Haruaki Tanaka is an architect and media artist. He mentioned in the brainstorming session that art would be a tool for a solution for the new age or self-improvement and pointed out that art might be able to become one of the ways to change daily things. In the year before last, he held a housing exhibition in Hokkaido in an attempt to make standardized building materials for a prefabricated house more creative. Through this project, new building materials with which residents can reflect their own taste was produced.

Haruaki Tanaka

There is another artist who approaches this matter with a broader point of view. Contemporary artist, Noboru Tsubaki is trying to make a solution for some problems in Bangladesh through an art project. He purified polluted water in the well at an agricultural area where there was great suffering from a serious pollution problem. Even if it’s an honest way, this activity could attract attention from the world with art.

Noboru Tsubaki

It is the power of art that makes it possible to challenge the problem and create a solution even by himself in a country which is not the concern of the world. Noboru is now making many huge robots. The first opportunity for him to go to Bangladesh was for an exhibition of the robot. All the framework of the 10 meter high robot was bamboo and it was constructed completely by human power. The Bangladeshi told him “We don’t have any machines but we have unlimited human power”.

The creative power of art is becoming a leading factor of a product or service and as a result, it will become a way to convert IT into a product. This is not only incorporated into a big company, but also artists themselves can show their product or service to the world through new epoch-making products like Video Bulb and the camera which created a new communication style. Is this movement really going to be able to make people happy? Artdemo needs more certain steps to make it a success.

Artdemo Messe 2004
Date: February 15th and 16th, 2004
Place: Kyozon
Address: 5-47-6 Jingumae, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo
Fee: 2,000 yen (artdemo catalogue + 1 drink ticket)
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