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Raster Noton, founded in 2000 as a fusion of "noton. Archiv für
Ton und Nichtton" (archive for sound and non-sound) and "Rastermusic"
will open a temporary Japan dependance, the "Raster-Noton Shop".
The collective offers it's products as well as it's processes, books,
videos and records of related labels like Mille Plateaux, Touch, CCI Recordings
and 12 K.
Especially for the shop, a series of events and lectures with contemporary
artists and musicians will be realized on every Wednesday in the "Sound
Post Office". Among others, Atsushi Sasaki (Headz), Christoph Charles,
Yoshihide Otomo (Filament), Tujiko Noriko (mego), Akihiro Kubota, MABR/Denshizatuon,
Teturo Yasunaga + YUTAKAWASAKI + Ami Yoshida, Yuji Takahashi and cubic
music are going to perform. The "Sound Post Office " and the
"Raster-Noton Shop" will be a temporary studio, a communication
platform and information pool for all it's visitors.
Raster-Noton will open a temporary Japan
dependance,
the Raster-Noton Shop, Tokyo
raster -noton shop
Location: Raster -Noton Shop, Tokyo, Japan
c/o On Sundays at
3-7-6 Jingumae, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo 150-0001
Tel: 03-3402-3001 Fax: 03-3405-7714
E-mail: [email protected]
http://www.watarium.co.jp/
Period: May 11 - September 6, 2002 (closed on Mondays)
Hours: 11:00-20:00 (Wednesdays 23:00)
Sound Post Office
Period: May 11 - September 6, 2002 every Wednesdays (Except for
August14 and September 4)
Hours: 21:00-23:00
Place: WATARI-UM Museum Basement Bookshop On Sundays
Artists: Atsushi Sasaki (Headz), Christoph Charles, Yoshihide Otomo
(Filament),
Tujiko Noriko (mego), Akihiro Kubota, MABR/Denshizatuon, Teturo Yasunaga
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YUTAKAWASAKI + Ami Yoshida, Yuji Takahashi, cubic music, etc.
Raster-Noton Night
May 18, 2002 (Saturday) 22:00-
Place: CAY (Spiral Building B1)
Broadcast: alva noto (aka Carsten Nicolai), komet (aka Frank Bretschneider),
byetone (aka Olaf Bender)
Guest: Tadamasa Takagi
Organizer: HEADZ
Cooperator: Tokyo German Culture Center
Raster Noton Lecture Performance
Three artists from Raster-Noton will talk about their activities with
sound and image.
May 17, 2002 (Friday) 19:00-
Place: German Culture Hall
please check the web site :
http://www.watarium.co.jp
http://www.faderbyheadz.com/event.html
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Carsten Nicolai
Parallel lines cross at infinity
WATARI-UM, The Watari Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo
May 11 - September 6, 2002
Opening Hours: 11:00-19:00 (till 21:00 on Wednesdays)
Closed: Mondays
Admission Fee: Adult 1,000 yen, Student (under 25 years) 800 yen
Ticket with signature is valid throughout the exhibition
Sponsors: Shiseido, Toyota Motor Corporation, Lufthansa German
Airlines, J-PHONE
Subsidies: The Japan Foundation, IFA
Logistic Supports: Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany
Cooperators: Goethe-Institut Tokyo, Galerie EIGEN + ART, Fujiko
Nakaya Technical Corporations: Cannon Inc., Nakamura Scientific Co.,Ktd.,
Pau Pau AQUA GARDEN, TOLI Corporation
Carsten Nicolai (born 1965 in Karl Marx Stadt, now Chemnitz) is an artist
using various media, such as sound, image, sculpture and computer, as
hybrid tools in order to research the "codification of the world".
Nicolai's work questions creativity, coincidence and artistic creative
power. A lot of his works are directly linked with the natural sciences.
The physics of oscillation in particular are a frequent means of his work
and are not limited by audibility and visibility, but trying to make natural
phenomena visible.
Scientists like the Physicist Ukichiro Nakaya, who researched snow crystals in his studies, were an inspiration to Carsten Nicolai for his "snow noise" installation. The joint collaboration with scientists, search and research, will combine scientific experiment with artistic sculpture. In "snow noise", the laboratory becomes the exhibition space, the activity of the audience makes it a part of the sculpture itself.
The complexity of his work becomes visible in projects such as "polar", together with Marko Peljhan, which was realized for the Canon Artlab no.10 in 2000 and which received the Golden Nica for interactive art at the Ars Electronica Festival in 2001.
The preoccupation with physical phenomena finds it's way into Nicolai's sound work, which is released under the pseudonyms "noto" and "alva noto". In 1995, Nicolai founded the "noton" record label that merged with "raster music" to become "Raster-Noton" in 2000. The collective with Olaf Bender and Frank Bretschneider meanwhile put out more than 40 releases, among others the series "20 to 2000" that received the Golden Nica for Digital Music at the Ars Electronica Festival in 2000.
In recent years, Carsten Nicolai has performed in major exhibition spaces, for example the New York Guggenheim Museum (2000), the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (2001) and the Opera of Sydney, mca (2000). His installations were shown at the Dokumenta X in 1997 and the 2001 Venice Biennial. Nicolai has collaborated with Ryoji Ikeda (Composer for Dumb Type), Mika Vainio (member of the Finnish minimal electronic music project "Pan Sonic") and Thomas Knaak (co-composer of Björk's "Vespertine"-album) and is now preparing a project with Ryuchi Sakamoto.
For the "Parallel lines cross at infinity" exhibition at the
WATARI-UM Museum for Contemporary Art, Carsten Nicolai realized new installations
and projects and shows the most important works of the last 3 years. To
mark the occasion, an edition of silk prints and the catalogue "autopilot"
in English and Japanese will be published. A wide range of events, a series
of performances and lectures and a bookshop, accompany the exhibition.
Lecture Series:
Carsten Nicolai is releasing the "scientific experiment" like
new
works for this exhibition. Nicolai is reproducing something we are
not conscious with such as incidents in the nature and the process of
self-organization by the use of technology, and this exhibition is a
laboratory for examining that in the context of art. In the lecture
series, we will examine Nicolai's work through talk of specialists
from variety of field.
Opening lecture
May 11, 2002
Akira Asada + Carsten Nicolai
Mr. Asada is one of the most excellent art critics in the
contemporary Japan. As he published the book "Kouzou to chikara"
("Structure and Power") he effected japanese thinking in a
fundamental way.
Mr. Asada and Carsten Nicolai will discuss the problem of "perception
und creativity" and the role of the singular artist.
Sound experiment will be held at the end.
#1
May 23 (Thursday) 2002
Takashi Ikegami + Carsten Nicolai "Conversation"
Takashi Ikegami is a scientist researching the field of artificial
intelligence and creative self-organisation. He and Carsten Nicolai
will together discuss the connection and relation between Art and
Science.
#2
June 27 (Thursday) 2002
Kengo Kuma (Architect) "Anti-Object"
The architect Kengo Kuma argues against the self-centered and
coercive object. Since several years, he is observing Nicolai's art.
In this lecture, he is going to present his theories in context with
the works of the exhibition.
#3
July 2002 ( to be confirmed)
Junji Kido (Scientist) "Light of the firefly will be a liquid crystal
display"
Junji Kido is a scientist researching a lightingstructure called the
organic EL element.and new LCD display technologies for the next
generation. He is going to discuss creative processes in the context
of scientific technologies.
#4
July 25, 2002 ( to be confirmed)
Takashi Ikegami (Physicist) "Source of Innovation"
Mr. Ikegami will talk about his research and the theoretical
background for his sketch "Source of Innovation" that he contributed
for the "autopilot" exhibition catalogue.
#5
August 1, 2002 ( to be confirmed)
Yuji Morioka (City Planning Architect) "Ukichiro Nakaya --- The scenery
of Science"
Yuji Morioka will give insight into the life and work of Ukichiro
Nakaya(1900 - 1962), a pioneer in the physics of snow and ice
crystals. Carsten Nicolai's "snow noise" installation was highly
inspired by Nakaya's research.
#6
August, 2002 ( to be confirmed)
Hans Ulrich Obrist (Curator/Critic) "Laboratory is the Answer. What
is the question?"
Hans Ulrich Obrist, contributor to the catalogue, one of the most
well known European critics and director of the Musee de la ville
d'art moderne in Paris, will compare the work of Nicolai to his
latest research on painting and light, space etc.
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In the connection to the exhibition a book will be released
Carsten Nicolai. autopilot (Japanese edition)
104 pages, 47 colors, Soft cover, CD included: noto.autorec,
Limited edition of: 1,000 copies.
text and inserts by: C. Cox, T. Ikegami and M.Pesch,
Interview with Hans Ulrich Obrist.
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WATARI-UM, The Watari Museum of Contemporary Art
3-7-6 Jingumae, Shibuya-ku,
Tokyo 150-0001
Japan
Tel: 03-3402-3001
Fax: 03-3405-7714
E-mail: [email protected]
Website:http://www.watarium.co.jp