http://codedcultures.org/jp Binational Festival Sat, 10 Oct 2009 09:06:03 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en J-Culture Decoded ( as a hypothesis ) Lecturer: Masaki Fujihata (JP) It is still in the process of making, but I am trying to build up a hypothesis for analysing the oddity of Japanese contemporary culture, which were observed by the eyes from outside. ― Japanese writing is a mixture of ideogram and ... http://codedcultures.org/jp/j-culture-decoded/ Decoding the Dividual and Ephemeral: toward the coupling of Human Nature and Computed Media Lecturer: Dominique Chen (JP) We need to reconsider the nature of our global Internet and the way it is processing artificial data to embrace the latent opportunities it is fulfilled of. With the permeation of net-based media, we ... http://codedcultures.org/jp/decoding-the-dividual-and-ephemeral/ Han Long Dominique Chen (Artist / Japan) Participation: Symposium Title: Decoding the Dividual and Ephemeral B. 1981, in Tokyo. 1/4 Vietnamese, 1/4 Taiwanese, 1/2 Japanese in blood, French citizen. 1999.09, French Baccalauréat (biology sp.). 2003.03, BA Design/Media Arts, UCLA. 2006.03 MAS Interdisciplinary Information Studies, University of Tokyo. 2003.11~2006.04, archival & curatorial researcher at ... http://codedcultures.org/jp/dominique_chen/ Michiko Tsuda (Documentation / Japan) Michiko Tsuda is a Japanese artist and researcher working on video and interactivity. She also works in a Project "Migratory" which is about filmic exchanges and cinematographic weavings with French video artist Caroline Bernard. In this project, she proposes and experiments with new filmic forms that ... http://codedcultures.org/jp/michiko-tsuda/ Masaki Fujihata (Artist / Japan) Participation: Symposium Title: J-Culture Decoded ( as a hypothesis ) Masaki Fujihata is one of the pioneers of Japanese new media art, beginning his career working in video and digital imaging in the early 80s. He started his career as a digital artist for computer graphics and animations ... http://codedcultures.org/jp/masaki-fujihata-2/ David d'Heilly (Translator / Japan) David d'Heilly was playing in bands and doing theater in Seattle until he was smitten by an Irish girl who loved weird Japanese stuff and wanted to travel. Much later, in 1995, he established 2dk, a creative consultancy to produce the projects he had developed at ... http://codedcultures.org/jp/david-dheilly/ Aki Hoashi (Art coordinator / Translator / Japan) Obtained an MA in Museum and Gallery Management from City University London in 1994, and started working as a free-lance art coordinator in 1996. Focused on art exchange programs in the Asian region, as well as community-based art projects, her experiences include coordinating ... http://codedcultures.org/jp/aki-hoashi/ Christian Fennesz (Artist / Austria) Fennesz uses guitar and computer to create shimmering, swirling electronic sound of enormous range and complex musicality. "Imagine the electric guitar severed from cliché and all of its physical limitations, shaping a bold new musical language." (City Newspaper, USA). Christian Fennesz is know from his own particular ... http://codedcultures.org/jp/christian-fennesz/ Photo credit: Masanori Ikeda In fact Ujino is the only artist in the Rotators and the other members of the band are consisting of "objects" operated by motors. Ujino uses as his main sound source "standard motorized electrical appliances (hairdryers, drills, etc) the names of which are more or less the ... http://codedcultures.org/jp/ujino-and-the-rotators/ Ujino Muneteru (Artist / Japan) Participation: Presentation Title: Ujino and The Rotators The renowned Japanese sculptor and musician Ujino Muneteru (born Tokyo, 1964) founded The Rotators in 2004, a band whose members consist of ordinary household appliances, including blenders, hairdryers and power tools. While Ujino's work recalls both the Intonarumori (noise intones) invented ... http://codedcultures.org/jp/ujino-muneteru/ Elsy Lahner (Curator / Austria) Lives and works as curator in Vienna, Austria. Since 2007 and together with Alexandra Grausam managing and artistic director of „das weisse haus“, an exhibition space for progressive young art, Vienna. Since 2008 and together with Georg Russegger managing director of O.F.F. - O-sutoria Freespace Foundation, ... http://codedcultures.org/jp/elsy-lahner/ The evening event of the CODED CULTURES  festival in Vienna  is situated at the »Hofstallungen« (MUMOK) of MuseumsQuartier Vienna.   Starting with Pecha Kucha Night, followed by a Live-Performance of Artist-In-Residence Tetsuya Umeda and finally leading to contemporary electronic music featuring a selection of live-acts and DJs from the label Trust Records and the ... http://codedcultures.org/jp/coded-cultures-closing-event-party/ AFTER SCHOOL MIDNIGHT  (c) KOO-KI Entertainment / GA Digital Graphics. : net culture space Japan Media Arts Festival Anime Screenings May 27th - June 07th In cooperation with "CODED CULTURES - Exploring Creative Emergences" the excellent animation works, awarded by the 11th Japan Media Arts Festival, will be presented in May 2009. The screening event is ... http://codedcultures.org/jp/japan-media-arts-festival/ Photo: Hiroshi Yoshioka, Sendai Mediatheque // Artist: Takamine Tadasu 25.5.-27.5.2009 University of Fine Arts Workshop: Prof. Hiroshi Yoshioka Akbild, Semperdepot, Lehargasse 8, M1 25.5.: 7 p.m. – 8 p.m. 26.5.: 11 a.m. - 3 p.m. 27.5.: 1 p.m. – 4 p.m. The workshop by Hiroshi Yoshioka will focus on contemporary art and media art from Japan and ... http://codedcultures.org/jp/workshop-hiroshi-yoshioka-university-of-fine-arts/   26.5.-7.6.2009 University of Applied Arts ca. 2 jo - substitute of common places (Transmedia Arts Department) Opening: 25.5., 19.00 Open daily: 6 a.m. – 6 p.m.    The exhibition was developed within the course of Dr. Georg Russegger at the department of "Transmedia Arts". Related to the context of CODED CULTURES and the »Austria-Japan Year 2009« the aim ... http://codedcultures.org/jp/ca-2-jo-substitute-of-common-places/ Matthias Tarasiewicz (Festival Coordinator / Austria) Matthias Tarasiewicz (a.k.a. parasew) is one of the founders of 5uper.net and CEO of the media prototyping company mutti.jp. Together with Georg Russegger and Michal Wlodkowski he is coordinating “Coded Cultures - Exploring Creative Emergences”. He was curating and producing over 100 Exhibitions and Art-related ... http://codedcultures.org/jp/matthias-tarasiewicz/ Michal Wlodkowski (Festival Coordinator / Austria) Michal Wlodkowski is one of the founders of 5uper.net and CEO of Mutti Medien OG, a Software Developing and Prototyping company. Together with Matthias Tarasiewicz and Georg Russegger he is coordinator of the festival “Coded Cultures - Exploring Creative Emergences”. Since the founding of 5uper.net ... http://codedcultures.org/jp/michal-wlodkowski/ Philip Fischer (Producer / Austria) Philip Fischer, born in Vienna, Austria, is a board member of 5uper.net and project coordinator of daal - digital arts and architecture lab. Together with 5uper.net he produced Symposia, Workshops and Exhibitions in MuseumsQuartier Vienna, Kunsthaus Graz and various Off-Spaces (e.g. "Playfulness", "21st Century Art Practices", ... http://codedcultures.org/jp/philip-fischer/ Niko Alm (Public Relations / Austria) Niko Alm is CEO of the Super-Fi Group (advertising, design, web, publishing, software). After a few years as a designer and music journalist he founded Super-Fi (super-fi.eu) in 2001. Over the time other companies ranging from software to publishing were established by or connected with ... http://codedcultures.org/jp/niko-alm/ Astrid Exner (Trainee / Austria) Born in 1988 and living in Vienna, Austria. After completing the Foundation Course at New Design University St. Pölten, Astrid Exner is currently studying Philosophy, Dutch and Art History at the University of Vienna. She has been working part-time as Assistant E-Marketing for Wienerberger AG since ... http://codedcultures.org/jp/astrid-exner/ eSeL - Lorenz Seidler (Documentation / Austria) The label eSeL (also serving as a nick name for founder Lorenz Seidler) prototypically represents the crossover of the roles of artist, curator, online medium and infrastructure-provider in contemporary artistic practise in the New media genres. For coded cultures eSeL well be involved in ... http://codedcultures.org/jp/esel/ Johanna Stögmüller (Press / Austria) Born in Upper Austria, living, studying, working and creating since 7 years in Vienna. Studied journalism and communication science, focused on sociological aspects of communication and print media. Works for Monopol GmbH (a part of Super-Fi Group) as senior editor of TBA Magazine, editor of The ... http://codedcultures.org/jp/johanna-stogmueller/ Georg Russegger (Festival Coordinator / Austria) Georg Russegger is the main-coordinator of the festival "Coded Cultures - Exploring Creative Emergences" in Austria and Japan. Together with Michal Wlodkowski and Matthias Tarasiewicz he is responsible for the conception and organization of the festival. Georg Russegger received a Ph.D. in Media- and Communicationtheory ... http://codedcultures.org/jp/georg-russegger/ Claudia Moser (Grafic-Design / Austria) Claudia Moser is a multidisciplinary designer based in Vienna, Austria. Originally coming from a background in textile design, she has been working in the media industry for about ten years now and established herself as an innovative art director for selected agencies and international clients. Her ... http://codedcultures.org/jp/claudia-moser/ Christian Gützer (Artist / Austria) Group: 5VOLTCORE (with Emanuel Andel) Participation: Presentation Title: playing ? Christian Gützers' career began in the metalworking industry, where he trained as a machine tool manufacturer. After this, he studied "visual media design" in Peter Weibel's masterclass at the University of Applied Arts Vienna. He graduated ... http://codedcultures.org/jp/christian-guetzer/ Emanuel Andel (Artist / Austria) Group: 5VOLTCORE (with Christian Gützer) Participation: Presentation Title: playing ? 2007 Emanuel Andel graduated at the "Visual Media Design" department at the University of Applied Arts Vienna (Peter Weibel) with distinction for his installation "Knife.Hand.Chop.Bot", which received a number of accolades, including nominations for the "Künstlerhalle Wien Award 2007", ... http://codedcultures.org/jp/emanuel-andel/ Out of curiousness and boredom we deconstructed and short circuited the hardware of an old computer, suprisingly the computer generated a beautiful visual output without programming. That was the beginning of 5VOLTCORE six years ago. Meanwhile we built a Robot that generates creative aesthetic information by shortcircuiting himself, a ... http://codedcultures.org/jp/5voltcore-playing/ The Lecture-Performance will be split two ways. The main part will feature a superenhanced interrogation. A local detainee will be strapped to the floor in a stressposition and will be interrogated by UBERMORGEN.COM using the Superenhanced Generator as an interrogation software that automatizes, dehumanizes, familiarizes and therefore optimizes examination. The ... http://codedcultures.org/jp/superenhanced_generator_tetrealogy/ The Process of Nicodama Artist: Ryota Kuwakubo (JP) When I am thinking about my work, I have never told the process of making some of my projects. For CODED CULTURES in Yokohama I want to take the opportunity and try it. Nicodama in one of my recent projects. I'm going to talk ... http://codedcultures.org/jp/nicodama/ Programmable Reality What would happen when we will be able to computationally control physical matter? Until recently, this question was mostly dealt in science fiction novels and movies. However, with recent developments of "smart" materials, such as flexible displays and printable electronics, creation of tiny actuators and continuing increase in available ... http://codedcultures.org/jp/programmable-reality/ With ICT, we become active players in the information flows beyond fields. Now we face the shift from "receiver" to "sender" model, welcoming the new emergencies triggered by us. We are heading for the second decade of 21 century. Looking back to the first the decade, we can recognize the drastic ... http://codedcultures.org/jp/mission_g_sensing_the_earth/ Fashionable Wearables as Aesthetic Interaction Interfaces In my recent book "Fashionable Technology, The Intersection of Design, Fashion, Science, and Technology" I describe fashionable wearables as "designed" garments, accessories, or jewelry that combine aesthetics and style with functional technology. The potential for collaboration between the worlds of fashion and technology has been ... http://codedcultures.org/jp/functional-aesthetics/ It is a common assumption of cyber-anthropologists, that an increase in virtuality leads to an increased level of internationalism, cosmopolitan lifestyle, and a global, borderless image space. Contemporary social networking environments attempt to look cosmopolitan as well. SecondLife promotes an open and free toy society of semi-anonymous avatars from all ... http://codedcultures.org/jp/collapsing-locality-ludic-locations/ Hiroshi Yoshioka "Designing Complexity." In order to think about the idea carefully and seriously, I find it necessary to rethink what "design" exactly means in the age of information technology. Any design should assume a certain purpose, with which we can arrange individual parts or assign particular functions, whether they are ... http://codedcultures.org/jp/from-art-to-network/ Christa Sommerer & Laurent Mignonneau Human-computer interaction (= HCI) is a discipline concerned with the design, evaluation and implementation of interactive computing systems for human use and includes the study of the major phenomena surrounding this theme. Human-computer interaction pertains to the joint performance of tasks by humans and machines; the ... http://codedcultures.org/jp/expanding-locality-the-art-and-science-of-interface-and-interaction-design/ force-feedback looped post-interactive sculpture nOtbOt is an automated game-player which is controlled and deranged by reactions to its own virtual environment, caught in a vicious force-feedback loop... The installation consists of a hacked up human-computer interface in which the feedback system, originally intended to provide tangible interaction for a human player, is ... http://codedcultures.org/jp/n0tb0t/ Photo credit: Bitman: © Yoshimoto Kogyo Co.,Ltd. / Maywa Denki / Ryota Kuwakubo VideoBulb: © Yoshimoto Kogyo Co.,Ltd. / Maywa Denki / Ryota Kuwakubo R/V: co-production : YCAM (Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media) Ryota Kuwakubo: Selected Works (1998 - 2009) (Bitman, Vomoder, VideoBulb, PLX, R/V, Nicodama) Creating each work as a complete device rather ... http://codedcultures.org/jp/ryota-kuwakubo-selected-works/ Ludic Society Hereby, Margarete Jahrmann, Gordan Savicic and Phillip Lammer, members of the Ludic Society, present ToyGenoSonic (2008-2009), an urban play not concentrated in one single location, but dispersed in the urban space and open to the participation of the citizens. In the weekend of the exhibition opening, the city of ... http://codedcultures.org/jp/ludic-society/ Yukiko Shikata (Curator / Japan) Participation: Symposium Title: Mission G: Sensing the earth Yukiko Shikata is a media art curator & critic based in Tokyo, works as a senior curator of NTT ICC, specially-assigned professor at Tokyo Zokei University, guest professor at Tama Art University. She has been curating many challenging projects at ... http://codedcultures.org/jp/yukiko-shikata/ Takahiro Kaneshima (Co-Producer / Japan) Born 1977 in Tokyo. Director at FEC, and Producer, East Asia at ART iT. Received MA from the Graduate School of Media and Governance at Keio University and worked at NOKIA Research Center (Finland), TOSHIBA Digital Media Company (Japan) and Tokyo Gallery + BTAP (China) before ... http://codedcultures.org/jp/takahiro-kaneshima/ Sabine Seymour (Scientist - Producer / Austria) Participation: Symposium Title: Functional Aesthetics Sabine Seymour is Prof. of Fashionable Technology at Parsons The New School for Design in New York. She is the Chief Creative Officer of her company Moondial, which develops fashionable wearables and consults on fashionable technology to companies worldwide. She curates, ... http://codedcultures.org/jp/sabine-seymour/ Mathias Fuchs (Artist - Critic / Austria) Participation: Symposium Title: Expanding Locality? – Collapsing Locality! Mathias Fuchs has pioneered in the field of artistic use of game engines in various game art installations. He started the first European Masters Programme in Creative Games at the School of Art & Design at the University ... http://codedcultures.org/jp/mathias-fuchs/ Laurent Mignonneau (Artist - Scientist / Austria) Participation: Symposium Title: Expanding Locality: Interaction Revisited Christa Sommerer and Laurent Mignonneau are internationally renowned media artists and researchers, they have jointly created around 20 interactive artworks, which can be found at interface.ufg.ac.at/christa-laurent. These artworks have been shown in around 200 exhibitions world-wide and ... http://codedcultures.org/jp/laurent-mignonneau/ Ivan Poupyrev (Scientist / Russia, USA) Participation: Symposium Title: Programmable Reality Born in USSR, Ivan Poupyrev is a Senior Research Scientist in Disney Research, USA where he designs user interfaces for future digital living environments. In his research he is particularly interested in creating interfaces and technologies that can seamlessly blend digital and physical ... http://codedcultures.org/jp/ivan-poupyrev/ Hiroshi Yoshioka (Scientist / Japan) Participation: Symposium Title: From Art to Network: Shozo Shimamoto's Radical Attempts Hiroshi Yoshioka was born in Kyoto, Japan. He studied philosophy and aesthetics at Kyoto University. He teaches aesthetics and art theory at Kyoto University, IAMAS. He is the author of The Present Tense of ... http://codedcultures.org/jp/hiroshi-yoshioka/ Christa Sommerer (Artist - Scientist / Austria) Participation: Symposium Title: Interaction Revisited Christa Sommerer and Laurent Mignonneau are internationally renowned media artists and researchers, they have jointly created around 20 interactive artworks, which can be found at interface.ufg.ac.at/christa-laurent. These artworks have been shown in around 200 exhibitions world-wide and are installed in ... http://codedcultures.org/jp/christa-sommerer/ Yuko Mohri (Artist / Japan) Participation: Presentation Title: The Execution of Everything MOHRI, an artist, was born in 1980. Her main works, shown in Japan and abroad, include "Magnetic Organ" (2003), a three-dimensional piece using powerful magnetism, "Vexations" (2005, joint work with Soichiro Mihara), a sound installation using compositions by Erik Satie, ... http://codedcultures.org/jp/yuko-mohri/ Yuka Shimura (Artist / Japan) Group: SHIMURABROS. (with Kentaro Shimura) Participation: Presentation Title: SEKILALA - Bio Furniture Born in Yokohama, Japan in 1976. 2007 she graduated from Central Saint Martins College of Art And Design London, MA Scenography. A Sister/Brother artist duo, Yuka and Kentaro SHIMURABROS. create works of motion images in formats such ... http://codedcultures.org/jp/yuka-shimura/ Walter Langelaar (Artist / Netherlands) Participation: Presentation Title: nOtbOt :: contemporary collage >= open hard- and software. Walter Langelaar is a dutch artist currently based in Rotterdam. His work stems from charcoal drawing and multichannel slideshow geekery, to manifold video-editing techniques and crude 3D animations combined with oblivious hardware hacks. Currently working ... http://codedcultures.org/jp/walter-langelaar/ Shiho Fukuhara (Artist / Japan) Group: BCL (with Georg Tremmel) Participation: Presentation Title: Common Flowers/White Out (Bio-hacking and Open-sourcing) Shiho Fukuhara received a BA(Hons) in Fine Art from Central St Martins College of Art and Design in London and continued her studies with an MA in Interaction Design at the Royal College of Art. ... http://codedcultures.org/jp/shiho-fukuhara/ Ryota Kuwakubo (Artist / Japan) Participation: Presentation Title: The Process of Nicodama Ryota Kuwakubo is a media artist based in Tokyo. Since 1998, after studying contemporary art and media art, he has made art works mainly by means of electronics, focusing topics appear on borders such as analog / digital, human beings / ... http://codedcultures.org/jp/ryota-kuwakubo/ Kentaro Shimura (Artist / Japan) Group: SHIMURABROS. (with Yuka Shimura) Participation: Presentation Title: SEKILALA - Bio Furniture Born in Yokohama, Japan in 1979. 2003 he graduated from Tokyo Polytechnic University, College of Art Department of Cinema. A Sister/Brother artist duo, Yuka and Kentaro SHIMURABROS. create works of motion images in formats such as media ... http://codedcultures.org/jp/kentaro-shimura/ UBERMORGEN.COM (Artists / AT/CH/USA) Members: lizvlx & Hans Bernhard Participation: Presentation Title: How to design hallucinatory software (The Generator Tetralogy) UBERMORGEN.COM is an artist duo created in Vienna, Austria, by lizvlx and Hans Bernhard, a founder of etoy. Behind UBERMORGEN.COM we can find one of the most unmatchable identities – controversial and iconoclast – ... http://codedcultures.org/jp/ubermorgencom/ Georg Tremmel (Artist / Austria) Group: BCL (with Shiho Fukuhara) Participation: Presentation Title: Common Flowers / White Out (Bio-hacking and Open-sourcing) Georg Tremmel studied Visual Media Art (Visuelle Mediengestaltung) at the University for Applied Art in Vienna and Interaction Design at the Royal College of Art in London, where he started his ongoing collaboration ... http://codedcultures.org/jp/georg-tremmel/ exonemo (Artists / Japan) Members: Yae Akaiwa & Kensuke Sembo Participation: Presentation Title: un-der-construction Artist unit comprising Kensuke Sembo and Yae Akaiwa. Since 1996, exonemo has presented experimental website productions, installations, and live performances by the equipment of its own making, crossing over various media, software/hardware and digital/analog. In 2006, it won Golden Nica ... http://codedcultures.org/jp/exonemo/ Reverting genetically modified blue carnations back to its natural white state using open-source DIY bio-bending methods and procedures. "Common Flowers / City Gardening" transfers the basic biotechnology knowledge and plant-tissue cultures skills required to prepare growth media, clone genetically modified blue carnation and release the resulting plants in the city of ... http://codedcultures.org/jp/common-flowers/ Observing our surroundings we cannot fail to notice the ubiquity of animal skin. Animal skin is everywhere and used for a multitude of things like bags, shoes, furniture, etc. The fact that our lovely contoured chair is covered in the skin of a dead animal may be repugnant to some. ... http://codedcultures.org/jp/sekilala-bio-furniture/ Photo credit: eSeL Everyday machines, such as computer devices for instance, are specifically designed to work for a special purpose; on the other hand, these machines carry within the possibility to be treated as performative objects or transformative artifacts. In the performance, computers, data devices and artifacts used in an unconventional ... http://codedcultures.org/jp/the-execution-of-everything/ Reverting genetically modified blue carnations back to its natural white state using open-source DIY bio-bending methods and procedures. "Common Flowers / City Gardening" transfers the basic biotechnology knowledge and plant-tissue cultures skills required to prepare growth media, clone genetically modified blue carnation and release the resulting plants in the city of ... http://codedcultures.org/jp/bcl/ un-der-construction now loading... 25% exonemo (Japan) Artist unit comprising Yae Akaiwa and Kensuke Sembo. Since 1996, exonemo has presented experimental website productions, installations, and live performances by the equipment of its own making, crossing over various media, software/hardware and digital/analog. In 2006 they won the Ars Electronica Golden Nica Award in the category ... http://codedcultures.org/jp/un-der-construction/ This project was created to challenge one of the historical constraints / codes of film production / motion imagery. All motion imagery taken by camera is 2 dimensional though crucial developments in film have been made since "Arrive d’un train la Ciotat" ("Arrival of a train" 1895, the first film ... http://codedcultures.org/jp/x-ray-train-lumiere-bros-to-shimura-bros/ /jp/?p=173 http://codedcultures.org/jp/submission/ Photo credit: Bairdcast Media - A History of Machine Translation (past work) Yuko Mohri uses a scanner as a plate with salad and also a printer with four wheels which runs along a platform...? Everyday machines, such as computer devices for instance, are specifically designed to work with data; on the other ... http://codedcultures.org/jp/the-execution-of-mary/