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Today it's hard to talk about the contemporary art of the world without the artists and movements of the Chinese mainland. While the Western and Japanese art journals keep watching the large cities around the capital...
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Today it's hard to talk about the contemporary art of the world without the artists and movements of the Chinese mainland. While the Western and Japanese art journals keep watching the large cities around the capital...
PEOPLE
Ken Ishii is one of the pioneer of Japanese techno. His activities are not limited to the 'techno' field. His long-awaited new album 'Flatspin' includes the soundtrack for the movie 'White Out' (directed by Setsurou W...
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Maywa Denki landed at Galerie Du Jour Agnes b. from Japan. They've produced and released their original and unique 'products' (artworks), and have been working actively doing performances with those products, holding ...
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This is not a fiction. Broadband is in our hands without doing or thinking anything. In the same way, broadband will soon be here without thinking anything. When you were aware of it, there would be already all sorts ...
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'Furniture Design Agra' is organized by Nanae Hara, a furniture designer. She has participated in 'Happening', one of the largest interior events in Japan. Some of you reading this might know of her since she's been f...
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In Europe, 'squatting' is very popular. Artists settle in deserted buildings and use the place as a studio or built galleries inside the buildings... In Japan, especially in Tokyo, those movements have no reality for ...
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The retrospective exhibition of Vaslav Nijinsky is currently being held at Musee d'Orsay. Nijinsky is a Russian dancer who played an active part in the beginning of the last century. It's not too much to say tha...
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I had a chance to visit the exhibition titled 'Bit Generation 2000 TV GAMES' held at the Contemporary Art Gallery, Art Tower Mito over the Century from October 28th, 2000 to January 28th, 2001. This exhibition focu...
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In the evening on December 18th, I was on the subway in Tokyo. There was a strange woman wearing the green pleated one-piece dress of Issey Miyake and making herself up to look younger. But when she turned to me, I fo...
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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 ...
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As the communication via computer has permeated through our everyday lives, designs with interactivity become more indispensable. Though it's permeated deeply as an essential thing, there is one question whether a new...
PEOPLE
The 'Buro 30: Electronicaccident Experimental Express 2000' event was held for three days from November 3rd to 5th at CAY (basement of Spiral Hall) in Aoyama. Buro is the event which has showcased 'new forms of electr...
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The world's first exposition of personal human partner robots was held in Yokohama, Japan over the course of 3 days from November 24th to 26th. The exposition entitled Robodex 2000 aimed to encourage and develop the p...
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The digital film festival Resfest that finally made its debut in Japan last year, has just come back to the Laforet Museum, Harajuku. In its fifth year as a festival that showcases the works of the world's top digital...
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"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...
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On October 20th, the shop 'Psygoyama' was opened as a shop managed directly by the fashion brand 'Bajera' in Daikanyama where stylish cafes are clustered. This shop proposes a sophisticated and new 'Japanese' style, ...
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On October 7th and 8th, the event entitled 'Sports to Kibarashi' (Sports and Distractions) was held at an alternative space Room in Gentilly in the suburbs of Paris. In this small and pure white space originally used ...