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Video Sparks/Reflexive　2014-2015

Video Sparks/Reflexive　2014-2015

Art Promenade in ASAGAYA/ “Wall to Wall”

date: 20(fri.)-22(sun.)Feb. + 27(fri.)Feb.-1(sun.)Mar. 2015
venue: several places around Asagaya sta. and TAV Gallery

Hakudo Kobayashi's video performance”AQUA WORKS 2015”

date: 24(sat.) January 2015
venue: Sakaiki

talk session"Aqua Works 2015":
Hakudo Kobayashi&Yasuno Miyauchi ( Japanese only)

Asia- Vacuumed Cityscape

date: 15(sat.) Nov. 2014

venue: Sakaiki

VIDEOREFLEXIVE Vol.3 Video : Collage / Montage
vol.1 Kentaro TAKI Video Collage/Puzzling
7 Nov.(fri.) 2014
vol.2 Shuhei NISHIYAMA Video Montage/Shredding
14 Nov.(fri.) 2014

talk session: Kentaro Taki & Masahiro Hiramoto( Japanese only)
talk session Shuhei Nishiyama & Ryo Sawayama( Japanese only)

Video reflexive series
Ko NAKAJIMA Video Vicissitudes
vol.1 Generation and Vicissitude of Media
10(fri.) Oct 2014
vol.2 5th Elements of Video Art
17(fri.) Oct 2014
Venue: UPLINK 1F factory(shibuya, Tokyo)

talk session Ko Nakajima & Sen Uesaki (Japanese only)
talk session: Ko Nakajima & Christophe Charles (Japanese only)

INSPIRATION AND TRANSFORMATION by Madelon Hooykaas　 the Netherlands’video pioneer from the 70's till now

Date: 1 June(sun.) 2014
Venue: Sakaiki

artist talk: Madelon Hooykaas(japanese only)

Video Sparks/Reflexive　2014-2015の続きを読む

By ビデオアートセンター東京 on April 9, 2016 8:40 AM | Permalink

Masayuki Kawai solo exhibition@ Galelry alpha-M

[related artist info]
Masayuki Kawai solo exhibition

website http://gallery-alpham.com/exhibition/2015_6/
carator: Kazuhiro Yamamoto
dates: 19th December (Sat) -6th February (Sat) open: 11:00-19:00 free admission closed on Sundays, Mondays and public holidays

artist talk: 19th December (Sat) 18:00-19:00
opening reception: 19th December (Sat) 19:00-
venue：gallery αＭ

B1F, Agata-takezawa Bldg. 1-2-11 Higashi-kanda, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 101-0031 Japan
tel: 03-5829-9109
organized by Musashino Art University

By ビデオアートセンター東京 on December 6, 2015 11:46 AM | Permalink

the meeting for the study group of Video Art
guest: Chris Meigh-Andrews

[related event
]the meeting for the study group of Video Art -vol.13

12 Oct. (mon.) 17:00-19:30
Venue:co-lab Shibuya 2F meeting room3 (Udagawacho 42-6, Shibuyaku, Tokyo) http://www.vctokyo.org/en/2012/01/vctokyo-office.html

(front door is locked, please call me with number below, if you’re later to come.)

Theme:"The emergence of early artists' video in Europe & the USA and its’ relationship to broadcast TV"

For researching and study meeting of video art, this time we will invite Chris Meigh-Andrews, a media artist and a researcher from England. Meigh-Andrews introduces British video art history and also his own activities, based on his book, A History of Video Art(published by Sangensha, 2013).

(capacity of room is 20 people, and for references/hand outs, please tell us your presence before the day. )

Guest panelist: Chris Meigh-Andrews (Emeritus Professor of Electronic & Digital Art at the University of Central Lancashire, Visiting Professor at the Centre for Moving Image Research in the Faculty of Arts)

http://www.meigh-andrews.com/
http://www.sangensha.co.jp/Author/author-Meigh-Andrews_Chris.htm
(publishing information in Japanese)

contact: Kentaro Taki Videoart Center Tokyo
c/o Co-lab Shibuya, Udagawacho 42-6, Shibuyaku, Tokyo
O8O-4355-1721
Japanese information in JASIAS is here

By ビデオアートセンター東京 on September 26, 2015 9:35 AM | Permalink

Interdisciplinary Art Festival Tokyo 15/16 starts!

[related artist info]
IAFT 15/16

“Interdisciplinary Art” is the art which is not classed to categories to cross over genre or fields. Artists who mainly act in genre of theater, video, music, puppets show and etc. gather and express their genre-less /borderless art works and performances at many places in Tokyo for this art festival. And 2 Korean artists are curated shows their works and spirited art critics and curators in Japan and Korea have symposiums. Details of project are informed on web site.

offical web site: http://i-a-f-t.net/
Venue：UPLINK、VACANT、BLOCK HOUSE, Kidairack Hall, MITSUME

Presented by：Interdisciplinary Art Festival Tokyo
Supported by：Arts Council Tokyo
Under the auspices of：THE JAPAN-KOREA CULTURAL FOUNDATION, KOREAN CULTURAL CENTER, KOREAN EMBASSY IN JAPAN, 50th Anniversary of Normalization of Japan-South Korea Relations Memorial Project

By ビデオアートセンター東京 on September 22, 2015 11:31 AM | Permalink

Video and Before: Five Japanese Pioneers, N.Y.

ヴィデオアートのパイオニアの作品がNYで上映されます。VCTokyoはプログラム作成に協力しました。

Video and Before: Five Japanese Pioneers
Friday, September 11, 2015 6:30pm 8:00pm
Video and Before: Five Japanese Pioneers Works by Takahiko Iimura, Toshio Matsumoto, Ko Nakajima, Katsuhiro Yamaguchi, and Fujiko Nakaya

*Image: Still from Ko Nakajima, What is Photography?, 1976. Courtesy the artist

Date: Friday, September 11, 6:30 pm
Location: NYU Silver Center, Room 301 (enter at 32 Waverly Place)
Duration: 75 minutes screening + 15 minutes talk
Selected by: Ann Adachi (Collaborative Cataloging Japan), Christophe Charles (Musashino Art University), and Hirofumi Sakamoto (Wakkanai Hokusei Gakuen University/Postwar Japan Moving Image Archive) Technical Support, in part by: Hirofumi Sakamoto; Christophe Charles; Collaborative Cataloging Japan; and Kentaro Taki, VIDEOART CENTER Tokyo

By ビデオアートセンター東京 on August 31, 2015 11:18 AM | Permalink

VIDEOs -Critical Dreams-@MORI YU GALLERY, Kyoto

[related artist info]
5 artists' group show "VIDEOs -Critical Dreams-" will be held in MORI YU GALLERY, Kyoto.

artists: Kentaro TAKI, Masayuki KAWAI, Ryota HAMASAKI, Shuhei NISHIYAMA, Sung Nam HAN

22 Aug.(sat. )-20 Sep.(sun.) 2015
open:12:00-19:00, (close Mon. Tue. and national holiday)

venue: MORI YU GALLERY
tel：075-950-5230 fax：075-950-5240
http://www.moriyu-gallery.com/

By ビデオアートセンター東京 on August 26, 2015 10:19 AM | Permalink

group exhibition by artists from the UK & Japan

[related artist info]

"absolute now"
group exhibition by artists from the UK & Japan
2015.09.05 sat - 10.11 sun wed - sat 14:00 - 21:00
sun & mon 11:00 - 18:00 closed on tue ¥500 (includes 1 drink)

venue: atsukobarouh arts drinks talk
tel：03-6427-8048 www.atsukobarouh.com

exhibiting artists
Rieko Akatsuka | sculpture with moving image
George Barber | video
Masayuki Kawai | video noise
Kaz | experiential video installation
Guy Sherwin | 16mm film installation
Tereza Stehlíková | video

Curated by Kaz | Kaz

Supported byThe British Council

group exhibition by artists from the UK & Japanの続きを読む

By ビデオアートセンター東京 on August 25, 2015 2:01 PM | Permalink

Relative events: Joining HorsPistesJapon2015

In art and moving image festivalHors Pistest Japon, 2 videoartists, Masa Kawai and Kentaro Taki are joining several events. br />
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Kyoto
21 June (sun.)　17:00-　　Video Feedback Performance
venue: Institute France-Kansai-Kyoto
Live performance Masayuki Kawai with Ryota Hamasaki
free admission

Tokyo
"Come and Go” a street video projection performance
by Kentaro Taki
13 June(sat.) 20:00-20:30 start at Bunmei, goals to Institute France Tokyo

By ビデオアートセンター東京 on June 19, 2015 8:45 PM | Permalink

Video Art Promenade in ASAGAYA/ “Wall to Wall”

Video documentation and photos of "Video Art Promenade in ASAGAYA/ Wall to Wall" held in February-Mar 2015!

By ビデオアートセンター東京 on April 21, 2015 9:53 AM | Permalink

Video Art Promenade in ASAGAYA

Video Art Promenade in ASAGAYA/ “Wall to Wall”

Hunt for the video art hidden in the city light!

Overview of the project:
This art project let audience to seek and observe the works located in the various parts of the city. A word, 'Promenade' is originated in France, means taking a nice long walk. Audience searche for an art work with a map that’s provided for them. Without worrying about the “rules” of the art , they are able to enjoy the work fully with their own moment and the space. Rather than having art show in ordinary indoor spaces, such as theater or the museum, we are setting up a stage in the several places in urban city (Wall to Wall) to invite audiences into unexpected encounter with the work of imagery= video art.

date: 20(fri.)-22(sun.)Feb. + 27(fri.)Feb.-1(sun.)Mar. 2015
17:30-20:30
venue: several places around Asagaya sta. and TAV Gallery
fee: 1000yen(1drink+exhibition map)

[artists]
Ryota HAMASAKI / Sung Nam HAN / Masayuki KAWAI / Ko NAKAJIMA / Shuhei NISHIYAMA / Kentaro TAKI / Keigo YAMAMOTO and more....

presented by VIDEOART CENTER Tokyo
cooperated by TAV Gallery, Gallery Hakusen, Asagaya Art Street
S_upported byArts Council Tokyo

How to access
Video screenings are interspersed around the town. For looking for video pieces, you need exhibition map, which shows also drinks, foods and local information. Let's get the exhibition map at TAV gallery at first!

beggining point: TAV Gallery
From North exit of Asagaya sta. (JR chuo line), across Nakasugi -dori street to SEIYU super market, and walk along with the street to north direction, after 300m, right side, a corner of white building is TAV gallery
http://tavgallery.com/access/

google map

Video Art Promenade in ASAGAYAの続きを読む

By ビデオアートセンター東京 on February 6, 2015 8:49 AM | Permalink

"AQUA WORKS 2015”

[VideoSparks Series]
Hakudo KOBAYASHI's video performance”AQUA WORKS 2015”
(with live sound by Tsumugine)

Hakudo KOBAYASHI is one of the pioneers of videoart in Japan. This program shows his retrospective and new video perforomance with live sound. Look! Hakudo's first calligraphy of the year on video monitor!

date: 24(sat.) January 2015 start:19:00 - 21:00 (open:18:30-)
venue: Sakaiki http://sakaiki.modalbeats.com/
access: click
entrance fee:1500yen (with 1 drink)

[screening program]
Kunya Kunya （1973）
Play the Video　（1974）
Lapse　Communication(1975)
Le Palais Ideal　（1999）
Un known Land　（2011）
Swim （2012）
Aqua Works （2010/ 2013）
Panorama （2010-2015）

[live performance]
”AQUA WORKS 2015”
video performance by Hakudo KOBAYASHI
with live sound by Tsumugine

Hakudo KOBAYAYSHI
Born in Sendai city, 1944. After graduating Tama Art University in 1968, Kobayashi presented his Hakudo Machine series at Japanese Contemporary Art Exhibition and Osaka Expo 1970. In 1971 he organized communication games using Telex with Fujiko Nakaya and has worked in video media since. As well as teaching at Seian University, he has made single channel video pieces, organized a video community system in Kunitachi City in Tokyo and campaigned for CATV and Citizen Video.

Tsumugine
TSUMUGINE is sound performing group founded by Yasuno Miyanouchi, since year 2008. Its performing style doesn’t need music score but with voice, keyboard harmonica, and those particle of sounds become special environmental sonic effects. They won the first prize at “Experimental sound, art and performance Festival 2008” organized by Tokyo Wonder Site. They perform not only solo concert but also alternative space as a gallery, an old house and tunnel. Recently they have music workshop called as “Tsumugine Methods” web site= www.tsumugine.com/

produced by VIDEOART CENTER Tokyo
supported by Arts Council Tokyo

"AQUA WORKS 2015”の続きを読む

By ビデオアートセンター東京 on December 21, 2014 11:09 AM | Permalink

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