5th Anniversary Memorial Symposium
Platform for Future
YCAM symposium on its traces and prospect is held to explore further possibilities of art and information media
Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media ［YCAM］, which opened as the base for cultural and informational exchange, celebrates its 5th anniversary this year. To commemorate the occasion, we hold a three-day symposium starting Saturday, November 1, 2008, to introduce the activities and results that YCAM has achieved so far.
Researchers, critics, specialists, artists and YCAM staff, who hold different positions in society, will join the discussion about three topics in terms of the works exhibited at YCAM, their production processes, and their own media education programs. Adopting various ideas of attendants, they will probe deeply into the three topics to search for further possibilities of art and information media, reviewing the tracings of YCAM.
11.1 sat 14:00-16:30
Session1:
The Traces and Prospects of YCAM-commissioned works
─artworks touring worldwide leaving from Yamaguchi─
YCAM has focused on producing and introducing works "now and here," which cannot be produced anywhere else. All sorts of works that have been produced in collaboration with artists, YCAM staff and YCAM InterLab (production section) have been shown widely, touring domestically and internationally after their premiere at YCAM. Moreover, those works are kept updated on a long term.
The artists make a report on how their works were exhibited and how people responded to them at different places in the first half of the session. The second half is dedicated to the discussion about the role of local cultural facilities in today's global society and the future of art and information media.
■Moderator
Miki Fukuda(YCAM InterLab Mannager)
■Panelists
exonemo(art unit / produced OBJECT B in 2006)
Takayuki Fujimoto(director and lighting designer / produced true in 2007)
SeikoMikami (artist / produced gravicells - gravity and resistance in 2005)
YukikoShikata(senior curator of NTT InerCommunication Center ［ICC］/ critic)
Aki Hoashi(art coordinator and coordinator of the Japan Foundation JENESYS Program)
Kazunao Abe(curator of YCAM)
interpretation is not available; Japanese only
11.2 sun 14:00-16:30
Session2:
Media Art and New Production
─the appearance and possibilities of a production community─
The recent production movement that is spreading in the media society is discussed in this session, e.g. peer production in which many people collaborate going beyond a specific company or organization such as open source and wikipedia, as well as free license that promote creativity through sharing and alteration of works, and DIY in which individuals can produce what they want.
Additionally, collaboration works made by YCAM InterLab with artists and engineers at home and abroad are introduced. A new proposal to the work platform models of media art creation will also be presented.
■Moderator
Akihiro Kubota(Artist / Professor of Tama Art University)
■Panelists
Martin Kaltenbrunner (Artist / reacTable developer and researcher of the music technology group, Pompeu Fabra University, Spain)
Fredrik Olofsson(media artist, composer, co-developer of SuperCollider)
Zachary Lieberman(Media artist / co-developer of openFrameworks)
Miki Fukuda(Manager of YCAM InterLab)
* Please note that Mr. Phillip Torrone whom we have announced as a panelist cancelled his visit to Japan. Thank you.
* Simultaneous interpretation is available.
11.3 mon 14:00-16:30
Session3:
Discovering different ways of thinking
─Alternative education from YCAM─
YCAM aims at media education of a new type unhampered by the conventional frameworks of art museum education or school education. In this session, we define the "media environment" as the third environment in connection with the natural(first) and social(second) environment and discuss the the emerging new sense of form and of time, its originality and the possibilities of sharing, which plays an important part in this new environment.
In addition, the relations between regional characteristics and media environment are reexamined from a new standpoint in terms of creative environment including nature and society.
■Moderator
Kensuke Suzuki(sociologist and main personality of TBS Radio program Life)
■Panelists
Hatsumi Abe(stage director)
Daisuke Tsuda(journalist on IT and music)
Daiya Aida(chief of YCAM education and outreach section)
interpretation is not available; Japanese only
YCAM symposium on its traces and prospect is held to explore further possibilities of art and information media
Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media ［YCAM］, which opened as the base for cultural and informational exchange, celebrates its 5th anniversary this year. To commemorate the occasion, we hold a three-day symposium starting Saturday, November 1, 2008, to introduce the activities and results that YCAM has achieved so far.
Researchers, critics, specialists, artists and YCAM staff, who hold different positions in society, will join the discussion about three topics in terms of the works exhibited at YCAM, their production processes, and their own media education programs. Adopting various ideas of attendants, they will probe deeply into the three topics to search for further possibilities of art and information media, reviewing the tracings of YCAM.
11.1 sat 14:00-16:30
Session1:
The Traces and Prospects of YCAM-commissioned works
─artworks touring worldwide leaving from Yamaguchi─
YCAM has focused on producing and introducing works "now and here," which cannot be produced anywhere else. All sorts of works that have been produced in collaboration with artists, YCAM staff and YCAM InterLab (production section) have been shown widely, touring domestically and internationally after their premiere at YCAM. Moreover, those works are kept updated on a long term.
The artists make a report on how their works were exhibited and how people responded to them at different places in the first half of the session. The second half is dedicated to the discussion about the role of local cultural facilities in today's global society and the future of art and information media.
■Moderator
Miki Fukuda(YCAM InterLab Mannager)
■Panelists
exonemo(art unit / produced OBJECT B in 2006)
Takayuki Fujimoto(director and lighting designer / produced true in 2007)
SeikoMikami (artist / produced gravicells - gravity and resistance in 2005)
YukikoShikata(senior curator of NTT InerCommunication Center ［ICC］/ critic)
Aki Hoashi(art coordinator and coordinator of the Japan Foundation JENESYS Program)
Kazunao Abe(curator of YCAM)
interpretation is not available; Japanese only
11.2 sun 14:00-16:30
Session2:
Media Art and New Production
─the appearance and possibilities of a production community─
The recent production movement that is spreading in the media society is discussed in this session, e.g. peer production in which many people collaborate going beyond a specific company or organization such as open source and wikipedia, as well as free license that promote creativity through sharing and alteration of works, and DIY in which individuals can produce what they want.
Additionally, collaboration works made by YCAM InterLab with artists and engineers at home and abroad are introduced. A new proposal to the work platform models of media art creation will also be presented.
■Moderator
Akihiro Kubota(Artist / Professor of Tama Art University)
■Panelists
Martin Kaltenbrunner (Artist / reacTable developer and researcher of the music technology group, Pompeu Fabra University, Spain)
Fredrik Olofsson(media artist, composer, co-developer of SuperCollider)
Zachary Lieberman(Media artist / co-developer of openFrameworks)
Miki Fukuda(Manager of YCAM InterLab)
* Please note that Mr. Phillip Torrone whom we have announced as a panelist cancelled his visit to Japan. Thank you.
* Simultaneous interpretation is available.
11.3 mon 14:00-16:30
Session3:
Discovering different ways of thinking
─Alternative education from YCAM─
YCAM aims at media education of a new type unhampered by the conventional frameworks of art museum education or school education. In this session, we define the "media environment" as the third environment in connection with the natural(first) and social(second) environment and discuss the the emerging new sense of form and of time, its originality and the possibilities of sharing, which plays an important part in this new environment.
In addition, the relations between regional characteristics and media environment are reexamined from a new standpoint in terms of creative environment including nature and society.
■Moderator
Kensuke Suzuki(sociologist and main personality of TBS Radio program Life)
■Panelists
Hatsumi Abe(stage director)
Daisuke Tsuda(journalist on IT and music)
Daiya Aida(chief of YCAM education and outreach section)
interpretation is not available; Japanese only
