Nothing but the feeling of "I must tell it." There are posters that reveal strong images of the campaign to stop AIDS and which represent the discrimination through photos that put handcuffs on White and Black. Yo...

THE 11TH JAPAN MEDIA ARTS FESTIVAL

2008.3.17　 Text: Yasuharu Motomiya

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...

KIMIHIKO OKADA “ANOTHER GEOGRAPHY”

2008.3.10　 Text: Masaaki Takahashi

Kimihiko Okada has won many prizes, especially in design competitions. His long-awaited residence will be completed this year. This exhibit could be a pre-cursor for that. You can see a sense of floating or transparen...

AGNES HOTEL ART FAIR 2008

2008.2.14　 Text: Yoshihiro Kanematsu

A hotel room turns into a permanent gallery space! The Chelsea hotel in New York is known for the art fairs it hosts, and Agnes Hotel Art Fair 2008 is leading the scene in Tokyo. At Agnes Hotel and Apartments T...

THE 13TH STUDENT COMPUTER GRAPHICS CONTEST EXHIBITION OF AWARD WINNING WORKS

2008.1.21　 Text: Kyoko Tachibana

The winning works of still images, animations, interactive art installations and games were selected for the 13th Student Computer Graphics Contest, showcasing high level of creative CG works from in and out of Japan....

MEDIA OPERA <H />OUR<BR />LINK

2008.1.7　 Text: Yasuharu Motomiya

From 1st to 30th of November 2007, "DOTMOV FESTIVAL" was held in 4 cities in Japan. In Tokyo, a book cafe space in Nakameguro Combine had presented screening during the festival month. Also as a collaborated event, ...

APMT 3

2007.12.28　 Text: Yoshihiro Kanematsu

APMT (apartment) is an art & design conference hosted by creative portal website CBCNET. Every time they feature people who are active in the front lines of their fields, and they give us pleasant unique sessions...

HIGH5

2007.12.18　 Text: Wakana Kawahito

There was the HIGH5, a design conference organised by Hitspaper, a design web magazine, at the AXIS gallery in Tokyo on the 1st of December. This lecture hold to cheer Japanese design up like doing HIGH5.Thre...

DESIGN FESTA VOL. 26

2007.12.10　 Text: Yuki Furusho

The venue was absolutely huge. If you go there with your friends and get separated form them, that's it. It's quite unlikely to see them ever again. I got lost for a few times actually.. The first booth I looked in...

DESIGNTIDE 2007

2007.11.21　 Text: Vicente Gutierrez

Now that Tokyo Designer's Week has successfully wrapped up, with the legions of designers catching flights out of Narita its time for a little rest and to sum up for those that couldn't make it.　DesignTide is in its ...

UNDERGROUND: ADVENTURE IN THE DARKNESS CREATED BY IMAGINATION AND SCIENCE

2007.10.22　 Text: Yasuharu Motomiya

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 ...

UFP EXHIBITION 2007

2007.10.11　 Text: Fumika Kawase

This exhibition, the 5th in the series, started in 2003 by ufp members who had lived in the 5 continents; America, Asia, Europe, Oceania and Africa. As its name indicates, this is a global photo exhibition named after...