http://www.ycam.jp/en/art/ ja Copyright 2012 Sat, 12 Feb 2011 21:00:51 +0900 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/ http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification The continuously burgeoning work of Daito Manabe and Motoi Ishibashi in a showcase of unique ideas and excellent skills inspired by media art

Daito Manabe and Motoi Ishibashi, two creators that have been utilizing media technology in their various endeavors traversing a wide area between art, design, advertising and music, unveil their newest work in the particles exhibition at the Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media [YCAM].
Part of a special program of the Japan Media Arts Festival installed with the aim to offer opportunities to appreciate outstanding works of media art, the exhibition is co-hosted by YCAM and the Agency for Cultural Affairs. Next to producing and presenting the newest work of Daito Manabe and Motoi Ishibashi, prizewinners at the Japan Media Arts Festival, YCAM will also be showing video footage of award-winning works at the 13 th (2009) and 14 th (2010) Japan Media Arts Festival. In addition, a concurrently held exhibition introduces two recent acclaimed works by the artists that have been attracting attention with their combination of unique ideas and excellent programming skills.
Experience the fascination of media art and new forms of technology-based expression in this first major showcase of the artists' continuously burgeoning work exploring the potentials of media art through repeated research, studies and experimentation.

*The exhibition is open through March 31st as a special program of the Japan Media Arts Festival, after which it will continue until May 5th, then hosted by the Yamaguchi City Foundation for Cultural Promotion.

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The Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media [YCAM] is hosting an exhibition of contemporary artist Noritoshi Hirakawa's new installation - a fusion of imagery, sound and body expression conceived with the aim to explore new horizons in artistic expression. The installation integrates elements of light, imagery and sound that together contain the manifestation of spiritual energy and human awareness. The visitor generates through his activate participation various interaction between the elements of light (sunbeams falling through trees), music and video footage inspired by a single woman's subtle feelings and behavior.
Composer/musician Michael Rother and dancer Yoko Ando took charge of the creation of visuals and sounds that, in concert with the dynamics of light, define the piece's distinctive flavor. Their residence at YCAM was for the three artists a period of mutual inspiration and stimulation, and we are now proud to present the much anticipated result of these internationally renowned creators' first ever collaboration.
]]> http://www.ycam.jp/en/art/2011/01/-beyond-the-sunbeam-through-tr.html http://www.ycam.jp/en/art/2011/01/-beyond-the-sunbeam-through-tr.html finished !!sound tectonics #9 Wed, 05 Jan 2011 00:00:00 +0900 Dancer Yoko Ando's interactive installation co-developed with YCAM
The Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media [YCAM] hosts an exhibition of "Reacting Space for Dividual Behavior", an interactive installation co-developed by YCAM and dancer Yoko Ando, a central member of The Forsythe Company.
In this work, Ando focuses on methods of intellection, perception and communication in the realm of physical expression that she has cultivated during her career to date, and illustrates these subjects by means of an installation to be experienced by every visitor to the Center. Through their interaction with the virtual environment that is part of the installation, visitors can discover movements, memories and motifs that lie dormant in their own bodies. Applying the structure of various installations shown at YCAM in the past to the realm of body expression, the piece encourages visitors to perceive aspects of space, body and movement in an entirely new way. During the exhibition period, the potentials of this work as an experimental environment for rediscovering one's body will be widely showcased also in a workshop and demonstration with/by the artist herself, using the actual display at YCAM.
]]> http://www.ycam.jp/en/art/2011/01/-reacting-space-for-dividual-b.html http://www.ycam.jp/en/art/2011/01/-reacting-space-for-dividual-b.html finished !!Yoko Ando Dance demonstration Tue, 04 Jan 2011 00:00:00 +0900 Ryoichi Kurokawa - an artist pursuing the sophisticated art of "temporal sculpting" with sound and imagery

In volume 13 of the ongoing scopic measure series introducing works and projects by up-and-coming artists at the Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media [YCAM], Berlin-based video/sound artist Ryoichi Kurokawa presents his piece rheo: 5 horizons. In this installation, Kurokawa uses a 5-channel sound system and five large monitors to create a spatial/temporal sculpture. His elaborate technique and delicate artistic expression are highly regarded both in Japan and abroad (*1). The scenery, merging together sound and imagery in a flowing transformation, inspires a new sensory experience of watching sound and hearing images.
In connection with this exhibition, YCAM also introduces a number of related works, and hosts a live music event with Kurokawa and other artists. Their various sophisticated performances will highlight the diverse potential of sound-based expression.

*1) Winner of a Golden Nica in the digital music category of one of the world's largest media art festivals, Ars Electronica, in 2010, and nominated by the review committee in the art category (installation) at the 14th Japan Media Arts Festival.
[In the sound tectonics #10 live concert that takes place concurrently with scopic measure, Kurokawa performs his piece Rheo (2009), which served as a foundation for rheo: 5 horizons. The event marks at once the first ever combined staging of both installation and performance in Japan.]

]]> http://www.ycam.jp/en/art/2011/01/scopic-measure-13.html http://www.ycam.jp/en/art/2011/01/scopic-measure-13.html finished !!sound tectonics #10 !!sound tectonics installation #3 / #4 Mon, 03 Jan 2011 00:00:00 +0900 sound tectonics series introducing the latest efforts in electronic sound and related fields by artists from Japan and abroad, the Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media [YCAM] presents a live concert paired with an installation.
As a new feature in this series, evala and Ryoichi Kurokawa will additionally introduce specially commissioned works in YCAM's patios, incorporating sound systems set up in the venue's basement. A rare opportunity to experience performances and sound installations at once, this showcase of the diverse potential of acoustic expression will highlight the featured artists' finely-honed senses and broad imagination.

]]> http://www.ycam.jp/en/art/2011/01/sound-tectonics-installation-3.html http://www.ycam.jp/en/art/2011/01/sound-tectonics-installation-3.html finished !!sound tectonics #10 Sun, 02 Jan 2011 23:58:43 +0900 In this first installment, New York-based engineer/artist Kyle McDonald will stay and work at YCAM for about three months. His joint research at the Center will revolve around "calibration" technology as used in computer vision, and culminate in the presentation of a "projector camera toolkit" developed during that period.
In tandem with the research program, two works realized with McDonald's participation are on display at two separate locations at YCAM.

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YCAM launches an exhibition project showcasing and practically applying The EyeWriter, a device for drawing by using just the eyes

The Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media [YCAM] announces "LabACT": a series of exhibitions introducing creative work inspired by a dialogue between science and art, in a broad context including social aspects, and with a special focus on the technical aspects of media art. This year's program includes two exhibitions themed around eye-tracking technology. The first one presents The EyeWriter, a device for drawing by the line of sight that has been developed in the USA.
Along with a general overview of The EyeWriter project, and an explanation of the technical development, the exhibition features a hands-on booth for visitors to try the latest version of the device for painting pictures with their eyes. A workshop and display of new installation work based on the latest technology complete the program of this multidisciplinary exhibition demonstrating the media-informed developments in technology, thought, and artistic expression, using examples of The EyeWriter's practical application.

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The visualized line of sight stimulates interactive communication with the virtual world.

The Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media [YCAM] has launched the "LabACT" series of exhibitions showcasing from a broad point of view creative and social values generated through a dialogue between science and art. Following the currently showing "The EyeWriter", in the upcoming second installment artist Seiko Mikami is going to unveil her new installation titled "Eye-Tracking Informatics". This piece is a remake of one of Mikami's most representative works from the 1990s, in which two participants communicate and navigate within a three-dimensional virtual space through movements of their own visualized lines of sight, updated and enhanced at YCAM by reflecting the latest technological trends. This rather exquisite yet at once dynamic reincarnation in terms of imagery, sound, hardware and other aspects, presents an opportunity for visitors to enjoy a totally new form of spatial sculpting by means of eye-based communication and visualized traces of the eyes' movements ]]> http://www.ycam.jp/en/art/2011/01/labact-vol2-molecular-informat.html http://www.ycam.jp/en/art/2011/01/labact-vol2-molecular-informat.html announce Sat, 01 Jan 2011 00:00:00 +0900 From perceiving cells to the coded individual.

We are pleased to announce the opening of the "Desire of Codes" exhibition introducing a brand new installation piece by Seiko Mikami at YCAM. Mikami chose "information society and the human body" as the central theme of her artistic endeavors since the 1980s, and stepped into the spotlight of the international art scene after introducing computing technologies to her critical and provocative examinations of technology and art in the '90s.
Next to the presentation of a new co-production by Seiko Mikami and YCAM that forms the centerpiece of this exhibition, the "surveillance society and human desires" themed event encompasses also a display of Takashi Ikegami's new installation incorporating aspects of brain science and complex system, as well as a revised version of "gravicells--gravity and resistance", a work on which Mikami collaborated with Sota Ichikawa.

Exhibition website: http://doc.ycam.jp/

- Exhibited work
Seiko Mikami "Desire of Codes" (new work / commissioned by YCAM)
- Related works
Takashi Ikegami "MTM [Mind Time Machine] " (new work / commissioned by YCAM)
Seiko Mikami + Sota Ichikawa "gravicells - gravity and resistance"(revised version / commissioned by YCAM)


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We are pleased to announce the opening of the "Desire of Codes" exhibition introducing a brand new installation piece by Seiko Mikami at YCAM. Mikami chose "information society and the human body" as the central theme of her artistic endeavors since the 1980s, and stepped into the spotlight of the international art scene after introducing computing technologies to her critical and provocative examinations of technology and art in the '90s.
Next to the presentation of a new co-production by Seiko Mikami and YCAM that forms the centerpiece of this exhibition, the "surveillance society and human desires" themed event encompasses also a display of Takashi Ikegami's new installation incorporating aspects of brain science and complex system, as well as a revised version of "gravicells--gravity and resistance", a work on which Mikami collaborated with Sota Ichikawa.

Exhibition website: http://doc.ycam.jp/

- Exhibited work
Seiko Mikami "Desire of Codes" (new work / commissioned by YCAM)
- Related works
Takashi Ikegami "MTM [Mind Time Machine] " (new work / commissioned by YCAM)
Seiko Mikami + Sota Ichikawa "gravicells - gravity and resistance"(revised version / commissioned by YCAM)


In this event YCAM challenges a new exhibition format that includes an additional display of a new installation realized with complex systems scientist Takashi Ikegami as a supplementary work based on the same "human body in surveillance society" theme. Ikegami has designed this interactive installation in reference to the dynamics of mind time, inspired by the idea of self-organizing, subjective timeline in brain science.

]]> http://www.ycam.jp/en/art/2010/04/takashi-ikegami-mtm-mind-time.html http://www.ycam.jp/en/art/2010/04/takashi-ikegami-mtm-mind-time.html finished Thu, 15 Apr 2010 00:20:21 +0900 From perceiving cells to the coded individual.

We are pleased to announce the opening of the "Desire of Codes" exhibition introducing a brand new installation piece by Seiko Mikami at YCAM. Mikami chose "information society and the human body" as the central theme of her artistic endeavors since the 1980s, and stepped into the spotlight of the international art scene after introducing computing technologies to her critical and provocative examinations of technology and art in the '90s.
Next to the presentation of a new co-production by Seiko Mikami and YCAM that forms the centerpiece of this exhibition, the "surveillance society and human desires" themed event encompasses also a display of Takashi Ikegami's new installation incorporating aspects of brain science and complex system, as well as a revised version of "gravicells--gravity and resistance", a work on which Mikami collaborated with Sota Ichikawa.

Exhibition website: http://doc.ycam.jp/

- Exhibited work
Seiko Mikami "Desire of Codes" (new work / commissioned by YCAM)
- Related works
Takashi Ikegami "MTM [Mind Time Machine] " (new work / commissioned by YCAM)
Seiko Mikami + Sota Ichikawa "gravicells - gravity and resistance"(revised version / commissioned by YCAM)


Seiko Mikami + Sota Ichikawa "gravicells - gravity and resistance" was produced and subsequently unveiled at YCAM in May 2004, from where it embarked on a journey around the world. Celebrated exhibitions at twelve different locations in eight countries, including Tokyo, Berlin and Torino, solidified the piece's reputation as one representative work of media art. This work provides a space with hypothetical dynamics having the opposing forces of gravity and resistance, through special devices and sensors. Walking freely in the site, audiences are able to feel gravity that they are seldom aware of, resistance to it, and the effects caused by other participants. All movements and changes made by participating audiences are transformed into the movements of sound and geometrical images through special sensors,.whole space develops or changes in this interactive installation.

]]> http://www.ycam.jp/en/art/2010/04/seiko-mikami-sota-ichikawa-gra.html http://www.ycam.jp/en/art/2010/04/seiko-mikami-sota-ichikawa-gra.html finished Thu, 15 Apr 2010 00:20:20 +0900 "artistic environmental spheres" formed by fog, light and sound
Large-scale project unveiled simultaneously in three public spaces in and around YCAM

The upcoming CLOUD FOREST exhibition at the Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media [YCAM] presents examples of newly discovered environmental creation, realized with an "artistic environments" themed fusion of artistic expression and information technology. Currently on show in three different public spaces in and around YCAM will be a large-scale collaborative project featuring "fog sculptures" by Fujiko Nakaya, an artist whose works have gained much attention at various occasions in Japan and overseas, along with the original light and sound art of Shiro Takatani.
These commissioned installations conceived in-residence at YCAM combine artificial fog, sunlight and sound, orchestrating with the help of originally developed devices and responding to changing weather conditions a variety of impressive sceneries. Visitors can experience transformations in their perception as they interact with artworks incorporating information technology while walking in the fog in the patios or surrounding park. While introducing and reevaluating foresighted art and science projects originally presented at the EXPO'70 Osaka, which eventually inspired this new project, the exhibition anticipates the future of environmental creation, "informational spheres" of tomorrow, and possible creative quests through art.

Related events
■Opening events
Demonstrative Performance
August 7 (sat) 19:00 - 20:00
Venue: Foyer, Patios Admission free
Artists: Fujiko Nakaya, Shiro Takatani, softpad (Takuya Minami, Tomohiro Ueshiba, Hiroshi Toyama) In addition to Fujiko Nakaya and Shiro Takatani, the members of Kyoto-based art/design collective softpad, who took charge of the sound design for this exhibition, participate in a special experimental live performance incorporating the fog, light and sound installations in the patios and foyer.

Artist Talk
August 8 (san) 14:00-16:00
Venue: Studio B Admission free
Guests: Fujiko Nakaya, Shiro Takatani　Moderator: Akira Asada
Artists involved in this exhibition appear as special guests in a casual talk session that gives them the opportunity to introduce their works. Moderator will be Akira Asada, a specialist in the field who is familiar with each artist's endeavors to date. While referring to the work of E.A.T. at the 1970 Osaka Expo's Pepsi Pavilion, which inspired this project in the first place, the artists will look back at such trailblazing achievements as Nakaya's "fog sculptures" and David Tudor's soundscapes originally presented at the Expo, and discuss the developments and prospects now, four decades later.
* There will be guided gallery tours offered during the period of the exhibition. Please check the exhibition website for more information on additional event.]]> http://www.ycam.jp/en/art/2010/04/fujiko-nakaya-shiro-takatani-n.html http://www.ycam.jp/en/art/2010/04/fujiko-nakaya-shiro-takatani-n.html finished Thu, 15 Apr 2010 00:20:07 +0900
International symposium - 150 Jahre Freundschaft Deutschland-Japan
"Decennial environmental observations in art"
November 13 (sat) 13:00-16:00
Guests: Carsten Nicolai, Marko Peljhan, Andreas Broeckmann (Director of the Dortmunder U) , etc.
Moderator: Yukiko Shikata (Guest curator), Kazunao Abe (YCAM)
* interpretation available
Co-sponsor: Goethe-Institut Japan in Osaka

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Decennial environmental observations in art focusing on a global informational network's polar areas
The "polar" project centers on fixed-point observations of the earth's natural and informational environment from an artist's position. The previous polar I, presented in Tokyo in 2000, introduced a network-based original search engine, developed in order to observe the earth as an environment based on a variety of information. The updating process was translated into images and sounds exhibited in an audio-visual installation. The following ten years have seen significant developments in information technology, which have in turn triggered repeated massive changes in human sensibility and perception. While considering unreachable places on the earth as more or less non-existent, we are directly confronted with an extensive invisible world of information and other data. The aim of this second installment is to establish an original platform for investigations into the diverse environments that surround us in the year 2010. By searching specific information, visitors can proactively explore uncharted polar areas, and discover their meanings. Two of the world's leading artists get together again to highlight current natural and informational environments, and propose methods for us to apply for their research.
(In-residence production period: late October - early November)


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