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...

WONDER FESTIVAL 1999

1999.3.30　 Text: Chibashi

For some past few years, the market for animation/figure, regarded as Otaku-culture is expanding to anti-Otaku people. This maybe created by Takashi Murakami who goes ahead with the fusion of Otaku and Art, 'Ghost in ...

FUSE

1999.3.22　 Text: Akira Natsume

The VJ event 'FUSE' will be held on the largest scale in Japan on 20th of March at Liquid Room in Shinjuku. It'll be the second time as 'FUSE'. The last event was held at Club ASIA on last November and a long li...

MEGO AT ICC

1999.2.26　 Text: Mariko Takei

Based in Vienna, Austria, Mego is a techno label whose music draws a sharp distinction between so-called "techno music". Including artists such as Tina Frank and Farmers Manual, 6 units of Mego artists gathered in NTT...

ERO POP CHIRISMAS

1998.12.22　 Text: Akira Natsume

Takashi Murakami has been the center of the attention in the Japanese modern art scene ever since he made up his original character DOB-Kun a few years ago. He runs an art factory Hiropon Factory that is firmly ...