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Possible Futures - Japanese Postwar Art and Technology

NTT ICC Inter Communication Center
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Artists

Experimental Workshop, Atsuko Tanaka, Takahiko Iimura, Jikan-ha, Nam June Paik, Takehisa Kosugi, CTG, Hitoshi Nomura, Minoru Yoshida, Toshio Matsumoto, Keigo Yamamoto, Keijiro Sato, Fujiko Nakaya, Hakudo Kobayashi, Eiichi Izuhara, Toshio Iwai, Daizaburo Harada, Masaki Fujihata, Teiji Furuhashi, Kouichiro Eto, Ryota Kuwakubo, Akitsugu Maebayashi, Seiko Mikami, Sota Ichikawa
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 emphasizing the development of new technologies; the result is the material abundance we enjoy today. During those years, progress in science and technology also directly benefited the lives of people in general. The excitement of trying out new imaging and audio media and of successfully connecting - whether by radio or over the Internet - never palls. Even before the rise of computers, those tools we take for granted today, a host of artists had been keenly interested in technology and in using it as a means of expression. That desire arose from more than curiosity about the new and the satisfactions of consumption; it was driven by the joy of rediscovering the familiar world, of seeing time and space in new and lively ways.
This exhibition both offers a retrospective of those artists' many and varied experiments using technology and presents recent work in this vein by Japanese artists. The exhibition thus offers a valuable opportunity to engage in an interdisciplinary review of postwar art, spanning imaging, sound, and other domains, and to examine the many trends, from industry to the counterculture, that have contributed to the directions in which the artists of today are moving into the future.

Schedule

Oct 21 (Fri) 2005-Dec 25 (Sun) 2005 

Opening Hours Information

Hours
11:00-18:00
Closed
Monday
Open on a public holiday Monday but closed on the following day.
Closed during the New Year holidays and in between exhibitions.
FeeAdults ¥800, University / High school ¥600, Junior high / Elementary school ¥400
Websitehttp://www.ntticc.or.jp/Schedule/2005/PossibleFutures/
VenueNTT ICC Inter Communication Center
http://www.ntticc.or.jp/en/
Location4F Tokyo Opera City Tower, 3-20-2 Nishishinjuku, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 163-1404
Access3 minute walk from the East exit of Hatsudai Station on the Keio New line, 11 minute walk from Sangubashi Station on the Odakyu Odawara line, 12 minute walk from A2 exit at Nishi-Shinjuku-gochome Station on the Toei Oedo line.
Phone0120-144199
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