[KineJapan] In person event with Nina Horisaki-Christens if you are in town (April 16 in Berkeley)

[Miryam Sas]

Hi all
This is the last in the multi-part in person Japanese Media series--Nina
Horisaki-Christens joins us in Berkeley to think through approaches to
Video Hiroba's experiments in early video. I will moderate.
All are welcome.
Best,
Miryam


Japanese Media 1970s and Beyond ~ Part 4: Video and Media Theory

4 p.m. April 16
3401 Dwinelle Hall  <https://www.berkeley.edu/map/dwinelle-hall/>
[image: Kobayashi Hakudō, Earth, 1974, still from color video © Kobayashi
Hakudō]
Kobayashi Hakudō, *Earth*, 1974, still from color video © Kobayashi Hakudō

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*Part 4: Video and Media Theory*

*“Against Japanese Video: Process, Discourse, and Translation in 1970s
Tokyo”*

Video emerged on the art scene in the late 1960s, positioned as a
grassroots medium that could counter the centralized structure of broadcast
television through person-to-person networks facilitated by air travel and
mail systems. Yet just as central to early video’s identity was its
supposed international transmissibility: video’s use of moving images and
ability to capture environments and processes promised communications that
exceeded linguistic and cultural barriers. In the wake of Osaka’s Expo ’70,
which showcased Japan’s emergence as a technological power, members of the
1970s Tokyo-based collective Video Hiroba latched onto video’s
international image, yet their work was often received in culturally
essentialist terms. By examining their experiments not through culturally
specific images but rather through the activities in which they were
involved—process, discourse, and translation—this talk recovers the
contributions of Video Hiroba’s experiments to early video while exposing
the frictions between local and transnational video that has obscured their
work to date. Rather than considering Video Hiroba’s work as “Japanese
video,” by framing their work as early video made in Japan, we can
critically examine early video’s internationalist aspirations: aspirations
that linger in the imaginary of “global contemporary” art today.
*Speaker:* Nina Horisaki-Christens
<https://arthistory.ucla.edu/person/nina-horisaki-christens/>, Lecturer,
UCLA
*Moderator:* Miryam Sas <https://vcresearch.berkeley.edu/faculty/miryam-sas>
, Professor, UC Berkeley


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*Miryam Sas*
Bernie H. Williams Chair in Comparative Literature
Chair, Department of Film & Media
Professor  of Comparative Literature, Film & Media, and Japanese Arts
University of California, Berkeley

*Feeling Media: Potentiality and the Afterlife of Art
<https://www.dukeupress.edu/feeling-media> *(Duke University Press, 2022).
Intro here
<https://assets-us-01.kc-usercontent.com/f7ca9afb-82c2-002a-a423-84e111d5b498/c8d038df-83a3-4f91-b9a1-d034ce9496cb/978-1-4780-1849-0_601.pdf?fm=webp&auto=format&lossless=true>
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