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Since 1991, the NTT InterCommunication
Center(ICC) has been holding several events every year on the theme
of "Art and Technology" in anticipation of the opening the
ICC facility April 1997.This year we will hold an international symposium
on the topic of "The Multimedia and Cultural Evolution--- Interaction
between Science and Art---." Experts from various fields will
participate in the discussions at this gathering, the sixth NTT InterCommunication
event. The revolution inprinting technology sparked by Gutenberg's
discovery of printing from movable type in the fifteenth century dramatically
altered how information was gathered and disseminated,paving the way
to modern civilization. The electronic information revolution currently
underway will alter communication and culture even more than the printing
revolution. Once again, human consciousness is undergoing a major
transformation with the innovation in computers and networks.
Thus far discussions about the advanced information society have tended
to forcus on the technological and economic aspects, and we have not
sufficiently examined how information technology our consciousness
and our sense of space and time.We have only just begun to finally
examine the issue from the perspective of a "Dialogue between
Science and Technology and Art and Culture."
Focusing on this perspective,this symposium will examine the significance
of the changes modern society faces today at the threshold of the
21st century and investigate what awaits us in the future.
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Since 1991 NTT has been holding
events in anticipation of the opening of the ICC facility in 1997.
Breaking free from the traditional image of a museum as a building
, these events were created with the revolutionary vision of the museum
as being based on software and networks.
NTT InterCommunication '91: "The Museum Inside The Telephone
Network"
Date:March 15 to 29, 1991
Location: Inside the telephone network
Description: This experimental event converted the telephone network
into a museum. "visitors"could access the event by telephone,
facsimile, or computer and appreciate works and messages submitted
by the artists. This event gave "visitors" a taste of the
coming world of cyber-space.
NTT InterCommunication '92: "Removable Reality"
Dates: March 28 to April 16, 1992
Venue:Spiral Bldg.,Aoyama,Tokyo
Description: NTT InterCommunication'92 was a collaboration between
Masaki Fujihata, a computer artist; and Keiichi Irie, an architect.
The exhibition space contained no displays and was designed to make
visitors feel unsettled and experience a sense of weightlessness.
Wearing infrared headphones, visitors walked around absorbing and
appreciating various types of information. The event explored how
today's society is created through the two realities of the real material
world and the media world.
NTT InterCommunication '93: "Media Passage"
Dates:October 27 to November 16, 1993
Venue: Shibuya BEAM, Tokyo
Description: We invited Jeffrey Shaw, Agnes Hegedus. and Matt Mullican---three
top media artists---to lead this event on the theme of how new media
technology is transforming consciousness and awareness. Linked to
Zentrum fur Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe, Germany by telecommunications
circuits, the event explored communicating throught artworks.
NTT InterCommunication '94: "Nowhere Now Here-George Coates
Performance Works"
Date:October 7 to9, 1994
Venue:Art Sphere,Tennozu Isle,Tokyo
Description: In this new type of performing art, live singers and
actors performed amidst threedimensional images that changed in real
time. New technology and new media are already changing forms of artistic
expression. In collaboration with the U.S. National Aeronautics and
Space Administration (NASA) Ames Research Center, Apple Computer,
Intel Corporation, and other organizations, George Coates, a stage
director, probes new forms of artistic expression by fusing theater
and computers.
NTT InterCommunicataion '95: "On the Web-The Museum Inside
The Network"
Dates:November1 to 19, 1995
Location: On the Internet
Description: At the 1991 event entitled,The Museum Inside The Telephone
Network, all kinds of cultural information were exchanged over the
telephone network, expanding that network into a museum-like information
space. At the 1995 event, we constructed a "visual" museum
on the rapidly expanding Internet.This event explored the future of
the imagination and proposed a new kind of communication for the electronic
information society.
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Monday,October 21,1996 13:00-16:00 [Finished]
yurakucho Asahi Hall