Toshi Endo’s practice is positioned between digital arts and design. Working with 3D game engine technology, Endo develops his own ‘gamescapes,’ which are constructed environments of moving image, both representational and abstract. Removed from a literal gaming context in which the participant is active in the environment, Endo’s viewer is passively presented with windows into strange, artificial landscapes reminiscent of games, but which cannot be interacted with.

In False Colour, presented on Window Online, Endo has created a digital and abstract environment of vivid and permeating colour. Somewhere between a painting and a computer game, False Colour’s digital ink splotches explode, morph and change; oscillating between what could be a microscopic slide of a bio-chemical process, and a psychedelic panorama of cosmic proportions.

Toshi Endo is a Canadian-born Japanese creative practitioner currently based in Christchurch. Having worked as a level designer in the videogame industry for several years, Endo brings his knowledge of game development to his artistic practice. He graduated with a BA in Design from Otago University and went on to complete a Masters in Creative Media at RMIT in Melbourne. He has lectured at RMIT and Qantm College in Melbourne, and now works as a technician at the University of Canterbury’s School of Fine Arts.