Masayuki Kawai with Ryota Hamasaki <Video Feedback Live Performance>

Date: December 22 (Thu.), 2011 Start 20:00
Ticket: 1,800JPY
at Tokyo Wonder Site Shibuya

"No PC, no pre-recorded image, no musical instrument". An improvised performance with analogue video feedback. Flickering video signals create synchronized beat and melody. An explosion of abstract and psychedelic image and sound!!! (Equipment sponsored by BENQ Japan Co,. Ltd.)

<prof.>Masayuki Kawai, He makes radical and philosophical video works, and has shown in over 30 countries. Stayed in artist-in-residencies in NY, Paris and Israel. He also actively organizes exhibitions and various projects of video art, based on the concept of "Visual Philosophy".
Ryota Hamasaki, He explores video art to criticize and overcome the present situation of contemporary art.

Documentary video screening about the Early Japanese Videoart
"Kikai de Mirukoto -Eye Machine/Seeing by chance-"

date: 15 Thr. Dec 2011 19:00-20:45 (open:18:30)
venue: Okuma Auditorium/Small hall, Waseda University
screening: "Kikai de Mirukoto -Eye Machine/Seeing by chance-" (HDV/2011/75min) japanese only
lecturer:Kentaro TAKI

Appearing Artist:
Kohei ANDO, Michael GOLDBERG, Sakumi HAGIWARA, Mako IDEMITSTU, Takahiko iimura, Nobuhiro KAWANAKA, Hakudo KOBAYASHI, Shigeko KUBOTA, Toshio MATSUMOTO, Ko NAKAJIMA, Katsuhiro YAMAGUCHI, Keigo YAMAMOTO, Morihiro WADA

Connected People:
Shuya ABE(engineer of Nam June Paik), Barbara LONDON, Yoshimi NARA, Tomohiro NISHIMURA, Ann ADACHI, Rebecca CLEMAN, Yoshitaka SHIMANO, Hiroaki SATO, Nariaki SASAKI, Keisuke OKI, Takashi ECHIGOYA, Yoshiharu HAMASAKI, Yoshitomo MORIOKA, Peter WEIBEL,

presented by VCT/VIDEOART CENTER Tokyo
co-presented byKawaguchi Art School of Waseda University
supported by The Japan World Exposition 1970 Commemorative Fund

Zushi Film Festival 2011 calls for 1minute video based on theme "Visual Time Capsule".The applied video pieces will be compiled to one long film and be showed in Zushi Film Festival, Kanagawa pref. , Japan, 10, 11 Dec. 2011.

You can put any 1 minute video

 

1. Shoot 1 minute video based on theme "Visual Time Capsule"

2. No need to edit, no specific sound track, no credit on it, but just should be in 1 minute.

3. If you are Facebook user, just visit our information site, and link your video on the wall. (with any comments, it’s nice!)

http://www.facebook.com/ZushiTimeCapsule

If you're not Facebook user, you can put your video on Youtube and let us know it's link URL, please.

4. Please tell us your name, living place, e-mail addres to us by e-mail.

e-mail to : zushi_film_fes@yahoo.co.jp

 

what kind of 1 minute video? You can also check contributions of the other participants on our information site.

http://www.facebook.com/ZushiTimeCapsule

 

Deal line 26. Nov. 2011

 

Thank you for your cooperation!

[related artist info]
Masayuki Kawai with Ryota Hamazaki will have video feedback performance in the event"AN EXPERIMENT IN MORGANA vol.44" at Morgana . About 20:50-21:20.
time 19 Aug. 2011/ open 18:30 charge 1,500yen+drink

Kokubunji Morgana
walk 7min from JR station, Kokubunnji, TEL:042-323-7467
http://www.h2.dion.ne.jp/~morgana/

Latest live document with 2 video artists M. Kawai and R. Hamazaki

VCTokyo presents a documentary video "Kikai de Mirukoto - the pioneers of Japanese videoarts", with oral history and exact video pieces of early video artists in Japan.

We plan to show this documentary in film festival in public this year. You can get more information in this site or join to our mail news.

HDV,  65min, 2011
director: Kentaro TAKI, camera:Naoya OOE
presented by VCT/VIDEOART CENTER Tokyo

subsidied by
JEC Fund Project(2011)

KDDI　Foundation (2007)