#46 — 35.23N 139.30E [FAC 3097] E5150xx – Digital/Analog Intermix
#46 — 35.23N 139.30E [FAC 3097] E5150xx – Digital/Analog Intermix
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#46 — 35.23N 139.30E [FAC 3097] E5150xx – Digital/Analog Intermix
In this new work (an extension of his 2004 Turbulence.org commission, Prototype #44, Net Pirate Number Station), Yoshi Sodeoka continues his exploration into telecommunication technologies and espionage.
#46 — 35.23N 139.30E [FAC 3097] E5150xx – Digital/Analog Intermix documents a psychedelic virtual video trip to the Fukaya Communication Site (Naval Transmitter Station Totsuka), near Sodeoka’s childhood home in Yokohama, Japan. Classified as a US army jurisdictional area for many decades, entry to the site by non-American citizens was strictly prohibited. Mysterious and and inaccessible to its Japanese neighbors, the site garnered a reputation as a center of criminal espionage activities involving Russia and North Korea. A group of local women went missing near the Site in quick succession. Adults warned children not to approach the area.
Today, the perfectly circular 773,747m² zone comprising Fukaya endures as an enigmatic symbol of the cold war era. The US agreed to return the site to the Japanese government in 2004, though a specific transfer date has yet to be determined. And while many of the old antenna facilities have been dismantled for safety reasons, Fukaya–with its large and rusty broadcasting towers still standing like ghostly ruins–remains, by and large, unchanged.
