With the arrival of a synesthetic perceived multidimensional multimedia society, the production efficiency of former information industries has begun to fail. The significance of internal information, which cannot be measured by existing uniform qualitative values, is just beginning to be taken seriously. While shedding new light on the complex and delicate issues relating to the living body—human consciousness, perception, senses, emotions, and recognition—the core of the shift from knowledge-based information management environments to the spirit and mind, in other words, the depths of peoples’ communication environments, has been sought in new fields of art, as in the case of “SIGGRAPH” and “ISEA.”

Speakers: ITOH Toshiharu (art critic), TANAKA Noriyuki (artist), and ARIMA Sumihisa (media art critic)