ISEA2002 Art Event Overview

October 27 (Sun.)-31 (Thu.)

Warehouse No.4, Garden Pier in port of Nagoya Warehouse No.20, Garden Pier in port of Nagoya Oimatsu Park

For exhibitions at warehouse No.4 and warehouse No.20 in the port of Nagoya, we had 396 entries. From the 96 works which passed the judging, 55 works were exhibited in the site. We had many large installations, works connected to the internet, and interactive pieces using moving images which took the leading part of the show. We also had a presentation of work at Oimatsu Park in the central area of the city.

October 25 (Fri.)-30 (Wed.) Oasis21: Sakae Park

Artists : ISHII Haruo, HITSUDA Tamami, MAEBAYASHI Akitsugu, YOSHIOKA Toshinao, vokoi kazunovsky, the-phone-book Limited

“alternative moments” is a media art exhibition at a popular open-air public space in the city. Works with moving images, music, sound and light took turns in various ways. ISHII Haruo had an installation work which allowed public participation by experiencing the moment of the undergoing changes from twilight to night with the lights and the sound from the speakers. HITSUDA Tamami and YOSHIOKA Toshinao created an open-air theater and put a series of video works on the screen. MAEBAYASHI Akitsugu’s portable [auditory organ] was a unique one where you can experience the manipulated sound environment of your surroundings. “the-phone-book Limited” had a project that transmitted moving images with mobile phones and they could be experienced on the site. Those works got people coming and going and got them involved with and in the open atmosphere showing them the upcoming way of media art should be while they felt the autumn air and the passage of time.

[e] is a place for you and us to meet and communicate to each other. This time, we held our event at SHUMOKU-KAN, which is an old, western style house and is going to be broken down next year. We want to have a good time together at [e] with various guests through our exhibition, workshops and cafe.

October 24 (Thu.) – November 3 (Sun.)
Port of Nagoya Public Aquarium / The Museum of Contemporary Art, Nagoya

Artist: KAWARASAKI Takamitsu

The works for the exhibition are video installations in front of a large scale pool for dolphins and in the cafe space of the museum . The exhibition is de signed to make the audience be conscious of water.

October 25 (Fri.)-November 4 (Mon.)
Warehouse No.20, Garden Pier in port of Nagoya
Director: MEDIYAN

October 22 (Tue.)-November 3 (Sun.) NAGOYA CITIZENS’ GALLERY YADA

Mental rotation is the act in your head of rotating an image in an analog way to recognize the certain image. Images in your mind are not processed digitally with linguistic symbols, but processed in an analog way with real images.

In this exhibition named “mental rotation” works are represented in all sorts of technique like drawings, three dimensional works, moving images, music, picture story shows, and performances. These representations confuse, bewilder, excite, bemuse, and interest the audience. They are also images of uncovered emotions and desires which rotate in the artists’ inner world and overflow from them.

October 22 (Tue)-November 3 (Sun) NAGOYA CITIZENS’ GALLERY YADA

Co-organizer: Center for Art, Seian University of Art and Design
Curator: NAGAO Hiroyuki (Artist, Seian University of Art and Design)

This exhibition consists of mostly paintings, some photography, and video works by 10 artists , The respective works have conventional themes for painting like remembrance, visual perception with light and narrative, to the style of dramatic scenes, landscape, portrait, and still life, On the other hand, artists also try to use various materials, techniques, and space composition to sever conventional styles and contexts of painting as they were after pop art and minimalism because of the existence of photography as a popular expression. We have the tacit question that asks if the world we are looking at has authenticity, prepared for our information oriented society, in which time is edited and remote controlled in moving images? Painting can still be “immortal” by taking the point of view of moving images because, it repetitively creates a universal value. Here you meet the scene of the most thrilling speculation for our visual sensation which is about to fall into frivolity.

October 27 (Sun.)-November 24 (Sun.)
Nagoya City Art Museum Co-organizer: U.S. Consulate Nagoya / Nagoya American Center, Nagoya City Art Museum

Jim CAMPBELL’s “Date & Time” exhibition was held at Nagoya City Art Museum. It is his first major one person exhibition in Japan. 29 works among his latest including “Running, FallingCut”(2001) were exhibited at this show.

CAMPBELL’s works are characterized with his excellent knowledge of practical technique, intellectual arousing capacity and pictorial beauty, and the harmony between them. Especially in his latest works there is a “stillness” like paintings or drawings and eliminates so-called media art taste. If media art or art & technology would be reconnected to the stream of contemporary arts, this should be one way it should be. The exhibition was planned by the artist and became a simple one according to CAMPBELL’s intention.

October 27 (Sun.)-31 (Thu.)
Warehouse No.20, Garden Pier in port of Nagoya
Organizer: Aventis Foundation Produced by: Zentrum fur Kunst und Medientechnologie Karlsruhe (ZKM)

Cooperation with: INUI Yoshikazu, KANECHIKU Hiroshi, Volker KUCHELMEISTER, NISHINO Takashi, HAYASHI lkumasa

October 15 (Tue.)

Towers Plaza Hall, 12F JR Central Towers

Organizer: 2001-bu

October 26 (Sat.)-November 3 (Sun.)
Tsukijiguchi-Port of Nagoya Area / KIGUTSU

Organizer: @port02 Executive Committee Minato Ward Office (Nishi Tsukiji District Council, Tsukijiguchi Shopping District Association, Port of Nagoya Shopping District Association, N-mark)
Sponsor: Asahi Breweries, Ltd., Toyota Motor Corporation, MEIKO TRANS CO.,LTD., FUJITRANS CORPORATION, ISEWAN TERMINAL SERVICE CO.,LTD, Japan Freight Railway Company, Satsumaya Co., Ltd. Support: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION, Yupo Corporation

November 5 (Tue.)-1 0 (Sun.)
NAGOYA CITIZENS’ GALLERY YADA

Organizer: Nagoya Zokei University of Art & Design,
Nagoya Zokei junior College of Art & Design

October 26 (Sat)-November 8 (Fri.)
Gallery BE & be, Nagoya University of Arts
Organizer: Nagoya University of Arts

October 27 (Sun.)-31 (Thu.)
Media Center, Nagoya Kogakuin College 1 F
Organizer: Aichi Sangyo University, Nagoya Kogakuin College
Cooperation: Nagoya Visual Design College, Nagoya College of Design

October 27 (Sun.)-31 (Thu.)
Warehouse NO.20, Garden Pier in port of Nagoya

October 23 (Wed.)-November 4 (Mon.)
Exchange Forum, NADYA Park SF
Organizer: Computer Labo Exhibition Executive Committee

October 28 (Mon.)-October 31 (Thu.)
Galleria Finarte

October 15 (Tue,)-November 2 (Sat.)
Westbeth Gallery Kozuka, Director: KOZUKA Marie

October 28 (Mon.)-November 2 (Sat.), Westbeth Gallery Kozuka

October 11 (Fri.)-November 2 (Sat.)
Gallery Celler

October 8 (Tue.)-November 3 (Sun.)
Heartfield Gallery

September 29 (Sun.)-December 15 (Sun.)
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Nagoya

In the venue, 34 works were put on the screen out of the 40 works which passed the judging. Each work could also be seen from archives on the computer screens installed in the room.

Sonimation investigates the shared language of composer and animator and features six new collaborative films from some of the UK’s most exciting emerging artists. An intensive arts project that brought together a range of organisations and individuals between September 2000 and September 2001, Sonimation set out to provide a structure of support – financial, technical, promotional, and moral – to encourage truly collaborative work, and went on to promote the results as far and wide as possible. Sonimation’s pursuit of synthesis between sound and animation is not a new venture yet it remains a significant objective given new slant in the digital age. The project called upon both history and tradition and on more contemporary issues of technology to pursue the idea of a “joint imagination”. Sonimation was produced by Sonic Arts Network, the UK’s only arts organisation exclusively devoted to electronic music and the sonic arts.

The thirteen artists selected to participate in Sonimation were drawn from an open, national call for proposals. Their biographies are diverse and they include graduates from the UK’s National Film of School and Television, lecturers and students alike, individuals employed in the film and N industries and electro-acoustic and techno-coustic composers from the internationally acclaimed Rephlex Records label. Between them their work has been seen or heard on BBC radio and TV, Channel 4, Anglia N and Granada N in the UK, all of the major film festivals in the UK and a number of international animation and contemporary music festivals.

October 26 (Sat.)-31 (Thu.)
Assembly Hall, Nagoya Port Building 4F
The dawn of “Video Art” started to form simultaneously with the personalization of video equipment which used to belong to special facilities like public broadcasting stations. There was a time, you had to wander from place to place to get the equipment you wanted. It was an era where 8mm film was still spry. Video Art should do something film that TV can not do. was the slogan of video artists at the time. In this exhibition, we present works exhibited in the early decade of video art in Japan.

Together with the ISEA2002 Official Concert program, three live-electronics works were performed as invited pieces from Japanese Society for Electronic Music CTSEM).

October 30 (Wed.) “Fuji” Antarctic Museum
LIVE ACTS: hoon (code), PITA (Austria/mego), hecker (Austria/mego ,OR), Philippe Chatelain (trance), TERA (ARch), Lozi (ARch), Anagma (ARch)

November 1 (Fri.) Diamond Hall
LIVE & DJ ACTS:
PanSonic (finland/BLAST FIRST), Richard Devine (u.s/WARP, Schematic), POLE (germany/-scape), DJ KARAFUTO aka. Fumiya Tanaka (TOREMA), Yoshihiro Hanno (Cirque/PROGRESSIVE FOrM), lichtsport (germany/sonar music), Discom (trance/deco), AOKI takamasa (PROGRESSIVE FOrM), dublee (traum), Ogisopan (THANKSGIVING), Akira tanaka&all of the world (+cross/THANKSGIVING), Portable (k)ommunity, Clickety and Clack (PROGRESSIVE FOrM), Popgun (ARch), Vokoi Kazunovski (ARch)

VISUAL: lichtsport (germany/sonar music), Naohiro Ukawa (MOM/N/DAD PRODUCTIONS), CHROMA (rat.id), Portable(k)ommunity, 71 O.beppo (ARch)

Warehouse No.20, Garden Pier in port of Nagoya October 28 (Mon.)
getaway vacation 2002 – dj•vj:naito (bpm production), and more
October 29 (Tue.)
lichtsport, PITA, invisible structure, etc.

October 25 (Fri.)-November 10 (Sun.) canolfan
Artists: AOKI Takamasa (PROGRESSIVE FOrM), Ryoichi KUROKAWA, ogurusu norihide, OK-3

November 1 (Fri.) Planetarium, Nagoya City Science Museum (NCSM)
Science Talk: Nagoya City Science Museum (Curator: MOURI Katsuhiro)
Music: Japanese Society for Electronic Music+ Computer Music Laboratory SEA, YOSIO Masatsune, TERAI Naoyuki, MOMOI Seiji, YOSHIHARA Taro, OHKOUCHI Toshinori
Visual Image: Nagoya City Science Museum
Organizer: Nagoya City Science Museum, JSEM, SEA

October 27 (Sun,)-30 (Wed,) OSU GOODWILL Entertainment Digital Mall Boyds

Barista Coffee Director: OENOKI Jun, TSUDA Yoshinori Cooperation with: ITAGAKI Hanae, SUZUKI Sachie, TAKASHIMA Mitsuko, TANAKA Daisuke, OKUMURA So, MATSUBARA Mikoto, KATO Hideyuki, MAEHARA Kenji, TAKAMURA Natsuko, YAMAMOTO Masayo

October 27 (Sun.) Departure 19:00
From Nagoya harbor boarding place
Support: AMARI Ayu, KAWABATA Salomi, BABA Akiko Plan: OKAGAWA Takuji Cooperation: Higashiyama Garden

Yakata-bune, a Japanese houseboat used as a wagon boat for noble sightseeing, tax carriering, and merchant shipping. In the Tokugawa period, its use changed and became an excursion boat for cherry blossom viewing, enjoying the cool evening, fireworks, and viewing the moon. In the present, emphasis is laid on the experience of being aboard it and thus works as the moving public space.

YAKATA is the on board event where you experience the space called Yakata-bune through various media. It had about 2 hour dense program with moving images, music, comic stories, real time net streaming, etc.

Today’s menu (From YAKATA Program)

Boarding
Opening Address
Introduction and General Information about YAKATA
Departing Ceremony with Conch Horn
-USUSU PROCESS 2002 Autumn-Winter [the first half]-
5 minutes break
Live Performance: “Waraimochi Night” by Bracken-Starch Dumpling Lovers Club (PHIRIP, Danshaku, Lemon chan and IWATA Eiichi)
5 minutes break
Live performance: Ultra Living (Visual Collaboration: OKAMOTO Akio)
5 minutes break
Screening: “Tamafure ver. 1 .4” by IKEDA Yasunori
-USUSU PROCESS 2002 Autumn-Winter [the last half]-
Closing Address
Arrival