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>Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2002 01:03:59 +0900
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>From: yukiko shikata <sica@dasein-design.com>
>Subject: "art.bit collection" at ICC
>
>*here i bcc the info. to some friends and media related people.
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>dear all,
>
>
>hope all are fine…!
>
>here i send you the information of "art.bit collection" exhibitoin
>at ICC from June 21 till August 11(lead by Masaki Fujihata, and
>Kouichirou Eto) where i support curating aspects.
>
>it is the first exhibition at ICC to show the condition and relation
>of software and art.
>
>there will be symposiums, workshops and performance during the
>period, and i will organise one symposium on July 13 titled
>"art_bit_culture(tentative)"with JODI,, exonemo, doubleNegatives,
>LAN, Florian Cramer and Eto.
>
>all the best ,yukiko
>
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>
>"art.bit collection"
>
>
>Date: June 21 (Fri) - August 11 (Sun), 2002 10:00am-6:00pm
> closed: Mondays, August 4 (Sun)
>Venue: NTT InterCommunication Center [ICC] Gallery A, B
>Address: Tokyo Opera City Tower 4F,
> 3-20-2 Nishi-Shinjuku, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, 163-1404 Japan
>
>
>URL for this exhibition: http://www.art-bit.jp/
>
>
>Organizer: NTT InterCommunication Center [ICC]
> http://www.ntticc.or.jp
>
>Curator: FUJIHATA Masaki (Media Artist / Professor, Tokyo National
> University of Fine Arts and Music) and ETO Kouichirou (Media Artist /
> Researcher, International Media Research Foundation)
>
>Curatorial Support: SHIKATA Yukiko (Curator / Professor-in-special-
> contract, Tokyo Zokei University)
>
>Cooperation: International Media Research Foundation / Department of
> Inter Media Art, Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music
>
>—
>
>
>on "Art.Bit Collection"
>
>In the art world, a work of art is called an "art piece." The word "
>piece" designates a thing that actually exists, but since software
>creations exist only as binary data, calling them an "art piece" doesn't
>suit well. Substituting "bit" for "piece," we have decided to call such
>a work an "art bit."
>
>In the case of software, which is used as a medium, material, tool,
>and environment for art, it is necessary to know the conditions of the
>"art bit"; under the present circumstances, however, when the market is
>glutted with high-performance application software, it is becoming
>increasingly difficult to stretch the individual's imaginative powers.
>Some people have even become convinced that no new software is needed
>beyond what already exists. Software ought not to be simply a tool that
>allows us to imitate actual operations and rationalize routine work. We
>must delve down and discover new possibilities that are latent in
>software and experiment with them through trial and error as "art bits."
>
>The "Art.Bit Collection" exhibit brings together and displays works that
>explore software possibilities in this sense – programming language
>(especially visual programming language and language environment
>software for computer music), network community (software available on
>the Internet for creating and exhibiting artwork), software for visualization
>for the World Wide Web, new application software, and interactive works.
>Although we cannot perhaps say that these art bits have as yet evolved
>into major works in this sense, we can say that each of them contains a
>"bit of art" that shows extraordinary creativity.
>
>—
>
>
><7 categories with 39 works>
>
>*Visual Programming Environment (8 works)
> How can we create open ended Programming Environment for the end-user?
>
>*Media Programming Environment (5 works)
>
>*CommunityWare (1 work)
>
>*Virtual Environment (3 works)
> You can feel strange reality by virtual environment in computer.
>
>*Web Browser historical view and alternatives (7 works)
> You can see history and the future of Web Browser.
>
>*Behind the Network (5 works)
> Visualize the streams of network and data on network.
> You can realize there are many background behind the network.
>
>*NoiseWare - deconstructing desktop and application (10 works)
> Input noise into desktop and application.
> They reconstruct your common sense about computer.
>
>
>–
>
>NTT InterCommunication Center [ICC]
>Tel: +81-3-5353-0800 (International)
>E-mail : query@ntticc.or.jp
>URL: http://www.ntticc.or.jp/
>URL for this exhibition: http://www.art-bit.jp/