ICC Concept Book
Exploring the Futrure of the Imagination


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Project Editors :
NTT InterCommunication Center [ICC]
Editorial Support :
UTADA Akihiro
Art Direction :
YAHAGI Kijuro
Timeline Design :
MATSUDA Yukimasa
English Proofreader :
MIYASAKA Erisa
Translation :
ANDO Aki, Eric CAZDYN,ENDO Tohru, Francisco GARCIA, Jonathan Mark HALL,IIMURA Rie, Melissa McCORMICK, Anne McKNIGHT, Miriam MURASE, Michael RAINE, and Giles RICHTER
Photographs :
OHTAKA Takashi(indicated by*)
Production :
Insho-sha Co., Ltd.
Publisher :
YOSHIDA Hajimu Published by :
NTT Publishing Co., Ltd.



05
Foreword / MIYAZU Jun'ichiro
06
The Opening of ICC / KANEKO Takashi
07
Acknowledgements
10
[Round-Table Discussion]
The Electronic Communication Revolution and the Creation of a New Culture
ASADA Akira, ITOH Toshiharu, HIKOSAKA Yutaka, and KANEKO Takashi

Facilities and Equipment
24
ICC's Conception of Space / HIKOSAKA Yutaka
28
Outline of ICC Design Principles

Activities and Functions
38
The Function of ICC
40
Exhibits
42
Workshops
44
Database and Research Development
46
Network
48
Publishing

ICC's Collection
50
ICC Collection and Its 10 Themes / ITOH Toshiharu
54
IWAI Toshio
  • Seven Memories of Media Technology
60
Karl SIMS
  • Galapagos
66
MIKAMI Seiko
  • World, Membrane and the Dismembered Body
72
Ulrike GABREL
  • Terrain_02: Solar Robot Environment for Two Users
78
Gregory BARSAMIAN
  • Juggler
84
Dumb Type
  • Installation OR
90
Heri Dono
  • GAMELAN OF NOMMUNICATION
96
Christa SOMMERER and Laurent MIGNONNEAU
  • Life Spacies: An Evolutionary Communication and Interaction Environment
102
TOWATA Masayuki and MATSUMOTO Yasuaki
  • Transgression
108
Agnes HEGEDUS, Jeffrey SHAW, and Bernd LINTERMANN
  • conFIGURING the CAVE

[Illustrated Timeline] ICC Art and Science Chronology
116
A Matrix for the Imagination
ITOH Toshiharu
120
Illustrated Timeline

ICC Preliminary Activities
142
Digest of ICC Preliminary Activities
144
"InterCommunication" (Pre-Events)
156
Gallery
162
NewSchool
168
Workshops
173
Lectures
177
Other Activities
179
Table of Contents of InterCommunication (quarterly) nos. 0-20
198
Chronology of ICC's Activities
200
Afterword
NAKAMURA Keiji

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