- Time of the event
- Saturday, July 9, 2016 13:00~18:00
(Open 12: 30) - Venue
- NTTインターコミュニケーション・センター [ICC]
（東京都新宿区西新宿3-20-2 東京オペラシティタワー4階）
アクセス：京王新線「初台」駅東口から徒歩2分 ほか - Sponsor
- Arts Council Tokyo (Tokyo Metropolitan Foundation for History and Culture), Japan Foundation Asia Center
- special cooperation
- NTT Intercommunication Center (ICC)
~ History and Locality of Media Arts, Considering the Platform of Art and Culture in Tokyo ~
This symposium will focus on international trends in art and technology, including art expression, social issues, and large-scale projects such as commercials, in order to broadly grasp trends in new expression activities utilizing digital technology and information space. Guests from various regions in Japan and overseas, including Southeast Asia, will be invited to introduce the perspectives of artists, their creativity, and overseas facilities that demonstrate their ambitious activities. They will also talk about the historical transition of this field in Japan, which has progressed along with economic growth and technological innovation.
By reexamining the trend of "art and technology" from a regional and historical perspective, we will consider a new platform for art and culture that connects the present and future, society and art, and individuals and the public.
Language: Japanese/English (with simultaneous interpretation)
Program
- 13:00～13:10
- Introduction
- 13:10～14:50
- [Part 1] Media Art: Historical Transition of Japan/Cultural Specificity of Asia
HATAKENAKA Minoru (Chief Curator, NTT Intercommunication Center [ICC])
Yvonne Spielmann (Media scholar, art scholar) - 15:00～16:30
- [Part 2] Artist's Perspective/Technology Trends
Minoru Manabe, Artist/Rysomatics
Andreas Siagyan (Artist, Engineer/LifePatch)
Jeffrey Shaw, Artist - 16:40～18:00
- Discussion
Guest: ABE Kazunao (Deputy Director, Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media [YCAM])
*Performers and program contents are subject to change or cancellation.
Speaker Profile
Minoru Manabe (Artist/Rysomatics)
Born in 1976. Graduated from the Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Science, Tokyo University of Science and IAMAS. Utilizing programming and interaction design, he focuses on the inherent appeal of programming, computers, phenomena, and the human body itself in his creative work. He has been in charge of the technical aspects of Perfume's live performances, directed music videos for Nosaj Thing, Yasuyuki Okamura, and Etsuko Yakushimaru, and has collaborated on numerous projects with musicians both in Japan and abroad, including the installation Sensing Streams - Invisible, Inaudible with Ryuichi Sakamoto. He founded Rhizomatiks in 2006, and since 2015 has co-founded Rhizomatiks Research, which has a strong R&D element, with Motoi Ishibashi.
Andreas Siagyan (Artist, Engineer/LifePatch)
Based in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. He majored in civil engineering and acquired advanced technology from highway design to programming and software construction. In addition to presenting installation works and sound sculptures, the project focuses on community building, alternative education, DIY/DIWO, and various activities such as workshop development and management, and festival planning. In 2012, he formed Lifepatch, a group with experts from diverse backgrounds, to develop local resources and develop human resources through the application of general-purpose technologies and education. In 2014, Lifepatch won a prize in the digital community category at the Ars Electronica festival in Linz, Austria.
Jeffrey Shaw
Born in Melbourne in 1944. A pioneer in the media art world who has experimented with many art forms using new media since the late 1960s. He actively collaborates with engineers and programmers to create works that incorporate new meanings and perspectives on technology, including performances, sculptures, visuals, and interactive expressions with audience participation. In 2015, with the support of Shanghai's Chronus Art Center, he opened the Jeffrey Shaw Compendium 1966 – 2015, an archive of works, writings and criticism spanning half a century. From 1991 to 2009, he was the first director of the ZKM Media Institute, a public media arts center in Karlsruhe, Germany. He is currently the Dean of Creative Media at City University of Hong Kong.
ABE Kazunao (Deputy Director, Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media)
Born in 1960. He graduated from the Department of Fine Arts, Tokyo University of the Arts with a major in aesthetics. From 1990 to 2001, she was co-curator of the Canon Art Lab, a cultural support project established by Canon Inc., and later moved to the YCAM Opening Preparation Office. He has been the artistic director since the museum opened in 2003 and the deputy director since 2012. Major projects include Rafael Rosano-Hemel's Amodal Suspension (2003), Ryuichi Sakamoto and Shiro Takatani "LIFE-fluid, invisible, inaudible..." (2007), Yoshihide Otomo/ENSEMBLES (2008), Haruko Mikami's Desire of Codes (2010), and Art and Collective Intelligence (2013).
HATAKENAKA Minoru (Chief Curator, NTT Intercommunication Center [ICC])
Born in 1968. He graduated from the Department of Art, Faculty of Fine Arts, Tama Art University. He has been involved with the ICC since its opening in 1996, and has been in charge of a number of project exhibitions, including Sound Art (2000), Silent Dialogue (2007), and Post-Internet Reality (2012). There will also be solo exhibitions by artists such as Damtype, Meiwa Denki, Laurie Anderson, Kazuhiko Yatani, Rysomatics, Arata Isozaki, Yoshihide Otomo, John Wood and Paul Harrison. Participated as co-curator of "Roppongi Crossing: New Perspectives on Japanese Art 2004" (2004/Mori Art Museum). He was in charge of curating the showcase of Japanese artists at the Sonar Music Festival (Barcelona, 2006).
Yvonne Spielmann (Media scholar, art scholar)
She is a leading international researcher in technology, media, and art, and has taught in Europe, the United States, and Southeast Asia. In 2010, he published "Hybrid Culture" (Suhrkamp Press/MIT Press), which examines Japanese media art from a technical and aesthetic point of view and analyzes its heterogeneous nature. In 2015, he published (Logos Publishers/2016, NUS Press) a book that covers topics ranging from contemporary Indonesian art to popular culture. In 2011, he published a Japanese version of his representative book "Video: The Aesthetics of Reflexive Media" (Sangensha). 2012 – 2015 Dean of the Faculty of Fine Arts, La Salle University of the Arts. He is currently a visiting researcher at the Centre for Contemporary Art, Singapore.
participation fee
Free (Application in advance, first-come-first-served basis)
Contact Us
Media Arts International Symposium Secretariat
E-mail:mediaartsympo*atelier-canon.jp (replace * with @)