Gotanda Sonic - Past Events
Below is a list of all past events for Gotanda Sonic. Current and upcoming events, as well as other details, are available on the venue's page.
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TAB Talks #13 "The Future Through the Eyes of Media Art"
In an age increasingly dominated by IT, what sort of role does media art play? Many media art specialists now work with their eyes firmly fixed on the future, in this new field that has yet to acquire (...)
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"A Guide for Architectural Design Jobs" Talk Event
Commemorating the publication of the book "A Guide for Architectural Design Jobs" (published by X Knowledge on June 16th), a special talk event will be held at Gotanda Sonic. With three leading figures (...)
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TAB Talks #12 "Japanese Aesthetics and Design"
Japanese aesthetic styles like "wabi-sabi", "ma" and "silence" have a substantial influence on both design and architecture in Japan and abroad. For this TAB Talk, we are pleased to invite Kimiko Gunji, (...)
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TAB Talks #11 "Making Of Towada Art Center"
The Towada Art Center, designed by Ryuue Nishizawa (SANAA), opened on April 26th this year in Towada City, Aomori Prefecture. With its permanent exhibition spaces that accord each work of art its own (...)
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TAB Talks #10 "Takeshi Ishiguro: From Obscure Inventions to Poetic Products"
Takeshi Ishiguro is a highly respected design maverick with a flair for melding gadgets with a sense of poetry. Imagine a smiling, humble young man introducing his designs: a giant smoke ring machine, (...)
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TAB Talks #9 "Wooly Publisher Masato Tsuruta"
For this next TAB Talk, we are delighted to welcome Masato Tsuruta, publisher-cum-editor of Wooly, a free and bilingual Tokyo-based art, fashion and culture magazine. Although produced in Tokyo, Wooly (...)
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TAB Talks #8: Laurent Ghnassia "Evolutionary Brand Strategy and Art"
For this next TAB Talk we are delighted to welcome the former art director of agnes b. in Tokyo, Laurent Ghnassia, who has worked with numerous creators in the fields of art and branding. Ghnassia's own (...)
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TAB Talks #7 "Takashi Azumaya: What Do We Do About Contemporary Art?"
The guest for this TAB Talk is Takashi Azumaya, an independent curator for the 2008 Pusan Biennale. Azumaya was previously a curator at the Setagaya and Mori Art Museums. He also curated the Gundam exhibition (...)
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TAB Talks #6 "Arts and Law"
The guest for this TAB talk is Tomoki Sakuta, founder of the non-profit organization Arts and Law. Since founding the organization in 2004, Sakuta has helped to tackle the particular problems faced by (...)
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TAB Talks #5 "Open Mic night with Free Entry!"
Due to circumstances beyond our control, TAB Talks #5 "Review: 101TOKYO Contemporary Art Fair 2008" has been cancelled. We offer our sincere apologies to all those who were looking forward to attending. Instead, (...)
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TAB Talks #4 "Christian Schwartz: Type Designer"
Typeface designers play a vital role in visual communication. They respond to pragmatic challenges like improving legibility on highway signs to reduce accidents, or fitting all the news of the day on (...)
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TAB Talks #3 "French à Tokyo"
TAB Talks #3 will kick-start a sub-series of TAB Talks, aimed at shining the light on the foreign designers and artists living and working in Tokyo. The first guests will be a group of French creators (...)
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TAB Talks #2 "Blah Art Blah Blah?"
What are our expectations about artist talks? Flawless presentations of works? Passionate tirades? This week TAB Talks tackles a hot subject: "the purpose of artist talks". We have asked Ryo Morimoto (...)
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TAB Talks #1 with Yoshio Suzuki
Join us for Tokyo Art Beat's new series of bilingual cultural talk events. This first edition's guest is Yoshio Suzuki. For the past 25 years, he has worked for pioneering Japanese culture magazines (...)




