Cyber Arts Japan
Ars Electronica - 30 years for Art and Media TechnologyTo celebrate the thirtieth anniversary of Ars Electronica, the worldwide media art festival held annually in Linz, Austria, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo (MOT) will mount Cyber Arts Japan, a special media art exhibition, focusing particularly on art and technology in Japan.
The ties between Ars Electronica and Japan have been close since the festival's founding in 1979, thanks to the many Japanese artists who have participated and won awards in the festival. They include Isao Tomita, Ryuichi Sakamoto and Toshio Iwai, and Maywa Denki, for example. Cyber Arts Japan will focus on the works from the festival to explore new possibilities for connecting art, science and technology, and society.
This exhibition, organized with the support of Ars Electronics Linz GmbH, presents, for the first time, a group of significant video documents and reference materials that narrate the thirty-year history of the festival. The exhibition's several sections will include 25 projects and 50 works of art. In addition to work by prizewinners from the past and this year's prizewinning works, a Device Art exhibition at the Ars Electronica Center will be synchronized with Cyber Arts Japan, and a networked deconstruction and reconstruction project , in tribute to the Museum of the Future, will link Linz and the Tokyo exhibition site in real time. Cyber Arts Japan will also present high-profile media art that finds its material in new hybrid domains such as giving visual expression to literary works, digital public art, and space art.
Cyber Arts Japan will be held conjunction with the Japan Media Arts Festival, the Agency for Cultural Affairs event at the National Art Center, Tokyo. Plans also call for cooperating with related institutions in Japan such as the NTT Intercommunication Center [ICC]. The simultaneous MOT Collection exhibition will present work by Jikken Kobo (Experimental Workshop) as well as the Entrance Space Project, a large mural by "vagabond" artist Takehiko Inoue, as it examines trailblazers in media art and the present state of the media art domain. Bringing together a significant cluster of interactive, participatory works, events, and films, this exhibition will be a valuable opportunity to reconsider what the power of expression in Japan means and to explore where the next generation of media artists may take us.
Artists
h.o＋Dentsu http://www.howeb.org/j/works/cap.html
Christa Sommerer & Laurent Mignonneau http://www.interface.ufg.ac.at/christa-laurent/
Yoichiro Kawaguchi http://www.iii.u-tokyo.ac.jp/~yoichiro/
Toshio Iwai http://iwaisanchi.exblog.jp/ http://tenorion.exblog.jp/
Yasuhiro Suzuki/JST Crest "Digital Public Art Project" http://www.digital-public-art.org/airharbor/airharbor.php
http://www.mabataki.com/
Device Art Project http://www.deviceart.org, http://www.jst.go.jp/kisoken/crest/report/heisei18/pdf/pdf11/11_1/005.pdf
Hiroo Iwata http://intron.kz.tsukuba.ac.jp/
Maywa Denki http://www.maywadenki.com/
Kazuhiko Hachiya http://www.petworks.co.jp/~hachiya/hachiya_kazuhiko/Information.html
Ryota Kuwakubo http://www.vector-scan.com/
Masahiko Inami http://inami-lab.kmd.keio.ac.jp/
Sachiko Kodama http://www.kodama.hc.uec.ac.jp/index-j.html
Keiichiro Hirano/Yasuto Nakanishi/Kazuma Morino/Ken Ishii
http://www.k-hirano.com
http://naka.sfc.keio.ac.jp/
http://www.stripe.co.jp/home.html
http://www.kenishii.com/
Ryoji Ikeda http://www.ryojiikeda.com/
Daito Manabe http://www.daito.ws/
tEnt（ Hiroya Tanaka＋Macoto Cuhara） http://www.tent-info.com/
exonemo http://www.exonemo.com/
Yuri Suzuki http://www.yurisuzuki.com/
Yasushi Noguchi/Hideyuki Ando http://r-dimension.xsrv.jp/jpn/watch_siggraph/
Junji Watanabe/Tetsutoshi Tabata/ Hideyuki Ando http://www.junji.org/
Hidenori Watanave http://labo.wtnv.jp/2009/07/gps3600.html
Four Dimensional Digital Universe Project, NAOJ http://4d2u.nao.ac.jp/
JAXA Pilot Missions of Utilization of International Space Station(ISS) / Kibo for Culture / Humanities and Social Sciences http://iss.jaxa.jp/utiliz/epo/index.html
Award-winning works of Prix Ars Electronica［the next idea］and more
Exhibition Information
Admission
General: \1000(\800) / Students and 65 and older: \800(\640) / Jr.High and High: \600(\480) / Elementary and younger: Free Note: - ( ) includes group rates (20 or more) / Exhibition ticket includes admission to the MOT collection / Joint admission ticket allow entry to the "MOT Annual 2010 Neo-Ornamentalism from Japanese Contemporary Art" exhibition as well
Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo
4-1-1, Miyoshi, Koto-ku, Tokyo, JAPAN 135-0022 TEL. ＋81（0）3-5245-4111（General Information） ＋81（0）3-5405-8686（Hello Dial）
Access
From Kiyosumi-Shirakawa Station: on the Hanzomon Line: 9min. walk from the B2 exit.
From Kiyosumi-Shirakawa Station: on the Toei Oedo Line: 13min. walk from the A3 exit.
The ties between Ars Electronica and Japan have been close since the festival's founding in 1979, thanks to the many Japanese artists who have participated and won awards in the festival. They include Isao Tomita, Ryuichi Sakamoto and Toshio Iwai, and Maywa Denki, for example. Cyber Arts Japan will focus on the works from the festival to explore new possibilities for connecting art, science and technology, and society.
This exhibition, organized with the support of Ars Electronics Linz GmbH, presents, for the first time, a group of significant video documents and reference materials that narrate the thirty-year history of the festival. The exhibition's several sections will include 25 projects and 50 works of art. In addition to work by prizewinners from the past and this year's prizewinning works, a Device Art exhibition at the Ars Electronica Center will be synchronized with Cyber Arts Japan, and a networked deconstruction and reconstruction project , in tribute to the Museum of the Future, will link Linz and the Tokyo exhibition site in real time. Cyber Arts Japan will also present high-profile media art that finds its material in new hybrid domains such as giving visual expression to literary works, digital public art, and space art.
Cyber Arts Japan will be held conjunction with the Japan Media Arts Festival, the Agency for Cultural Affairs event at the National Art Center, Tokyo. Plans also call for cooperating with related institutions in Japan such as the NTT Intercommunication Center [ICC]. The simultaneous MOT Collection exhibition will present work by Jikken Kobo (Experimental Workshop) as well as the Entrance Space Project, a large mural by "vagabond" artist Takehiko Inoue, as it examines trailblazers in media art and the present state of the media art domain. Bringing together a significant cluster of interactive, participatory works, events, and films, this exhibition will be a valuable opportunity to reconsider what the power of expression in Japan means and to explore where the next generation of media artists may take us.
Artists
h.o＋Dentsu http://www.howeb.org/j/works/cap.html
Christa Sommerer & Laurent Mignonneau http://www.interface.ufg.ac.at/christa-laurent/
Yoichiro Kawaguchi http://www.iii.u-tokyo.ac.jp/~yoichiro/
Toshio Iwai http://iwaisanchi.exblog.jp/ http://tenorion.exblog.jp/
Yasuhiro Suzuki/JST Crest "Digital Public Art Project" http://www.digital-public-art.org/airharbor/airharbor.php
http://www.mabataki.com/
Device Art Project http://www.deviceart.org, http://www.jst.go.jp/kisoken/crest/report/heisei18/pdf/pdf11/11_1/005.pdf
Hiroo Iwata http://intron.kz.tsukuba.ac.jp/
Maywa Denki http://www.maywadenki.com/
Kazuhiko Hachiya http://www.petworks.co.jp/~hachiya/hachiya_kazuhiko/Information.html
Ryota Kuwakubo http://www.vector-scan.com/
Masahiko Inami http://inami-lab.kmd.keio.ac.jp/
Sachiko Kodama http://www.kodama.hc.uec.ac.jp/index-j.html
Keiichiro Hirano/Yasuto Nakanishi/Kazuma Morino/Ken Ishii
http://www.k-hirano.com
http://naka.sfc.keio.ac.jp/
http://www.stripe.co.jp/home.html
http://www.kenishii.com/
Ryoji Ikeda http://www.ryojiikeda.com/
Daito Manabe http://www.daito.ws/
tEnt（ Hiroya Tanaka＋Macoto Cuhara） http://www.tent-info.com/
exonemo http://www.exonemo.com/
Yuri Suzuki http://www.yurisuzuki.com/
Yasushi Noguchi/Hideyuki Ando http://r-dimension.xsrv.jp/jpn/watch_siggraph/
Junji Watanabe/Tetsutoshi Tabata/ Hideyuki Ando http://www.junji.org/
Hidenori Watanave http://labo.wtnv.jp/2009/07/gps3600.html
Four Dimensional Digital Universe Project, NAOJ http://4d2u.nao.ac.jp/
JAXA Pilot Missions of Utilization of International Space Station(ISS) / Kibo for Culture / Humanities and Social Sciences http://iss.jaxa.jp/utiliz/epo/index.html
Award-winning works of Prix Ars Electronica［the next idea］and more
Exhibition Information
Admission
General: \1000(\800) / Students and 65 and older: \800(\640) / Jr.High and High: \600(\480) / Elementary and younger: Free Note: - ( ) includes group rates (20 or more) / Exhibition ticket includes admission to the MOT collection / Joint admission ticket allow entry to the "MOT Annual 2010 Neo-Ornamentalism from Japanese Contemporary Art" exhibition as well
Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo
4-1-1, Miyoshi, Koto-ku, Tokyo, JAPAN 135-0022 TEL. ＋81（0）3-5245-4111（General Information） ＋81（0）3-5405-8686（Hello Dial）
Access
From Kiyosumi-Shirakawa Station: on the Hanzomon Line: 9min. walk from the B2 exit.
From Kiyosumi-Shirakawa Station: on the Toei Oedo Line: 13min. walk from the A3 exit.