Q&A Project was carried out as a part of Tokyo Designers Block at cafes, galleries, bars, selected shops and others such as 'Trico Open' and 'And A' in Tokyo at the middle of October, 2001. This is a mess...

KEIJI ITO VS. NAMAIKI

2001.9.17　 Text: Andrew Thomas

In a brick-walled vault under the Toyoko-line tracks from Nakameguro, restaurant bar 'depot' has recently become one of the more interesting gallery spaces in Tokyo. In the second volume of the 'versus' exhibition ser...

MEX 2001

2001.8.16　 Text: Andrew Thomas

This month saw the launch of the MeX 2001 project, including a live 3-hour webcast from a studio in the Tokyo suburbs, and a group exhibition of interactive and computer graphic artists at Axis Gallery. MeX was establ...

TOONZ CAMP

2001.6.11　 Text: Chibashi

Imai Toonz is a comic artist, who is popular with youth and famous for his works, such as MTV's "Top of Japan" program's opening animation, Suntory "C.C.Lemon" CF work, and the character design of SEGA's arcade game "...

MAYWA DENKI

2001.4.25　 Text: Aki Ikemura

Maywa Denki landed at Galerie Du Jour Agnes b. from Japan. They've produced and released their original and unique 'products' (artworks), and have been working actively doing performances with those products, holding ...

TOMATO “REAL AND IMAGINARY FLOWERS”

2001.4.10　 Text: Andy Thomas

somethings that you stand in front of, somethings that you interact with, and somethings that you're within. without surprises, life would be dull first impressions are usually not accurate eventually you...

INTERACTION 2001

2001.4.9　 Text: Jo Kazuhiro

The fifth symposium Interaction 2001 was held March 4 and 5 at Waseda University Tokyo. The symposium's focus is the cooperation of the real organic world and "information technology". Interaction 2001 saw 300 partici...

BIT GENERATION 2000 “TV GAMES”

2001.2.7　 Text: Chibashi

I had a chance to visit the exhibition titled 'Bit Generation 2000 TV GAMES' held at the Contemporary Art Gallery, Art Tower Mito over the Century from October 28th, 2000 to January 28th, 2001. This exhibition focu...

SUSUMU HIRASAWA INTERACTIVE LIVE SHOW 2000

2001.1.25　 Text: Jiro Ohashi

In the evening on December 18th, I was on the subway in Tokyo. There was a strange woman wearing the green pleated one-piece dress of Issey Miyake and making herself up to look younger. But when she turned to me, I fo...

SKYLAB EXHIBITION “CREATOR’S BOOK JAM”

2001.1.7　 Text: Shino Kobayashi

Skylab label is composed of Keiji Itoh (Illustrator), Daisuke Kitagawa (Printing director), Ichiro Higashiizumi (Graphic designer), Hiro Sugiyama (Illustrator) and Hidemichi Yoshida (Editor). It gets members who have ...

RESFEST TOKYO 2000

2000.12.4　 Text: Aya Funaki

The digital film festival Resfest that finally made its debut in Japan last year, has just come back to the Laforet Museum, Harajuku. In its fifth year as a festival that showcases the works of the world's top digital...

TOSHIO IWAI + BBKY “HAPPY TECHNOLOGY LAB”

2000.12.4　 Text: Tomohiro Okada

"People who continue explorations on the scene where attractive media technologies are created always have interesting ideas, and the technological demonstration itself created from the scene is becoming attractive to...