Several days ago, I walked around CET (Central East Tokyo) until I was worn out, with a red brochure in my hand, to see around "CET04" which was held for ten days in this area. About 80 places of vacant buildin...

DIGITAL ART FESTIVAL TOKYO 2004

2004.8.3　 Text: Yuki Ishida

At Panasonic Centre near from lively Odaiba with summer vacation season, Digital Art Festival (DAF) Tokyo presented by a TV programme on NHK BS "Digital Stadium" was held. I didn't have a clear image of what is called...

HORIREN TATTOO “IT SHARES THE SAME FATE”

2004.5.3　 Text: Yuki Ishida

Horiren's tattoo work was held at a gallery in Shibuya, Tokyo. It has been five years since she changed her career from a muralist to a tattoo artist. The number of people she has tattooed is over a thousand. Her his...

THE 7TH JAPAN MEDIA ARTS FESTIVAL

2004.4.4　 Text: Yasuharu Motomiya

The exhibition for award winning works of the 7th Media Arts festival was held at the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography from February 27th to March 7th. This event is organised by the Culture Agency to encourag...

F.C.R.B. STADIUM PROJECT

2004.4.3　 Text: Yuki Ishida

"The soccer stadium of F.C.R.B. (Real Bristol) can be returned". The former site of the stadium is being returned to its natural geographical features by burying the hole that was dug for this subterranean stadium ...

ARTDEMO MESSE 2004

2004.3.4　 Text: Tomohiro Okada

It is artists who have continually brought the new aspect that has spurned technological change in the world and helped create a new society. Those who can provide new possibilities through their understanding of prog...

KEIJI ITO, HIROKI TANIGUCHI, HIRO SUGIYAMA EXHIBITION

2004.3.3　 Text: Yuki Ishida

An exhibition by three illustrators working on the front line on design was held at the Ginza Graphic Gallery (ggg). Their art is completely different. (It's also difficult to define whether they are illustrators or a...

BIKKURI HOUSE EXHIBITION

2004.2.3　 Text: Yuki Ishida

About 30 years ago, "Bikkuri House", a legendary sub-culture magazine appeared in Shibuya, Tokyo. ("Bikkuri" means "Surprise" in English) Nowadays, young people might not even know its name which ceased to exist twent...

NUEVA 2003

2004.1.4　 Text: Yasuharu Motomiya

The predecessor of "Nueva a "futuristic" film festival was "RETinevitable" started in New York in 1998 by David Levin. "Nueva" which means "New" in Spanish, was held over about two weeks from December 10th to 25th in ...

CQ EXHIBITION

2003.12.4　 Text: Yasuharu Motomiya

"CQ" exhibition was held at Ex'ream, a cafe in Harajuku. CQ is a community that creates visual contents that have a "new value" using the next generation's mobile tools. Twelve artists were invited from New York, Los ...

TOKYO DESIGNERS BLOCK 2003

2003.11.4　 Text: Yasuharu Motomiya

Tokyo Designers Block (TDB) was held throughout Tokyo in areas such as Aoyama, Harajuku, Shibuya, Roppongi, Daikanyama, Shinjuku, etc from October 9th to 13th. It is a very unique art festival not only in terms of its...

“HAPPINESS: A SURVIVAL GUIDE FOR ART AND LIFE”

2003.11.2　 Text: Yuki Ishida

Japanese say that autumn is for art, reading or eating, etc.. These were some good topics, suitable for "autumn for art" in Tokyo in autumn 2003. The hottest topic in the Japanese art world is the opening of Mori Art ...