New Documentation of Future Cinema now in Japan

[Pete Otis]

Fellow Colleagues and Friends,

Please forward this to other lists of individuals in Japan interested in
cinema.

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FUTURE CINEMA - The Cinematic Imaginary after Film

December 12 (Friday), 2003 - February 29 (Sunday), 2004

NTT InterCommunication Center (ICC) in Tokyo is pleased to hold the
exhibition FUTURE CINEMA--The Cinematic Imaginary after Film. This
exhibition is produced by ZKM (Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe, Germany)
is now on a global tour. At the ICC the exhibition comprises 29 works by 26
artists, employing the latest media technology in diverse explorations of
the future of cinematic expression.



The research project DATABASE OF VIRTUAL ART at Humboldt University in
Berlin has
recently created a video documentary series of these contemporary
interactive
media film works.
These videos, representing a small portion of the complex research
database are now already available through the ARTE
website.

Samples from our work can be found:

http://www.arte-tv.com/emission/emission.jsp?node=-1973&lang=de


Videos available for viewing:
Lev Manovich - Soft Cinema
Jeffrey Shaw - Place-Ruhr
Masaki Fujihata - Field-Work at Alsace
J-M. Bruyère - Si Poteris Narrare, Licet
Maurice Benayoun - So.So.So.
Zoe Beloff - The Influencing Machine...
Luc Courchesne - The Visitor




More extensive information:

OLIVER GRAU: VIRTUAL ART: From Illusion to Immersion,
MIT Press 2003, ISBN 0-262-07241-6)

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production:

DATABASE OF VIRTUAL ART at Humboldt University of Berlin
scientific direction Dr. Oliver Grau
in cooperation with: channel unit digitale mediengesellschaft mbh

video direction: Robert loessl
text: Dr. Oliver Grau
assistance: Anna Paterok

with grateful support from Zentrum fuer Kunst- und Medientechnologie /
Dr. Andrea Buddensieg / Future Cinema.
recording / editing: channel unit digitale mediengesellschaft mbh
titles: Sevrina Giard, Joachim Gaertner