Information Technology and Asian Culture
Date: April 22nd Tuesday 15:30 - 17:30
Venue: Tokyo Opera City, B1 Recital Hall
Panelists: Heri
Dono, KIDO
Toshirou, SHIMIZU
Toshio
Moderator: TAKEMURA Mitsuhiro
The advance of information technology has integrated cultures all
over the world so rapidly that currently networks cover the globe
like a so-called cultural epidermis. Those cultures are being changed
and down-loaded into bit-contents of digital information mutually
linked. We have to face the problem of how Asia will be able to express
its cultural inheritance using the latest technology in mutual transmission
with North America and Europe.
While Asian countries are rapidly promoting information-oriented processes,
they get to re-evaluate both their local identities under conditions
of global interconnectedness and the cultural value placed upon the
experience of Asia's specificity. What differences and similarities
will be produced by Asian cultural currents in the digital-global
society of the future? We will search for future Asian aesthetic culture
pulsating inside these information-oriented processes, while shuttling
back and forth between the globalization of Asia and the Asianization
of the globe.
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