I am compiling this list of web links for those interested in Japanese contemporary arts, media arts or researches in these fields. Artists, academics and institutes listed here are all worth seeing or visiting if you come to the country. I also list some art galleries in Kyoto (my home town) and other cities, for non-Japanese visitors' convenience. Links containing English pages are marked with , except those in "Overseas."

• Masaki Fujihata (Media artist, teaching at Tokyo University of Fine Arts and Music)
• Shigeru Matsui (Poet)
• Masahiro Miwa (Computer music composer, teaching at IAMAS)
• Nobuyasu Sakonda (Computer music composer, teaching at Nagoya University of Arts and Sciences)
• Shozo Shimamoto (Artist)
• Tadasu Takamine (Artist)

• Tetsuhiro Kato (aesthetics, art history / Kwansei Gakuin University)
• Hisashi Muroi (semiotics, theory of cultural information / Yokohama National University)

• Gellery 16 (Closer to Heian Shrine, KYOTO)
• MATSUO MEGUMI +VOICE GALLERY pfs/w (South of the JR Kyoto Station, KYOTO)
• Gallery Sowaka (North of the Toji Temple, KYOTO)
• Gellery HAM (Imaike, NAGOYA)
• Café Parlwr (Sakae, NAGOYA)

• Echigo Tsumari 2009
• The 1st Tokorozawa Biennale 2009

• Aesthetics and History of Arts, Kyoto University
• IAMAS (Institutes of Advanced Media Arts and Sciences / International Academy of Media Arts and Sciences)

• Laurie Toby Edison (Photographer, Los Anegels, USA)
• Trinh T. Minh-ha (Filmmaker and philosopher, Berkeley, USA)
• Christa Sommerer & Laurent Mignonneau (Media artists, Austlia) Interface Culture, Kunstuniversitat Linz
• Marcia Vaitsman (Media artist, Atlanta, USA)
• Aeneas Wilder (Artists, UK/Japan)

• San Francisco Art Institute (USA)
• UCLA Design | Media Arts (USA)