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ICC Newschool Workshop "Ninohashi
Renga" was carried out on two days, between September 6 and 8,
1994, under the concept of "renga (linked image)" by ANZAI
Toshihiro and NAKAMURA Rieko, as an experimental workshop involving
collaboration using a LAN network.
The "renga" workshop, which was named "Ninohashi"
from the place where it was carried out, place with Toshihiro ANZAI
as the master and ANZAI's "renga" partner NAKAMURA Rieko
as the supporter, and joined by 20 members ("renju") who
were selected by public solicitation. And the workshop went on to
form a network of empathy and shared feelings through the impact of
images and responses to the images.
First, a scribbling made by a ten-year old girl named Elizabeth on
NAKAMURA's drawing when ANZAI and NAKAMURA carried out a "renga"
session at "SIGGRAPH" in 1994, was used as the "seed
drawing," and 20 members linked up with the seed and created
their own works. Linking may take the form of a mapping of that image,
a sampling of the outline, carrying forward the theme, and/or adding
to that seed drawing itself. What is important is that such images
have some link with the original image to which they are linked. When
there is no seed which strikes some chord with a certain "generation",
then, it is possible to put down the brush. The first works that are
created in this way comprise the first generation, which, then, serve
as the seed for the next generation. In this manner, then, the this
kind of cycle is repeated over many generations, and a piece of "knitting
work" is created in the period of two days. At the exhibition,
a map showing the intermingling of influence is shown, and an data
search equipment for "reading" the polyphony is set up.
At the same time, ICC Net "Yotsuya Renga" is to be carried
forth through personal computer communication, with the aim of unfolding
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December 2 - 19, 1994 [Finished]