Cancellation : Media Art Lecture

Due to difficulty in circumstances, the Media Art Lecture is cancelled at this time.

BACC exhibition dept. sincerely apologize for any inconvenience caused

by this sudden cancellation.

 

BACC Exhibition Dept. 

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MEDIA ARTS Lecture (Closing Activity) 

Speaker: Eishi Katsura

 

Saturday 15 February 2014 at 14:00 hrs.

Auditorium, 5th floor

 

Chronology of Media Art in Japan

This lecture addresses most of media artists in Japan have examined communication as a creative pattern of the relationship between media technology and human identity in the Japanese urbanism. 

Media art in Japan emerged in the late 1970s in reaction to the prevailing ideals of commercialism, the growing commodification and the innovation of media technology. Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, as media art in Japan have intersected with video art, computer-based art, process art, performance art, conceptual art, installation art and relational art, its artists have insisted on the inseparability of the work and its context. In this process, media art has become deeply embedded not only in expanding Japan-specific consumerism, but also the larger sub-cultures market, such like MANGA, ANIME, music, fashion and entertainment.

This lecture, finally, argues that understanding the dynamics of Japanese media art itself cannot be separated from the special features of consumer society in Japan. 

 

EISHI Katsura is a professor of Graduate School of Film and New Media, Tokyo University of the Arts. 

Researching and working across different fields including media, communication and society, Katsura has practiced and redefined conventional media environments, mainly public institution including library, art museum and related complex systems from an aspect of his own unique perspective. 

He has committed to the projects of Sendai Mediatheque (Architect: Toyo Ito), Qatar National Library (Architect: Arata Isozaki, Unbuilt), Musashino Art University Library (Architect: Sou Fujimoto) and more, as a consultant and an adviser.  

Since early1990s, he has been also writing books and articles on the media studies, communication and other related subjects. His writings have also been published in books including “Interactive Mind—from Modern Library to Computer Network” (in Japanese, 1994), “Mythology of Tokyo Disneyland” (in Japanese, 1999) and research articles.

 

For inquiry:

BACC Exhibition Dept. 

02 214 6630-8 [email protected]