"KIKAIDE MIRUKOTO (Eye Machine/Seeing by Chance)-the Pioneers of Japanese Video Arts-"will be shown in the Art Film Festival in Aich Art Center.detail schedule is in below. Festival program includes Toshio Matsumoto's new series of experimental film, go to see it!

screening date of "KIKAIDE..."
9. Dec(sun.)17:00-18:20// 12. Dec. (wed.)17:40-19:00//2021

The 17th Art Film Festival
4.-16. Dec. 2012(close in 10 Dec)
at 12F Art Space in Aichi Art Center
ask to;E-mail: bunjo@aac.pref.aichi.jp

Kikai de Mirukoto-the Pioneers of Japanese Video Art-

[related artist info]
Takahiko iimura　Performance, Premium Screening, and Talk event

Beaming on frozen frames as a fossil of film from iimura's film works "AI(LOVE)"(1962), "The Masseurs- document of Tatsumi Hijikata Dance Performance"(1963)

venue:Place M 
date: 27 Oct 2012,  open:16:30, Performance+screening 17:00, talk event open:18:30- talk event start:19:00-
fee: all ticket 1500yen, talk event only 900yen
need resavation/ details and ask to Place M

*additional information　
iimura's film works "Kuzu(Junk)"(1962) and "AI(Love)"(1962) are presented in a show "Art Will Thrill You! : The Essence of Modern Japanese Art"(2012.10.16-2013.1.14) in The National Modern Art Museum, Tokyo.

[related artist info]

At Koganecho Bazaar 2012 in Yokohama, Kentaro Taki's"invitation2"(2011, public projection) and "popping town"(2011,public projection) are shown at Kaidan hiroba underneath of Keiyu train line, between Hinodecho sta. and Koganecho sta. (Since projection must be visible night time, please visit there after 17:30. )

Koganecho Bazaar 2012in Yokohama　19 Oct.(fri)- 16 Dec.(sun.) 2012
access map

artist talk 15 Dec. 2012 details are here(Japanese info only)

video documents of former years 

 

< TIME TABLE >
- VIDEO LIVE PERFORMANCES -
20:30- "doSparks" as Shuhei Nishiyama & Sung Nam Han "Tele-permutation - In & Out of Reality and Imagination"
21:30- Masayuki Kawai with Ryota Hamasaki "Video Feedback Live Performance"
23:00- Kentaro Taki & Naoya Ooe "WELTSPIEL- The Flirting World 2:Time-space Assemblage by Electronic Image"

- VJ time - 24:00- Kotaro Tanaka , Seitaro Kokubo
DJs：HORS IS NOT MOBILESET / XU / Julien Sato

In the ASK film festival at Kyobashi, "Kikei de Mirukoto -the Pioneers of Japanese Videoar-" (2011, dir:Kentaro TAKI, prst by VCTokyo, 80min HDV) will be screened. As program F of the festival, and in the second day, a videoart critic, Tomohiro NISHIMURA and director Kentaro TAKI will have a talk about "The past and the future of Videoart".

program F is shown as

1 Aug. (wed.) 13:00- screening only
2 Aug. (thu.) 17:00- screening and talk event (18:30- Tomohiro Nishimura x Kentaro Taki on "the Past and the Future of Videoart")
4 Aug. (sat.) screening only
access to ASK?ArtSpaceKimura is here
Film Festival official site is here

"Kikai de Mirukoto  -the Pioneers of Japanese Videoart-" official web site

HORS PISTES TOKYO 2012

A Film festival from Pompidou Center, Paris "HORS PISTES"'s Tokyo version will be held next month.Masayuki Kawai's"Video Feedback Aleatoric"(2012, 5min) and Kentaro's "Tangram"(3min, 2011) will be shown in this festival.

event date:2-10 June 2012
venue: VACANT, uplink, l'institute, Hara Museum, M Event Space & Bar,WWW
http://www.horspistestokyo.com/

2 Avant-Garde film is released from REF compiled by VIDEOART CENTER Tokyo. Maurice Lemaitre is a main artist of Letterism, which influenced graphic, design , poetry reading, performance, paintings and experimentqal flm.

Maurice Lemaitre
artist. born 1926, Paris. After activities in resistance during WWII, studied at faculty of philosophy in Sorbonne univ. He met Isidor Isou in 1950, participated to Lettrism. He created and worked on the fields of poem, roman, theater piece, painting, photo, film, dance piece, and also economics, philosophy. His original methods in film influenced various film expressions and the followers as nouvel verg or American underground films. 

issued in Jan 2012. price 2940yen(tax incl.)
"how to buy" is here. or also on AMAZON.

  ©Maurice Lemaitre

[related artist info]

a.Kentaro TAKI talk and presentation "crossover of time and space"
25 Feb (sat.) open 18:00 start 19:30　entrance 1,000yen / student 800yen
From Kentaro TAKI's recent pieces as public projection, single channel video, installation and documentary. Taki talks about composition of time and space based on property of video media.
http://blanclass.com/japanese/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/b_2012_1-2.pdf
at blanClass(idogaya, Yokohama)
access:http://blanclass.com/english/?page_id=524
http://blanclass.com

b. Taka iimura's classic and avant-garde 2nd season
talk and live event at KEN(sangenjyaya, Tokyo)

25 Feb.(sat.) 18:00- Takahiko iimura talk and screening /entrance fee:2000yen

4 Mar. (sat.) 1800- Takahiko iimura and live music by Akiko Samukawa / entrance fee:2500yen

5 Mar. (sun.) 18:00- Takahiko iimura and live music by Haruyuki Suzuki / entrance fee:2500yen
atKEN sangenjaya, Tokyo:access 6min from Exit Sancha Patio, Sangenjaya sta.

http://www.kenawazu.com/

c. Masayuki Kawai+Ryota Hamazaki "Video Feedback performance"

24 Sat. March 2012, 18:00-18:30 entrance lobby at Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo

22 Sun. April 2012, 15:30-16:30 Auditorium at Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo
you need ticket for exhibition. details on museum site
connecting to Atsuko TANAKA
http://www.mot-art-museum.jp/exhibition/132/3

photo: image from "Atsuko Tanaka. The Art of Connecting"