LE BAL

1998.3.20　 Text: Mathieu Araud

Tonight is the night. Every two weeks people my age meet at L'Elysee Montmartre a concert hall in Pigalle. The place usually closes down around eleven p.m after pop-rock shows are over. But for over a year L'Elysee Mo...

NEST “CIRCULATION MODULE”

1998.2.27　 Text: Rita

Nest has been fascinating audiences by its powerful danceing to the beat of Techno sounds since 1991 when it presented "Never More". After a year from the successful performance "UT" in Slovackia, Nest has just perfor...

TAKESHI KITANO “HANA-BI”

1998.2.20　 Text: Atsuko Kobayashi

HANA-BI (Fireworks), 1997, Takeshi Kitano HANA-BI (Fireworks) directed by Takeshi Kitano won the grand-prix at the last Venezia Film Festival. Prior to the roadshow in Tokyo, Takashi Kitano Gallery was held featu...

MAYA MAXX “COME HERE, LOVE IS HERE”

1998.2.20　 Text: Atsuko Kobayashi

Known as a painter who drew the cover of 'Junior Sweet' by Chara and Honey Moon by Banana Yoshimoto, MAYA MAXX, the originator of the recent boom of cute and punkish illustrations, through this exhibition. "The...

REAL WORLD WEB

1998.2.20　 Text: Atsuko Kobayashi

What is it like if the web space is juxstaposed and expressed corresponding to this real world? Sony Computer Science Laboratory underwent an unique installation project in which the laboratory's own websit...

HAJIME TACHIBANA EXHIBITION

1998.2.20　 Text: Atsuko Kobayashi

Hajime Tachibana's solo exhibition is being held at P-HOUSE, Shibuya. After the period of '75 to '80, worked as a member of the Plastics, a legendary techno band, he started acting as a pioneer in the field of CG ...

THE END OF A CENTURY

1998.2.20　 Text: Nicolas Roope

It has been observed that as the world reaches the end of a century, culture, expecting a new order from the following century, goes beserk. This is no more evident than in the tendency towards opulence and decadence,...

CRITERIUM ’97

1997.12.20　 Text: Atsuko Kobayashi

Criterium '97 has been going on since 2nd August this year at Art Tower Mito. It is an annual collaborating exhibition of artists and curators who always try to spearhead an innovative expression of art. This y...

KATSUHIRO OTOMO “DAISY VISIONS”

1997.12.20　 Text: Atsuko Kobayashi

© Bandai Visual, Beyond C, Steam Boy, Memories Katsuhiro Otomo (whose digital animation is now broadcast on TBS's Image Spot) is currently working hard on his next full-digital animation movie 'STEAM BOY' th...

A BRITISH ACADEMY FOR FILM AND TELEVISION (UK OSCARS)

1997.12.20　 Text: Nicolas Roope

A British Academy for Film and Television (UK Oscars) representative came over to see us today to talk about their intention to include new media titles in next years awards. Commercial new media awards have larg...

MARKET STREET ART IN TRANSIT

1997.12.20　 Text: Mariko Takei

Market street is one of SF's main street, which functions as an intersection of all people who takes a bus and a train, stops at the kiosks to buy a newspaper, gums, etc., and lives on. © Gee + Chung Design A ...

MOTOHIKO ODANI “PHANTOM-LIMB”

1997.11.20　 Text: Atsuko Kobayashi

Motohiko Odani, a 25-year-old new breed in the field of art, is going to hold his first solo exhibition "Phantom-Limb" at P-HOUSE in Ebisu, Tokyo. Though he's just appeared in the scene, he's said to be a promisin...