[spectre] "Light InSight" exhibition@ICC, Tokyo (Dec. 6 - Feb. 28, 2009)

[yukiko shikata]

"Light InSight" Exhibition


Date: December 6 (Sat.), 2008–February 28 (Sat.), 2009
Venue: NTT InterCommunication Center [ICC] Gallery A

http://www.ntticc.or.jp/Exhibition/2008/Light_InSight/index.html


Hours: 10:00 am–6:00 pm (Admission until 30 minutes before closing) 
Closed: Mondays (If Monday is a holiday, then Tuesday), The year-end and 
New Year holidays (December 29 to January 5), Maintenance day (February 8)
Admission Fee: Adults / University students 500 (400) Yen, Admission 
free for High school students and younger
* Rates shown in parentheses are for groups of more than 14 persons.

Organizer: NTT InterCommunication Center [ICC] Support: Austrian 
Cultural Forum, Mondriaan Foundation, The Great Britain Sasakawa 
Foundation Special Cooperation: Carl Zeiss Meditec Co., Ltd., British 
Council Cooperation: FACT Centre Liverpool, Jessup Manufacturing Company 
(USA), OS co., LTD, Tokyo Studio Co., Ltd.

Address: Tokyo Opera City Tower 4F
3-20-2 Nishishinjuku, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo
163-1404 Japan
query at ntticc.or.jp http://www.ntticc.or.jp/


Paricipating artists:
alien productions / Joseph BEUYS /
Evelina DOMNITCH & Dmitry GELFAND /
Nina FISCHER & Maroan EL SANI /
FUJIMOTO Yukio / Ingo GÜNTHER/
Bengt SJÖLÉN & Adam SOMLAI-FISCHER with Usman HAQUE /
Jochem HENDRICKS / Mischa KUBALL / Anthony McCALL /
Nam June PAIK / TAKATANI Shiro

Curated by: SHIKATA Yukiko


What transformations in our senses and perceptions are due to the advent 
optical technology, especially by digitalization? "Light InSight" 
exhibition offers new perspectives on the too often overlooked past, 
present and future possibilities of the existence of "light", seeing our 
perception in ways that go beyond art and science. Here, we introduce 
experimental works and projects with unique visions of concept, 
phenomena, and process, in which the viewer can experience the 
transformation of our senses and physical perceptions afforded by the 
continuous expansion of optical and light technology. It will will 
provide an opportunity for the viewer to question anew the significance 
of seeing, vision, and sight through light, and to obtain new insights.


[Related events]

1. Symposium "Light InSight": December 6 (Sat.), 1:00 pm - 5:30 pm

[Session 1] "<Light> in Visual System and Perception " 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Panelists: OKADA Atsushi (History of Art and Aesthetics/ Professor of 
the Graduate School of Human and Environmental Studies, Kyoto 
University), alien productions, Ingo GÜNTHER, Mischa KUBALL Moderator: 
SHIKATA Yukiko (ICC Senior Curator)

[Session 2] "Art and Science: Regarding Light and Perception" 3:30 pm - 
5:30 pm
Panelists: IKEGAMI Takashi (Complex Systems Studies/ Professor of the 
Graduate School of Arts and Science, University of Tokyo), Evelina 
DOMNICH & Dmitry GELFAND, Nina FISCHER & Maroan EL SANI, Jochem 
HENDRICKS Moderator: SHIKATA Yukiko (ICC Senior Curator)

Venue: ICC 4F special space Capacity: 150 persons for each session 
(first-come basis) Admission: free (Ticket is required to see the 
exhibition) *with simultaneous interpretation.



2. Workshop: “Make’n’Shoot! WiFi Camera Obscura”

Tutors: Adam SOMLAI-FISCHER, Bengt SJÖLÉN
Date: December 7 (Sun.), 2008 2:00pm-5:00pm
Venue: ICC 4F special space
Capacity: 12 persons
Entry fee: free (Ticket is required to see the exhibition)
*with interpretation.
*Welcome to come and see the workshop.