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1968 April Toshio Matsumoto makes a film Funeral of Roses in which he uses a TV event of "magnetic scramble' . Katsuhiro Yamaquchi and Yoshiaki Tono produce a video event at a symposium SAY SOMETHING NOW, I'M LOOKING FOR SOMETHING TO SAY held at Soqetsu Kaikan . 1969 Kohei Ando and Rikuro Miyai make films using video. Takahiko Iimura and Keigo Yamamoto start making video . 1970 At EXPO'70 in Osaka, many experimental works in audio-visual displays including video were presented . works does not lend itself to an easy and immediate decoding, but rather to a cryptoanalysis, as happens with 1971 the events and Objects the initial objective of which has not been communication. The artist gives account, on many opportunities, of this February Takahiko Iimura's live event Inside/Outside using CCTV and process. It is common to hear that the creator is not telebeam at Asahi Lecture Hall . interested in what happens to the receptions of his Katsuhiro Yamaquchi makes his first videotape Ai:ua et Luce at works, since he searches for expressive forms and not Gallery Videobelisco in Rome . communicational contacts. In a wad, since he tries to May At 10TH CONTEMPORARY JAPANESE ART EXHIBITION, Iimura's Man and put together significant objects, rather man messages Woman and Yukihisa Isobe's Video Documents on Phoenix House conveying information. were exhibited. If we remit ourselves to natural tongues, we shelf October Toshio Matsumoto completes his video work Metastasis using data observe that the communicational and the significative color system . With Autonomy and Expansion completed the follow- qualities are joined together in them, as happens with ing year, the 3 works were shown at Sogetsu Kaikan in June 1972 . numerous semiotic systems. However, by constituting a VIDEO EARTH was organized synthesis of image and sound, video is a paradigmatic by Ko Nakajima . example: through it, art signifies. A traditional sculpture 1972 or painting are charged with meaning. Can it be inferred from this that they communicate with us? Doubtlessly not. But the case of video is singular: in it we meet with February The first video show in Japan "do-it-yourself-kit" VIDEO COMMUNI- objects, conjunctions Of unforeseen events, scenes which CATION organized by Michael Goldberg and several Japanese artists are filled with meaning or alternatively open to all meanings . was held at Sony Building . The participants of the show formed When a semiotic structure is open to all meanings, the a group called . The initial members were :Katsuhiro result can be apparent nonsense . These real figures of Yamaquchi, Toshio Matsumoto, , Hakudo Kobayashi, "accumulation" manage to constitute, sometimes, Nobuhiro, Kawanaka, Yoshiaki Tono, Tetsuo Matsushita, :4ichitaka cryptograms for whoever is unfamiliar with the code of Nakahara, Rikuro Miyai, Ma$av Komura_, Sakumi Haqiwara, Keiqo this or that creator. In the -frequent- case of an artist Yamamoto, and Shoko Matsughita . who toys with the technical possibilities of his electronic VIDEO EARTH produces a video event in collaboration with Allen Jones . equipment, the resulting mulfiplioty of effects and June Nobuhiro Kawanaka's audience participation video event Plavback 3 at nuances is fused with the iconic objects presented on the Mozart Salon in Shinjuku . screen, adding to the entire representation an ambiguity belonging Keiqo Yamamoto's video show confirmation by Doing at Gallery 16 in to the accumulation of effects, which is added August Hitoshi Nomura's photo series of the 16mm film the images to mat which is already contained naturally in every image. of of himself We may, seen through a surveillance monitor shown at ACTIVE WE Exhibition in Ky therefore, operalonally distinguish two large September Morihiro areas of realization for video-art : the communicational Wada's video show at Tamura Gallery, in which he related the e and the significant . taped on a beach with a space in the gallery enclosed with metal sheets To the former would correspond the works whose October VIDEO WEEK "Open Retina-Grab Your Image" held by VIDEO HIROBA in colla- privileged function is the transmission of one or various boration with American Center . A Video Picnic and a Video Day in Shinj messages . as from the structure which the medium with Public participation. Also, a Video Symposium was held with Arthu normally operates with : testimonial or documentary Ginsberg, Mitsuru Kataoka, John Witney, Ben Konno, Jiro Takamatsu, Taek~ video, based on iconic rhetoric, which is practiced by Tomioka Yusuke Nakahara as pennelists . Latin American and some European artists. Nobuhiro Kawanaka shows his video work at CATASTROPHE ART EXHIBITION in To the signrficat order would belong the works of Milano and Tokvo . formalist video, where the technical processing is Kurni Yoshiroto's video display of the process of rotation of her rotati; privileged, where what acquires relevance is the esthetic sculpture at Kanagawa Prefectural Gallery . development of the presented images . be it on their own or in conjunction with sound: works in which 3 symbolic 1973 rhetoric flourishes and which distinguish the proauction of a large number of United States artists. January Of course, just as the iconic and the symbolical are not Fujiko Nakaya attends the M_NTRIX INTERNATIONAL VIDEO CONFERENCE IN Van- mutually exclusive, the same happens with the couver . Tapes by VIDEO HIROBA members were shown . communicational and the significative. February Symposium with Entzensberger and 4 Japanese artists was held at Asahi Lecture Hall . Kawanaka directs CCTV with multiple monitors and Telebeai Jorge Gluaberg

devided spaces were relayed show at Tamura Gallery . 2 separate spaces were Renji Tajima's video show at Runami Gallery . 2 the Kosai Hori's video of camera was displaced slightly during connected by VTR circuits and the articulation of information was by video circuit . The position and composition . demonstraiting the multilateral focus . demonstrated by decomposition 7 days, Works by HIROBA members and the artists March Video research project Methods of Using Video as a Means of Community VIDEO KYOTO 1974 at Gallery Signum . Participation in Urban Renewal , commissioned by Economic Planning Agency, of Kyoto/Osaka area were shown . CONTE14PORARI was newly introduced to the 11TH INTERNATIONAL was conducted by Yamaguchi (collaboration : Nakaya, Kawanaka, Kobayashi . , Video Art Section Fujiko Nakaya, Shigeko Kazuko Enomoto) . ART EXHIBITION . The works by , Shoko Matsushita, Yamamoto, Shoji Matsumoto, Masao Komura, Noge area in was chosen and video interviews of local people and Kubota, Hakudo Kobayashi, Keigo were exhibited . multi-level feedback were tried . Morihiro Wads Idemitsu Sam Are You Listeni ng work showing the process of multiplying the act At Kyoto American Center, a videotape by Mako May Fumio Takamizawa's video lecture by Yeshiaki Tono on Sam Francis and and recording (2 tapes shot in a studio were reshot in the gallery and was shown in connection with a so on) was exhibited at IMPLEMENTATION AND EXECUTION . Contemporary Art . INFORMATION CENTER . All of his June (iakudo Kobayashi's video event HELLO VIDEO at workshop NAG . His Lapse Event by K is io bugs was taped by VIDEO deals with the accumulation of gestures by partici- events since then are taped by VIC . Communication Series Corporation and Michael Shamberg pants, in which he explores the arbitrariness of memory with humor . GUERRILLA TELEVISION by Raindance - Sha . Nakaya) was published by Bijutsu-shuppan VIDEO EARTH makes a video document of the campaign of Senate candidate August (translated by Fujiko Shigehide Yonezu's videotape, VIDEO COMMUNICATION SHOW at Art Core Gallery . Akiyuki.Nosaka . by video (he holds out everyday July Nobuhiro Kawanaka's Playback 5 performed at Espace Giraux, using 8 monitor a quest into the nature of communication the screen from inside TV) was shown . delay system . Performance of an actress was overlapped with audience by commodity towards video participation game event VIDEO GAME FESTIVAL produced by VIDEO HIROBA, switcher . public . Sakumi Hagiwara used the same system and showed his media transformation enjoyed by children and general Music Festival, MEDIA in Karuizawa, a contemporary piece First in Question . As a part of NEW MUSIC of the concert . produced a series of videotapes for a video show was held as well as color video relay Research team o VIDEO HIROBA Festival of Suwa Shrine was shown as Community Center of an electric company in Niiqata . Shoji Kaneko's video document of the Kawamura's video show Image On at Tamura Gallery . Using a panto- a part of his LIBERATE THE FIELD show . Etsuro Santa Clara), works of mime, he experimented with the discrepancy of language and gesture and October At the 14,TH ST . JUDE INVITATIONAL VIDEO SHOW (U . of displayed on 3 monitors . HIROBA members were shown . the images were VIDEO were covered August AMERICAN VIDEO SHOW at American Center . John Reiley and Rudi Stern show Shoji Matsumoto's exhibition at Art Core Gallery . The walls by Silkscreens of stopwatch . In his work, video is used their tapes and give lectures . floor to ceiling . September AT EQUIVALENT CINEMA '73 In Kyoto, the works by Keigo Yamamoto (video to create a particular time and space free from the daily environment communication game of viewer seeing the image on a monitor and imitating), Etsuro Kawamura (the discrepancy of the identification by different 1975 the same image), and Fujiko Nakaya ( Ride the Wind and Draw a Line viewers of Videotapes and - an ecological video sculpture of spiders in natural and artificial envi- January FILM MEDIA IN TAMURA '75 presents a special video week . by 7 artists including the artists from Kansai area were shown . ronments) were exhibited . performances sat in Videotapes by VIDEO HIROBA members were shown at International Film Festival March Mitsunori Kurashige's video event at Tokiwa Gallery . The artist showing himself and the electro-magnetic waves of his Pessaro, Italy . front of a monitor into Fumio Takamizawa's video show at Tokiwa Gallery . Through his video perfor- body sensored by the instrument wrapped around his arm was transformed mance of multiple recording, he objectifies the structure of the recording visual display graphs . VIDEO INDEX SERIES by Shoji Kaneko starts . process . Kyoto . October At COMPUTER ART EXHIBITION, Katsuhiro Yamaguchi, Hakudo Kobayashi,and Rikuro April " ART 6 VIDEO EXHIBITION held at Art Core Gallery in the works made with scanimate . The first part of an informa- ART EXHIBITION was taped by VIDEO INFORMATION CENTER and the process Miyai exhibit during the tion project Old Peoples' Wisdom-Cultural DNA by Fujiko Nakaya in collabora- of organizing this unique exhibition was feedback to the public tion with Kobayashi, Kawanaka and Morioka was exhibited . exhibition . CENTER equipped with portable system starts its operation Takubo's event, A Story cpich Ends When a Bottle of Bourbo n Is Emptied November VIDEO INFORMATION ._ Kyoji rolling on by taping poetry readings, theatres, concerts, art events, dances and others. was taped at Maki Gallery . At the end of the tape, the artist is present . Their tape collection exceeds 100 at the floor stoned . video Hakudo Kobayashi's Hello Tobacco show, recordings of more than 200 heavy VIDEO EARTH conducts its first VIDEO LIFE SHOP . In August they hold a school in Chiba seashore . smokers . summer BIENNALE OF Sakumi Hagiwara introduces the tapes by Joan Jonas and John Stergeon at October Katsuhiro Yamaguchi and Keigo Yamamoto participate in the 13TH Tenjosajikikan Video Theatre . SAN PAULO and Yamaguchi receives Grand Prix . On his way back, he stops at Tatsuya Watanabe's video performance Climax No .2 at Tokiwa Gallery . The Aires to attend the V INTERNATIONAL ENCOUNTER ON VIDEO . December Buenos and Culture , drawings executed by 6 performers were accumulated one after another . November Fujiko Nakaya starts her project The Revival of Regional Life experiments on communication in community developments . 1974 1976 January video show TOKYO-NEW YORK VIDEO EXPRESS produced by with and UNDERGROUND CENTER %.,t Tenjosajikikan . 30 American tapes Hagiwara's print show Passing Through , in which he experiments with VIDEO HIROBA February Sakumi photo, film, as well as the tapes and performances of 15 VIDEO HIROBA members including the transformation of images througin different media like still , Kyoko Michishita, and Shuntaro Tanigawa were presented . VTR, Xerox, etc . Matsumoto attends the International Video Conference OPEN CIRCUIT Wada and Tetsuya Watanabe's video performances at KYOTO BIENNALE . Toshio Monhiro FESTIVAL held at the in New York, and gives a talk on Video Art VIDEO EARTH presents an event Video Menu at CONTEMPORARY MUSIC in Japan . using 3 portapacks and 20 monitors . In August they hold the 2nd summer ART '73-'74 held at Art Core Gallery in Kyoto, Shoji Nagano . AttHe CONTEMPORARY school in the observer Matsumoto's video image feedback niece using a stopwatch was exhibited . August Takahiko Iimura's video show . He explores the relationship of VIDEO EXPRESS No-1, VIDEO HIROBA magazine, was published . and the observed in the context of language structure . February Masayuki Takahashi's video show at Nirenoki Gallery . His concern is the - November videotapes of the events Uy Naoyoshi Hikosaka and Kyoji Takubo at special confrontation of the difference of media through parallel placement Biennale were shown . of real objects, photos, graphic reproductions, video, etc . At JAPAd: TODAY (Yokohama Citizens Gallery), Shimamoto and Fujiko Nakaya's Video group CITY s LUDENS is formed and they hold 7 video shows named video works were exhibited . VIDEO RALLY .

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Gonzilez 4070 Kenji Togami shows his tape of himself contending with a coil spring , to which he is contracted . ITALIAN AND JAPANESE ART EXHIBITION so_onsored bItalian Cultural Center Argentina, 1407 on the theme of "Time" . Videotape of Pagoda of- Brahma shown. by Tatsuo Ikeda was 1977 W n I* e *pWr January Katsuhiro Yamaguchi's exhibition VIDEORAMA at Minami Gallery. He created f I% ac several environmental works by incorporating mirrors created with the images by video synthesizer and further combining them with multi-monitor display. fi I I-OT Iff 1! 119M'F VIDEO INFORMATION CENTER installs a cable system ing, in their appartment build- and starts a cablecast of 1 hour program each evening from their Y[2yciTl**f# in the building . studio February Katsuhiro Yamaguchi attends VII INTERNATIONAL OPEN ENCOUNTER ON VIDEO in f ft' AWTuTI-e SR Barcelona and gives a talk on video encounter by means of "Renku" to open up new circuit of communication . April Video Section -+ for public events is introduced to the 13TH JAPANESE CONTEM- t ~tf"F19 PORARY ART EXHIBITION . Keigo Yamamoto receives a Takuji prize . Azechi shows his drawings on metal sheets as well as a videotape the act of drawing . of Mako Idemitsu video show using multi-channeled video 05 AWI of system . The structure i- - 91T"M TAIL*!!P#x communication with the frankness particular to video is explored . WOMAN 5 VIDEO group is formed and women's tapes are shown at their showings . monthly W BA f~EMIf, vv~n, " Y4t :'i9zlitFn7rft Steve Moore's video show at American Center . Katsuhiro Yamaguchi's drawing show at Ao Gallery - an experiment M 3t-, SAWM media circulation of live through combined color photocopy, video, and polaroid camera . g cey~f ° July Don Druick and 14 -1A*Tftt1, ° sf Canadian Video Show at Image Forum. Minoru Yoshida's Video Live-Edit "Gourmet of the Space" was also shown. ART LL 0 A ~1, t ftfM sXA*~ft4,- TODAY '77 The Structure of Seeinq (Commissioner : Yoshiaki Tono) was held at Seibu Art Museum . The entire process from the planning to the realiza- Ic FrA tion of works by 5 participating artists was videotaped by Shotaro Uchiyama and Tama Art University AV House and feedback August public during the exhibition . TOKYO- VIDEO EXPRESS organized by Minoru Takeyama and fk tU a* . ' Yamaguchi . Video Katsuhiro n a e symposium with Yamaguchi and Kyoko Michishita as oannel- ists . At MAKI SPACE VIDEO IN TOKYO, 8 artists and 1 At 12-hour group show their work . Fl W 62 t 95 t f 4 T f ~3x, W* ltfi #z ev^nt '77 SEPTEMBER ALL NIGHT, organized by a young artists group called HOT PRESS, vi eo wor s were sown along with film and synthesizer. b, t> >d b. o) .;; iA h WifM 1.S:Ltfi**3&fi Asuka Kunimatsu's silkscreen show VTR MONTAGE - a montage of images from a monitor. October e At JAPAN-U .S . CONTEMPORARY ART EXHIBITION organized by Nobuo Yamaguchi 41 #k ( C t~ ~tf , ; fJ E&(Ti and Steve Moore, a videotape by Tsuneo Nakai was shown December . VIDEO KUNST AUS DEUTCHLAND UND JAPAN held at Prefectural Art Museum . - ~f5 tft " 4i7t-Y-ii3i " ti9-f Symposium with Yusuke Nakahara, Katsuhiro Yamaguchi, Nobuhiro pannelists . Kawanaka as 41 V_ if Tt"c 1978 tt L rlc January SI14PLEX-COMPLEX show organized by HOT PRESS . PAN CONCEPTUALS '78 video show at Tamura Gallery. Participation from Australia, New Zealand, U .S ., Canada and Japan. March VIDEO EARTH experiments with the joining of video, film and children's picture books . Also the first trial of frame by frame video at their seminar for video animation. W Q ~~F ~~ t T TA( .~C*~~Ctz Hakudo Kobayashi starts his one year community video project commissioned ~f~~x, by the City of Kunitachi . May ~_i o Keigo Yamamoto's Video Show at Muramatsu Gallery. His theme is the 111 7~ eftf visualization of "ma", such as the time lapse between the perception of an act and the act of imitating what is perceived . in f Ac (74'7=ttl&) features of Video Week were(1) a video picnic 'organized on setting up viewing stations by Mitsutoshi-Hanaga to to facilitate ex- new acquaint change and distribution of people with portapaks; (2) a street artists' work. Only organized event very localized closed circuit by Rikuro Miyai on Earthday cable N facilities Shinjuku, in are available at present, (3) a video symposium on New and we have no outlat with Art Media except for ad hoc showings Ginsberg, Mitsuru Kataoka, Ben and events held by Yusuke Konno, individual artists: Nakahara, Jiro Takarnaisu, Taeko Tomioka, and John Whitney as panellists ; organized by Projects of VIDEO Masao Komura, Tetsuo Matsushita; HIROBA Michitaka Nakah,arauoFjik Nakaya; Tomoko Fujii, a Yoshiaki dancer-choreographer, relates physically demanding objects FUJlKO November and environments NAKAYA - 1972 : A video symposium to the human body in her Yoshiaki by dance events . In T-no and his students at the Tama Stones, she picks up large The formation of VIDEO University stones one by one, , HIROBA of Arts, eight tons altogether; placing September them alternately 1971 : No alternative video activity December 1972 : Taki Blues Singer of in Japan the New apart from the relatively isolated pro- Era Social Club, Vancouver, comes jests of to Tokyo as Takahiko limura and Keigo Yamamoto, pan °f a video exchange program : until Michael Shamberg visits Tokyo and January 1973 : Nakaya several leaves participates in the copies of Radical Software in the Matrix International - Video of interested hands Conference in artists_ Vancouver, organized by Michael November 1971 Goldberg, : Michael Goldberg of Inter- March 1973 : Yamaguchi"s media, Vancouver, proposal (collabora- comes to Tokyo and stays, torn : Nakaya, Kawanaka, four months, Kobayashi, Shoko showing tapes from Canada and Matsushita, Kazuko promoting his Enomoto) to study the idea for video communication and ` effects of video communication fres exchan,ca of on urban prob- video through a decentralized lems and develop practicable global network : - _ methods for community participation is funded February 1972 : Video by the Communication do-it- ` government's Economic. Planning Agency. yourself-Pit, the first video district A exhibition in Japan- in Yokohama City was chosen as a model organized by Michael :. case. Goldberg; : Katsuhiro The district was divided into five sections, Yamaguchi and Fujiko Nakaya at each of which the Sony underwent a processflfo se- showroom i,^, Ginza: Eighteen people examination on ° first made their throwthrough repeated taped interviews conveyor belts: Because the belts tones with portapaks; Goldb and viewing in len gth the differ erg ac-essonssi .eTh five districts were -onesropst d at different intervals companied each person on his first then interfaced the foot of at day of taping at a larger meeting . "Looking at a wall . Finally the wall cracks to give technical assistance : Five video; I light shinesnes and a live events - become confused about what I really through. Her interest is darkness using feedback and time-delay were want" was light, and and presented . people's reaction . We considered the use of the body to its Keigo Yamamoto's video show this a step limitsmits . physical Confirmation by forward. In general response was quiteDoing tGallerfl6inToky o. positive . The Sakumi Hagiwara, Marcharch 1972 community clearly nedtoe s an underground filmmaker Parncipants from Video Com- be more informed bef and essayistid, uses ~~~unica ::Cl7 ore any genuinley con - veo to record time. He officiallyform VIDEO HIROBAwith-. structive action can proceed recorded 20 minutes of the aim of ; but to me an even a mountain with clouds expanding the possibilities of video- more important discovery moving in to obscure tape and video was that they ex. it until it disappeared communication. The structure of pressed a need for completely and then the organization imagination and expertise as gradually reappeared as was discussed but no chosen- well . HIROBA's community the wind lifted the sus reached. work is supported clouds away; time becomes We decided to let it evolve. by Total Media, a meta-time . In live basicideawatk The think-tank which provides events, Hagiwara explores soeeptopeni . Professional advice and "how reality changes Aprif 1972 : Video evaluation. A com- through the action of research on City and mittee made up of two physical media." He shoots on Mito City by urban designers, a an original in both Yamaguchi incollaboration with regional sociologist, a social 16 mm and video ; Nakaya ; Kawarnaka psychologist; an re-shoots the film original . Kobayashi, anthropologist, two local . with video ; re-shoots that May 1972: VIDEO consultants and from a monitor with HIROBA and the Asagaya - HIROBAstaffworked the 16 mm camera ; makes Svheol of Art; onthisproject a videotape of that document Woodstockholm, a April 1973 : David and so on . They are shown Ic'< DiFrancesco of Video simultaneously on ccncart staged in order to raise funds Grease visits eight monitors, in sand to _. 7okyo. HIROBA views Scanimate conjunction with further re- Minarnata Victims to the tapes. shooting : media vironmentai En- becomes metamedia. Hagi- Conference. Edited'tape wara is "experimenting to the was sent June 1973 : Hakudo Kbhi'oayass video to find a video grammar." People's Forum in Stockholm . Hello event Eizaburo Ham ; June Video, at Workshop MAG. Tokyo. a photographer, tapes himself 1972 : Many HIROBA members Heime dancing (in real pate in partici- Davidovich visits Tokyo. Video viewing life he is always taking other Vancouver, B.C. artist Terry and people's pictures) cyr Reid's Re- Participation in Kobayashi's event. Nam dressed in female costume !eattheTokiwaGallery, Tokyo. Paik June (he is always Sev-ember visits Tokyo. Many interesting dressed in male- clothes, though 1972 : Hakudo Kobayashi's raps with not quite HIROBAevent video, members. conventionally) with a. globe on at Metacc 72, Sony Building. head . his WadYs Morihiror July 1973 : Two video one man showHollowingofconceptby events, Nobuhiro . conception: the Kawanaka's " Playback No. 5 and use of video as a medium for -Hagiwara's Sakumi discovering First in Question; at Espace Giraux, plasma-language; at the Tamura Tokyo: Gallery. Tokyo. HIROBA's tape participation in Ccrnmunicarion August 1973 : Software production and Information at the Amerk for a com- can Center in munity N station in Niigata. Seoul, South Korea. Video (Yamaguchi, :'a:.earch on the Shinagawa Kawanaka, Kobayashi, Matsushita, Nakaya .)- . district by Yama Pretl -c:1i and Tok'/o -seny, VIDEO HIROBA is maintained Zokei University students . five by K :'go eamamoto's tape active members : Yamaguchi, Kawanaka, exhibition at Image 72, Kobayashi, Kyoto,lfunicipal Museum. Matsushita, and myself. HIROBA's +October 1972: main functions are (1) to serve as HIROBA's second collective an equipment show Video Week access center - we rent out at the American Center. portapaks for Tokyo. 1,000 yen ($3 .80) per day Twenty-eight Japanese artists (in- to our registered eluding Abe. limura, members .o(2) T act as a project team Kubota and Tsuno from the of in support ~U-S-) participated . community activities and social Art Ginsberg of Video Free integration . Nobuhira Kawanaka, America In the context of Playback No 1, 1972 and Mitsuru Kataoka of the art we produce tapes and Lab showed Dixon Video events individually tapes by 30 American artists or in collaboration with Nobuhiro . Other people in other media. Kawanaka, an underground Some of us are working maker, has film- created five live video environments,

'his Ple7,beck series . Other works by him use `video data-bank of (1) their ideas on recycling, teacher at a professional high school, has been video as . a personal language, like a diary. (2) their wisdom and experience, (3) their pursuing one theme, "Confirmation by Doing," Kawanaka does not record what he finds - he hopes for -the future . Nakaya is also making a over the past four years. "It is a confirmation of iets video discover his everyday life . series of tapes on primitive technology, such as space, not by abstract measurements like one ' Hakudo Kobayashi, an event - artist, has meter or two meters, but by physical measure- several on-going projects : one is called Lapse- ments like one foot-pace or the height of one's Communication, and the other is his Heavy body." His tapes are a record of "exploring and :Smoker series (recording 200 heavy smokers) : .confirming the space we live in by walking its His street events probe he deviation of reality perimeter with one's own feet, or by such every- acts as digging a hole.". from intention . -Intersection is a simultaneous day recording by two portapaks going in opposite directions around an intersection, crossing at one point and meeting again at the starting point. . asao Komura, a computer artist, has used oto document computer art, but now wants Fto channel computer .output-.directly into video.~ While Scanimate offers interesting possibilities, Stand an Egg, 1973 it is too al{-purpose for this artist's very personal Fujiko Nakaya, Now to aims. He says of his work that "It's like making a . trimming a tree or standing an egg . new musical instrument ." j Katsuhiro Yamaguchi, an environmental sculptor, has organized a number of community projects and is now developing methods of video research applicable to various social plan-

Toshio Matsumoto, Metastasis, 1972 Toshio Matsumoto, a filmmaker, has made three films using an electro-color-video process . allows for This system (Data Color System)  delicate color control . Matsumoto -is now ning processes . His basic concern is to find a - working on computer-controlled video using meeting ground for social needs with video as a - black and white videotape as the input source. medium ." His next project . still in the conceptual He is also working with Shuya Abe who is stage, is a video caravan to visit the countries of ' designing a new computer-video system. each ping-pong player participating in the Shoko Matsushita, an underground film- Yokohama Assembly. There will be no national maker, employs the delay effect of the EE system or ideological boundaries - China, Formosa, (especially prominent in Akai machines and North and South Korea are all participating. The considered a defective property) in a creative social backgrounds, training sessions, and way. .The particular intensity of Matsushita's families of the players will be shown simul- work is due to its material economy, a zooming taneously on -a multi-screen at the Assembly. in and out technique and this exposure-adjust- - ment-delay effect. Fujiko Nakaya, a fog sculptor and -staff . member of E.A.T. TOKYO, is interested in using video to encourage social interaction . Her first project (with Kobayashi) was an experiment in communication among the supporters oft Minamata victims as they protested by means of sit-ins in front of the Chisso Building . Another' concern is the integration of old people with society, technology. and °children, through a

Ketsuhiro Yamaguchi, Waterand Light, 1972 Keigo Yamamoto, Confirmation by Doing No 4,1971 , "His art tapes include Water and Light, Tokyo include 360° and Eat. The latter was conceived as Other members of VIDEO HIROBA Daigosei- homage' to Velasquez' portrait of the Spanish Shuya Abe, Kohei Ando, Dabudabo, Makio royal family called .Las Meninas, in which the shingeka, Seiichi Fujii, Ichiro Hagiwara, Hayashi, :Miyabi Ichikawa, artist included himself working at his easel and Hasegawa, Kinji portrayed the king and queen watching himself . -Hiroyuki Ito, Tetsuo Matsushita, Isso Miura, Naka- Yamaguchi's- event- Eat employs video to Rikuro Miyai, Shigeki Nagai, Michitaka Sachie Nishikawa, Ma- structure -a situation based on a similar complex- hara,Takashi Nakajima, Keiichi Tan- of relationships between observer and observed . : koto -Okamoto . Satomi Suehiro, artist and art aami, and Morihiro Wada . Fuliko Nakaya, Supporters of Minamate Victims, 1972 Keigo Yamamoto . a conceptual 53