TheMoving Image Archive of Contemporary Art Japan (MIACA Japan),an organization dedicated to theconservation and promotion of moving image art works and artists, started its activity in 2006 in Yokohama, Japan.
MIACA organizes exhibitions, temporary video libraries,and talk events, and lectures by art professionals.
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Yasuto Masumoto solo exhibition at Observation Society in Guangzhou, China
Why are we so enthusiastic for the Olympic Games or the World Cup? Whydo we have such strong feelings of love and hate for our country, and why do they cause us to kill each other in times of war? What is it about the nation thatcan move us this much?
The project Yasuto Masumoto would present in this exhibition is an examination of these fundamental human emotions. Local volunteers are divided into groups and fight each other with handmade plastic rockets. Masumoto's works are always sensitive to cultural differences and how human conditions and emotions are shaped by circumstance.
At the opening of the Observation Society, Masumoto will also conduct a performance that refers to his own great-grand mother's experience in Hiroshima on August 6th, 1945 when she was exposed by radiation of the atomic bomb.
The exhibition is the first in China for the artist.
SPEED SHOW HK -Peep Show! Has the Computer Become the Contemporary Peep Box?
Thursday, November 18 ・ 7:00pm - 10:00pm
Location Fresh Cyber Cafe´
灣仔駱克道94-100號景都大廈2樓C室（灣仔地鐵站C出口，大廈大門按2C進入）Flat C, Floor 2, King Tao Building, 94-100 Lockhart Road, Wanchai (Press 2C for Entry)
Wan Chai, Hong Kong
Participating Artists:
Candy Factory (Japan)
Cory Arcangel (USA)
Evan Roth (France)
Chen Hangfeng (China)
James Powderly (Korea)
MAP Office (Hong Kong SAR)
Rafael Rozendaal (Netherland/Brasil)
Shiro Masuyama (Germany)
Yangachi (Korea)
Manolis (Hong Kong SAR)
Yu Araki (Japan)
Zhou Xiaohu (China)
Adam Enfroy (USA)
The peep box has its origins in the 15th century European invention of a box for viewing pictures through a peephole. It was most often used as a means of showing a series of explicit photographs. As a machine to peep through a small hole at a series of sexually explicit images, it spreads throughout the world.
Around the start of the 20th century the peep box began to disappear, as this space of voyeuristic desire shifted to the cinema hall. Today, however, the Internet appears to be an optimal contemporary medium for satisfying voyeuristic desires.
Exploring these new horizons of digital voyeurism, Peep Show contains a range of online art works by contemporary artists exploring 21st century voyeurism and scopophilia from both aesthetic and political perspectives.
Full text: http://www.no-where.org.uk/frame/index.php?m=pdetail&id=1&focus=statement&l
Thanks to: no.w.here London, LONG MARCH SPACE Shanghai, Takuro Someya Contemoprary Art Tokyo, Seiji Ueoka, FAT Tokyo, Yoshitaka Mouri
What is SPEED SHOW?
SPEED SHOW is an open exhibition format initiated by Free Art and Technology. http://fffff.at/tag/speedshow/ SPEED SHOW can be organized by anyone. Simply ‘hit an Internet-cafe, rent all computers they have and run a show on them for one night’!
On 18 November 2010, Videotage and MIACA will present a one-night SPEED SHOW curated by Hitomi Hasegawa at Fresh Cyber Cafe´ in Wanchai, Hong Kong. Featuring Internet art of internationally renowned artists from all over the world, this SPEED SHOW －Peep Show! will explore the new horizons of digital voyeurism. Everyone is invited to join this party at the cozy cafe´, to see some art, have some drink or, well, check some emails. (Curator: Hitomi Hasegawa)
Peep Show包含一系列當代藝術家的網上藝術作品，從美學及政治角度探索21世紀的voyeurism以及scopophilia。
什麼是SPEED SHOW？
SPEED SHOW是由Free Art and Technology發起的一個公開展覽形式。http://fffff.at/tag/speedshow/
SPEED SHOW主?者只需鎖定一間網絡??室，租用所有電腦，作歴時一晩的展出。
在2010年11月18日的晩上，Videotage與MIACA將於灣仔Fresh Cyber Cafe，展出由日本研究學家Hitomi Hasegawa策劃的SPEED SHOW HK - 「目及」！。當晩，來自世界各地的知名藝術家將會透過互聯網藝術，探討現代數碼科技下偸窺文化的新視野。誠意邀請各位到場，參加這個可以上網邊看藝術、邊check email的派對！
November 4th-18th: installations across Soho Streets
November 19th & 20th: all videos will be shown all day at 10 Chancery Lane Gallery
A non-commercial in situ Video Art exhibition involving 10 artistic interventions in the urban landscape of Hong Kong during two weeks in November. City-O-Rama aims to intervene in private spaces with public access in Central Hong Kong to introduce multi-media art, create a dialogue and build up new audiences among the local community for contemporary forms of visual arts. Satoru Tamura is participated from us, with the corporation with Takuro Someya Contemporary Art.
Since the 70s there have been many institutions dedicated to preserving moving image art works or films, mainly in the US and Europe. The reasons are: the numbers of video pieces is growing: Special equipment and technique are required to utilize moving images : and it is difficult to preserve them.
Most of these institutions are supported by governments, such as the Electronic Arts Intermix in New York, Montevideo in Amsterdam, and Lux in London.
These well-established institutions preserve already, distribute them and open their collection to the public and experts.
Unfortunately there is nothing like them in Japan. We think that it is urgent to collect and preserve video art.
( The word 'video' is used in its broadest sense to indicate moving image art)
