Diary of a journey on water--Reflections on Haiku

Paolo Rosa+Tadashi Yokoyama
2/28-3/6
18:00-21:00
Four-season square

This is an interactive installation centering on Ogaki's two major themes: water and haiku. A projection onto a screen in the large space of Shiki no Hiroba, which is close to the remnants of a port associated with the haiku master Basho, is reflected onto the surface of the water and the pictures are synchronized with sound, creating a dreamy world. The themes of the work are lightness, expression through nature and public participation expressed by haiku, and water as the basic element of human life. Students of Brera Academy in Italy, IAMAS and Osaka Denki Tsushin University will take part in the workshop.


Paolo Rosa: He is the leading member of Studio Azzurro, a world-renowned media art group based in Milan and is also senior professor of media art at Brera Academy. The group's work was exhibited in Japan from early on and has many fans. Most of their works are interactive, enabling many people to participate at the same time. Recently, their exhibition "Meditations Mediterranee" , which was the opening pre-event at the Mori Art Museum, was highly acclaimed. This will be his 3rd visit to Ogaki and he will stay for 10 days, creating artwork at a workshop for Italian and Japanese students.


Tadashi Yokoyama: President of IAMAS. He has a background in architecture and has published widely in his field of expertise, namely the history of spacial concepts, but since joining the University of Tokyo he focused on contemporary art. At the University of Tokyo's art museum, he organized the Tokyo version of Marcel Duchamp's "The Large Glass" . He designed an art museum in Niitsu city, Niigata Prefecture and worked on the planning and administration for 2 years during which time he organized the first large-scale exhibition of artworks by Studio Azzurro "Myth through images in 21st century _ touch, tread and call out!" . He has known Paolo Rosa since Studio Azzurro's first exhibition in Japan.










Reading the city : Ogaki

Eric Maillet+Hiroshi Yoshioka
3/1-/6
9:00-21:00
CHEESE CAKE FACTORY 2‚e

This is a workshop where citizens of Ogaki and people from other regions will form groups, and try to clip the everyday life of the city called Ogaki using mobile phones with a camera function.

Eric Maillet: A media artist teaching at Marseille College of Art. He has created numerous works, mainly in France, including CD-ROM works reflecting on interactivity, and multimedia installations using video images. In 2001, he spent 6 months as an artist in residence at the Franco-Japanese Institute in Kansai. In 2002 he produced a video work on the relation between a big sports event and the society, using broadcasts from the soccer World Cup as his material, and presented this work in Japan. During Kyoto Biennale 2003, he conducted the workshop "Reading the City: Kyoto" with fellow artist Jean-Claude, engineer Thierry and IAMAS Professor Yoshioka. This workshop was the prototype of the workshop to be convened in Ogaki for this event.


Hiroshi Yoshioka:Graduated with a Masters Degree from the Philosophy Department, Kyoto University (majoring in Aesthetics). Formerly a professor at Konan University and currently professor at the Institute of Advanced Media Arts and Sciences (IAMAS). Major publications include "Joho to Seimei" , " no Genzaikei" etc. In 1999, he was involved in planning the art exhibition "SKIN-DIVE" centered around the former Tatsuike Elementary School in Kyoto. Following the establishment of the Kyoto Arts Center in 2000, he has been Editor-in-Chief of the critical journal Diatxt. up until its 8th edition and also the director of Kyoto Biennale 2003.










ART and MEDIA: playing with the equipments

Milton Sogabe
3/1-/6
10:00-18:30
Gallery Midori

This is a workshop that will help Brazilian and Japanese citizens of Ogaki to deepen their communication and mutual exchange through creating an artwork. The outcome of their work will be displayed.

Milton Sogabe: Born in Sao Paulo in 1953. Fine arts at Armando Alvares Penteado Foundation. Ph.D in Communication and Semiotics at PUC-SP. Image researcher between art/science/technology. Teacher at Art Institute from the State University of Sao Paulo. Working since 1977 with drawing, painting and printing, after 1987 he begins to work also with the new technologies as xerox, videotext, video, computer, and audio-visual equipment in general. Since 1996 has worked in SCIArts group. s










HAIKU...and I am a part

Wolf Helzle
2/21-3/7
Yanagen Department store facade & Moriya Tadashi Museum facade 18:00-21:00,
Yanagen's Benetton shop show window 10:00-21:00, Ogaki city hall 10:00-17:00
21. Feb. (Sat.) - 7. Mar. (Sun.)  Ogaki city hall: Closed on Sat. & Sun.

The familiar faces of Ogaki City residents will transfer into unfamiliar foreign faces one by one. This is a declaration that we are one, going beyond the borders of race, gender or generation. Please participate in this project at the City Hall's filming corner and other venues. You will be able to see the resulting artwork in Yanagen's Benetton shop show window and other places in Ogaki.

Media artist Wolf Helzle, born in Goppingen, South Germany, studied painting in Stuttgart and Kassel. After a 20 year phase of working in the soft- and hardware industry and also to feed his family with three children, he came back to full time art practice and began to create works with computers, video and photography. One of his central questions: "What is the relationship between the individual and the species?"














Time Machine!

Masayuki Akamatsu
2/21-3/7
10:00-20:00
CALM

This work processes on a computer and displays footage of the audience taken by a video camera. The member of the audience is able to see him/herself on screen, but a variety of visual effects are added, such as the delay or accumulation of time, and showing the movement trajectory or overhead view. This device is designed to race around "time" through sight, and evoke a kind of time and existence that we are usually not aware of. The device will be installed in front of the stairs of the station building and everyone who walks past or stops in front of the device will be captured by the camera and fade into the depths of the memory.

Masayuki Akamatsu: Since 1980, Akamatsu has been creating a variety of media art works using computers including music, video images and networks. His major works include "incubator" , which was created using 50 computers, and the book "Trans Max Express" (co-author).












seeking ways to RAKUDO

Gokuraku brothers
2/21-3/7
Weekdays: 17:00-21:00, Sat.&Sun.: 13:00-21:00
The underground path in front of Ogaki station south exit

This time, the group will scribble as graffiti on the wall of the underground path leading from Ogaki Station's south exit: "The world that we all long for" . They will also post this on an internet message board. So, these two dialogues will be started simultaneously in public spaces. What is Ôheaven on earth' for humans living in this complex world? They will create a temporary space for exposing this dialogue process.

Gokuraku brothers: In 2001, Masakazu Saito, Susumu Hakumae and Noriaki Ogasawara formed the group "GOKURAKU Brothers" at IAMAS. The group explores the muddled world at the intersection between a place's individual (local) peculiarities and global characteristics, between what is private and what is public, and between reality and the virtual world. Since 2002, beginning with "Human Desire" (Hito no yokubo), the group has produced some installation in various places. The group continues to facilitate ways to create dialogue with as many people as possible.












iamasTV

iamasTV
2/21-3/6 (Closed on Sun.)
9:00-21:00
CHEESE CAKE FACTORY 2F

A 15-minute TV program broadcast every month on Ogaki Cable TV. Students, mainly from the Academy CGI course are responsible for its production. At first, the broadcasts were mainly used for introducing IAMAS to the community, however they gradually diverged into radical comedy, introducing the audience to a world that cannot usually be seen on TV.












CANARY time

Atsuko Uda
2/21-3/7 (Closed on Mon.)
9:30-19:00
Cafe KISSA CANARY

Cafe KISSA CANARY is a very small Cafe.
Only 7 customers can be seated at one time. The owner smiles and says "we like doing things in a relaxed way" . Atsuko Uda absorbs the atmosphere of the Canary Cafe and reflects this in her works relating to time.

Atsuko Uda:Born in Kanagawa. In 1996 she graduated in interior design from Tama Art University. She will graduate from IAMAS with a Masters degree in March 2004. Since 2001 she has been working freelance as a video editor. http://www.iamas.ac.jp/~makura












Media YATAI

Media YATAI (street stalls) Project
2/21, 22, 28, 29, 3/6, 7
17:00-21:00 Ote Ikoi-no-izumi

Media YATAI was developed as a movable image space to explore new image expressions with the aim of merging well-known traditional Japanese theatre such as kami-shibai (picture card show) with digital technology, and providing the chance for interaction between the creator and the audience. Tsuyoshi Nishino and Taishi Yamamoto will, using their bodies, perform a screen show to the audience who will surround the YATAI (portable stall).

Media YATAI (street stalls) Project: A joint project with IAMAS and Gifu Academy of Forest Science and Culture.












Optical Interface

Anybody Project aka Team
2/28, 3/7
13:00-17:00
GLAMDY WEST Building

The participant wears a kind of glasses that have a video camera attached and then what he/she sees is experienced as video images after being processed by a computer. The work's aim is for image conversion over time and space to bring about a visual transformation, inducing re-acknowledgment of mental processing and bodily activity. The participant goes about ordinary daily activities in a room of an apartment, but this device is designed to create spectacular and strange effects. Contact Kimura to reserve a time: 090-8176-8136.

Anybody Project aka Team: The group is one of four engaged in the "Body Project" within IAMAS. They conduct experiments and creative activities focused on the cultural construction of the body derived from visual experiences. The members are Masayuki Akamatsu, Nobuhisa Ishizuka, Noriyuki Kimura, Tetsuma Doi, Satoshi Horii, and Noriko Matsumoto.












Animation evening "Winter Days" Screening + Creative experience corner

Animation evening "Winter Days" Screening + Creative experience corner
2/21, 22, 28, 29?A3/6, 7
19:00-
Machizukuri Plaza (City Planning Plaza)

The top animators of today created animations on the theme of one haiku each from the famous Basho's haiku compilation "Winter Days" . The result is a beautiful omnibus style animation work. This image work took the Grand prize in the Animation category at the Cultural Affairs Agency 2003 Media Art Festival and is a must to see for haiku and Basho fans. An event that will allow you to experience animation creation will also be carried out at the venue.










bounce street

Mika Miyabara + Tatsuo Sugimoto
2/21, 22, 28, 29, 3/5, 6
18:00-21:00
No performance on rainy days.
The Square in front of Ogaki Kyoritu Bank main office

On a street corner, a variety of colors appear and disappear. This work expresses the changing colors of the town by transforming the scene into an animation with a bouncing ball together with sound. The artist will take a video of the changing faces of the town and its residents. The images shot will immediately become an animated work with a bouncing ball and will be projected on the wall of a building. The people who pass in front of the video camera will be able to enjoy participating in the changing colors of the town.

Mika Miyabara and Tatsuo Sugimoto have been working individually on their own creative activities at the same time as working in collaboration since 2000 at IAMAS (Gifu Prefectural International Academy of Media Arts and Sciences). Currently their activities are not limited to media art.












IAMAS2004 and Annex, Kuruwa

2/26-29  13:00-21:00
3/1-4  17:00-21:00
GLAMDY WEST building 2F

This year, the IAMAS Graduate Exhibition will be held in two locations: the main hall at Softopia Japan, and an annex in the GLAMDY WEST building. Please come and enjoy both the exhibition in the ordered space of the main hall, as well as the very different atmosphere of the annex.












The Aesthetic of Business Culture

2/21-3/7
Weekdays: 17:00-21:00  Sat.&Sun.: 13:00-21:00
Juroku Bank Ogaki branch old office

Media artworks created by IAMAS students and graduates will be displayed. Thus the large business space of a bank will be transformed into an art space.

credit, scale, rule: Daiya Aida
bank holiday: Yosuke Hayashi
Optional: Satoshi Horii
Heaven's Eye: Nobuhisa Ishizuka
How-to-Bow: Nora Krug
Vomoder: Ryota Kuwakubo
a case of city: Noriko Matsumoto
Bug???: Etsuko Maesaki
sideview of the movie: Ryu Okazaki + Ichitaro Masuda
THE HISTORY OF FINANCE: SASAKAMABOKO
The Affair: Yuki Shibata
Rain: Takuo Yamada












Global and Local Culture

2/21-3/7
Weekdays: 17:00-21:00  Sat.&Sun.: 13:00-21:00
Shinko Securities old office

Artworks of the winners of the International Media Art contest held by IAMAS jointly with UNESCO last summer will be exhibited here. A traditional African house will serve as the stage for the artwork by Chanda Mwenya an artist from Zambia who took the first prize.

Caught in the Web: Chanda Mwenya
Mouse Says: click! and Human Says: eek!: URTICA
Ephemeral Gumboots: Cobi van Tonder
Weather Works: Andrea Polli
VERTICES:Beirut-Dublin-Seoul: Hisham M. Bizri












Transformative Nature

2/21-3/7
Weekdays: 17:00-21:00  Sat.&Sun.: 13:00-21:00
Shinko Securities old office

We will present a media artwork with the theme of natural phenomena. 2 foreign research students, who study at IAMAS now, created it.

The Evolving Oblique: Joanna Walker+Steffen Bluemm
Moony: Akio Kamisato, Satoshi Shibata, Takehisa Mashimo