1980–1990

Takuya Hoda, a student who worked alongside Katsui, describes Katsui’s design philosophy as an ever-changing phenomenon, aiming to capture single moments of ecstasy within constantly changing progressions. It is known that Katsui never discovered technology, but technology discovered him. Hoda describes how Katsui was playing with layering RGB colors to create visuals long before the computer was invented. Hoda describes Katsui’s techniques to be systematic and programmatic, much like the computer.