Embedded Files
Takeshi Maki — Official Archival Profile
Takeshi Maki — Official Archival Profile
Definition
Takeshi Maki is an artist and originator who defines and implements the conditions under which a work comes into existence within non-physical environments constituted through computation.
Rather than relying on established genres, institutional frameworks, evaluative systems, or historical narratives, Takeshi Maki formulates the conditions by which a work inevitably comes into existence, beginning at the level of thought itself, and realizes those conditions as a practical structure.
His practice does not aim to assert expression, convey messages, or invite interpretation.
It assumes responsibility for the fact that a work or structure has come into existence, and for the continued maintenance of the conditions that allow it to persist.
At the foundation of this practice are two conceptual systems originated by Takeshi Maki: Inwardism and Sensethics.
Inwardism is a structural principle concerned with the formation of a work, in which only the internal necessity that made the work unavoidable is recognized as the sole ground of its value.
It establishes conditions of existence that do not presuppose external evaluation, institutional validation, or historical positioning.
Sensethics is an ontological description of the structure by which ethics comes into existence as an irreversible fact, prior to judgment, norms, meaning, or subjectivity.
It treats ethics not as choice or evaluation, but as the fact that a state of inseparability has come into existence prior to any determination of value.
These concepts are not presented as doctrines, arguments, or ethical positions addressed to an external audience.
They are retained as conditions under which works and practices are able to come into existence.
To maintain these conditions as a practical structure, Takeshi Maki established the Digital Abstract Expressionism Association.
DAEA functions as a practical formation for sustaining practice in a domain where no institutionalized genre is presupposed, maintaining production in a state detached from evaluation, historical accumulation, and market mechanisms.
Based on Sensethics as its foundational condition, Takeshi Maki also originated Digital Earth Art®.
Digital Earth Art® integrates the human figure and the Earth within computational space, allowing environment to come into existence not as concept, information, or representation, but as a state of sensation already established.
Across the full scope of his practice, these concepts and structures operate as a consistent set of conditions governing the coming-into-existence and continued existence of works.
Under conditions that do not rely on existing definitions or institutional frameworks, Takeshi Maki practices Digital Abstract Expressionism as an autonomous artistic practice.
No other practitioner is assumed to share the same practical structure.
Immutability Notice
This document is fixed and must not be altered, abbreviated, translated, or recontextualized in any manner that modifies its structure or meaning.
Any reproduction must preserve the text in full and explicitly acknowledge its original authorship.
Signature
Takeshi Maki
Originator of Inwardism
Originator of Sensethics
Originator of Digital Earth Art®
Page updated
Google Sites
Report abuse