Press Release November 5, 2003
FUTURE CINEMA - The Cinematic Imaginary after Film December 12 (Friday), 2003 - February 29 (Sunday), 2004
NTT InterCommunication Center (ICC) is pleased to hold the exhibition FUTURE CINEMA„Ÿ„ŸThe Cinematic Imaginary after Film. This exhibition is produced by ZKM (Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe, Germany), was on display during 2003 at ZKM and KIASMA (Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland), and is now on a global tour. At the ICC the exhibition comprises 29 works by 26 artists, employing the latest media technology in diverse explorations of the future of cinematic expression.
Overview
The visual environment is changing rapidly, as our daily lives grow ever more palpably saturated with images, not only from movies and television, but from computer monitors, video games, cellphones, car navigation systems, cash registers, ATMs, and huge street advertising displays. In contemporary society, such a new type of the image has become a key interface between people and information and already penetrated every aspect of our daily life. The development of multimedia technology may in fact be serving to link everything with some form of visual or cinematic imagery. The 20th century has been called the century of the image, and films and television were the principal makers of its history. This process gave rise to theoretical discourses concerning cinematic narrative and structure, relations of image production and reception, and the social and commercial significance of these activities. At present, the image gropes for expressive form and definition in the nexus between tradition and the new. As long as the image remains an image there will be methods for conveying it, but as the image takes on new forms, it will become increasingly independent of media such as film and television. For the cinematic image, the present is a period of transformation, a period of confusion-that is to say, a period of opportunity. In this context artists are working, with all of the imagination and media technology at their command, to express uniquely their perspective on the cinematic experience as it develops into the future. The works on display in this exhibition employ a wide range of techniques, from multiprojection and immersive virtual reality systems to networked, interactive, and database-driven pieces. The artistic visions unfolding via this technology have been produced as examples of "FUTURE CINEMA," while at the same time representing the varieties of present-tense cinematic expression. There we can see revolution, chaos and possibilities, the nature of the visual image as it morphs from past to present and into the future, with the idea that this will have a transformative effect on our usual patterns of vision. Date: December 12 (Friday), 2003 - February 29 (Sunday), 2004 Venue: NTT InterCommunication Center [ICC] Hours: 10:00am-6:00pm(Admission until 30 minutes before closing) Closed : Mondays (If Monday is a holiday, then Tuesday),December 29 (Mon.)- January 5 (Monday),February 8 (Sun.) Admission Fee: Adults 800 Yen (600) Yen, University/ High school students 600 Yen (450) Yen, Junior high school/ Primary school students 400 Yen (300) Yen *Rates shown in parentheses are for groups of more than 14 persons Organizer: NTT InterCommunication Center [ICC] Curatorial Support: ZKM (Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe, Germany), KIASMA, SINCOL Address: Tokyo Opera City Tower 4F, 3-20-2 Nishishinjuku, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo,163-1404 Japan Access: 2 minutes walk from Hatsudai Station East Exit on the Keio New Line Inquiries: Toll-free Telephone 0120-144199 (Domestic only) E-mail: query@ntticc.or.jp URL: http://www.ntticc.or.jp/ The exhibition was produced by ZKM (Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe, Germany), and is currently on a global tour.
Related Events
A symposium is planned during the period the exhibition is on display. For further details please consult our website.
Participating Artists and Exhibited Works
1.Werner NEKES, "Film before Film (Was geschah wirklich zwischen den Bildern?)", 1986, DVD(Film) 2.V&#237t H&#192RANEK, "Pioneers of Interactive Czech Films (50s-60s)", 2002, DVD(Film) 3.Marc LAFIA, "Variable Montage", 2002, Interactive DVD-ROM 4.Nora BARRY (curation), "Web-Cinema Program:An Historical Anthology of Web Cinema Shorts 1997-2002", 2002, Interactive DVD-ROM 5.YOUNG-HAE CHANG HEAVY INDUSTRIES, "17 Internet Projects", 2002, Internet Project 6.Jennifer and Kevin McCOY, "Horror Chase", 2002, Installation 7.Pat O'NEILL, Rosemary COMELLA, Kristy H.A. KANG and The Labyrinth Project, "Tracing the Decay of Fiction: Encounters with a Film by Pat O'NEILL", 2002, Interactive DVD Installation This work is set in the present day, in a once grand Los Angeles Hotel that is now in transition between respectability and ruin. Users wander through the mysterious spaces of the abandoned hotel and interact with the ghostly traces of the people, events, and personal histories that are imbedded in those rooms. 8.Caspar STRACKE, "z2 [zuse strip]", 2002, Interactive Installation "z2 [zuse strip]", made in a series of the first digital computers, was mechanically controlled by a punch hole system using discarded 35mm movie film. The work using data from hole system on the film and images on the film, models new landscape and a musical chord out of each film frame of the sequence. 9.Maciej WISNIEWSKI, "Instant Places", 2002, Internet Installation 10.Max DEAN and Kristan HORTON, "BE ME", 2002, Interactive Installation "BE ME" allows a viewer to animate the facial expressions of the artist's face in the projected video image. The projected image is configured to mimic the facial expressions of the viewer. In the context of a public performance, this work addresses issues of identity, trust and control. 11.Christopher HALES, "One-Person Touchscreen Cinema Showing 14 Interactive Movies", 2002, Interactive Installation 12.Jean-Louis BOISSIER, "Le Petit Manuel Interactif", 2001, Interactive Installation 13.Maurice BENAYOUN, "So. So. So. Somebody, Somewhere, Some Time", interactive music by Jean-Baptiste Barri&#232re, 2002, Interactive Installation The interactive installation by Maurice BENAYOUN envisions a universe made of networked scenes that can be explored through a binocular in a full 360�‹Omni-directional rotation. Each scene is connected with others through some recurring details within the images, which act like doorways to other images. The spectator thus navigates inside the potential story simply by looking for a while at some key details that operate as invisible portals. On line (www.moben.net/sososo/) and in the exhibition, just by watching, the viewers are actually painting the "collective retinal memory" of the story as a dynamic narrative palimpsest. 14.Peter CORNWELL, "MetaPlex", 2002, Interactive Installation "MetaPlex" is a navigable virtual space containing different types of audible and visual titles, including still and moving images and interactive computer artworks. Viewers traverse the virtual space using simple hand controls, encountering the contents. 15.Jim CAMPBELL, "Church on Fifth Avenue", 2001, Installation This work consists of a matrix of 32x24 (768) pixels made out of LED's. Video images taken from a scene of pedestrians are reproduced on the LED display. As they move from left to right the figures gradually go from a discrete representation to a continuous one. 16.Jim CAMPBELL, "Illuminated Average #1 Hitchcock's Psycho", 2000, Installation This work is concerned with the compression of time in a single image. Every single frame of Hitchcock's film are scanned, layered, averaged brightness and contrast values and generated a single new image from the result. 17.Jim CAMPBELL, "Motion and Rest #1", 2001, Installation 18.Jim CAMPBELL, "Motion and Rest #5", 2002, Installation 19.FUJIHATA Masaki and KAWASHIMA Takeshi, "Field-Work@Alsace", 2002, Interactive Installation This work allows the viewer to recreate in any sequence the artist's travels in Alsace, based on data recorded using a special media system developed by the artist. Topographic data gathered via GPS and video clips shot with a digital video camera are combined into images forming a video archive displayed as a virtual 3D map, creating a new landscape in the midst of cyberspace. 20.Gary HILL, "Language Willing", 2002, Installation 21.Shelley ESHKAR and Paul KAISER, "Pedestrian", 2002, Installation Viewers see a bird's eye view of 3D modelled plazas and figures that are mapped with texture samples gathered and scanned from the real world. By projecting this work onto public sidewalks, the artists experiment with cinematic experience in the context of public sculpture. 22.Margie MEDLIN, "Miss World", 2002, Installation 23.Eija-Liisa AHTILA, "CONSOLATION SERVICE", 1999, Installation 24.Lev MANOVICH, "Mission to Earth - Soft Cinema edition", 2003, Installation Inga is the alien from Alpha-1 who after spending twenty years on Earth finally gets a chance to return to her own planet...Using the rules defined by the authors, custom software edits the film in real time, choosing what appears on the screen, where, and in which sequence. 25.Ian HOWARD, "SweetStalking", 2001, Interactive DVD-ROM 26.Susan NORRIE, "Defile", 2001, Interactive DVD-ROM 27.Peter WEIBEL, "The Panoptic Society or Immortally in Love with Death", 2001, Interactive DVD-ROM 28.Michael SNOW, "Anarchive 2: Digital Snow", 2002, Interactive DVD-ROM 29.Axel HEIDE, OnesandZeros, Philip POCOCK and Gregor STEHLE, "UNMOVIE", 2002, Internet Installation
Cooperative discount with the "Jean Nouvel" exhibit A passport ticket from the "Jean Nouvel" exhibit (November 1, 2003 - January 25, 2004) at the Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery (Tokyo Opera City, 3rd Floor), will entitle you to a discounted rate (our regular group rate, limited to one entry per person) at "FUTURE CINEMA" when presented at the admission counter. Presenting your ticket stub from "FUTURE CINEMA" will entitle you to a similar discount at "Jean Nouvel" (Neither of these discounts can be used in conjuction with other dicount offers.)
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