[spectre] "art.bit collection" at ICC

[yukiko shikata]

dear all,

here i inform you 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.

yukiko shikata

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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

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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.

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<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.


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URL for this exhibition: http://www.art-bit.jp/ 1