The biggest video festival in the world Resfest had come to Japan again. Resfest go all over the world on the tour. This is the 7th time this year for this event in Japan. Compare to the first time in 1999, digital fi...

TOKION CREATIVITY NOW TOKYO

2005.11.4　 Text: Yoshihiro Kanematsu

I found it was already a chilly day when "Tokion Creativity Now Tokyo" took place at Laforet Museum Harajuku on October 23rd. Last year, there were many interesting hosts and panelists, including, Yuuya Uchida, Hirosh...

SAL VANILLA “+813”

2005.10.2　 Text: Yurie Hatano

The performing art unit Sal Vanilla provides very unique spatial art. They recently held a live performance event "+813" and a sound media event ".JP" at BankART Studio NYK, in a former postal administration building ...

TOKYO NIGHT CURUSING

2005.9.2　 Text: CAVAI

At Gallery Speak For in Daikanyama, there was an exhibition "Tokyo Night Curusing!" The word "curusing" is a combined word from curation and cruising. The exhibition was curated by Yen. He is a graffiti artist and a t...

TOY SAVES CHILDREN: REBIRTHED MUMMY THE RABBIT

2005.8.2　 Text: Yasuharu Motomiya

The exhibition for the charity project "Toy Saves Children: Rebirthed Mummy the Rabbit" took place at Lapnet Club in Harajuku and at COMME CA COMMUNE in Shibuya. For this project, a total of 28 artists were united fro...

THE ALBUM RELEASE PARTY

2005.7.2　 Text: Yasuharu Motomiya

The art book "THE ALBUM" has been released by BEAMS T. In it a relationship between vision and music is consciously enclosed. Neither is a main as "THE ALBUM" approaches the realm of art on both sides of vision and mu...

APMT

2005.6.2　 Text: Yasuharu Motomiya

Design portal site, CBCNET which provides information about art and design, invited active artists and designers from all kinds of fields to hold a creative event called, "APMT" (apartment). The event was filled with ...

SOUNDZ FROM GERMANY 2005

2005.6.2　 Text: Yasuharu Motomiya

Nowadays, Deutschland in Japan 2005/2006 is held throughout various parts of Japan. A part of the program, performed in Tokyo and Osaka, is an event called Soundz From Germany 2005, which focuses on German pop-electro...

VANILLA SPORTS VOL. 01

2005.6.2　 Text: Yasuharu Motomiya

A performance unit called Sal Vanilla, whose theme is to show a contemporary communication reality by performing a spatial presentation combining a sound, visual, body, and technology together, presented an art collab...

SUPER CREATORS’ ARENA 2

2005.5.4　 Text: Yuki Ishida

On the first day, which coincidentally also happened to be the over 30 degrees day in Tokyo, over 50 groups of creators called "SCA-2 (Super Creators' Arena 2)" created an open air art market. The venue was Roppongi H...

OPEN NATURE EXHIBITION

2005.5.2　 Text: Yasuharu Motomiya

The exhibition at NTT InterCommunication Center [ICC], "Open Nature" has been taking place. ICC has made many plans, which are based on various themes and illuminate relationships between art and technology with vario...

MASATAKA KURASHINA “DODO: ANIMALS WE COULD HAVE COME UPON”

2005.4.4　 Text: Yuki Ishida

There might be many surprised people when they find out that Masataka Kurashina, a custom painter, who collaborates with heterogeneous creators such as musicians and modern artists, has made a picture book. We cannot ...