The media and information environments that surround us do not lead necessarily to a rosy future; together with what can alternately be called “the age of material excess” or “the final days of the industrial era” they have also produced a “structural recession.” Looking to interactive culture for the clues to a new paradigm, the program addressed the intermediate zone between games and multimedia.

Speakers: OBI Ichisuke (game production director), TAJIRI Satoshi (game production director), and NONOMURA Fumihiro (multimedia researcher)