[Nettime-bold] Interactive art exhibition opened in Kobe

["geert lovink" <geert@xs4all.nl>]

From: "Machiko Kusahara" <kusahara@ka2.so-net.ne.jp>
To: <kusahara@ka2.so-net.ne.jp>
Sent: Monday, July 30, 2001 3:51 PM
Subject: Interactive art exhibition opened in Kobe

FUSHIGI Jungle: Information

We are pleased to inform you of a large scale interactive art and technology
exhibition that opened recently in Kobe. If you happen to be in Japan during
the period  please make a visit. This is the largest exhibition of
interactive art in Kansai (Osaka, Kyoto, Kobe, Nara) area that has ever
taken place.

FUSHIGI Jungle  is a part of  21Seiki Mirai Taiken-haku (21th Century
Experiencing Future Expositon), which is a part of the Kobe 2001 Festival.
The goal of the whole exposition is in presenting latest technologies and
visualizing future. The exposition takes place in a 3000m2 hall, and has
been attracting 1500 to 4000 visitors a day since it opened.

FUSHIGI Jungle is a 100% interactive exhibition focused on art and meant for
general public. The aim of the show is in inviting visitors to experience
and feel the wonder of digital interactive communication beyond the border
of art and technology.

Sixteen interactive art pieces and projects from artists, research
laboratories and companies are exhibited on 500m2 floor space. Some works
such as Kazuhiko Hachiya's piece are site-specific, integrating images or
texts from children that are entered to a joint competition.
(http://www.mirai-kobe.com/mouma/index.html) Artists, engineers and
researchers also contributed texts and messages for children, which are
shown on the site on transparent balloons.

Since the exposition had opened, FUSHIGI Jungle has become the most popular
part of the whole show attracting families, children and senior citizens as
well as those who are interested in art and technology. Although it is a
great challenge for both artists and organizers to run such a show for a
long term with so many visitors, we hope the exhibition will prove the
importance and possibility of bridging art and technology, and make them
accessible to general public.

The exhibition is curated by Machiko Kusahara, produced by Noboru
Tsubaki,coordinated by Atsuko Kobayashi, with number of students from
universities and art institutions in Kobe, Osaka and Kyoto, who collaborated
in organizing and operating the whole program. It is an experimental project
as well, to establish a new model in organizing a large scale media art
exhibition.

Title: FUSHIGI Jungle
Date: July 20 - Sept.2, 2001 (closed on Aug. 1 and 22)
Open hour: 9:30 am - 5:30 pm
Site: Kobe World Exhibition Hall (Port Island, Kobe)
Number of Pieces Exhibited: 16
Exhibition Area: 500m2
Curator: Machiko Kusahara
Producer: Noboru Tsubaki
Exhibition Designers: Jotaro Shibuya, Akihiro Domoto (MUSEGRAM)
Installation Supervisor: Hiroshi Kanechiku
Sponsored by: City of Kobe, Yomiuri Newspaper Osaka Headquarter, NHK Kobe
Broadcasting Studio, and others
http://www.mirai-kobe.com/info/jungle/jungle.htm
http://www.mirai-kobe.com/dream/kaijyou/index.htm (live webcam : Windows
only)
contact: Atsuko Kobayashi <koak0104@yominet.ne.jp>
              or +81-6-6881-7005(phone) , +81-6-6881-7006(FAX)

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Message for Children from FUSHIGI Jungle (by Jotaro Shibuya)

Human beings have come to know many things, living together with nature from
ancient times. They learned to use language, count numbers, and build
houses; they also made many kinds of tools. In a while, human beings made
computers which could perform difficult calculations at once, and they made
new games such as video games, using computers. Yet, human beings still live
with nature: the sky, the forests,and the sea. Nature is full of wonder, and
the computer is full of wonder. Discover more exciting wonders to create a
wonderful future, using your eyes, ears, nose, mouth, hands, and body.

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Authors, Titles and Descriptions of Projects Exhibited
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Toshio Iwai "Composition on the Table"

On the table you see many buttons with arrows.  Push any button, and the
arrow changes the direction.
Play with arrows, to drive lights and sounds along them.
http://www.iamas.ac.jp/~iwai/
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Kazuhiko Hachiya "Seeing is believing" (ver. Kobe 2001)

It looks like an electric bulletin board with twinkling stars.  When you
look through the small box ("Sheep"), the stars turn into essays written by
kids, on their dreams and images for the future.
 http://www.petworks.co.jp/~hachiya/
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Hiroyuki Moriwaki "rayo=graphy"

Stand in the light, in front of the wall. Your shadow will be lit with red
light, instead of being dark. Move your body and enjoy animated silhouette
of your own.
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minim++（Motoshi Chikamori+Kyoko Kunoh） "KAGE-KAGE"

If you touch the head of one of the cones sticking out of both walls, its
shadow begins to move. Each shadow will transform into a human figure, a
fish, or many other things,  traversing between two walls.
http://www.haramuseum.or.jp/index1-j.htm (current solo exhibition)
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exonemo  "DISCODER"

Now, click on the mouse as much as possible, until the images on the screen
will be destroyed - or your fingers might be destroyed?
http:// www.exonemo.com
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Noboru Tsubaki  "e-plants"

The Internet is like a magic door to anywhere.  We can use cellular phones
or computers to operate anything remotely.  We can water plants such as
banana or gourd from all over the world.
http://www.metapolice.com
http://www.e-plants.jp/
http://www.e-plants.jp/i (for i-mode)
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Kohei Asano with Alex Kuak + Toshiya Uozumi　"hand in hand"

Hold hands with your friend while both of you touch the pillar tops. Images
will change according to the way you hold hands. Keep holding hands tight,
to go to the next picture. See what happens with different ways of touching
each other.
http://www.alles.or.jp/~kohei/
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Haruki Nishijima "Remain In Light"

Catch the invisible signals with the net in your hand.  Then, release the
"insects" you have caught in a dark space. They will fly producing sounds
and light,  twinkling like fireflies.
http://www.aec.at/takeover/bilder/showone.asp?ID=2037
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denbaku+Metapolice "brain future(NO future)"

By handling strange looking tools you will encounter the dreams;  the image
of future that children have drawn.  Your feelings will bring changes to the
images you watch. Can you operate your brain well?
http://www.denbaku.com
http://www.metapolice.com
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Kenji Mase (ATR) "Iamascope"

It is as if we are in a kaleidoscope.  Interesting images you see are
yourself. Move your body and see how images and sounds will change.
http://www.mic.atr.co.jp/dept2/Iamascope/index.e.html
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 Rodney Berry (ATR) +Nobuji Tetsutani(ATR) "Augmented Groove"

By moving the records marked with mysterious symbols, the camera will catch
the signals and music will be automatically composed.  By changing the
movements both the sound and the images on the screen will change.
 http://www.mic.atr.co.jp/rodony
http://www.mic.atr.co.jp/~poup/research/ar/agroove.htm
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Michio Okada (ATR) "muu"

They look strange, but they will answer to you with Kansai accent. If you
look aside, they will  start  moving a little and talking to each other.
http://www.mic.atr.co.jp/~okada/index.html
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Naokazu Yokoya (NAIST: Nara Institute of Science and Technology)  "Mixed
Reality"

It looks like a normal empty desktop. Wear special glasses, and you will
find moles in front of you. It is a strange feeling - a mixture of real and
unreal.
http://yokoya.aist-nara.ac.jp
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Naoya Ishikawa (SANYO) "Pierimo"

This is a multi-shot camera system to create 3D images.  You can see the
image from any direction on a computer screen.  The computer can also
produce a sculpture from the image in half an hour.
http://www.ddweb.ne.jp
http://www.sanyo.co.jp/R_and_D/3dm/index.html
http://www.sanyo.co.jp/ecafe/pierimo.htm
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Hideo Kikuchi（SYSTEM WATT） "ROBOCUBE(R)"

You can combine the units to make your own robots. They can react, or be
operated remotely. You can design how it should act. What is a robot you
want to make?
http://www.watt.co.jp/
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Kenya Yamashita (SEGA CORPORATION) "Fish Life"

These are fish that live in a TV set. Touch the screen and you can learn
about them.  Draw a fish on the screen with your finger, and it will start
swimming with others. Call them, and they will come to you.
http://www.sega.co.jp/fishlife/
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Machiko Kusahara
curator/media researcher

Associate Professor
Kobe University Graduate School of Science and Technology
1-1 Rokko, Nada, Kobe




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