Dear Rhizome

Here is a announcement about a new media art event in Japan. Would you agree
to publish it in your next issue ?
My english is far from perfect, I apologize for this.
You can contact me for any precision or anything about the event or this
announcement. I can send you a full press release in english, french or
japanese I you wish.
The web link below will be online at the very latest Monday June 17 in the
morning.
Thank you very much for your help.
With best,

Eric Maillet



Summarized press release :
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Eric Maillet
GEOMETRICAL ABSTRACTION
Yokohama Creation Square Bldg
from June 25 to July 1, 2002

During all the duration of the week of semi-final and final of the Fifa
WorldCup, Eric Maillet shoots images with video, makes an editing next day
in the morning, and then projects them continuously all day long at Yokohama
Creation Square Bldg. They are at the same time streamed on the internet.
Every day, a new different video is so realized.
These videos are more attached to the social event than to sport. They show
how such an event can modify the public places and people.

But, especially, they are censored from any advertising or trade presence,
while by nature images shooted in this kind of situation are involuntarily
and inevitably invaded by such signs.
For this, the artist affixes on the concerned zones of the pictures the