The "Open Space 2013" media art exhibition will open on the 25th at the InterCommunication Center (ICC) on the 4th floor of Tokyo Opera City in Hatsudai. It will run until March 2nd of next year. Admission is free.
The exhibition features representative media art works from the 1990s by artists such as Kazuhiko Hachiya and Hideki Nakazawa, works using cutting-edge technology, and ongoing projects at research institutions. Plaplax, ucnv, Ei Wada, and Akio Suzuki of evala+ will be showcasing new works. Waseda University's Bioaesthetics Platform, the "Bioaesthetics Open Lab," will change its exhibits four times during the exhibition. The "Emergencies!" corner, which highlights emerging creators, will feature Hiroto Ikeuchi's "Realizing Fantasy with Plastic Models," the first of this year's exhibits.
In addition to the exhibition, there will be artist talks, symposiums, workshops, and guided tours of the artworks. On the first day, there will be a talk event featuring Nova Jiang, an artist who creates interactive works, and Hideki Nakazawa, a former physician and visual artist. On the 26th, there will be a performance by Open Reel Ensemble, who appeared at the Issey Miyake 2013-14 Autumn/Winter collection show.
The ICC is a cultural facility operated by NTT East Japan. It primarily exhibits virtual reality and media art. In addition to the 10-month Open Space Exhibition, it also hosts special exhibitions. This September, there will be an exhibition by Rhizomatiks, the stage director for Perfume. The 2010 and 2011 exhibitions featured a sound installation by musician Keiichiro Shibuya and evala that led to the Hatsune Miku Opera.
[Event Information]
Open Space 2013
Venue: NTT InterCommunication Center
Address: 4th Floor, Tokyo Opera City Tower, 3-20-2 Nishi-Shinjuku, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo
Period: May 25th to March 2nd, 2014
Hours: 11:00 to 18:00
Closed: Mondays (or the following day if a public holiday falls on Monday), New Year's holidays, and maintenance and inspection days (August 4th and February 9th)
Free admission
Exhibiting artists and works (in no particular order):
Hideyuki Ando + Junji Watanabe + Masahiko Sato "Heartbeat Emigration" 2010
Toshio Iwai "Marshmallow Scope" 2002
evala + Akio Suzuki "New work" (on display from October 1st)
Takuro Osaka "Generation and Disappearance 2012" 2012
Nova Jean, "Ideogenetic Machine" 2011
Yasuhiro Suzuki, "Blinking Proof Photo" 2011 and others
Hideki Nakazawa, "Coordinate Space Display Device and 3D Gomoku" 1999 and others
Till Novak, "Centrifugal Force Experience Device" 2011
Gregory Barsamian, "Juggler" 1997
Kazuhiko Hachiya, "Seeing is Believing" 1996
Plaprax, "Institute of Natural Imagination" new work
ucnv, "Tab. Glitch" and others new work
Pe Lan, "Moving Objects | no. 692 - 803" 2012
Ei Wada (Open Reel Ensemble), "Occasionally Woven ver.2 - Falling Records" new work
