corr: asking your inputs about the Bunkacho project, the National Center for Media Arts

[Edan Corkill]

For those who are interested, I did a story last week about the National 
Center for Media Arts "preparations committee," to whom Professor Fujiki 
will give the talk on Friday.

http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20090703a6.html

Edan Corkill

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Hideaki Fujiki" <hfuji at info.human.nagoya-u.ac.jp>
To: <KineJapan at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, July 07, 2009 10:14 AM
Subject: Re: corr: asking your inputs about the Bunkacho project, the 
National Center for Media Arts


The Bunkacho will hold a hearing about the Center on Wednesday and
Friday. Everyone can audit it with advance registration. Information
is available here: http://www.bunka.go.jp/oshirase_kaigi/2009/
kokurithumedeia_2.html. I will give a ten-minute talk on Friday.

Hideaki






On 2009/06/19, at 4:09, Bruce Baird wrote:

> All,
>
> I realize that many people have already weighed in on this issue,  and 
> Fujiki-san himself has already replied to this list and may  already have 
> written his editorial, but I've been thinking about  my  experiences at 
> the Keio University Research Center for the Arts  and Arts Administration 
> (including the Hijikata Tatsumi Archive  I've been utilizing).  In the 
> late 90's, they got a bucket load of  money from monbusho to explore 
> digital archiving and while they  have been quite hampered by the problem 
> of copyright (some subjects  of their main collections of 
> materials--Takiguchi, Noguchi Isamu,  and Hijikata are only recently 
> passed on), in principle the kinds  of strategies have been pretty 
> interesting and helpful.  Taking a  hint from the searchability of 
> Finnigans Wake for Joyce scholars,  they have goal of making all of 
> someone's corpus of materials  searchable, so for example, while you 
> wouldn't want to get a  Hijikata hit while searching for 'dog' in a 
> library database, it  would be meaningful to be able to search for 
> everytime Hijikata  used the word dog in all his essays, writings, 
> notebooks, and etc,  in the same way that you might want to search across 
> the entire  Joyce corpus for "brown mackintosh" or something like that. 
> At the  present, you can't actually perform a search from outside the 
> archive, and I am sure that has to do with both copyright and also 
> probably Keio incentivizing the archive to earn some money in this  day of 
> uncertain funding for universities.  However, along with  viewing 
> capabilities in situ, digitalization and off-sight  searchability and 
> accessibility should be part of the equation.
>
> Also, in a kind of parallel manner in the way that many museums now  tread 
> lightly with restorations of art works because the history an  art work 
> passed through is its own valuable story and not just the  original art 
> work itself, they have had the meta goal of  incorporating into the 
> archive the very work that people do on  these corpuses so the 'self 
> awareness' of the archive is  increasing.  The goal, however imperfectly 
> realized, has been both  to provide researchers with the tools to pursue 
> any kind of  research they like (through the above searchability), and at 
> the  same time, to understand and track what people are searching and 
> what key words are important as a way of possibly stimulating more 
> research.    I suggest that Fujiki-san spend an afternoon at the  Mita 
> campus visiting with the archivists there to get hints for how  the media 
> center might function.
>
> In addition, I think video games and all generations of gaming  consoles 
> should be available.  Video games are too much a part of  this to ignore 
> in favor of anime and manga as can be seen most  obviously from the 
> Pokemon and Final Fantasy franchises.
>
> Best,
>
> Bruce
>
>
> Bruce Baird
> Assistant Professor
> Asian Languages and Literatures
> University of Massachusetts Amherst
> Buto, Japanese Theater, Intellectual History
>
> 717 Herter Hall
> 161 Presidents Drive
> University of Massachusetts Amherst
> Amherst, MA 01003-9312
> Phone: 413-577-4992
> Fax: 413-545-4975
> baird at asianlan.umass.edu
>
>
>
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