masanori Mizuno to explore the "cognition of images and narratives"—a dynamic that unfolds across the realms of production, criticism, and appreciation.

In Kano Nakamura’s Before the Tornado, a narrative of her experience in Hong Kong—unexpectedly passing through her mind during the creative process—is integrated as the final, defining touch that materializes the image. For Nakamura, whose conventional painting practice has excluded narrative elements, this represents a novel departure. Distinct from the practice of painting from a pre-established story, her approach preserves a generative "margin" within the image format, multiplying the layers of our cognition as if resisting any easy reduction of the work. At the same time, however, our perception is inevitably drawn into the gravitational pull of the emerging narrative.

Mizuno, on the other hand, eschews the practice of discussing an artwork through predetermined language. Instead, his critical practice centers on interacting with the work first, subsequently seeking out words that intimately correspond to that immediate cognitive experience. Confronted with the artwork, how does our gaze respond within the "time of perception" that resides in the interstices between image and verbalization? We invite you to join us as we aim to uncover the hidden capacity of images and deepen this inquiry.

Talk

日時：2026年7月25日（土） 16:00〜17:30

会場：SUCHSIZE

料金：入場無料

※先着15名様は椅子席あり（予約不要）

𝗔𝗳𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗣𝗮𝗿𝘁𝘆 アフターパーティー

日時：同日 18:00〜21:00

料金：2000円(フード・ドリンク込み)

ケータリング：柏本奈津 ​

主催：SUCHSIZE　助成：大阪市

Talk

Date: 25 July, 2026

Time: ​ 4:00–5:30 PM

Admission: Free

*Seating available for the first 15 guests (no reservation required)

𝗔𝗳𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗣𝗮𝗿𝘁𝘆

Date: 25 July, 2026

Time: ​ 6:00–8:00 PM

Fee: Price: ¥2,000 (Includes food & drinks)

Catering: Natsu Kashimoto

＊First 15 attendees

Organized by: SUCHSIZE Supported by: City of Osaka

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水野 勝仁

Masanori Mizuno Born in 1977. Media art / interface researcher. Professor in the Department of Creative Media Studies, Faculty of Letters, Konan Women's University. Key texts include "Peering Through the Surface 👓👀🤳," which discusses art from the standpoint of materiality; "The Overlapping of Things and Displays" (MASSAGE MAGAZINE), which focuses intensively on works that treat the display as an object; and "Reading the Interface" (ÉKRITS), which looks back over the history of the interface while exploring human cognition and action as mediated by the computer.

1977年生まれ。メディアアート／インターフェイス研究者。甲南女子大学文学部メディア表現学科教授。主なテキストに物性からアートを論じた「サーフェイスから透かし見る👓👀🤳」、ディスプレイをモノのように扱った作品を集中的に論じた「モノとディスプレイとの重なり」（MASSAGE MAGAZINE ）、インターフェイスの歴史に振り返りつつ、コンピュータを介したヒトの認知と行為を探っていく「インターフェイスを読む 」（ÉKRITS）など。