We are pleased to re-publish a text by Hirofumi Sakamoto about the range of use of video in Japanese moving image and fine art practice in Japan starting in the 1960s.
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Collaborative Cataloging Japan is proud to announce the launch of its first publication, Japanese Expanded Cinema and Intermedia: Critical Texts of the 1960s, co-edited by Go Hirasawa, Julian Ross, and Ann Adachi-Tasch, and published by Archive Books, Berlin.
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Our archivist partner Nobukazu Suzuki has been working to salvage collections in Japan damaged by the Typhoon 19 / Hagibis that landed on October 12th, 2019. He has sent us an update on that work.
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In this special offering, CCJ is delighted to welcome artist Yuki Okumura to devise an intervention into a part of our website. We are excited to experiment with this new framework we are calling Meander, a space to explore intersections between those works, artists, and themes we study under our mission (Japanese experimental moving image works made in 1950s-1980s), and those that fall outside of our mission’s specific framework of timeframe, genres, and nationality.
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