DesignTide in Tokyo 2006 took place at an empty building and various galleries in Tokyo from November 1 through the 5th. About 100 groups of designers gathered for this event from all over the world. This year’s theme...

BEYES “SNOW WISHES”

2006.12.19　 Text: Yurie Hatano

Snow will fall at BEYES Omotesando Hills. "Snow Wishes". The falling snow will be your messages. Please send messages for your significant other from the web page to the environmental equipment "EDIT WALL", of BEY...

WORM HOLE EPISODE 4

2006.12.5　 Text: Yoshihiro Kanematsu

The magical, ARTROOM in Roppongi is a new gallery opened early in 2006. We already cannot take our eyes off this gallery. Because all exhibitions they offer are enormously attractive with the delicate and superb sou...

DORKBOT TOKYO

2006.10.27　 Text: Yasuharu Motomiya

"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...

DIGITAL ART FESTIVAL TOKYO 2006

2006.10.17　 Text: Yurie Hatano

Digital Art Festival Tokyo 2006 will be held mainly by a Japanese TV program for the new century NHK "Digital Stadium" (Digista) which seeks new talents of digital art. The digital artworks from CG, animation, film wo...

ADAPTER “MEMAI”

2006.10.5　 Text: Yoshihiro Kanematsu

Adapter 2nd exhibition "Memai" was held from August 19th to September 17th at the Nanzuka Uunderground. "Memai" is the exhibition by a graphic artists' group Adapter, which is lead by an Art Director Kenjiro Harigai, ...

GUNDAM GENERATING FUTURES: CONTEMPORARY ART

2006.9.28　 Text: Shinichi Ishikawa

TV animation "Mobile Suit Gundam" (Total 43 episodes) is one of top 3 Japanese animations. This position might be unshakable at least in this century. The work of 27 years ago is still continued making as sequels or r...

METAMORPHOSE 2006

2006.9.28　 Text: Jo Phirip

Metamorphose is the Outdoor Electronic Music Festival, which is the largest one in Japan and in which great musicians from various genres. I've been a fan of this party and was on the staff of installations this ti...

BILL VIOLA “HATSU-YUME”

2006.9.20　 Text: Yurie Hatano

Bill Viola, "The Crossing" (detail), 1996, Video Sound Installation, Photo: Kira Perov A large-scaled retrospective exhibition of Bill Viola will take place in Mori Art Museum from October 14th, 2006 to January 8...

MATZU-MTP EXPO

2006.9.5　 Text: Yoshihiro Kanematsu

From July 28th to August 13th in midsummer, "MATZU-MTP EXPO" was held at a Gallery SPEAK FOR. MATZU, who was born in Hida-Takayama, grew up in Orange county, and now lives in New York, is a valuable Japanese artist st...

TARO OKAMOTO “MYTH OF TOMORROW”

2006.8.5　 Text: Yoshihiro Kanematsu

During the boom of summer vacation in Japan, "Myth of Tomorrow" by Taro Okamoto will be "released" in the Shiodome. Although it was painted in the late 1960s, just about the same time in which he created "Tower of the...

60 FOOTBALL VISIONS

2006.7.28　 Text: Yasuharu Motomiya

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 ...