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...

ARCHITETTURA: CONTEMPORARY ARCHITECTURE AND ELECTRONIC MUSIC

2000.10.25　 Text: Jiro Ohashi

The film + concert was held at NTT Inter Communication Center (ICC) in Shinjuku on September 23th and it was really interesting. This event entitled 'Architettura: Contemporary Architecture and Electronic Music' was a...

SUPER FLAT EXHIBITION

2000.4.19　 Text: Chibashi

"Japan might be the future of the world. And the Japan of today is SUPER FLAT." The quote above is from the 'Super Flat declaration' by Takashi Murakami. The exhibition with the same name curated by Takashi Murak...

FURI FURI THANGKA

1999.12.24　 Text: Chibashi

As you know reading the interview in last month's issue, Furi Furi Company did an exhibition from November 2nd to 14th at Harajuku Gallery. They have mainly been participating in overseas exhibition until now. This fi...

SRL (SURVIVAL RESEARCH LABORATORIES) “MACHINE CIRCUS AT END OF 20TH CENTURY!!”

1999.12.3　 Text: Tomohiro Okada

In the streets of Tokyo hang huge posters where mechanical-looking robots are jostling in raging flames. Rumors of what lie behind these posters reach my ears here and there at the bar counter. It's a robot performa...

HAPPENING 1999

1999.11.24　 Text: Akira Natsume

In its second year "Happening" was held from October 8th to 17th. This exhibition showcases the works of 30 designers of interior and furniture from England, Germany, Holland, Italy, France, Japan and other ...

AIRBOARD BY KAZUHIKO HACHIYA

1999.10.24　 Text: Akira Natsume

An experiment to make the skateboard just like the one in the movie 'Back to the Future 2'. For two days on September 4th and 5th, an experiment to work the AirBoard by Kazuhiko Hachiya was carried out at Gallery A...