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ICC 10th Anniversary Session Series Vol.1
Special Symposium "The Future of Media x Art"

Date : April 21(Sat.) , April 22(Sun.) 2:00pm-5:00pm [Finished]
Venue : ICC Gallery A
Capacity : 250 persons(first-come basis)
Admission : Free * English/Japanese translation

As the information environment is constantly updated, the realms of art and creation associated with media have been diversifying on an unprecedented scale. Creation in today's world is related to social trends of culture, science and technology, while simultaneously highlighting these facets from unique perspectives, opening the way for wider participation of, and communication between, people.
This symposium invites key players in the media culture from Japan and abroad, who have spearheaded the formulation and development of media culture by providing creative inspiration via media technology and art, to talk about the creative possibilities of the future, in consideration of the circumstances and changes over the past decade from multiple perspectives.

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Symposium Event will be broadcasted on the internet.
Panelists
April 21(Sat.)
Alex ADRIAANSENS
Alex ADRIAANSENS

Alex Adriaansens studied at the Royal Academy of Art and Design in Den Bosch, after which he started working as an artist. He was one of the founders of V2_, Institute for the Unstable Media in 1982, of which he is the director. He has been an advisor for different festivals, such as Transmediale (Berlin), educational institutes, and governmental or non-governmental organizations, as well as a member of various juries for international media competitions, such as Prix Ars Electronica.

Soh-Yeong ROH
Soh-Yeong ROH

Soh Yeong Roh studied socio-economics after graduating from the Chicago School of Economics. Her interest in the arts began when she accidentally landed on a job in the early 90's in an international exposition committee, where she was in charge of planning an art and technology exhibition. When Roh took the directorship of Walker Hill Art Center (Seoul) in 1997, she steered it toward media arts. She became the director at Art Center Nabi, which she founded in 2000. Roh is based in Seoul.
*Presentation material

FUJIHATA Masaki
photo:
MORITA Kenji
FUJIHATA Masaki

Fujihata Masaki is a media artist and the dean at the Graduate School of Film and New Media, Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music. He has created many works that investigate the relationship between science and art since the 1980s, and has attracted domestic and international attention as a leading creator of media art. Among his representative works are "Global Interior Project" and "Field Work". He is also an author of Art and Computers and other books. He leads the "Creating 21st Century Art Form based on Digital Media", a project supported by JST (Japan Science and Technology Agency).

MIKAMI Seiko
MIKAMI Seiko

Mikami Seiko is an artist and an associate professor at the Department of Information Design of Tama Art University. She started launching large-scale installation the theme of Information Society and the Body in 1984. From 1995 to the present, she has created interactive works around the world, based on the concept of interface with perception. The collection of works was published by Diputacion De Malaga of Spain in 2004. She conduced research at Universitat der Künste in Berlin, Germany, from 2006 to March 2007.

HATANAKA Minoru

Born in 1968, HATANAKA Minoru has been working as ICC curator since the pre-opening phase in 1996. Key exhibitions he curated include "Sound Art"(2000), "Dumb Type: Voyage"(2002), "Sounding Space" (2003), "Laurie Anderson: The Record of The Time" (2005), "Kazuhiko Hachiya - OpenSky 2.0" (2006). He has also planned concerts and other music events.


Alex ADRIAANSENS
Soh-Yeong ROH
FUJIHATA Masaki
MIKAMI Seiko
HATANAKA Minoru




April 21(Sun.)
ABE Kazunao
ABE Kazunao

ABE Kazunao is artistic director and chief curator at the Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media (YCAM). He studied aesthetics and art history at the Faculty of Fine Arts, Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music. From 1990 to 2001, he worked on various media art projects as a dedicated co-curator at ARTLAB, the art support program by Canon Inc. He was involved in the establishment of YCAM, and was appointed his current position in 2003. In 2005, he served as a jury member of Transmediale 06, the international competition in Berlin.

Alessandro
Alessandro LUDOVICO

While working as the editor-in-chief of "neural" magazine from 1993, Alessandro Ludovico contributes articles to various books, magazines and catalogues as an art critic. He is one of the founding contributors of the Nettime community, co-editor of Mag.Net, and an advisor for the Documenta 12's Magazine Project. He also teaches at the Academy of Art in Carrara. "GWEI" and other projects he produced in collaboration with UBERMORGEN.COM and Paolo Cirio have won various awards.

Casey REAS
Casey REAS

Casey Reas is an artist and educator in Los Angeles. He is an associate professor in the department of Design & Media Arts at UCLA. With Ben Fry, he initiated "Processing", an open-source programming language and environment for people who want to program images, animation, and interaction in 2001. Their book, Processing: A Programming Handbook for Visual Designers and Artists, will be published by MIT Press.

TAKATANI Shiro
photo:
FUKUNAGA Kazuo
TAKATANI Shiro

A graduate of Environmental Design, Kyoto City University of Arts, Takatani Shiro joined the Kyoto-based artist group, Dumb Type, as one of the founders in 1984, and has worked on video, lighting, graphic and stage design. He has also worked solo, and one of his recent works, "LIFE - fluid, invisible, inaudible...",an installation in collaboration with Sakamoto Ryuichi, was exhibited March 2007 at YCAM.

SHIKATA Yukiko

As a curator at ICC since 2004, Shikata Yukiko curated "open nature" (2005), "Lib- LIVE! Student Consortium"(2005), and "Connecting Worlds"(2006), among others. She is a specially-assigned professor at Tokyo Zokei University and guest professor at Tama Art University.


TAKATANI Shiro
Alessandro LUDOVICO
Casey REAS
TAKATANI Shiro
SHIKATA Yukiko