Art and Technology in Postwar Japan

本研究利用新技术对日本艺术进行了数据收集和时间分析，这是一个很少有系统研究的领域，并试图建立一个关于该主题的档案和数据库。作为样板案例，我们选择了由该领域的先驱和领军艺术家山口胜弘（Katsuhiro Yamaguchi）先生编写的材料。他的收藏包括各种各样的材料，包括目录、清单、书籍、期刊、信件和图纸、摄影胶片和印刷品以及录像带等纸质媒介。这些资料被数字化并存入数据库，这样就可以组织各种容易分散和丢失的资料，如展览目录、展览场地照片、展览策划笔记等。基于这项研究，共同研究人员太田康人和三本松友洋于2006年2月4日至3月26日在镰仓和Hayama现代艺术博物馆举办了山口胜弘展览。矶崎新、松本敏夫、小林白藤等著名媒体艺术家在与展览一同举办的系列讲座中提供了宝贵的资料。此外，本研究通过对美国盖蒂中心的研究，与英国评论家Jasia Reichardt的讨论，以及对两位法国研究人员的采访，明确了日本媒体艺术在全球媒体艺术舞台的早期已经站稳脚跟。本报告提供了各自共同研究人员对日本媒体艺术历史发展的思考、相关人士的叙述以及对归档基本概念的思考。我们相信这将有助于为未来越来越重要的日本媒体艺术研究奠定基础。

This study assembled data on and made chronological analysis of Japanese art using new technologies, an area where few systematic studies are available, and attempted to create an archive and a database on the subject.As a model case, we chose materials compiled by Mr. Katsuhiro Yamaguchi, a pioneer and leading artist in the field. His collection contains diverse materials including paper media such as catalogues, lists, books, journals, letters and drawings, photographic films and prints, and videotapes. These materials were digitized and put into a database, which allowed organization of various materials such as catalogues, photos of exhibition venues, and notes on exhibition planning that could easily be dispersed and lost.Based on the study, the co-researchers, Yasuto Ota and Tomoyo Sanbonmatsu, organized an exhibition Katsuhiro Yamaguchi given at the Museum of Modern Art, Kamakura ＆ Hayama from February 4 to March 26, 2006. In the series of lectures accompanying the show, leading media artists such as Arata Isozaki, Toshio Matsumoto, and Hakudo Kobayashi provided valuable accounts.In addition, this study made it clear that Japanese media art had gained a strong footing in the early years of the global media art scene, through the researches on the Getty Center in the USA, the discussion with the English critic Jasia Reichardt, and the interviews with two French researchers.This report provides the respective co-researchers' reflections on the historical development of Japanese media art, accounts given by people involved in the field, and consideration on the basic concepts for archiving. We believe that it can help lay the foundation for the researches into Japanese media art that will likely gain more and more importance in the future.