| dc.description.abstract | This article is based on the author’s recent publication, A Critical History of Media Art in Japan (Artes Publishing,
Tokyo, 2014). The book examines continuity and/or discontinuity in the history of media art focusing artistic
experiments and their social implications since the postwar period. Japan has always been the unique site of
research and practices in media art, science and technology evolved outside of the predominant spheres of Europe
and North America. The book points out that artists, especially those who manipulate technology in their works, got
highly conscious of their national identity during the high economic growth of Japan under the slogan of ‘scientific and
technological nation’. In the presentation, the author will also briefly introduce several ongoing archive projects that
she has been working on, including Nagoya International Biennale ARTEC from 1989 to 1997. | |
