Syndicate: Interactive art exhibition opened in Kobe

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> 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)
>
> --------------------------------------------
> 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.
>
> --------------------------------------------
> Authors, Titles and Descriptions of Projects Exhibited
> --------------------------------------------
> 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/
> --------------------------------------------
> 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/
> --------------------------------------------
> 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.
> --------------------------------------------
> 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)
> --------------------------------------------
> 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
> --------------------------------------------
> 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)
> --------------------------------------------
> 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/
> --------------------------------------------
> 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
> --------------------------------------------
> 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
> --------------------------------------------
> 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
> --------------------------------------------
> 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
> --------------------------------------------
> 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
> --------------------------------------------
> 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
> --------------------------------------------
> 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
> --------------------------------------------
> 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/
> --------------------------------------------
> 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/
> --------------------------------------------
> --
> --------------------------------------------------------------------
> Machiko Kusahara
> curator/media researcher
>
> Associate Professor
> Kobe University Graduate School of Science and Technology
> 1-1 Rokko, Nada, Kobe
> --
> --------------------------------------------------------------------
> Machiko Kusahara
> curator/media researcher
>
> Associate Professor
> Kobe University Graduate School of Science and Technology
> 1-1 Rokko, Nada, Kobe
>
>





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