NTT ICC Inter Communication Center - Past Events
Below is a list of all past events for NTT ICC Inter Communication Center. Current and upcoming events, as well as other details, are available on the venue's page.
Seiko Mikami "Eye-Tracking Informatics: Morphology of the Eye"
[5][0]- Media: Installation - Media Arts
- 2011-12-09 - 2011-12-18
Based on the ideas of "observing the act of observation" and "consciously and unconsciously established lines of vision", this installation generates traces of two participants' respective lines of sight....More »
Seiko Mikami "Desire of Codes"
[101][22]- Media: Installation - Media Arts - Art Talk
- 2011-10-22 - 2011-12-18
NTT InterCommunication Center [ICC] is proud to present a new version of "Desire of Codes", a large-scale, interactive installation by Seiko Mikami, originally commissioned by and exhibited at the Yamaguchi...More »
"Series: New 'Future' Vol.4 About Future - Designing Future" Talk
[1][0]- Media: Art Talk
- 2011-10-10 - 2011-10-10
Talk event featuring leading global designers on the future of design and technology in society. Features Japanese-English interpretation and the talk will also be streamed live over the internet.More »
ICC Kids Program 2011 "Trans-scale: Changing our frames of reference"
[14][0]- Media: Installation - Art Party
- 2011-08-13 - 2011-08-21
This year's Kids Program looks at how the world's way of viewing things has dramatically changed, and is themed around trying to find a special way of measuring things. It introduces three artists who...More »
"New Future Vol. 1: New Evolutions" Exhibition
[2][0]- Media: Art Talk
- 2011-07-31 - 2011-07-31
This series of talks aims to uncover future hints as to what "wealth" really means by looking at the creative practices and activities of people from a variety of fields.More »
"Vibrations of Entities" Exhibition
[185][30]- Media: Installation - Film - Art Talk
- 2010-10-30 - 2011-02-27
German animation artist Oskar Fischinger (1900-67), who worked on the early stages of the legendary Disney animated film "Fantasia", believed that everything had a soul that could be freed from its bodily...More »
Noriko Koshida "Emergencies! 015 Video Screening"
[14][2]- Media: Video installation
- 2010-09-18 - 2010-11-13
From "The Story About the Crack in Reality" series: "Wall," "Room" 2008, 18 min. 25 sec. "Something in the Spiral World" 2009, 10 min. 5 sec. "Way on the Desk Goes" 2009, 5 min. 26...More »
Noriko Koshida "Emergencies! 015: On the Shore of the Desk"
[14][3]- Media: Video installation
- 2010-09-07 - 2010-11-14
This installation by Noriko Koshida produces distortions in space and time by combining differences in the way that the same event is projected onto two screens.More »
"ICC Kids Program 2010 - What Sounds Do We Hear?" Exhibition
[10][3]- Media: Installation - Art Talk
- 2010-08-04 - 2010-09-05
This year's ICC Kids Program features a lineup of sound-themed events that allow participants to interact with sound installations and make new discoveries about their sense of hearing and perception....More »
Dumb Type Video Screening
[18][2]- Media: Film
- 2010-05-22 - 2010-07-04
Dumb Type is an art collective that was formed in 1984 by Kyoto City University of Arts students of theater, dance, film, art, music, design and architecture. They are known for their genre-crossing performances...More »
"Open Space 2010" Exhibition
[95][26]- Media: Installation - Video installation
- 2010-05-15 - 2011-02-27
Open Space includes a gallery, a library, a mini-theater, and a lounge. All are open to the public, free of charge, throughout the year. In line with the philosophy behind all ICC activities, we not only...More »
Yao Chung-Han "Emergencies! 014 'Scattered Coordinates 1 2009-10' "
[17][0]- Media: Installation
- 2010-05-15 - 2010-08-08
In this installation fluorescent lights flash on an off in response to the movement of viewers passing along a narrow passageway and sounds are generated in response to the lights. Initially the flashing...More »
"The Present and Future of the Realtime Web" Talk Event
[5][2]- Media: Art Talk
- 2010-05-04 - 2010-05-04
"What is Media Art?" Talk Event
[2][0]- Media: Art Talk
- 2010-05-03 - 2010-05-03
"Exploration in Possible Spaces" Exhibition
[44][7]- Media: Architecture - Installation
- 2010-01-16 - 2010-02-28
Using imaginary 3D metaverses to explore new kinds of space, this show hopes to evolve new theories relating to art, architecture and information-based societies. More »
Exonemo "Got exists."
[19][8]- Media: Digital
- 2009-11-28 - 2010-02-28
Coop Himmelb(l)au "Future Revisited"
[120][23]- Media: Architecture
- 2009-09-19 - 2009-12-23
Established in 1968 in Vienna, their utopian visions transcending the weight and scale of architecture, seemingly floating and brimming with wit, Coop Himmelb(l)au quickly became stars of the technologically...More »
Ei Wada "Emergencies! 012 Composition in Motion"
[33][7]- Media: Installation - Art Party
- 2009-08-29 - 2009-11-15
Reel-to-reel audio tape recorders are redesigned so to be controllable through a computer, turning into new devices for musical expression. The sounds recorded through a mike are reconstructed through...More »
Tetsuji Sato + Yoichi Sakamoto "blank"
[22][3]- Media: Video installation
- 2009-05-16 - 2009-08-09
This exhibition is part of the "Emergencies! 011" exhibition series featuring emerging creators. More »
"ICC Open Space 2009" Exhibition
[192][46]- Media: Installation - Video installation - Art Talk
- 2009-05-16 - 2010-02-28
Part of the gallery, library, mini theater and lounge will be used as "Open Space", a free communication space open to the public. ICC aims to provide a wide range of audiences with the opportunity to...More »
"Light Insight" Exhibition
[183][37]- Media: Installation - Other - Video installation - Digital - Art Talk
- 2008-12-06 - 2009-02-28
This exhibition investigates the existence and past of light, a phenomenon too self-evident to warrant much reflection; its present state and future possibilities, examined through the lens of "perception."...More »
Eriko Iwabuchi + Hitomi Tsujita + Maki Mori "Girls, Media, Home"
[8][2]- Media: Video installation - Art Talk
- 2008-10-03 - 2008-12-14
"Girls, Media, Home" is an exhibition by students of Ochanomizu Womens' University that assembles a variety of tools and objects and young girls daydream about: mirrors that automatically apply makeup,...More »
"Extended Senses: Present of Japanese/Korean Media Art" Exhibition
[21][3]- Media: Film - Video installation - Digital
- 2008-09-23 - 2008-11-03
NTT InterCommunication Center (ICC) is pleased to hold the "Extended Senses: Present of Japanese / Korean Media Art" exhibition. Since the early 1990s, the media art environment has changed dramatically....More »
dumb type "S/N" Special Screening
[14][2]- Media: Film - Art Talk
- 2008-09-06 - 2008-09-21
Screenings at 11:00, 13:30 and 16:00 on the following dates: September 6th (Sat), 7th (Sun), 13th (Sat), 14th (Sun), 15th (Mon/national holiday), 20th (Sat), 21st (Sun) Venue: ICC Theater Limited to...More »
Soda Artist Talk and Workshop
[5][0]- Media: Art Talk
- 2008-08-30 - 2008-08-31
Soda is a creative group that began working together in 1996, pursuing activities in art, science, research and communication through the creation of online software. Their software acts as a simulation...More »
"ICC Kids Program"
[0][0]- Media: Other - Other - Video installation - Digital - Art Talk
- 2008-07-12 - 2008-08-31
On view are works to transform our senses of physicality; devices for thinking about our dimensions.More »
Hitomi Tada "zenteki ni ibitsu na koukatsu -ver.2- (Eccentric News)"
[2][1]- Media: Video installation
- 2008-07-12 - 2008-09-21
The work is based on an original software program which gathers news reportage from the web, reads it using an automatic text-to-speech software, while at the same time searching the web for related images...More »
Ryuichi Sakamoto + Shiro Takatani "LIFE - Fluid, Invisible, Inaudible"
[5][1]- Media: Digital
- 2008-06-14 - 2008-06-22
Ryuichi Sakamoto and Shiro Takatani's installation, "Life: Fluid, Invisible, Inaudible", was exhibited at the Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media as well as the ICC in 2007. The exhibition space was captured...More »
“ICC Open Space 2008" Exhibition
[127][38]- 2008-04-19 - 2009-02-28
Part of the gallery, plus library, mini theater and lounge will be used as "ICC Open Space", a free communication space open to the public. ICC has consistently aimed at providing a space for the free...More »
"Open Salon STEIM@ICC" Talk Event
[1][0]- Media: Art Talk
- 2008-03-02 - 2008-03-02
Based in Amsterdam, STEIM is an independent electronic music center which has produced various musical instruments and music software collaborating with performance artists and musicians since 1960. Inviting...More »
Vol. 4 Demo Party "Media Explosion!!"
[4][1]- Media: Art Party - Art Talk
- 2008-01-20 - 2008-01-20
10 years have passed since the opening of ICC. Various forms of media art have been explored, from works building on machines and systems used in daily life to participatory projects. The works involve...More »
Vol. 3 Talk x Live x Workshop "Exploring Media"
[6][1]- Media: Art Talk
- 2007-12-15 - 2007-12-16
This series of talk and workshop events readdresses the structure of media society and its meaning from a creative point of view. Individuals who create the future of science and technology are invited...More »
"Silent Dialogue: Invisible Communication" Exhibition
[142][24]- Media: Installation - Other - Video installation - Art Talk - Performance Art
- 2007-11-23 - 2008-02-17
Nature and the environment that surrounds us are in constant change. To turn our attention to the behavior of other living things as the environment changes is to realize the effects on ourselves, living...More »
Kei Komachiya "Materia ex machina"
[24][3]- Media: Video installation - Digital
- 2007-11-23 - 2008-03-09
Technology and science have been defining factors of artistic expression in the history of painting. The codes and conventions of perspective that were evolved during the Renaissance, Newton's optics,...More »
"Open Salon Physical Comuputing" Workshop + Talk Session
[2][0]- Media: Art Talk
- 2007-11-10 - 2007-11-11
"Physical Computing" is an educational research program started at New York University. This event presents practical workshops and lectures focusing on the physical computing, ubiquitous computing, and...More »
Ryuichi Sakamoto x Shiro Takatani "LIFE- fluid, invisible, inaudible..."
[138][42]- Media: Video installation - Art Talk - Performance Art
- 2007-09-15 - 2007-11-04
"LIFE--fluid, invisible, inaudible ..." is the fruit of a new collaboration by Ryuichi Sakamoto and Shiro Takatani. This installation that ceaselessly fuses sound and image provides an unprecedented place...More »
Elico Suzuki "Moon over Jungfrau"
[31][10]- Media: Installation - Art Talk
- 2007-09-15 - 2007-11-04
A city gently aglow at a sigh, a twinkling star-lit sky of a mobile, responding to sound, a puppet theater operated from a toy piano. Elico Suzuki, known to the music world as Suzueli, is an artist...More »
ICC Kids Program "Sound x Image - Watch the Sound, Listen to the Images"
[16][5]- Media: Installation - Digital - Art Talk - Performance Art
- 2007-07-14 - 2007-09-02
The exhibition showcases media art focusing on the synchronicity between sound and images, and how each element is created from one another using modern technology. The exhibition is sure to stimulate...More »
Tetsuya Kakuta "First Person Space"
[15][1]- Media: Installation - Digital - Performance Art
- 2007-07-14 - 2007-09-02
"Emergencies!" presents works by promising young artists and creators. It aims to introduce experimental expressions that are opening up new possibilities in art & science. Three or four exhibitions...More »
Special Symposium "Creation and Future of Media x Art"
[15][4]- Media: Art Talk
- 2007-04-21 - 2007-04-22
In the 10 years since its opening, the ICC has been actively engaged in providing a space for "communication" between technology and art. During this past decade, information technology has evolved dramatically,...More »
"ICC Chronology: 1997-2006" Exhibition
[25][7]- Media: Graphics - Video installation
- 2007-04-19 - 2007-06-24
"ICC Chronology : 1997-2006", a special exhibition commemorating the ICC's 10th anniversary, presents its 10 years of activities through posters, chronologies, images, and videos of the decade. Information...More »
“ICC Open Space 2007" Exhibition
[176][51]- Media: Installation - Digital - Performance Art
- 2007-04-19 - 2008-03-09
ICC Open Space is a community space that is free of charge and open throughout the year. It utilizes part of the gallery, library, mini theater and lounge and is organized around this year's concept, "Open!"...More »
Open Salon "Gainer Workshop"
[0][0]- Media: Art Talk
- 2007-01-21 - 2007-01-21
"Gainer" is a tool kit that makes it easy for you to create a work that will respond to physical phenomena. For example, you can use it to make a table or an electronic instrument that will respond to...More »
Talk event: Stephen Kovats "Stealth as a Strategy"
[5][3]- Media: Art Talk
- 2007-01-13 - 2007-01-13
Since the 1990s, Stephen Kovats has been leading experimental media art and international networks while participating in Bauhaus Dessau and Rotterdam's media organization V2. Set to be the director of...More »
Kazuhiko Hachiya "OpenSky 2.0”
[107][33]- Media: Graphics - Photography - Digital - Performance Art
- 2006-12-15 - 2007-03-11
NTT InterCommunication Center will host Kazuhiko Hachiya's "OpenSky 2.0" exhibition as the 2nd installation of their renewal project. "OpenSky" started in 2003 as a project "for making your own flight...More »
Bill Viola "Video Works"
[31][4]- Media: Film - Video installation
- 2006-10-14 - 2006-12-24
To link with the exhibition of Bill Viola's video work "First Dream" being held at the Mori Museum from 14th October to 8th January, the ICC will be screening thirty of Viola's past works from 1975 to...More »
DIVVY/dual Project #1 "Is Open Source Art Possible?" Open Salon
[26][12]- Media: Art Talk
- 2006-09-24 - 2006-09-24
"Di`vid´uu`al: Divided, shared, or participated in, in common with others." DIVVY/dual Project #1 is the first edition of a new series of events aimed at building a platform to re-connect the different...More »
"Connecting Worlds: Towards Creative Communication" Exhibition
[84][20]- Media: Other - Digital
- 2006-09-15 - 2006-11-26
In this era of dramatic developments in computer and networking technologies we communicate through different devices and systems. "Commucation" in this context can be described as a process connecting...More »
ICC Kids Program
[2][1]- Media: Drawing - Installation - Art Talk
- 2006-07-22 - 2006-08-20
The ICC Kids Program offered by the new revamped ICC this summer is a comprehensive program comprising exhibits, workshops and performances, with an overall theme of fantasy and illusion. The program...More »
Open Salon "The Creation of Unexplored Software"
[2][2]- Media: Art Talk
- 2006-07-08 - 2006-07-08
This is a talk being given by Hiroaki Kitano, the project manager at ICC and Kenichiro Mogi, who is a researcher at the Sony Research Lab and an expert on the human brain. They will be discussing contemporary...More »
Talk: "Open Society"
[1][1]- Media: Art Talk
- 2006-07-01 - 2006-07-01
This is a talk about the ways in which our networked society functions and where technology will take it in the future. It is being held in Gallery A of the ICC and there will be 400 seats available on...More »
Talk: "Open Network" Part 1
[1][1]- Media: Art Talk
- 2006-06-24 - 2006-06-24
Part 1: "Creating Organisations/Creative Organisations - New Forms of Communication" The globally networked society we live in encourages autonomy and self-organization and the ways in which we communicate...More »
Talk: "Open Network" Part 2
[1][1]- Media: Art Talk
- 2006-06-24 - 2006-06-24
Part 2: "Knowledge to Transform Network Technology - Issues and Prospects in the Information Age" Within our networked society, the fight for the datafication of human knowledge and intelligence continues....More »
Talk: "Open Creation" Part 1
[0][0]- Media: Art Talk
- 2006-06-17 - 2006-06-17
Part 1: "Ideas and Practice in the Networked Age - Towards Discovery of an Unknown Society". This is a talk about the possibilities for creation as network communication makes society open up. The talk...More »
Talk: "Open Creation" Part 2
[0][0]- Media: Art Talk
- 2006-06-17 - 2006-06-17
Part 2: "Knowledge to Transform Network Technology - Issues and Prospects in the Information Age" This talk is about the future of creation and media art in shaping our society. The talk will be held...More »
Renewal Opening Symposium
[5][4]- Media: Art Talk
- 2006-06-10 - 2006-07-01
In this age in which the internet has permeated our lives, and is speeding towards a network society based on mobile phones and broadband network connections, perhaps it is the opening up of forms of communication...More »
Talk: "The Culture and Creation of Network Society - Working towards the Opening-up of Communication"
[0][0]- Media: Art Talk
- 2006-06-10 - 2006-06-10
This is a talk about the role of communication in the arts, culture, science and technology fields of our society. The talk will be held in Japanese.More »
Open Space
[162][59]- Media: Installation - Video installation - Digital
- 2006-06-06 - 2007-03-11
ICC Open Space is a community space that is free of charge and open throughout the year. It utilizes part of the gallery, library, mini theater and lounge and is organized around this year's concept, "Open!" As...More »
Possible Futures - Japanese Postwar Art and Technology
[99][31]- Media: Graphics - Photography - Installation - Art Talk
- 2005-10-21 - 2005-12-25
This year, the sixtieth since the end of World War II, provides many occasions for reflecting upon our history. During the postwar years, Japan has successfully rebuilt its economy largely through policies...More »
The Record of the Time: Sound in the Work of Laurie Anderson
[62][34]- Media: Installation - Video installation - Art Talk - Performance Art
- 2005-07-22 - 2005-10-02
Laurie Anderson (born 1947) rose to acclaim on the New York art scene of the early 1980s with her distinctive electronic performances, and continues to be a major globally active artist, one the very few...More »
Open Nature
[28][22]- Media: Graphics - Photography - Architecture - Installation
- 2005-04-29 - 2005-07-03
"Open Nature" focuses on the "nature" infiltrated in our daily lives through digital information environments, and aims to redefine it as an "open" concept that clears the way for a broader range of relationships...More »
Art Meets Media: Adventures in Perception
[18][12]- Media: Installation - Digital
- 2005-01-21 - 2005-03-21
In this exhibition, the short history, the current trend and the possibilities of Media Art will be examined. Interactive installations of various media including motion graphics, audio equipments and...More »
Maywa Denki: The Nonsense Machines
[1][6]- Media: Product - Installation
- 2004-11-03 - 2004-12-26
Maywa Denki is an art unit formed in 1993 by two brothers, Masamichi and Nobumichi Tosa, who appointed themselves "president" and "vice president," respectively. Since then they have engaged in activities...More »
Reactivity: Unpredictable Past
[3][4]- Media: Installation
- 2004-08-20 - 2004-10-17
In this exhibition, we offer an opportunity to consider the relationship between technology and art suggested by art and technology trends, through the works of artists who enable one to appreciate and/or...More »
