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ADVANCED MUSIC
"14, 15 and 16 of June> Go to Sonar". This is one of the first appointments that many of us make in our diaries at the beginning of the year, together with New Year's resolution and goals to achieve. Sonar ...
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EPIDEMIC
How befitting a name chosen by the group of artists/programmers (and programmers/artists) that embrace a fundamental belief: the writing of the code source; to be precise the text that prepares and programmes the exec...
HAPPENING
JAM: TOKYO/LONDON
Japan 2001 is a one year-long festival celebrating the interaction between Japanese and British culture. The festival, which reaches its peak in May and June, showcases many different events, from youth culture,...
HAPPENING
JEREMY HOLLISTER “PEACEKEEPING”
In our media saturated culture, it is easy to get lost amidst the happenings that surround us promoting the collapse of sound, image, technology, fashion, etc. Such was the case in finding a suitable venue to relay i...
HAPPENING
POPCORN ANTI-THEATER
"Popcorn is not for everyone. If you relish perfectly choreographed productions, you will not understand the cauldron of chaos that is Popcorn Anti-Theater," the organizer cautions the audience in advance. It...
HAPPENING
STREET ART IN LOS ANGELES
Los Angeles is a definite car society. The layout of the city makes the life impossible without a car. It's often questionable if LA is a "city" in the first place. For instance, stores doesn't spread in a walking ...
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TOKYOACE4
This month's cover design was produced by interactive designer Hisashi Tohsaki. He works at the web production group IMG SRC, Inc.. for client-based work. At the same time, he creates many examples of experimental and...
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KEN ISHII
Ken Ishii is one of the pioneer of Japanese techno. His activities are not limited to the 'techno' field. His long-awaited new album 'Flatspin' includes the soundtrack for the movie 'White Out' (directed by Setsurou W...
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TRAFIK
This month's cover design was produced by Trafik based in Lyon, France who are doing a lot of on/off-line multimedia projects. Last year, they published an on-line project 'Signotek' to save the pictographs created by...
HAPPENING
TOONZ CAMP
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 "...
HAPPENING
MOVEMENT
The exhibition called 'Movement' took place from 29th April to 13th May at Sendai Mediatheque with the concept "Movement of your mind and body, environment surrounds you / changes in things, a device that connects the...
THINGS
METROPOLIS
I first wondered why they chose Osamu Tezuka now and why they picked up 'Metropolis' for the movie from a great number of his works. Japanese animation has been called 'Japanimation' and regarded highly due to 'Nauss...
