Skylab label is composed of Keiji Itoh (illustrator), Daisuke Kitagawa (printing director), Ichiro Higashiizumi (graphic designer), Hiro Sugiyama (illustrator) and Hidemichi Yoshida (editor). It gets members who have ...

RESFEST TOKYO 2000

2000.12.4　

The digital film festival 'Resfest' that finally made its debut in Japan last year, has just come back to the Harajuku Laforet Museum. In its fifth year as a festival that showcases the works of the world's top digita...

HAPPY TECHNOLOGY LAB

2000.12.4　

"People who continue explorations on the scene where attractive media technologies are created always have interesting ideas, and the technological demonstration itself created from the scene is becoming attractive to...

ARCHITETTURA

2000.10.25　

The film + concert was held at NTT Inter Communication Center (ICC) in Shinjyuku on September 23 and it was really interesting. This event entitled 'Architettura - Contemporary Architecture and Electronic Music' w...

SUPER FLAT EXHIBITION

2000.4.19　

"Japan might be the future of the world. And the Japan of today is SUPER FLAT." The quote above is from the 'Super Flat declaration' by Takashi Murakami. The exhibition with the same name curated by Takashi Murakami...

FURI FURI THANGKA

1999.12.24　

As you know reading the interview in last month's issue, Furi Furi Company did an exhibition from November 2nd to 14th at Harajuku Gallery. They have mainly been participating in overseas exhibition until now. This...

SRL IN TOKYO

1999.12.3　

In the streets of Tokyo hang huge posters where mechanical-looking robots are jostling in raging flames. Rumors of what lie behind these posters reach my ears here and there at the bar counter. It's a robot performa...

HAPPENING 1999/2000

1999.11.24　

In its second year "Happening" was held from October 8th (Fr.) to 17th (Sun). This exhibition showcases the works of 30 designers of interior and furniture from England/Germany/Holland/Italy/France/Japan and...

AIRBOARD BY KAZUHIKO HACHIYA

1999.10.24　

An experiment to make the skateboard just like the one in the movie 'Back to the Future 2'. For two days on September 4th and 5th, an experiment to work the AirBoard by Kazuhiko Hachiya was carried out at Gallery ...

WONDER FESTIVAL 1999

1999.3.30　

For some past few years, the market for animation/figure, regarded as Otaku-culture is expanding to anti-Otaku people. This maybe created by Takashi Murakami who goes ahead with the fusion of Otaku and Art, 'Ghost in ...

FUSE

1999.3.22　

The VJ event 'FUSE' will be held on the largest scale in Japan on 20 of March at Liquid Room in Shinjuku. It'll be the second time as 'FUSE'. The last event was held at Club ASIA on last November and a long line mor...

MEGO AT ICC

1999.2.26　

Based in Vienna, Austria, Mego is a techno label whose music draws a sharp distinction between so-called "techno music". Including artists such as Tina Frank and Farmers Manual, 6 units of Mego artists gathered in NTT...

I’LL WRITE LOOSELY THIS MONTH

1999.2.22　

As I wrote in my Best 5 last month, I'm watching animations almost every day. Recently I came to watch GASARAKI(Ryousuke Takahashi), but it starts from nine thirty in the morning. My girlfriend watched it and wonder...

ERO POP CHIRISMAS

1998.12.22　

Takashi Murakami has been the center of the attention in the Japanese modern art scene ever since he made up his original character DOB-Kun a few years ago. 　He runs an art factory Hiropon Factory that is firmly s...

TAKEHIKO SANADA EXHIBITION

1998.7.21　

A solo exhibition by Takehiko Sanada is taking place on the basement floor at Tokyo Internatinal Forum. Weaving the animal hair of sheep, horse and goat, he creates hand-made coats of the felt which is meticulously ma...

YOKOHAMA FILM FESTIVAL