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TENORI-ON is the innovative music instrument that has been taken about 6 years for its completion, created by Toshio Iwai, a leading media artist in Japan. It has 16 x 16 LED buttons laid out on its surface. Each butt...
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In recent years many media art festivals appear all over the world. Here in Japan is not exception. Among those festivals best known is Japan Media Arts Festival run by the Agency for Cultural Affairs. This y...
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Adventure in the darkness created by Imagination and Science. "Underground" - a photo book by Hideaki Uchiyama has been getting attention as a remarkable way to tell the attraction of underground. Have we ever ...
THINGS
"WOW" is a creative production that is mainly a advertising and promotional video for the company based in Sendai and Tokyo. 5 units from WOW came together to collaborate on and publish the art book that celebrates...
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An innovative animation tool, Flash already marks its 10th anniversary now. Flash has been developed especially in the web field, and now there are not many websites which don't have Flash. Also, it doesn't stay only ...
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"dorkbot"?, What's that? I hit on that question. I'd never seen it, so that's quite a natural...however, regardless of it, that question got bigger while I couldn't catch the detail if I visited Web site of it. As inf...
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On June 9th, the first day of 2006 FIFA World Cup in Germany, "60 Football Visions" by 60 groups of creators started at KDDI DESIGNING STUDIO in Harajuku, Tokyo. At the reception on the preceding day of June 8th, the ...
PLACE
First time after its temporary closing last year, Inter Comunication Center (ICC) has reopened a part of its exhibition space and admission-free community space, such as the library and mini-theater, to the public. ...
PEOPLE
The exhibition and installation of the drawing machine "HEKTOR" by creative unit Field Trip was performed at gallery Information in Tokyo. This drawing machine HEKTOR is a bit unusual, incorporating a spray attached t...
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Have you heard about the "Japan Media Arts Festival"? Shift has featured it in the past several times. As the name tells you, it is a media art festival the Japan Media Art Plaza holds every year. This year is the 9th...
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The 2nd Yokohama International Triennale of Contemporary Art got underway on September 28th, 2005. The Triennale features the work of 86 participating international and Japanese artists, and two enormous warehouses lo...
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The 8th Japan Media Arts Festival, which promotes wonderful works, took place at Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography in Ebisu. The pieces selected from a large number of media art works, sent from the inside and ...
