YCAM Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media

YCAM intends to offer support to visitors (users) unfamiliar but interested in new, media technology-based forms of expression, for a better understanding and appreciation of these kinds of artworks. It is our goal to develop and implement innovative educational programs with a focus on the relationships between media and such keywords as "expression", "corporeity", "communication", "society", and others.

YCAM Gallery tour (LabACT vol.1- related event)

Date/Time :

2011-10-08 （sat）14:00-15:00
2011-10-09 （sun）14:00-15:00
2011-10-10 (mon, holiday)14:00-15:00
2011-10-15 (sat)14:00-15:00
2011-10-16 (sun)14:00-15:00
2011-10-22 (sat)14:00-15:00
2011-10-23 (sun)14:00-15:00
2011-10-29 (sat)14:00-15:00
2011-10-30 (sun)14:00-15:00
2011-11-03 (thu, holiday)14:00-15:00
2011-11-05 (sat)14:00-15:00
2011-11-06 （sun）14:00-15:00
2011-11-12 （sat）14:00-15:00
2011-11-19 （sat）14:00-15:00
2011-11-26 （sat）14:00-15:00
2011-12-10 （sat）14:00-15:00
2011-12-17 （sat）14:00-15:00
2011-12-18 （sun）14:00-15:00

Through the tours, participants will discover together with YCAM educational staff, most attractive features of the exhibition.

October 8 (Sat), 9 (Sun), 10(Mon), 15(Sat), 16 (Sun), 22 (Sat), 23 (Sun), 29 (Sat), 30(Sun) November 3 (Thu), 5 (Sat), 6 (Sun), 12 (Sat),19 (Sat), 26 (Sat), December 10 (Sat),17 (Sat),18 (Sun)
14:00-15:00 Admission free

* Application: Please visit YCAM 1F Ticket Information prior to each tour.
* English-speaking participants are welcome to the Gallery Tour.
e-mail workshop11@ycam.jp for more information.

Organized by: Yamaguchi City Foundation for Cultural Promotion
In association with: Yamaguchi City, Yamaguchi City Board of Education
Supported by: The Agency for Cultural Affairs, Government of Japan (FY 2011)
Corporate sponsor: Shiseido Co., Ltd.
Technical support: YCAM InterLab
Produced by: Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media [YCAM]
YCAM Original Workshop (Related event: Zan Yamashita new performance piece "It is something like a garden")

Lecturer : Zan Yamashita

Date/Time :

2012-01-21 (Sat)-2012-01-22 (Sun)

Venue :

Studio A /

Admission :

Charges pending
*Application required (application starts: November 12)

Lecturer: Zan Yamashita (Choreographer / Dancer)
Target group: High school students and above

The aim of this original workshop is to focus on and explore Zan Yamashita's interpretation of the "relationship between body and language", which defines at once the method of his own creative work. The experience of a unique production process in which elements of dance and language are used to fill a framework of space and time will at once be an opportunity for discovering a new level of imagination informed by the combination of dance and language.
[Details will be announced in late October]
meet the artist 2011 "Library Radio"
Final presentation

Date/Time :

2012-02-04 (Sat)-2012-02-05 (Sun)

Venue :

Foyer /

Admission :

Admission free

The results of previous installments of the "meet the artist" series have been showcased in a broad range of formats, such as exhibitions, publications and performances. We look forward to the outcome of this year's event! The instructor and the collaborators are going to present the fruits of their year-long work at a public presentation.

[Details will be announced in late December]
*Other public events with the instructor and collaborators will be held during the period of the project
"Double Film Screening vol. 3"

Date/Time :

2012-03-20 (Tue) -15:30

Closed :

(Free seating)
Advanced tickets: ¥300 / “any” members & special discounts ¥200
*Application required (application starts: January 28, 2012)
*Entry may be possible without application as long as seats are available

Venue :

Studio C /

Admission :

Lecturer: Daiya Aida (YCAM Educational staff)
*Guests to be announced *Japanese only (Lecture)

Watch it, talk it, and watch it again
Developing an appreciative and critical eye in a workshop-style film screening

This workshop-style film screening for kids and adults aims to communicate the pleasure of watching movies, and at once help participants develop a critical eye. In the procedure of watching a movie, talking about it, and then watching the same movie once again, participants share their impressions and experiences of the movie, which bring them the additional discoveries and pleasures sharing the intermediate commentaries among them. By repeatedly watching movies, participants will learn how to appreciate them properly, and at the same time, develop a critical eye by formulating and exchanging their thoughts.

vol. 3
A guest lecturer will give a talk about the summary of this yearlong series.
[Details will be announced in late January, 2012]

Please Send email entitled "Double Film Screening vol. 3" with
ⅰ) Name in full
ⅱ) Address; with telephone number, e-mail address.
ⅲ) Date of Birth Year Month. Day.

7-7 Nakazono-cho, Yamaguchi, 753-0075 JAPAN
YCAM (Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media) Attn: educational staff
FAX: +81-83-901-2216
e-mail: workshop11@ycam.jp
meet the artist 2011 "Library Radio"

Date :

2011-04-24 (Sun)–2012-02-05 (Sun)

Admission :

Admission free

*Application required (application starts: March 26)

The "library" as a semipublic space: Launch of a mini radio station
Volume 6 of this series workshop for grown-ups is all about "radio"

In the "meet the artist" workshop series, so-called "collaborators", which are consisted of citizens, work with artists on one specific creative project over the period of one year. Through their long-term collaboration, participants and artists share the process of creative production, and elaborate profound concepts together through studying about related ideas and backgrounds in their activities.
The theme for this sixth installment is "radio". While referring to the function of a library as a public information and contents provider, the project will encourage participants to discuss the diversity of information including visual and acoustic ones. Focusing on the library as a semipublic space, together with audio books and other electronic media, we are planning to set up a mini radio station at YCAM. In the course of the year, attendants will examine the future of information services in public spaces through a range of activities, including different kind of studies, workshops, lectures, the publication of electronic books, etc.

Please Send email entitled "meet the artist" with
ⅰ) Name in full
ⅱ) Address; with telephone number, e-mail address.
ⅲ) Date of Birth Year Month. Day.

7-7 Nakazono-cho, Yamaguchi, 753-0075 JAPAN
YCAM (Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media) Attn: educational staff FAX: +81-83-901-2216
e-mail: workshop11@ycam.jp