VIDEOART CENTER Tokyo http://www.vctokyo.org/en/ ビデオアートセンター東京の英語版サイト。 ja Copyright 2012 Mon, 16 Jan 2012 19:16:34 +0900 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/ http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification VCTokyo office:access VCT Office

Co-lab shibuya Atelier, Udagawacho42-6, Shibuyaku, Tokyo, Japan

TEL +81-80-4355-1721 (dir.Taki)

web site: http://www.vctokyo.org
Contact:

shibuya-map-eng.jpggoogle map

JR line Shibuya sta. Exit 3 walk 7min
Keio Inogashira line, Shinsen sta. North exit, walk 11min
Tokyo Metro subway, Chiyoda line, Yoyogi koen sta. Exit no.2, walk 11min
Odakyu line, Kitasando sta. A2 exit, walk 12mi

]]> http://www.vctokyo.org/en/2012/01/vctokyo-office.html http://www.vctokyo.org/en/2012/01/vctokyo-office.html ABOUT US access Mon, 16 Jan 2012 19:16:34 +0900 M.Kawai with R. Hamasaki "VFLP"at TWS kawai-hamasaki-videofeedback.jpgMasayuki Kawai with Ryota Hamasaki <Video Feedback Live Performance>


Date: December 22 (Thu.), 2011 Start 20:00
Ticket: 1,800JPY
at Tokyo Wonder Site Shibuya

"No PC, no pre-recorded image, no musical instrument". An improvised performance with analogue video feedback. Flickering video signals create synchronized beat and melody. An explosion of abstract and psychedelic image and sound!!! (Equipment sponsored by BENQ Japan Co,. Ltd.)

<prof.>Masayuki Kawai, He makes radical and philosophical video works, and has shown in over 30 countries. Stayed in artist-in-residencies in NY, Paris and Israel. He also actively organizes exhibitions and various projects of video art, based on the concept of "Visual Philosophy".
Ryota Hamasaki, He explores video art to criticize and overcome the present situation of contemporary art.
]]> http://www.vctokyo.org/en/2011/12/vflpattws.html http://www.vctokyo.org/en/2011/12/vflpattws.html BLOG EVENTS What's New Thu, 01 Dec 2011 11:47:25 +0900 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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]]> http://www.vctokyo.org/en/2011/11/documentary-atwaseda.html http://www.vctokyo.org/en/2011/11/documentary-atwaseda.html BLOG Documentary"Undefined"02 PROJECTS What's New video art japan documentary videoart center tokyo kentaro taki naoya ooe iimura matsumoto yamaguchi idemitsu kawanaka Tue, 15 Nov 2011 13:13:42 +0900 Call for 1 minute video:Zushi Film Festival 2011 14.00 301967_225205930860553_225205877527225_600455_591612_n.jpgZushi Film Festival 2011 calls for 1minute video based on theme "Visual Time Capsule".The applied video pieces will be compiled to one long film and be showed in Zushi Film Festival, Kanagawa pref. , Japan, 10, 11 Dec. 2011.

You can put any 1 minute video

 

1. Shoot 1 minute video based on theme "Visual Time Capsule"

2. No need to edit, no specific sound track, no credit on it, but just should be in 1 minute.

3. If you are Facebook user, just visit our information site, and link your video on the wall. (with any comments, it’s nice!)

http://www.facebook.com/ZushiTimeCapsule

If you're not Facebook user, you can put your video on Youtube and let us know it's link URL, please.

4. Please tell us your name, living place, e-mail addres to us by e-mail.

e-mail to : zushi_film_fes@yahoo.co.jp

 

what kind of 1 minute video? You can also check contributions of the other participants on our information site.

http://www.facebook.com/ZushiTimeCapsule

 

Deal line 26. Nov. 2011

 

Thank you for your cooperation!


]]> http://www.vctokyo.org/en/2011/10/call-for-1-minute-videozushi-f.html http://www.vctokyo.org/en/2011/10/call-for-1-minute-videozushi-f.html BLOG Festival/CallforEntries zushi film fesitval call for video art japan 2011 Mon, 24 Oct 2011 15:17:26 +0900 Taki joins to Koganecho Bazaar2011 blog20110902c.jpg
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Kentaro TAKI joins to "Koganecho Bazaar 2011" as one of venue of Yokohama Triennale.

2 Sep. - 6 Nov. 2011
public projection after dark,17:30-

1. "invitation#2"Kentaro TAKI (a.k.a.Mihari with Maiko Date, Naoya Ooe) at Kaidan hiroba
2. "Popping town" Kentaro TAKI at Hatsune wing
]]> http://www.vctokyo.org/en/2011/09/taki-joins-to-koganecho-bazaar.html http://www.vctokyo.org/en/2011/09/taki-joins-to-koganecho-bazaar.html BLOG EVENTS What's New Sat, 03 Sep 2011 15:30:14 +0900 Taka iimura's"Film StripsII"in Music Today21 FILMSTRIPSII.jpg
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SUNTORY FOUNDATION FOR ARTS' SUMMER FESTIVAL 2011 <MUSIC TODAY 21>
FILM&MUSIC (CHAMBER MUSIC)
  • Cond:Norio Sato
  • S:Tomoyo Mochimatsu
    Electronics:Sumihisa Arima
    Ensmb:Ensemble Nomad
  • Yoji Kuri(Film)&Toshi Ichiyanagi(Music)
    /G string
    Toshio Matsumoto(Film)&Joji Yuasa(Music)
    /Autonomy
    Itaru Kato(Film)&Mamoru Fujieda(Music)
    /Goround/Ragiated Falling:Version II
    Shigenobu Nakamura(Film&Music)
    /Lament for Soprano, Computer generated Sound and Video
    Takahiko Iimura(Film)&Haruyuki Suzuki(Music)
    /Film Strips II - Live Music Version
    Man Ray(Film)&Misato Mochizuki(Music)
    /Le Retour à la raison/La Labyrinthe de la raison
    Tomoya Yamaguchi(Film)&Dai Fujikura(Music)
    /Fluid Calligraphy für violine und video ad lib.
  • All seats¥3,000
  • >>> Tokyo Concerts, Inc. 03-3226-9755

    information site:
  • http://www.suntory.com/culture-sports/suntoryhall/perform/list1108.html
]]> http://www.vctokyo.org/en/2011/08/iimura-musictoday2011.html http://www.vctokyo.org/en/2011/08/iimura-musictoday2011.html BLOG EVENTS What's New Thu, 18 Aug 2011 11:15:29 +0900 M.Kawai with R.Hamazaki in "An Experiment in Morgana" Masayuki Kawai with Ryota Hamazaki will have video feedback performance in the event"AN EXPERIMENT IN MORGANA vol.44" at Morgana . About 20:50-21:20.
time 19 Aug. 2011/ open 18:30 charge 1,500yen+drink

Kokubunji Morgana
walk 7min from JR station, Kokubunnji, TEL:042-323-7467
http://www.h2.dion.ne.jp/~morgana/


Latest live document with 2 video artists M. Kawai and R. Hamazaki]]> http://www.vctokyo.org/en/2011/08/kawailive201108morgana.html http://www.vctokyo.org/en/2011/08/kawailive201108morgana.html BLOG EVENTS Fri, 12 Aug 2011 11:19:00 +0900 call for entries:OK.video FLESH, Jakarta, Indonesia
6 - 17 October 2011 / National Gallery of Indonesia, Jakarta
OK. Video FLESH - 5th Jakarta International Video Festival 2011
Exhibition / Competition / Discussion / Public Program

dead line : end of August 2011

CALL FOR ENTRIES
http://okvideofestival.org/

(ask details to OK.video festival!)

]]> http://www.vctokyo.org/en/2011/08/call-for-okvideo2011.html http://www.vctokyo.org/en/2011/08/call-for-okvideo2011.html BLOG Festival/CallforEntries Wed, 10 Aug 2011 11:12:15 +0900 call for entries;International Short Film Festival Leuven (Belgium) noname-1.jpeg

The 17th edition of the International Short Film Festival Leuven (Belgium) will take place from December 3 - 10, 2011 at Arts Center STUK and Cinema ZED. The festival programme consists of more than 120 screenings in 5 venues. The programme contains live action films, animated shorts, music videos, documentaries and non-narrative shorts. The festival  screens about 275 short films from all over the world, divided into 30 compilations.


Deadline for international submission: August 3, 2011. Please fill out the on line entry form and send a DVD to: Fonk Vzw / International Short Film Festival Leuven / Naamsestraat 96 / 3000 Leuven / BELGIUM. Mark the package with 'festival preview copy - no commercial value'.


web site : http://www.shortfilmfestival.org/

ask details to upper film festival, please.

]]> http://www.vctokyo.org/en/2011/06/leuven-international2011.html http://www.vctokyo.org/en/2011/06/leuven-international2011.html BLOG Festival/CallforEntries Tue, 28 Jun 2011 11:46:38 +0900 call for;exhbition in England

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aspex seeks emerging artists working in all media for its open submission exhibition EMERGENCY5. In September a maximum of 12 artists will be selected for a group show. From these short-listed artists a winner will be chosen to receive the prize of a solo exhibition at aspex in 2013, including a £1000 fee and £1000 production budget. 



Deadline for submissions: Monday 1 August 2011

Exhibition dates: 22 October 2011 – 8 January 2012


details are here　http://www.aspex.org.uk/art/gallery_1/emergency_5

details to ask to Aspex Gallery, please!

]]> http://www.vctokyo.org/en/2011/06/emergency5-2011.html http://www.vctokyo.org/en/2011/06/emergency5-2011.html BLOG Festival/CallforEntries Tue, 28 Jun 2011 11:44:24 +0900 call for entries;Kassel Documentary Film and Video Festival 28th Kassel Documentary Film and Video Festival, November 8 to 13, 2011

For the 28th time the Kassel Documentary Film and Video Festival will present the diversity of regional, national and international documentary work in all its variation.
About 250 international short and feature length documentary films as well as experimental and artistic works will be presented during the six days of the festival. The program is complemented by the media art exhibition Monitoring, audiovisual performances and VJ-ing at the DokfestLounge, the workshop seminar interfiction, the DokfestForum and several events dedicated to young Hessian filmmakers. All in all, it adds up to a profile that is unique among the festival scene. The 28th Kassel Dokfest will take place from November 8 to 13.

We invite all filmmakers, artists, distributors, producers, gallery owners, universities or institutions to submit their most current works and projects to the different sections of the festival.

Reminder: Deadline for submission is July 20, 2011

web site : http://www.filmladen.de/dokfest/de/aktuelles/news/

details to ask to film festival directly, please.

]]> http://www.vctokyo.org/en/2011/06/kassel-2011.html http://www.vctokyo.org/en/2011/06/kassel-2011.html BLOG Festival/CallforEntries Tue, 28 Jun 2011 11:42:18 +0900 HORS PISTES | TOKYO An avant garde Art & Image Festival horspiste2011logo.png
HORS PISTES | TOKYO | An avant garde Art & Image Festival
Hors Pistes ［Off Tracks］is an art and images Festival promoting experimentation of new forms of short and mid-length fictions, organized by the Centre Pompidou since 2006.

Another Motion of Images | Art and Images Festival
June 4th – 12th 2011

web site:http://horspistestokyo.com/ja
]]> http://www.vctokyo.org/en/2011/05/hors-pistes-tokyo.html http://www.vctokyo.org/en/2011/05/hors-pistes-tokyo.html BLOG EVENTS What's New Tue, 17 May 2011 10:40:46 +0900 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)


]]> http://www.vctokyo.org/en/2011/05/project-kikaidemirukoto.html http://www.vctokyo.org/en/2011/05/project-kikaidemirukoto.html Documentary"Undefined"01 Documentary"Undefined"02 PROJECTS What's New Fri, 13 May 2011 10:08:21 +0900 iimura's solo exhibition, N.Y. Takahiko-Iimura-Exhibition2011.jpg

Taka iimura's solo exhibition at MICROSCOPE Gallery, Brooklyn, N.Y.

March 19 – April 11, 2011
Opening Reception Saturday March 19 6-9PM
w/ live 16mm projection performance of the ever-changing “Circle and a Square”

 


]]> http://www.vctokyo.org/en/2011/03/iimura-microscope2011.html http://www.vctokyo.org/en/2011/03/iimura-microscope2011.html BLOG EVENTS What's New Tue, 15 Mar 2011 14:02:49 +0900 Live Beam video performance event at Super Deluxe LiveBeam_20110116t.jpg
[related artist information]

Live Beam ! vol.1　
Video x Art x Techno x Noise x Legend

date: Jan. 16 2011(sun.) 18:00 - 22:00 (open 17:30)
fee: reserve 2000yen(w/1 drink)/ nonreserve 2500(w/1 drink)
venue:SuperDeluxe　tel. 03-5412-0515)
map is here.

　Several live performances with using material of film and video get together at Super Deluxe. Includes artists of the legend, and also emerging artists! Film/Video has been already "live performance" before VJ. Enjoy it as visual music and be a witness of unknown experience of film/video!

artist: Naoya Ooe、 doSparks (Shuhei Nishiyama & Han Soon-nang), Jyunichi Okuyama, Kentaro Taki、Takahiko iimura、Masayuki Kawai with Ryota Hamazaki
DJ：Masaya Nakahara、Yasunori Ikunishi

web:http://www.super-deluxe.com/2011/1/16
presented by: SuperDeluxe/ modified by Masayuki Kawai
]]> http://www.vctokyo.org/en/2010/12/live-beam20110116.html http://www.vctokyo.org/en/2010/12/live-beam20110116.html BLOG EVENTS What's New Tue, 14 Dec 2010 18:26:59 +0900