MILIA 2001

2001.3.8　 Text: Tomohiro Okada

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 ...

FLASHFORWARD 2001

2001.3.8　 Text: Jimmy Chen

Following three events in 2000, the Flashforward 2001 conference was held on February 19th to 21st in San Francisco. Flashforward 2001 is the world's premier Flash event and expected to draw more than 3,000 Web animat...

CINETRIP

2001.2.25　 Text: Judy Finn

You can mix light and sound, air and water, past and future at one extraordinary dance-music event each month in Eastern Europe. During the Cinetrip evenings in Budapest, revellers bathe in hot water steaming up from ...

DIALOGUE IN THE DARK

2001.2.25　 Text: Andrew Sinn

What does the world feel like, when you're blind? I found out at the exhibition "Dialogue In The Dark". It's concept is very easy: build some rooms with an usual environment and delete all the light in it, so that...

AMSTERDAM “EUROPE’S EMERGING CREATIVE CAPITAL”

2001.2.25　 Text: Scott Goodson

Something odd and rather interesting has happened to Amsterdam. Not long ago, when advertising, fashion and other media people thought about the Dutch capital, it talked almost exclusively about wonderful Dutch ta...

NIJINSKY (1889-1950)

2001.2.25　 Text: Aki Ikemura

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...

JODY ELFF “RE.SOUND”

2001.2.25　 Text: Rei Inamoto

Sound as an artistic medium, in a way, is an overused one. Since ancient times, sound has been explored as a means of expression in numerous forms of what we call music. In today's modern world, various kinds of music...

WINSTON SMITH “NO TURNING BACK!”

2001.2.25　 Text: Kanya Niijima

A father in an executive suit sitting by a dining table, children with the appearance of wholesome honor students, and a smiling, well dressed mother bringing a dish from the kitchen to her folks. An intact iconograph...

BIT GENERATION 2000 “TV GAMES”

2001.2.7　 Text: Chibashi

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...

SUSUMU HIRASAWA INTERACTIVE LIVE SHOW 2000

2001.1.25　 Text: Jiro Ohashi

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...

BERLIN IN HONG KONG: FESTIVAL ON VISION

2001.1.25　 Text: Calvin Ho

Hong Kong saw the whole month of many different artists perform live and exhibit work in the Tamar site in Admiralty from Berlin. The entrance was constructed of an awe inspiring makeshift bamboo installation created ...

ISEA 2000

2001.1.25　 Text: Jerome Lacote

This month, the 10th ISEA (International Symposium of Electronic Arts) took place in Paris. In precise, there were conferences, round tables, seminars, presentations of work, concerts, vidéos, interactive insta...