Seiichi Kobayashi

Seiichi Kobayashi is a Japanese emerging artist, exploring our changing relationship to images under technological development. He has been creating abstract two-dimensional images through coding and presented them with various media. His complex use of mediums and strict process of image making investigate how each medium and technology works in our appreciation of images. As a Japanese artist, his aesthetic ideas are highly influenced by the Rinpa school, which is one of traditional schools of Japanese painting. His works revitalise the style and the idea of the traditional painting school with contemporary technologies.