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Documentary of the Early Japanese Videoart

kikai_AD_omote.jpgDocumentary video screening about the Early Japanese Videoart
"Kikai de Mirukoto -Eye Machine/Seeing by chance-"

date: 15 Thr. Dec 2011 19:00-20:45 (open:18:30)
venue: Okuma Auditorium/Small hall, Waseda University
screening: "Kikai de Mirukoto -Eye Machine/Seeing by chance-" (HDV/2011/75min) japanese only
lecturer:Kentaro TAKI

Appearing Artist:
Kohei ANDO, Michael GOLDBERG, Sakumi HAGIWARA, Mako IDEMITSTU, Takahiko iimura, Nobuhiro KAWANAKA, Hakudo KOBAYASHI, Shigeko KUBOTA, Toshio MATSUMOTO, Ko NAKAJIMA, Katsuhiro YAMAGUCHI, Keigo YAMAMOTO, Morihiro WADA

Connected People:
Shuya ABE(engineer of Nam June Paik), Barbara LONDON, Yoshimi NARA, Tomohiro NISHIMURA, Ann ADACHI, Rebecca CLEMAN, Yoshitaka SHIMANO, Hiroaki SATO, Nariaki SASAKI, Keisuke OKI, Takashi ECHIGOYA, Yoshiharu HAMASAKI, Yoshitomo MORIOKA, Peter WEIBEL,

presented by VCT/VIDEOART CENTER Tokyo
co-presented byKawaguchi Art School of Waseda University
supported by The Japan World Exposition 1970 Commemorative Fund
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Early Japanese Videoart
"Kikai de Mirukoto" To See through the Machine

optitle.jpgVCTokyo presents a documentary video "Kikai de Mirukoto - the pioneers of Japanese videoarts", with oral history and exact video pieces of early video artists in Japan.

We plan to show this documentary in film festival in public this year. You can get more information in this site or join to our mail news.

HDV,  65min, 2011
director: Kentaro TAKI, camera:Naoya OOE
presented by VCT/VIDEOART CENTER Tokyo


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JEC Fund Project(2011)
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KDDI Foundation (2007)


interview with mrs. Barbara London, MOMA, NY

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13 Jul. 2010
For VCT's documentary project, we had an interview with Mrs. Barbara London, curator of MOMA, NY. U.S.A..

Since 70's, Mrs. London found video pieces from Japan and she introduced them in U.S.A..We could have good conversation!

Shigeko Kubota, a pioneer of video sculpture

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11 Jul. 2010

VCT had an interview with Mrs. Shigeko Kubota, a pioneer of video sculpture. We could have good conversation about activities of FLUXUS, and early era of videoart walked with her husband, Nam June Paik.

interview with Hakudo Kobayashi

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26 Dec 2009

VCT had another interview with Hakudo Kobayashi, video artist of first generation in Japan.

cooperated byTVF

Michael Goldberg introduced SONY to J-videoartist in 1972

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26 Dec 2009

VCTokyo had an interview with Michael Goldberg, canadian videoartist who visited Japan in 1972, made efforts for videoart scene in Japan as new art expression with media communication tool. recently Goldberg finished his documetary video aboutDaisetsu Suzuki, a ZEN master

cooperated byIVW international video works

interview with Kohei Ando

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VCT focuses on pioneers of Japanese videoartists, and this time we had interview with Mr. Kohei Ando who treated "Mother"(1969) was made with feedback video shot by 16mm film with using TV station equipments.

cooperation: Dept. promotion of cultural events:Waseda University

interview with Nobuhiro Kawanaka

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VCTokyo had an interview with Nobuhiro Kawanaka who founded Underground Center , Cinematheque and Image forum. He leaded independent film/video creation since 1970

Num June Paik Art Center Opens

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Nam June Paik Art Center opened in Kyongi-do near to Seoul, Korea. And VCT documentary team visited there to have couple interview with relatives of N.J. Paik.

photo:Paik Art Ceneter outook(top), and his Robot piece (below)






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Visited Toshio Matsumoto's lab

3 Jul. 2008doc087matsumoto-thumb-250x169.jpg VCT had an interview with Toshio Matsumoto who has many visual arts career as documentary, feature film, experimental film, videoart, installation...etc. interviewer: Kentaro Taki, videocamera:Naoya Ooe, cooperation: Nihon University Callege of Art
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