Japanese tend to hesitate to get involved in overseas media arts and designs scenes. They think these scenes can only occur through submitting works or for business. Japan has and remains a distant country for artist...

TIME! TIME! TIME! EXPLORATION OF TIME!

2003.4.20　 Text: Chiaki Sakaguchi

National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation is a "future place" where people can experience the forefront of scientific technology. This museum is located in Odaiba, Tokyo, one of Tokyo's more popular places, ...

OPEN MIND

2003.2.14　 Text: Jo Kazuhiro

The Mori Art Museum will open in the center of Tokyo in October 2003. As a commemorative release of the CD "Open Mind" (the museum pre open plan) the "Open Mind Live Event" was performed at Roppongi Hills Information...

THE 6TH JAPAN MEDIA ARTS FESTIVAL

2003.2.14　 Text: Tomohiro Okada

Prize winning works of Media Arts Festival for Cultural Affairs were announced on the 19th of November. This festival had many Japanese top media arts in 2002. It hits its 6th round and has been building as one of t...

SOUND REPUBLIC 4

2003.2.9　 Text: Yasuharu Motomiya

The fourth round of Sound Republic was held at THINK ZONE in Roppongi, Tokyo on the 1st of March under the theme "collaboration with the electro media and creators from various genres." There was a downpour on the ev...

PAINTURA PITCH PROJECT 12 SCRAWLED SOCCER-BALLS EXHIBITION

2003.1.31　 Text: Satoshi Ota

Wow, this is great." These words unconsciously came out of my mouth. Why? This is because many soccer balls were spinning on the ceiling and I did not understand what was going on in this exhibition at first....

RYAN MCGINNESS “THIS DREAM IS SO LIFE-LIKE”

2003.1.12　 Text: Taka Kawachi

From "Gasbook" to "Gas". You might have already seen that this new label has already released many titles from talented creators through "Gas Book" and "Gas DVD". "Gas Shop" opened in Nakamegoro, Tokyo with Gas. ...

RESFEST 2002

2002.12.25　 Text: Chiaki Sakaguchi

"Resfest", one of the world's largest digital film festival toured two cities in Japan at Laforet Museum Harajuku, Tokyo and Namba Hatch, Osaka, from November 21 to December 1. The development of digital technology h...

MACROMEDIA DEVCON 2002

2002.12.24　 Text: Keita Matsubara

Was "Macromedia DevCon" a bigger success this year? I am not sure about this because I do not participate in this sort of conferences often. However, I can admit that some of the sessions this time were really sensat...

TOKYO DESIGNERS BLOCK 2002

2002.11.25　 Text: Sachiko Kurashina

"Design has no boundaries!" The five days of Tokyo Designers Block was a time when people directly felt this theme. The warm weather in Tokyo reminded me of an early summer and it seemed to celebrate this massive des...

SOUND REPUBLIC 3

2002.11.25　 Text: My Name is Geust List

A comprehensive event of sounds and motions "Sound Republic vol.3" was held at "WOMB" in Shibuya, Tokyo on the 13th of October. "FC/Kahuna", who has just got the number 1 at UK Club Chart, and "SheOne", who is highly...

SONARSOUND TOKYO 2002

2002.11.25　 Text: Jo Kazuhiro

On October 12 to 13th, "Sonarsound Tokyo 2002" was held at "Roppongi Hills Information Center/Think Zone". This event had two sides. The first, as a satellite program of international advanced music/multimedia art fes...